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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 booze parties remote, dangerous

After a 17-year-old boy arrived at a Wichita hospital — allegedly the victim of a fight at an underage drinking party — Sedgwick County deputies went to a home on the city's southeast edge.

  • Butler County judge approves request for suspect's DNA

    A judge on Wednesday granted a prosecutor's request to obtain biological samples from the man charged with murdering an 18-year-old Butler Community College student.

  • 5 firms accused of mortgage scams

    TOPEKA — Kansas' attorney general is accusing five companies of preying on struggling homeowners and has sued them as part of what he calls a new campaign against mortgage scams.

  • Prosecutors want DNA, other samples in Butler student's slaying

    Whoever killed Emily Sander might have left DNA, a bite mark, hair and a palm print, a court document says.

  • Marriage License Applications, Annulments Granted, Divorces Granted

    Marriage License Applications

  • Fight over fireworks ends with two men shot

    A dispute over fireworks escalated to gunfire late on the evening of July 4, leaving two people wounded — one seriously.

  • Minor disputes led to fatal shootings

    A series of minor disputes among residents of a west Wichita apartment complex culminated in Thursday night's double homicide, police said Monday.

  • Wichitan found guilty in murder of toddler

    Prosecutor Kim Parker had contended that Jonell Lloyd beat and choked 18-month-old Chavira Brown before putting her in trash bags. That he knotted them, zipped them into a sofa cushion and left her that way in a Wichita attic last July.

  • Shoes serve as a connection to fallen officers at Sedgwick County memorial

    Connie Ernatt grimaced as she studied the tattered remains of the boot John Galvin was wearing when old fireworks being prepared for detonation exploded prematurely.

  • Holiday violence leaves 5 injured

    Fireworks and guns proved dangerous combinations this weekend as Wichita police answered numerous emergency calls and neighborhood disturbances.

  • Double homicide saddens neighbors at west-side apartments

    Neighbors said they were saddened by Thursday night's double homicide at an apartment complex in the 4000 block of Memory Lane on Wichita's west side.

  • Roeder mailings say killings justified

    The man charged with fatally shooting Wichita abortion provider George Tiller has been advocating through mailings from his jail cell that such killings are justifiable.

  • Robber hits Winfield bank

    A thinly built man armed with a semi-automatic handgun took an undetermined amount of money from the Corner Bank branch at 1421 Main St. in Winfield early this afternoon, police said.

  • Defendant says he hit tot, but didn't kill her

    Jonell Lloyd admitted making some questionable decisions as a caretaker, but he denied killing a toddler.

  • Getting married? It just got $10 more expensive

    TOPEKA — Getting married, filing a lawsuit and going to court for a traffic ticket in Kansas has become more expensive, another sign of the state's budget problems.

  • Ex-Junction City official accused of taking bribes

    TOPEKA — A federal grand jury on Wednesday indicted a former Junction City commissioner on 11 counts, including bank fraud and conspiracy, for allegedly taking $19,000 in bribes.

  • Pathologist: Girl lived for hours

    Chavira Brown lived for hours after being beaten, put in trash bags and left in an attic for dead.

  • Boy, 17, wounded in robbery, shooting

    A 17-year-old boy was hospitalized after he was shot in the head Tuesday — but he said he didn't initially realize the wound was a gunshot, Wichita police said.

  • Woman tells of toddler being beaten

    Temeika Loudermilk said she watched Jonell Lloyd beat the girl he called his daughter with a belt, then choke the 18-month old. And she did nothing.

  • Four arrested in alleged burglary ring

    The arrests of four people early Monday morning may have broken up a major burglary ring in the city, Wichita police said Tuesday.

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