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Kansas to Move More than 100 Psychiatric Hospital Inmates
The state of Kansas is moving more than 100 mental health inmates from a state psychiatric hospital in Topeka to several facilities run by multiple agencies in an effort to relieve a staffing shortage....
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Prosecutor to Seek Death Penalty in Triple Wichita Killing
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - A southern Kansas prosecutor says he'll seek the death penalty against a man accused of killing his girlfriend and two of her relatives in 2014. The Wichita Eagle reports Sedgwick...
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Prosecutor: No Charges in Deadly Wichita Police Shooting
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - The top prosecutor in southern Kansas' Sedgwick County says he plans no charges against a Wichita police officer who fatally shot a man during a confrontation last year. District...
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Wichita Man Arrested After Alleged Machete Attack
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - Police in Wichita say a man was arrested after attacking and injuring his roommate with a machete after being asked about his job. Police say the 46-year-old suspect was arrested...
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Police: Boy Found With Octopus in Throat Now Out of Hospital
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - Wichita police say a 2-year-old boy who had an octopus stuck in his throat is out of the hospital, and prosecutors are mulling whether charges are merited. Sedgwick County District...
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New Mobile Exhibit Aims to Fight Sex Trafficking in Kansas
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - The Kansas attorney general and two professional trucking associations have announced a program to prevent sex trafficking on state highways. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that...
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Victim Rescued From Fire
Firefighters rescued one person from a house fire in west Salina Saturday afternoon. First responders were called at around 2:15 to the report of a house on fire at 2003 Harold. There were flames...
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Familiar Faces Win Eisenhower Marathon
Hundreds of runners battled the wind, and a chill in the air Saturday morning and hit the streets in and around Abilene. The Dickinson County community came together to host the 14th running of the...
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Sentencing set for man convicted in deadly Kansas shooting
A Kansas City, Missouri, man faces sentencing later this month after pleading no contest to charges linked to a man's shooting death and the wounding of that victim's father. Twenty-six-year-old...
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Some Kansas courts slow to answer probable cause requests
A Kansas lawmaker says some state courts have failed to comply with a new state law on public requests for probable cause statements. Republican Rep. John Rubin of Shawnee said when he introduced the...
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Sheriff: Missing former KU football played killed himself
A former University of Kansas running back who had been missing for a week has been found dead in a secluded area in central Missouri. Maries County Sheriff Chris Heitman said Saturday that 24-year-old...
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Active Shooter Drill Planned Tuesday
Multiple agencies including Salina Regional Health Center, Kansas Wesleyan University, the Salina Police Department, the Salina Fire Department and Saline County EMS are teaming up for an active...
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Kobach Dismisses Voter Fraud Charge Against Olathe Woman
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - One of the first voter fraud cases Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach filed after being given prosecutorial authority has been dismissed days before it was scheduled to go to...
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Kansas Man Pleads Guilty in 1999 Sex Attack, Stabbing
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) - A 37-year-old Kansas man has pleaded guilty to charges connected to a 1999 sexual attack and stabbing. Thirty-seven-year-old Jibri Liu-Kinte Burnett of Olathe pleaded guilty...
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USGS Records Small Earthquakes in Oklahoma
MEDFORD, Okla. (AP) - The U.S. Geological Survey reports small earthquakes in central and north -central Oklahoma that include a magnitude 4.0 temblor six miles northeast of Medford near the...
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Wyandotte County continues work to improve residents’ health
An annual ranking of health environments in counties throughout the nation contained depressingly familiar news for Wyandotte County this year. The county ranked 101st in Kansas, based on data from...
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Friends University’s library begin running on solar power
Students at Friends University in Wichita will be using solar power while they study at the university's library. The Wichita Eagle reports (http://bit.ly/1NdSTug) the university is installing a...
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State warns county not to ask legal status of WIC recipients
Sedgwick County commissioners are being warned by the state not to ask participants in the federal Women, Infants and Children program about their citizenship. The Wichita Eagle (http://bit.ly/1SD6X2j)...
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Topeka police patrol vehicle collides with minivan, hurts 3
A 10-year-old girl is one of three people who sustained nonlife-threatening injuries in a crash involving a Topeka Police Department patrol vehicle. The Kansas Highway Patrol is investigating the...
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Masters History in Abilene
An iconic piece of Masters golf history has a permanent home in Abilene. A cross-section of the "Eisenhower Tree" is a part of the history collection at the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum...
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