11 years ago
A 21-year-old man has been charged with fatally shooting an 18-year-old man as he was driving, causing him to crash into a Topeka home. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Kelsey Lee Fairchild, of Overbrook, was charged Friday in Shawnee County with alternative counts of first-degree murder in the death of Colton Chad Christenson. Other charges against ...

11 years ago
Prosecutors have learned that Kansas welfare officials were contacted 17 times before police removed a 14-year-old girl who weighed just 66 pounds from her home. The Wichita Eagle reports that the Kansas Department of Children and Families initially provided prosecutors information about nine allegations of abuse or neglect. But prosecutors, acting on questions raised by The ...

11 years ago
Police say three suspects and a business owner have been injured by gunfire in a botched robbery at a suburban Kansas City gun shop. Shawnee, Kansas, police Maj. Dan Tennis says four people tried to rob She's A Pistol Friday afternoon. Three were shot. Two of them were critically injured. Another had less-serious wounds and was ...

11 years ago
A Kansas board won't reinstate a doctor after concluding she kept inadequate records about young patients whom she referred for late-term abortions. The State Board of Healing Arts on Friday upheld its 2012 revocation of the license allowing Dr. Ann Kristin Neuhaus of Nortonville to provide charity care. The board previously said she performed substandard mental health ...

11 years ago
Authorities say two men have been killed and two others wounded in a shooting in southeast Wichita. KAKE-TV reports that the shooting happened around 1:30 a.m. Saturday outside a bar called The Place. Police say that when officers arrived, three wounded men were in the parking lot and were taken to a hospital. A fourth wounded man ...

11 years ago
Officials are spreading the word that ice on area lakes is dangerous. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is encouraging winter time recreationists to take extreme caution with the present icy conditions. Some Kansas lakes have a cover of ice that may look inviting but there is no such thing as 100 percent safe ice. The thickness of ...

11 years ago
The House has overwhelmingly passed a bill authorizing the Keystone XL oil pipeline despite a veto threat from the White House. The bill passed Friday on a 266-153 vote, one of the first pieces of legislation considered by the Republican-controlled Congress. It was the 10th vote the House had taken since July 2011 to advance the ...

11 years ago
The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division says it has reached a settlement with Kansas that aims to protect women prisoners at the state's Topeka facility from sexual abuse. The deal announced Friday in a news release resolves allegations that women held at the Topeka Correctional Facility are subjected to sexual victimization by jailers and other prisoners. ...

11 years ago
A leading bond-rating company says projected funding shortfalls and a recent court ruling that Kansas must spend more on its public schools appear to be creating growing budget problems. Standard & Poor's said Friday in a release that Gov. Sam Brownback's plan to address a $279 million shortfall in the current budget doesn't "appear to significantly ...

11 years ago
A federal judge has refused to order the government to disclose whether mass surveillance led investigators to a Wichita man accused of plotting a suicide bomb attack at a Kansas airport. The possible existence of that evidence has been an issue in the terrorism case against Terry Loewen. The former avionics technician has pleaded not guilty ...

11 years ago
A Kansas board won't reinstate a doctor after concluding she kept inadequate records about young patients whom she referred for late-term abortions. The State Board of Healing Arts on Friday upheld its 2012 revocation of the license allowing Dr. Ann Kristin Neuhaus of Nortonville to provide charity care. The board previously said she performed substandard mental health ...