Liberal toddler dies of E.coli
Mayor Joe Denoyer said an 18-month-old Liberal boy has died from E.coli infection and the toddler's brother is recovering from the disease.
Mayor Joe Denoyer said an 18-month-old Liberal boy has died from E.coli infection and the toddler's brother is recovering from the disease.
A Platte County landlord has been found guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting death of a tenant last year. A jury also found 55-year-old Webber Gilmer of Kansas City guilty of armed criminal action in the death March 16, 2007, of Brian S. Harrell.
A state senator has resigned from a local drainage district board after questions arose over his performance as the district's treasurer.
Podiatrists probably see a spike in business the day after a Michael Buble concert. As innocent as toe tapping is, it could cause damage when done nonstop for 90 minutes.
Sarah Palin unlawfully abused her power as governor by trying to have her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper, the chief investigator of an Alaska legislative panel concluded Friday. The politically charged inquiry imperiled her reputation as a reformer on John McCain's Republican ticket.
A suspect in a bank robbery inside a Newton Dillons store was arrested Friday in McPherson County after leading law enforcement officers on a chase that ended in a four-hour standoff.
Check back throughout the night for updated scores and highlights from tonight's action. We will post verifiable scores from around the Wichita area including City League, AV-CTL, MCAA, Central Plains teams.
Wichita Heights 48, Wichita South 6 (F) --At halftime, Heights had given up just 47 yards -- nine rushing -- forced a fumble, intercepted a pass and sacked South QB Spencer Hickey twice. Duane Sims finished with two interceptions and Richard Dixon had 98 rushing yards for HeightsBishop Carroll 36, Kapaun Mount Carmel (F) --Blake Bell had 268 passing yards, two passing touchdowns and two rushing touchdowns in the first half.Derby 43, Salina South 42 (F) --Bishop Carroll 36, Kapaun Mount Carmel 28 East 54, West 0 Heights 48, South 6 North 42, Southeast 41 (20T) (Thu.) Northwest 35, Garden City 13
A rural Rose Hill woman has died in a two-vehicle crash early this morning in Butler County, authorities reported. The crash occurred just before 7 a.m. just northeast of Rose Hill, Butler County Sheriff Craig Murphy said.
A 38-year-old man has been arrested after threatening two teens with a machete and then barricading himself inside a house in east Wichita.
Authorities said they'll need the results of an autopsy to confirm the identity of a man killed in a car fire in the garage of a south Wichita home Thursday night.
About 130 National Guardsmen of the 1161st Forward Support Company will be welcomed home from their deployment to Iraq during a ceremony at 1 p.m. today in Hutchinson.
The final day of the work week will be a windy one for Wichita and the surrounding area, forecasters say. Southerly winds could gust as high as 35 miles an hour this afternoon, when temperatures are expect to climb into the low 80s. Saturday will be very similar, with gusty south-southeasterly winds and highs in the low 80s.
Eighteen detention deputies will graduate at a 10 a.m. ceremony today at the Wichita/Sedgwick County Law Enforcement Training Center, 2235 W. 37th St. North.
Firefighters tonight found a man's body in the driver's seat of a burning car in a garage at a south Wichita house, an official said.
President Bush emerged from a meeting with foreign financial officials on Saturday and pledged a global response to the credit crisis that will lead toward a "path of stability and long-term growth."
A decade after a gay college student was beaten, tied to a fence and left for dead, many in this small college town are still struggling with the aftermath of a crime that triggered nationwide sympathy and brought a re-examination of attitudes toward gays.
John McCain and Barack Obama outlined steps to counter the faltering economy and plummeting stock market on Friday, fresh evidence of the dominant role of pocketbook issues in their race for the White House.
The U.N. refugee agency says 100 migrants are feared drowned after being forced overboard by smugglers in the Gulf of Aden.
Wall Street appeared headed to a sharply lower open Friday, extending a global sell-off on concerns that even low interest rates won't help end the worsening credit crisis. Dow Jones industrials futures plunged 185 points ahead of the opening bell in New York.
U.S. missile attacks on suspected militants in Pakistan's northwest near Afghanistan are undermining the war on terror and "helping the terrorists," the Muslim nation's Foreign Ministry said Friday.
Sarah Palin unlawfully abused her power as governor by trying to have her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper, the chief investigator of an Alaska legislative panel concluded Friday. The politically charged inquiry imperiled her reputation as a reformer on John McCain's Republican ticket.
The steel mills and coal mines of western Pennsylvania helped fuel the nation's economic engine. Today, old factory shells and boarded-up storefronts stand as bleak reminders of those once-prosperous times.
President Bush said Friday that the government's financial rescue plan was aggressive enough and big enough to work, but would take time to fully kick in. "We can solve this crisis and we will," he said in brief remarks from the White House Rose Garden.
Connecticut's Supreme Court ruled Friday that gay couples have the right to marry, making the state the third behind Massachusetts and California to legalize such unions. The ruling comes just weeks before Californians go to the polls on a historic gay-marriage ballot question, the first time the issue will be put before voters in a state where same-sex couples are legally wed.