Woman, good Samaritan improving after Kansas Wal-Mart attack
SHAWNEE — A woman has been released from the hospital and a good Samaritan who came to her aid is recovering after a suburban Kansas City Wal-Mart parking lot attack in which a man was killed.Police...
View ArticleEx tried to avoid man arrested in new missing-woman case in Kansas City
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A man facing charges in the burning of a vehicle belonging to a 21-year-old Missouri woman who has been missing since last week was the subject of a protection order nearly a decade...
View ArticleBig Food's biggest trend? Crusading against Big Food
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Gathered for a free music festival, a crowd waits to see one of the headline attractions — an exhibit about fast-food ingredients.On display: Beakers of powders and liquids that...
View ArticleMan arrested in death of Johnson County Sheriff's deputy
OLATHE — A man has been arrested in the death of a Johnson County Sheriff’s deputy after crashing into his stopped patrol car.Officer John Lacy, an Overland Park Police spokesman, says the 38-year-old...
View ArticleMan charged in shooting that injured 7 in Kansas City's Westport district
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A twenty-nine-year-old man was charged Monday in a shooting that injured seven people in Kansas City’s Westport entertainment district.Kelvin Clark, of Kansas City, Kansas, faces...
View ArticleKansas lawmakers fear further delays to $100 million KPERS payment
Lawmakers fear Kansas will not make good on its promise to pay $100 million to its pension system that it withheld earlier this year on the condition the amount is paid with interest by 2018.Members of...
View ArticleKansas Supreme Court wrestles with censuring former judge
The Kansas Supreme Court is wrestling with whether it should censure a former Wichita-area judge over allegations that he was not candid in answering questions about earlier accusations of improper...
View ArticleOklahoma, EPA shutter 32 wells in new earthquake-prone area
OKLAHOMA CITY — A 5.8-magnitude earthquake and a series of smaller aftershocks in Oklahoma led to the discovery of a new fault line and stoked fears among some scientists about activity along other...
View ArticleMan charged in crash that killed Johnson County deputy
OLATHE — A 38-year-old man has been charged in the death of a Johnson County Sheriff’s deputy who died when a pickup truck plowed into his stopped patrol car.The Kansas City Star reports...
View ArticleNCAA pulls 7 postseason events out of North Carolina due to LGBT law
The NCAA has pulled seven championship events from North Carolina, including opening-weekend men’s basketball tournament games, for the coming year due to a state law that some say can lead to...
View ArticleBattle over lesser prairie chicken endangered species status brewing again
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Four months after the federal government gave up a court fight to keep the lesser prairie chicken on the endangered species list, environmentalists say there’s new evidence that...
View ArticleRecords: Missouri man has long violent history with women
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A man considered a person of interest in his ex-girlfriend’s 2007 disappearance and now charged with burning another missing Missouri woman’s car spent time in jail for assaulting...
View ArticleDefendants argue self-defense in Shawnee gun store shootout from 2015
OLATHE — One of the four men charged with first-degree-murder in the killing of a suburban Kansas City gun store owner is arguing that he acted in self-defense.The Kansas City Star...
View ArticleLeavenworth girl, 8, dies when 9-year-old driver rolls utility vehicle
ROSENDALE, Mo. — Authorities say a 9-year-old girl rolled a utility vehicle, killing her 8-year-old passenger, on a rural road in western Missouri.The Missouri State Highway Patrol says the crash...
View ArticleAmericans got raise last year for first time since 2007
WASHINGTON — — Americans finally got a raise last year after eight years of stagnating incomes.The typical U.S. household’s income rose 5.2 percent in 2015 to $56,516, the Census Bureau said Tuesday....
View ArticleWater from rain deluge damages Kansas Judicial Center, including justices'...
Following heavy rain Tuesday in Topeka, the Kansas Judicial Center sprung leaks that flowed into the chambers of the Kansas Supreme Court justices as well as the conference room, where the justices...
View ArticlePolice investigate deadly Kansas City stabbing
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Authorities are investigating a deadly stabbing in Kansas City.Police said in a news release that the victim was suffering from life-threatening injuries when officers responded...
View ArticleSecurity guard fatally shoots man in Kansas City, police say
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Authorities say a security guard has fatally shot a man in a Kansas City parking lot.The guard told police that the shooting happened early Tuesday after a man approached him and...
View ArticleSupreme Court is making it easier for spouses of military members to practice...
The Kansas Supreme Court is making it easier for the spouses of military members to temporarily practice law in Kansas.The Adjutant General’s Department said in a statement released Monday that a newly...
View ArticleHaskell University removes president's son from one of his high-level roles
The son of Haskell University president Venida Chenault will no longer serve in one of his two high-level positions at the school, according to an internal email obtained by the Topeka...
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