MISSION — A former police detective in Kansas left five suicide letters before fatally shooting himself as he was about to stand trial last month over allegations that he sexually assaulted and terrorized vulnerable Black women for decades, investigators announced Tuesday. Roger Golubski, ...
Aquifer levels in parts of western Kansas that rely on groundwater for everything from drinking to irrigation fell more than a foot last year, Kansas Geological Survey scientists said Tuesday. The Kansas Geological Survey earlier this month completed its annual campaign to measure the ...
A yearlong outbreak of tuberculosis in the Kansas City, Kansas, area has taken local experts aback, even if it does not appear to be the largest outbreak of the disease in U.S. history as a state health official claimed last week. “We would expect to see a handful of cases every year,” ...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Carlos Wriedt came to the U.S. from Mexico in his 40s with his wife to pursue their dream of starting a business and to build a better life for their daughter, then 10 months old. He and his wife became U.S. citizens Monday, taking their oaths in a ceremony at the Kansas ...
A hostage standoff in Atchison has led to the shooting death of a St. Joseph, Missouri, man who was believed to have been holding a woman against her will at a home in the northeast Kansas community. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation announced on Monday that Bryson McCray, 36, of St. Joseph, ...
The anchor of NBC’s nightly news and the network’s popular Dateline news program will receive the University of Kansas’ top journalism award this spring. Lester Holt, the anchor and managing editor for “NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt,” and the anchor for “Dateline NBC” has ...