The Kansas City skywalk collapse that had taken 114 lives, nearly 50 of them Kansans, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel on July 17 was the unanimous choice as the top Kansas news story of 1981 in a survey of Associated Press newspaper and broadcast editors. About 200 had been injured in the Hyatt tragedy. Growing unrest among state prison guards, triggered by escapes and inmate attacks, was ranked No. 2.