7 years ago
Riley County Police and Lawrence Police, working together, released new information Thursday morning about a serial rapist who is believed to have attacked over a dozen women from 2000 to 2008 in the college towns of Manhattan and Lawrence. An attempted rape in 2015 is also believed to be connected. The Kansas attorney general's office announced ...

7 years ago
Check your tickets, lottery players. Though there was not a grand prize winner, there was a million dollar winning lottery ticket sold in Kansas for Wednesday night's Powerball drawing. According to the Kansas Lottery, one ticket sold in is worth $1,000,000 after it matched the first five numbers, but not the Powerball, to win the “Match ...

7 years ago
Authorities have new information about a serial rapist who is believed to have attacked 13 women from 2000 to 2008 in the college towns of Manhattan and Lawrence. A news conference is planned for Thursday morning in Manhattan to discuss an ongoing investigation into the rapes that terrorized the Kansas State and University of Kansas campuses. The ...

7 years ago
A Kansas lawmaker who heads a budget subcommittee says he'll push next year for a pay increase of as much as 20 percent for corrections officers at state prisons. Republican Rep. J.R. Claeys of Salina announced his proposal following an uprising last month at the state's maximum-security prison in El Dorado. His plan could cost as ...

7 years ago
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback is looking to take an ambassadorship in President Donald Trump's administration. The White House announced Wednesday that Trump will nominate the Republican governor to serve as ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom. If confirmed by the Senate, he'll run the State Department's office of International Religious Freedom. Brownback has scheduled a news conference Thursday ...

7 years ago
Jeff Colyer has been a loyal lieutenant governor to GOP Gov. Sam Brownback since 2011 and is preparing to become Kansas governor after nearly a decade of helping fellow conservative Republicans shape health care policy. Colyer is a plastic surgeon who squeezed in international medical relief missions in disaster and war zones. Colyer would be elevated to ...

7 years ago
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback's office isn't saying when he plans to leave office because President Donald Trump plans to nominate him to serve as ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom. Brownback spokeswoman Melika Willoughby said the two-term Republican governor would hold a news conference on Thursday. But Kansas Republican Party Chairman Kelly Arnold said Wednesday he would expect ...

7 years ago
Several hundred people in Wichita have shown up for a nonexistent job fair after a newspaper article about an event two years ago began circulating on social media. Nearly 300 people showed up to Spirit AeroSystems last weekend after someone shared the newspaper's story about a job fair in 2015 as if it were a new ...

7 years ago
Midway through the "100 Deadliest Days" nearly 500 teens in Kansas have been involved in crashes. According to AAA Kansas, since the start of the Memorial Day weekend, the kickoff of the period known as the “100 Deadliest Days,” teen drivers (age 15-19) have been involved in 490 crashes across Kansas, resulting in three deaths and ...

7 years ago
Wichita emergency responders rescued a man who was critically injured after he fell about 20 feet inside a grain bin. Deputy Fire Chief Brad Crisp says the man suffered multiple injuries when he fell Wednesday morning at the grain bin in north Wichita. Firefighters and emergency responders were challenged getting access to the man. Crisp says the ...

7 years ago
Authorities have rescued a kidnapping victim and arrested three people after a police chase ended in a crash near Wichita. The Wichita Eagle reports that the chase started Tuesday when officers spotted a vehicle that was believed to be connected to a disturbance at a Wichita hotel in which a witness saw a woman being forced ...