Live grenade found before car is towed in Kansas City
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Authorities have found a live hand grenade while preparing an illegally parked car for towing.Police said in a news release that an explosive ordnance team was called Sunday after...
View ArticlePolice release names of 3 Kansas City homicide victims
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Authorities have released the names of three men who were killed over the past week in Kansas City.Police said in a news release Monday that 54-year-old John Palmer, of Kansas City,...
View ArticleKansas man's body found after being swept away by floods near Wichita
WICHITA — Authorities say they’ve found the body of a man three days after he went missing after being swept away by floodwaters near Wichita.Butler County Sheriff Kelly Herzet says the body of...
View ArticleKansas native turns passion for PEZ into profitable project
ORANGE, Conn. — Just like many other kids in America, Shawn Peterson received PEZ dispensers in his Easter basket and Christmas stocking growing up in Kansas.But his passion for PEZ dispensers didn’t...
View ArticleThree men charged with murder in July 23 Topeka slaying scheduled for...
Of three men charged in the July shooting death of Xavier Patrick McCollough, one will face a preliminary hearing in about one week and two will appear in a preliminary hearing in three months.The...
View ArticleHalstead town's administrator, ex-police chief arrested
HALSTEAD — Authorities say an investigation of the 2,100-resident southern Kansas town of Halstead has resulted in the arrests of the city administrator and former police chief.City administrator James...
View ArticleKansas seeks federal wine label designation
This season’s grapes from Kansas vineyards will soon be pressed, fermented and aged, but the bottles they’ll be poured into won’t have a key designation on the label that other wines in the country...
View ArticleUniversity of Missouri says newest freshman class likely smallest in decade
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Officials at the University of Missouri say their newest freshmen class likely is the smallest in 10 years.Preliminary numbers from the school show that there are 4,799 freshmen this...
View ArticleMotion in Kickapoo lawsuit requests judge be recused from hearing case
The attorney for embattled Kickapoo tribal leaders beset with a lawsuit claiming they misused public money wants the Kickapoo district judge barred from hearing the case and an opinion from the tribe’s...
View ArticleArea births for Aug. 22, 2016
St. FrancisJason and Heather Webster, Ozawkie, girl, Aug. 21. Brittian Kitzman and Christina Day, Carbondale, boy, Aug. 22.
View ArticleKansas asks court to exclude voters over citizenship proof
DENVER — Kansas is asking a federal appeals court to keep thousands of people who haven’t yet provided the documents to prove they are U.S. citizens from voting in November’s election.Judges from the...
View ArticleDole, Kassebaum to recall Congressional history at KU forum
Former U.S. Sens. Nancy Kassebaum and Robert Dole plan to share their insights into national politics during a September forum at the University of Kansas in Lawrence.The longtime Kansas political...
View ArticleAttorney for Country Club Motel defendant: Suppress man's statements to U.S....
Statements made by Country Club Motel defendant Quentin Kirk Lawton to federal deputy marshals should be suppressed because he wasn’t Mirandized before he was questioned and federal deputies lacked...
View ArticleJudge allows defamation lawsuit against Kansas Board of Healing Arts member...
A federal judge declined to dismiss the defamation lawsuit filed by a former candidate for mayor of Kansas City, Mo., against a Lenexa woman appointed to Kansas' medical regulatory board by Gov. Sam...
View ArticleTrial begins in killing of rapper outside Overland Park bar
OVERLAND PARK — The trial is underway for a man charged with killing a rapper from suburban Olathe.The Kansas City Star (http://bit.ly/2biJBlN ) reports that 33-year-old Dale “Poppa Willo” Willis is on...
View ArticleMowers find Missouri man's body in Kansas City, Kansas
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Authorities say a street crew has found a man’s body while mowing in Kansas City, Kan.Police said in a news release that officers were summoned Monday after the body of 38-year-old...
View ArticleMan's body found near Kansas City, Kansas, water treatment facility
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Authorities have identified a man whose body was found on the bank of the Missouri River behind a water treatment facility in Kansas City, Kan.Police said in a news release Tuesday...
View ArticleSouthern Kansas flood victims evaluate damage; 44 homes see flooding damage
MULVANE — Southern Kansas flooding victims are cleaning up the mess torrential rains left behind.The Wichita Eagle (http://bit.ly/2bfoGTN ) reports that Mulvane city administrator Kent Hixson says 44...
View ArticleKU Chancellor's message promises action on diversity, equity
LAWRENCE — University of Kansas Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little says she’s planning additional diversity, equity and inclusion efforts on campus.The Lawrence Journal-World (http://bit.ly/2bamVs6 )...
View ArticleReno County trial underway for Hutchinson teen accused in 2 fire deaths
HUTCHINSON — A teenager charged as an adult in the deaths of his mother and 11-year-old sister in a 2013 house fire was described Tuesday by a prosecutor as a scheming psychopath, with a defense...
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