KANSAS CITY (AP) — A 21-year-old Kansas City man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for the 2017 fatal shooting of a woman stopped at a traffic signal. Anton Hunter received the sentence Friday after pleading guilty in August to second-degree murder and weapons counts in the April 30, 2017, shooting of 18-year-old […]

BARTON COUNTY — One person was injured in an accident just after 6:30p.m. Sunday in Barton County. The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2017 Chrysler Pacifica driven by Meredith Anna Joiner, 39, Ellinwood, was westbound in the 400 Block East Santa Fe Boulevard in Ellinwood. The vehicle struck Andrew Mark McGlynn, 8, Ellinwood, who was […]

TOPEKA, KAN. – Federal charges were unsealed Thursday against three men who are accused of drug trafficking in Topeka, according to U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister. On Wednesday, federal, state and local law enforcement agencies served search warrants at 13 locations and arrested three defendants as part of the investigation. Charges have been filed in federal […]

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Jan Bennett learned a lot of lessons on her solo bicycle ride across the entire 2,220-mile Pony Express Trail from St. Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California. She already had endured food poisoning, hail and near misses with tornado weather by the time she made it to a remote stretch of northern […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Federal judges in three states on Friday temporarily blocked Donald Trump’s policy to deny green cards to many immigrants who use Medicaid, food stamps and other government benefits, dealing a setback to one of the president’s most aggressive moves yet to cut legal immigration and make it more based on employment […]

Office of Judicial Administration TOPEKA — The Kansas Supreme Court has adopted new child support guidelines that will take effect January 1, 2020. The court adopted the updated guidelines through Administrative Order 307, which says they are to be used as a basis for establishing and reviewing child support orders in Kansas district courts. The […]

By KALIN KROHE Panhandle Post Two BNSF locomotives collided on Friday night around 11 p.m. approximately 11 miles east of Alliance or a few miles west of Antioch, Nebraska. According to BNSF public affairs director Andy Williams, one of the trains was stopped as another train hit the other in the rear while slowing down […]

ABILENE — Former White House Press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater is returning to the Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum, and Boyhood home, according to a media release from the museum. Abilene’s very own Marlin Fitzwater returns to discuss his new book, Calm Before the Storm: Desert Storm Diaries & Other Stories, during the next Eisenhower Presidential Library’s […]

By FRANK MORRIS, Kansas News Service Most farmers haven’t had a single good year since President Trump took office, and Trump’s policies on trade, immigration and ethanol are part of the problem. Yet farmers, who broadly supported Trump in 2016, are sticking with him as the impeachment inquiry moves forward. “You see everyone circling their wagons […]

COMANCHE COUNTY—One person died in an accident just after 1a.m. Sunday in Comanche County. The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2001 Ford F150 driven by Melvin R. Odell, 69, Coldwater, was eastbound on I Street two miles east of Coldwater. The driver lost control of the pickup. It ran off the roadway to the right, […]

WICHITA, KAN. – A Kansas man who robbed three stores was sentenced this week to 84 months in federal prison, according to U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister. Willie Smith, 39, Wichita, pleaded guilty to one count of robbery. In his plea, he admitted that in 2018 he robbed the QuikTrip store at 1532 S. Seneca. He […]

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A man charged in the shooting death of a former Washburn University football player and the wounding of current New York Giants cornerback Corey Ballentine has a new attorney. KiAnn Caprice was appointed this week to defend 18-year-old Francisco Mendez, who faces 12 charges after the April 28 shooting that killed […]

PRATT – A Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism (KDWPT) Law Enforcement K-9 known as “Tibbie” died August 6, 2019 when the idling vehicle she was kept in stalled, disabling the air conditioning system and causing the cab temperature to rise to dangerous levels. According to a media release from the KDWPT, her game […]