9 years ago
A Topeka man was sentenced to 47 months in federal prison for the sex trafficking of a 17-year-old girl. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports 30-year-old Reginald Eugene Newman pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking. U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said Monday that Newman admitted in his plea to taking a teenage girl in ...

9 years ago
Patients, doctors and advocates are pushing to expand Kansas' Medicaid system despite an ongoing effort in Washington to repeal and replace former President Barack Obama's health care law. The Senate Public Health and Welfare committee heard testimony Monday on a bill that would expand Medicaid to between 100,000 and 200,000 low-income adults. The measure passed the ...

9 years ago
Authorities have identified a homicide victim whose body was found in a south Wichita strip mall parking lot as a 26-year-old woman. The Wichita Eagle  reports that the woman was identified Monday as Sandra Flores of Wichita. Police Sgt. Nikki Woodrow said she was shot once and that there are no suspects. Flores was pronounced dead shortly ...

9 years ago
The death of a woman's 7-year-old grandson is propelling her to become an advocate for reform of home schooling. The Topeka Capital-Journal  reports Judy Conway believes her grandson's father and stepmother used home schooling to prevent anyone from knowing how he was being treated. Police found Adrian Jones' remains in the pigsty at the family's home in ...

9 years ago
Police are investigating the death of a 10-month-old girl who was left alone in a bathtub in northeast Kansas. The Kansas City Star reports that Leavenworth police identified the girl as Caydence Little-Curtis. She was unresponsive when officers responded Monday night to a report of a child not breathing. She was rushed to a hospital where ...

9 years ago
Firefighters are mopping up after a huge fire spread from a suburban Kansas City apartment complex that was under construction to more than a dozen homes. KCTV-TV  reports that Overland Park Fire Department spokesman Jason Rhodes says crews have put out the fire at the multimillion-dollar CityPlace development in Overland Park, Kansas. He says the crews ...

9 years ago
The court-appointed attorneys for a Kansas man accused of plotting to bomb to an apartment complex filled with Somali immigrants have asked a court to let them withdraw from the case. The filing Monday by attorneys for Patrick Stein comes in the wake of an arraignment last week on a superseding indictment. Stein told the magistrate ...

9 years ago
The latest snapshot of Kansas crop conditions shows the lack of rain is hurting the state's winter wheat crop. The National Agricultural Statistics Service reported Monday that remained dry with limited precipitation in a few eastern counties this past week. The agency says 24 percent of the wheat crop is in poor to very poor condition in ...

9 years ago
A 2-year-old Kansas boy left for two hours Sunday in a hot car while his parents went to church services has been hospitalized with extreme heat exposure. Law enforcement authorities in Finney County say the child had fallen asleep in the car during the ride to church. The parents both believed that the other had taken ...

9 years ago
Kansas legislators are advancing a proposal to give most state employees a 2 percent pay raise even as lawmakers wrestle with serious budget problems that could force a big tax increase. The state Senate Ways and Means Committee voted Monday to include the raise in its proposed spending blueprint for the fiscal year beginning in July. The ...

9 years ago
The Saline County Sheriff's Office is investigating a residential burglary that occurred Friday morning in the 1000 block of S. Simpson Road. Sheriff Roger Soldan tells KSAL News that Larry and Judy Thelander returned home Friday morning just before 11am and discovered someone had kicked in a side door and rummaged through their house stealing numerous ...