Scarborough track and field/cross country star Baxter Merriam announcing on Monday he's heading to study and compete at Gettysburg College in Gett ...

No injuries were reported after a large fire broke out in a Merriam 7-Eleven early Saturday morning. Firefighters were called ...

THIS TIME OF YEAR, ALL RIGHT, KATIE, THANK YOU. WE WANT TO GET TO BREAKING NEWS THIS MORNING IN MERRIAM. A 7-ELEVEN IS BADLY DAMAGED AFTER A FIRE EARLY THIS MORNING. THIS IS NEAR 68TH IN ANTIOCH.

The famous American dictionary publisher on Monday announced that “polarization”—defined as “division into two sharply ...

Northeast Johnson County Consolidated Fire District #2, Overland Park, Shawnee firefighters needed more than an hour to bring ...

Is it any surprise then that the Merriam-Webster word of the year is “polarization”? “Polarization means division, but it’s a ...

Is it any surprise then that the Merriam-Webster word of the year is “polarization”? “Polarization means division, but it’s a very specific kind of division,” said Peter Sokolowski ...

In a year defined by sharp political and cultural divisions, it comes as no surprise that Merriam-Webster has named "polarization" as its 2024 Word of the Year.

A word that has been used incessantly to describe the fraught state of American politics and society is Merriam-Webster’s 2024 word of the year. That word is “polarization.” ...