9 years ago
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Kansas City police are investigating after two people were found shot to death in a car. Police were responding early Saturday to a call of shots being fired when they found the two people dead in a car. Police did not release details of the shooting but said both were shot ...

9 years ago
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) - An Olathe woman faces charges accusing her of stealing thousands of dollars from a suburban Kansas City school's parent teacher organization. Christine Ann Glover is charged in Johnson County District Court with one count of felony theft. She's accused of stealing more than $25,000 from the parent teacher organization at Pleasant ...

9 years ago
HAYS, Kan. (AP) - Authorities are investigating a hit-and-run fatality in western Kansas. The Salina Journal reports 22-year-old Dylan Weiser was struck and killed May 15 by a driver who left the scene of the crash south of Hays. Weiser's body was found in a ditch. The Ellis County Sheriff's Department said in a release Friday that ...

9 years ago
ELLSWORTH, Kan. (AP) - A prosecutor says one member of Great Bend High School's swim team has been convicted of a misdemeanor and another has been sentenced in connection with an assault on another team member. Ellsworth County Attorney Joe Shepack said in a statement Friday that a 17-year-old student was convicted May 31 of misdemeanor ...

9 years ago
BURLINGTON, Kan. (AP) - Authorities say a 53-year-old man has died in a boating accident on the Neosho River. The Coffey County Sheriff's Office said 53-year-old Michael Myers of Burlington was in a small boat on the river Friday evening when the boat capsized. An officer from the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks found Myers' ...

9 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Many Republican legislators in Kansas are angry with the state Supreme Court's latest order on education funding. They question the justices' motives and doubt the court will accept any further fixes from GOP lawmakers. Their views prompted Republican legislative leaders to abandon a push to pass further education funding changes Wednesday before lawmakers ...

9 years ago
Children from around the area got hooked on fishing Saturday at Lakewood Park in Salina. "Fishing With a Cop," reeled in 150 kids, who showed up to throw a line into the water. The event is a spin-off from the annual Lakewood Fishing Derby that added the involvement of local law enforcement. On Saturday officers with Salina Police ...

9 years ago
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A Jackson County judge has decided that a 15-year-old charged in the shooting death of another teenager won't be tried as an adult. The Kansas City Star reports that the defendant faces second-degree murder and tampering charges in the Feb. 15 death of 15-year-old Raytown High School student Jaiair Strong. Witnesses told ...

9 years ago
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) - A Lawrence man was sentenced to more than 23 years in prison for fatally stabbing a man to death. The Lawrence Journal-World reports 34-year-old Joshua Back was sentenced Thursday for intentional second-degree murder and theft. He was convicted in April of killing 45-year-old Tracy Dean Lautenschlager outside a home in May 2015. The ...

9 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - The former owner of the Heartland Park Topeka racetrack is suing the city of Topeka for more than $4 million. Jayhawk Racing LLC and Heartland Park LLC allege in the lawsuit that the city breached its contract by not honoring an agreement to purchase the park and assume the plaintiffs' debt. They ...

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LEAWOOD, Kan. (AP) - A federal workplace safety investigation is planned in the case of a man who fell to his death from scaffolding during an apartment renovation site in suburban Kansas City. The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration says it will scrutinize the death Friday in Leawood, Kansas, of a Van ...