Baby, woman fall from car after Kansas City shoplifting incident
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Authorities say a 4-month-old baby and a woman have fallen from a moving car after a reported shoplifting in Kansas City.The Kansas City Star (http://bit.ly/255kfgk ) reports that...
View ArticlePolice at the scene of Kansas City's 35th homicide of the year
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Police are investigating a homicide in Kansas City.The Kansas City Star (http://bit.ly/1TLa0Ww ) reports that the killing happened Friday morning. Homicide investigators are at the...
View ArticleKansas woman sentenced to year behind bars for fatal 2013 wreck west of Emporia
EMPORIA — An east-central Kansas woman has been ordered to spend a year behind bars for a 2013 fatal crash that killed a bicyclist.KVOE-AM of Emporia (http://bit.ly/1W6q3nZ ) reports that a Lyon County...
View ArticleKansas City man convicted of role in 2011 home invasion killing
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Kansas City, Mo., man faces life in prison after being found guilty of playing a role in a 2011 home invasion that killed a man and critically wounded a woman.The Kansas City Star...
View ArticleFormer Kansas City Chief to launch social media site on anniversary of Joplin...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Former Kansas City Chiefs long snapper Kendall Gammon is launching a social media site that gives people a place to express thanks on the fifth anniversary of the deadly Joplin...
View ArticleJudge revokes motorist's bonds, sentences him for felony battery on police...
A motorist who tried to drive away with a police officer clinging to his car in 2015 before the officer shot him in the face was sentenced Friday to two prison terms totaling more than four...
View ArticlePearl Harbor sailor's remains to be buried in Kansas
WICHITA — The remains of a U.S. Navy member killed in the Pearl Harbor attack will be returned to be buried in his hometown in Kansas nearly 75 years after his death.The Wichita Eagle...
View ArticleCosta Rican president speaks at K-State
MANHATTAN — Massive migrations due to terrorism and organized crime are making national security and border control for countries complex, the president of Central America’s Costa Rica said during a...
View ArticleKansas man charged with manslaughter over deadly wreck
WICHITA — A Wichita man was charged Friday with involuntary manslaughter in the crash-related deaths of two clients of an organization that helps adults with developmental disabilities.Prosecutors in...
View ArticleMissouri plans to seek death penalty for Mexican national
KANSAS CITY — Missouri prosecutors on Friday filed their formal plan to pursue the death penalty against a Mexican national in the shooting death of a man a day after he allegedly killed four people in...
View ArticleMan killed in small plane crash near Colorado-Kansas border
EADS, Colo. — Authorities say a man was killed when he crashed his small airplane into a field near the Colorado-Kansas border.According to the Kiowa County Sheriff’s Office, 64-year-old John Lee...
View ArticleAnniversary of 'Summer of Mercy' illustrates how anti-abortion movement has...
WICHITA -- Thousands of anti-abortion activists gathered in Wichita in 1991 for the Summer of Mercy, sparking tumultuous mass protests that led to nearly 2,700 arrests outside local clinics and...
View ArticleAirworthiness of restored B-29 certified
WICHITA — A World War II aircraft that took nearly 16 years to restore might be flying over Kansas in the next few weeks after receiving a certificate of airworthiness from the Federal Aviation...
View ArticleFor first time in 6 years, no drought on Kansas map
HUTCHINSON — For the first time in nearly six years, Kansas is officially considered drought-free.The Hutchinson News reports the current U.S. Drought Monitor map of Kansas says no drought exists in...
View ArticleLawsuit filed in New Hampshire Hepatitis infection case
CONCORD, N.H. — Exeter Hospital has filed another lawsuit in hopes of getting others to pay for settlements it reached after a traveling medical technician infected patients with hepatitis C.read more
View ArticleU.S. Army daughter honors scholarship program
Megan Hertel may have a close bond with a top-class academic foundation, but she is otherwise like many armed-forces children.All her life, she has been on the move or ready for her father to be...
View ArticleHistorical Society will return human remains to Native American tribes
Human remains excavated from Native American burial sites in Kansas soon will be returned to two tribes by the Kansas State Historical Society.In 1881, the remains of at least two deceased people were...
View ArticleAnalysis: How 'lost souls' could alter elections in Kansas
They are scattered across the state, from Cherokee County in the southeast corner to Cheyenne in the northwest corner; from Doniphan County in the northeast corner to Morton in the far southwest.Civic...
View ArticleFloyd Bledsoe's federal lawsuit offers new theory on 1999 murder of Camille...
Buried and briefly mentioned within a federal lawsuit filed this month is a new theory on a 16-year-old question: Why was Camille Arfmann killed?Arfmann stepped off a school bus in Oskaloosa on Nov. 5,...
View ArticleKU paleontology students look to crowdfunding for T.rex project
A seven-person team of paleontologists from the University of Kansas is hoping to recover additional remains of a Tyrannosaurus rex this summer in Montana and is turning to an online platform to raise...
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