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Every weekday, Kansas.com's Wichita Crime Maps show you all the crimes reported yesterday across Wichita, and every crime reported in your neighborhood for the past week. See them here.

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Teen's husband by contract is charged with rape

KANSAS CITY, Mo. —Vincent Mosby signed a marriage contract and paid a dowry in a religious ceremony in August, police said.

High court to weigh youths' life terms

WASHINGTON — Joe Sullivan was sent away for life for raping an elderly woman and was judged incorrigible, though he was only 13 at the time of the attack.

Death penalty cases take time and scrutiny

Larry Williams expected to wait 10 years to see the death sentence carried out for his daughter's killer. Now, 13 years later, Williams said he may have to wait another decade before Gary Kleypas exhausts his appeals.

  • Shortfall may close state courts for weeks

    State courts in Kansas will have to close their doors for one week each month beginning in February if the Legislature doesn't restore $8 million to the judiciary budget, Supreme Court Chief Justice Robert Davis said Friday.

  • TV program on capture of BTK to air Nov. 15

    A Discovery Channel program will focus on the arrest of Dennis Rader, the BTK serial killer, in an episode later this month.

  • Feds charge two in poisoned-salsa case

    Federal prosecutors have charged a Shawnee husband and wife with poisoning the salsa at the Mi Ranchito restaurant in Lenexa.

  • Kansas looks at Colorado sex assault suspect

    PUEBLO, Colo. —A man suspected of sexually assaulting more than 12 women in New Mexico and Texas and trying to kill a Pueblo police officer has prompted inquiries from investigators in Colorado and Kansas, authorities said this week.

  • Dodge City reporter fights subpoena

    DODGE CITY — The Dodge City Daily Globe is challenging a county attorney's efforts to obtain a reporter's notes and testimony about a jailhouse interview she conducted with a man charged in a fatal shooting.

  • Police release image of robber

    Wichita police have released an image of the man who robbed the Intrust Bank branch at 1544 S. Webb Road on Monday.

  • Slain Lyons woman obtained protection order

    LYONS — A Lyons woman who was found dead in her home had taken out a protection order last week against the man suspected in her death.

  • Marriage License Applications, Annulments Granted, Divorces Granted

    Marriage License Applications

  • EBay pulls auctions to benefit Roeder

    Online auction house eBay has removed items that were posted for sale by abortion opponents trying to raise money for the defense of a man accused of killing George Tiller, the company said Monday.

  • Man accused of practicing law maintains his right

    TOPEKA — A man who has spent three months in jail on charges of practicing law without a license maintains that he is being held hostage by a government that wants him to sign away his right to help others.

  • Former SRS investigator: Boy's death was preventable

    The beating death of a 2-year-old Wichita boy last year could have been prevented if the state child protection agency hadn't blocked efforts to investigate day care fraud, a former investigator has contended.

  • Autopsy: No foul play in marshal's death

    An autopsy has ruled out foul play in the death of retired deputy U.S. Marshal Richard Schroeder outside his Newton home.

  • Juror beliefs an issue, says defense

    Lawyers for the man accused of killing George Tiller have asked a judge for an order prohibiting prosecutors from discriminating against potential jurors based on their religious or anti-abortion beliefs.

  • Cocaine in plane nets three drug indictments

    Three California men have been indicted on a drug trafficking charge after authorities seized a plane carrying more than 125 pounds of cocaine in Liberal last week.

  • Law enforcement officials don't plan to change Taser policies

    Local law enforcement officials say they are not going to change their policies on the use of Tasers even after the maker of the electronic stun device recently recommended aiming for somewhere other than a person's chest.

  • Hotel tryst set up online ends in robbery of man

    A man who thought he was meeting a woman for a hotel interlude got more than he anticipated Tuesday night, police said.

  • Police meet the neighbors

    Shortly after 6 p.m. on a late October evening, patrol cars with flashing lights drove through an isolated north Wichita neighborhood. Three officers fanned out along the street, which had recently been the scene of a burglary that led to gunfire and a high- speed chase.

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