11 years ago
Police have identified a man arrested in connection with the rape and severe burning of a woman who was found in park near Wichita State University. Police Lt. James Espinoza confirmed late Thursday that the suspect is 26-year-old Cornell McNeal of Wichita. It's unclear whether he has an attorney, and no one answered the phone at ...

11 years ago
Kansas legislators are likely to consider diverting funds earmarked for highway projects to general government programs to help solve the state's budget problems. The chairmen of the House and Senate budget committee say such a step is an option as legislators work to close combined shortfalls of more than $714 million in the current and next ...

11 years ago
A lunch box with an iPhone stored inside is stolen from a break room at Tony's. Eric Ramirez told officers he left his lunch cooler with his house and car keys plus an iPhone 6 packed inside the container in a break room at Tony's Pizza on Wednesday afternoon. Police say sometime between 1:20pm and 4pm, someone ...

11 years ago
For the second time in two days an elderly driver has been injured in a crash involving a farm implement near Beloit. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, a tractor pulling a swather and a 1998 Ford F 150 pickup truck were traveling south on K-14 Highway. The driver of the truck, 86-year-old Rex Henningsen of ...

11 years ago
A Manhattan man was hurt in a single-vehicle crash late Wednesday night when his truck went airborne over a creek bed and crashed into a tree. According to the Kansasa Highway Patrol, 57-year-old Michael Perry was driving a 2008 Ford F-350 pickup truck headed west in 6800 block of Anderson Avenue. The truck drifted across the ...

11 years ago
Veterinarians at a southwest Kansas zoo have euthanized a 23-year-old red panda who suffered from arthritis. The Lee Richardson Zoo in Garden City says the red panda named Firecracker was put down this week because of health complications of old age. Zookeepers say the animal lived for 23 years and 4 months. Firecracker was transferred to Garden ...

11 years ago
The reward for information leading to the arrest in the beating, rape and burning of a Wichita woman has doubled. Crime Stoppers is offering a $5,000 reward in the case of a 36-year-old woman who was assaulted in Fairmount Park Friday near the Wichita State University campus. She was burned on over 55 percent of her ...

11 years ago
Police in southwest Kansas are investigating the death of a man after customers found his body outside of a convenience store. Garden City police say that customers alerted Presto employees to the body on Wednesday. The employee tells officers the man had purchased cigarettes at the store on Tuesday evening. She says the man walked behind ...

11 years ago
The U.S. attorney's office says it has collected more than $11.4 million this year from criminal and civil actions in Kansas. That includes $5 million collected in criminal cases and $6.4 million collected in civil actions. U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said in a news release Wednesday that his office works hard to be good stewards of taxpayers' ...

11 years ago
Gay couples in Kansas can get married, but the state isn't yet allowing them to change their last names on their driver's licenses. The state"s government agencies under Republican Gov. Sam Brownback's direction aren't yet changing their policies on recognizing marriages. They include the Department of Revenue, which issues driver's licenses. Brownback spokeswoman Eileen Hawley said Wednesday ...

11 years ago
Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt says his vigorous defense of the state's gay marriage ban is designed to get a final U.S. Supreme Court ruling on whether such bans are constitutional. Schmidt said in an Associated Press interview Wednesday that everyone is best served by a definitive ruling from the high court. The attorney general said that ...