TOPEKA — The Kansas Prisoner Review Board responded to a backlash of criticism by rescinding a decision to authorize parole for a Winfield Correctional Facility inmate sentenced to life in prison in the shooting death of a Kansas Highway Patrol trooper. The Kansas Department of Corrections ...

A mother of a teenaged homicide victim interrupted a court hearing Tuesday morning to express her dismay with the legal proceedings related to her son's killing. "I got something to say," said Natasha Neal, as she stood up in the gallery during a status conference in Douglas County District ...

Longtime volunteer firefighter David Wulfkuhle was serving as incident commander when one of the largest grass fires in the county’s history erupted — threatening a house and its pets — and he says one person made a big difference. “The fire was actually going over the top of the roof ...

The National Weather Service has issued a tornado watch for Douglas County and many other Kansas counties until 9 p.m. Monday. A tornado watch means that conditions are present for tornadoes to form in the watch area, which includes much of northeastern and north-central Kansas. Showers and ...

A Lawrence woman was arrested Sunday afternoon after she allegedly provided vodka to the dogs of another resident. The incident near 24th Street and Ousdahl Road began as a dispute over a woman who wouldn’t leave another person’s porch, Lawrence Police spokeswoman Laura McCabe said. When ...

An Overland Park pediatric physician has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison without the possibility of parole for producing child pornography, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Missouri. The physician, Brian Aalbers, 51, was ...