RILEY COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating an alleged sexual assault in Manhattan and have made an arrest. Just before 4a.m. Sunday, Kansas State University Police received a report of an active situation on the west side of campus along the Denison corridor, according to a media release. Upon arrival to the area, officers contacted […]

SHAWNEE COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities are investigating a suspect after a high-speed chase and arrest. On Saturday after, a deputy turned around on a Jeep Liberty that was speeding eastbound on NW 35th from NW Button Road in Shawnee County, according to Captain Danny Lotridge.  As the deputy was attempting to stop the vehicle, […]

MORTON COUNTY — One person died in an accident just after 6p.m. Sunday in Morton County. The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2000 Chevy Tahoe driven by Edgar Rodriguez, 16, Hugoton, was eastbound on Road Z at County Road 27 fourteen miles north of Rolla. The SUV ran off the roadway to the right, entered […]

KANSAS CITY  (AP) — A 59-year-old convicted sex offender linked by DNA to a 2016 sexual assault in Kansas City has been sentenced to life in prison. Arthur Norman Jr. was sentenced Friday to life for the rape, plus 10 years for armed criminal action. Norman was found guilty of the counts during a May […]

SEDGWICK COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities are investigating a Kansas felon on new charges after a Friday arrest. Just before 12:30 p.m., police were conducting follow-up at a residence in the 4400 block of East Boston, stemming from the earlier shooting on East Bayley, according officer Charley Davidson. While investigating, the officers observed 22-year-old Antonio […]

KANSAS CITY (AP) — A 37-year-old Missouri man who was missing for a week after wrecking his car in a ravine has died. Police in Lee’s Summit, Missouri, said Ryan Linneman died Saturday at a hospital. He was found Wednesday in his vehicle at the bottom of a wooded ravine along Interstate 470 by a dirt […]

ADA, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma’s history is so deeply intertwined with the 39 Native American tribes located there that the state’s creation in 1907 was celebrated with a symbolic wedding ceremony between the Indian and Oklahoma territories. The relationship between Oklahoma and the tribes has sometimes been contentious, but one of its undisputed successes has […]

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A judge has pushed back the trial date for a University of Kansas student who is charged with making a false rape report. The start of the trial was moved to Jan. 6 after the prosecution argued that the defense provided information about expert witnesses too close to the initial trial […]

By CELIA LLOPIS-JEPSEN A private insurer’s 2018 premiums in Kansas ran too high — at least compared to the medical bills it had to pay for customers that year. That means thousands of Kansans get money back this fall because they got overcharged last year. Sunflower, a subsidiary of Centene, ran afoul of rules in the […]

KANSAS CITY AP) — Two people are charged in the deaths of three people who police say were shot during a drug deal at a Kansas City home. Jackson County prosecutors on Friday charged 35-year-old Lynnsey Jones and 43-year-old Victor Sykes each with three counts of first-degree murder and armed criminal action in Thursday night’s […]