WICHITA — A Wichita man who prosecutors say tried to buy two tiger pelts is facing federal charges. U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said Thursday that 38-year-old Ret Thach is charged with violating the federal Lacey Act, which prohibits interstate selling or buying of animals protected by ...
A mural proposed for the exterior wall of the Lawrence Public Library has received a preliminary approval. At its meeting Wednesday evening, the Lawrence Cultural Arts Commission voted unanimously to recommend the mural, which depicts stories of local women of color. The team leading the ...
TOPEKA — Dozens of elected officials in Rep. Kevin Yoder's congressional district in Kansas are pushing him to demand an end to the forced separation of families caught crossing the U.S. border illegally. Democratic state Rep. Jarrod Ousley of Merriam and Republican state Rep. Linda ...
The debate between city officials and local police officers union representatives will continue regarding when an officer’s duties — and the city’s legal obligations to that officer — begin and end. At issue is when the city will provide legal defense or counsel and indemnification ...
SALINA, Kan. — A 6-mile stretch of Interstate 70 closed for nearly six hours as workers picked up a semi-trailer load of potatoes. The Kansas Highway Patrol says the potatoes were dumped Tuesday morning in Saline County near Solomon when the driver hit a bridge rail, separating the truck and ...
Republican gubernatorial candidate Kris Kobach said Monday night he has no intention of changing his sometimes brash style if he wins the GOP nomination for governor. Speaking at a Kansas Chamber of Commerce event featuring nearly every major candidate for governor, Kobach said he would say ...
New athletic directors have been selected for both of Lawrence's public high schools. Interim Superintendent Anna Stubblefield announced both selections in a news release Monday afternoon. John Hilton will be the assistant principal/athletic director for Lawrence High School while Amanda ...
Lawrence police are asking for the public's help in finding a truck that was reportedly involved in damaging a Lawrence residence. Police on Monday afternoon tweeted an image of a Chevy truck and said that about 9:15 p.m. on June 2, the pickup is believed to have struck a parked vehicle so ...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort is going to jail. On Friday, Manafort was ordered into custody after a federal judge revoked his house arrest, citing newly filed obstruction of justice charges. The move by U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson ...
WASHINGTON — States can target people who haven't cast ballots in a while in efforts to purge their voting rolls, the Supreme Court ruled Monday in a case that has drawn wide attention amid stark partisan divisions and the approach of the 2018 elections. By a 5-4 vote that split the ...
A two vehicle-accident early Monday near the West Lawrence interchange on the Kansas turnpike has left a Minnesota man injured. The Kansas Highway Patrol reports that Carlos Garay of Cottage Grove, Minn., was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital after the van he was driving was rear-ended by ...
City and police department officials will update the Lawrence school board Monday on the status of the new police headquarters, to be built just west of Free State High School. Capt. Anthony Brixius, of the Lawrence Police Department; Melinda Harger, the city's assistant director of utilities; ...
Hutchinson (ap) — Alexa Baugh eagerly waits for the day she can hold her son outside of a Kansas prison. The 26-year-old from Hutchinson sees her son, Angel, on weekends whenever her parents make the trek to the Topeka Correctional Facility. Baugh has been at the medium-security central unit ...
TOPEKA — The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday upheld the capital murder conviction of a south-central Kansas man convicted of murdering a college student in 2007, but remanded the case back to district court for a hearing to determine whether he is mentally competent to face the death ...
One of the teens accused in the recent burglary of a Eudora gun shop — the only one charged as an adult — has been convicted for his role. Stevan Rios, of Eudora, pleaded guilty and was convicted of one count of burglary and one count of theft of a firearm, both felonies, Thursday in ...
Lawrence police are planning a DUI saturation patrol on Friday, the department has announced. The effort, funded through the Kansas Department of Transportation, will put extra officers in the field to look specifically for drivers who show signs of impairment, according to a news release ...
Story updated: 4:27 p.m., June 13, 2018 Firefighters spent over five hours putting out a fire that broke out in a large scrap metal pile in eastern Lawrence on Wednesday, sending a plume of black smoke over the neighborhood that was visible for miles. The fire was reported shortly after 10 ...
Update: Man connected to woman’s suspicious death arrested for alleged probation violations in 2016 Tinder case • • • Original story: Sabrina Frock drove to Lawrence to see a man she’d met online, leaving her home in Brookfield, Mo., late on a Wednesday night after getting off ...
A man was flown to a hospital Monday after a crash near East 19th and Harper streets. The wreck occurred at roughly 1:45 p.m. According to preliminary information gathered by police, a man driving a two-door car was eastbound in the 1400 block of East 19th Street when he veered from his ...
Story updated 4:22 p.m. June 11, 2018 A former University of Kansas student who said his theater professor sexually assaulted him was the recipient of a $200,000 settlement payout by KU, newly obtained documents reveal. Although not admitting wrongdoing, KU paid the sum to the student in ...