Updated at 7:25 p.m., Monday, Aug. 5, 2024 WICHITA — With a rebuilt statue of Jackie Robinson in bronze back in Kansas, some of the late baseball icon's biggest fans are breathing a sigh of relief. The original sculpture depicting Robinson resting a bat on his shoulder was cut off at its ...
DE SOTO — The sheriff in Kansas' most populous county faced no opposition to his reelection four years ago, extending a decades-long Republican lock on the office despite big gains locally by Democrats during the Trump era. Then he took on election fraud as a cause. The GOP in Johnson County ...
WICHITA — The man who stole a bronze Jackie Robinson statue that was cut off at the ankles and found days later smoldering in a trash can in a city park in Kansas is going to spend about 15 years in prison, although most of that time is related to a burglary that happened a few days after the ...
Emergency crews have rescued a terrified and screaming toddler after he fell into a narrow pipe and got stuck around a dozen feet below ground in the yard of his Kansas home. “There we go,” Officer Ronnie Wagner of the Moundridge Police Department can be heard saying on body camera video, ...
Mission — A woman who was denied an abortion at a Kansas hospital after suffering a pregnancy complication that her attorneys say put her at risk of sepsis and even death is suing in a case that already prompted a federal investigation. Mylissa Farmer, of Joplin, Missouri, filed the lawsuit ...
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Missouri man was freed from prison Tuesday after his murder conviction was overturned after 34 years behind bars, despite the state attorney general’s efforts to keep him there. “I never gave up because my family never gave up,” Christopher Dunn said Tuesday. ...