{FD} Kansas governor candidate Jim Barnett picks wife as running mate
For better or worse, through sickness and health, a Kansas gubernatorial candidate has picked his wife as his mate -- for life and for lieutenant governor.
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{FD} Family pleads for missing soldier battling PTSD in Kansas to come home
While folks nationwide fire up the barbecues for the Memorial Day holiday, a military family is scrambling to find its missing soldier daughter.
{FD} Kansas mom battling ****** cancer ignores doctor’s abortion advice, celebrates healthy baby
A Kansas woman who was diagnosed with breast cancer just days after she found out she was pregnant will celebrate her son’s first birthday next week.
{FD} Body of missing Kansas boy, 5, reportedly found, stepmother charged with hindering investigators
A 5-year-old Kansas boy missing for months has been found dead and his stepmother-- who reported him missing in February-- has been charged with impeding investigators, according to reports.
{FD} Missouri lake boat crash kills 3 friends, injures 2 others; driver charged
A boat driver was charged with boating while intoxicated after he crashed the vessel with four of his friends aboard into a rock bluff at the Lake of the Ozarks, killing three of them, officials said.
{FD} NASCAR’s Harvick wins at Kansas Speedway in record-setting start
Nobody has been able to keep pace with Kevin Harvick this season. Not even the reigning series champion on a track where he swept both races last season.
{FD} New law prohibits Kansas police from having sex with people in custody
Police in Kansas are now prohibited from engaging in consensual sex with people in their custody, after Gov. Jeff Colyer signed a bill into law this week.
{FD} Kansas woman takes Mercedes for test drive and never returns, dealership says
A Kansas woman who recently took a Mercedes for a test drive alone never returned the vehicle, an attendant at a local car dealership said.
{FD} Three men convicted in Kansas plot to bomb mosque, apartment building housing Somali refugees
A federal jury on Wednesday found three men guilty of plotting to bomb a mosque and apartment complex housing Somali refugees in Kansas.
{FD} ‘Rot and burn in hell,’ mom tells killer after losing second daughter to violent crime
A Kansas woman who has lost two daughters to violent crime confronted the killer of her eldest daughter Friday as he was sentenced to 20 years and seven months in prison.
{FD} Co-designer of deadly Kansas waterslide that decapitated boy charged in child’s death
The co-designer of the deadly Kansas waterslide that decapitated a 10-year-old boy was arrested overnight at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport.
{FD} Illegal immigrant ex-school secretary who made bomb threat indicted on gun charges
A former secretary at a Kansas elementary school who admitted to emailing a bomb threat last year has been indicted on federal firearms charges, authorities said Tuesday.
{FD} Kansas considers making schools liable for not arming staff
In the wake of last month’s mass shooting at a Florida high school, at least 10 states across America have provisions in place giving teachers the option of carrying guns in schools, but Kansas may be taking their plans further than most other laws in place or under consideration.
{FD} Linda Brown, center of Brown v. Board case, dead at 76
Linda Brown, the woman who was at the center of the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision that ended school segregation, has died at age 76.
{FD} Kansas water park and ex-exec facing ‘involuntary manslaughter’ charge over boy’s decapitation
The company that owns a Kansas City waterpark, where 10-year-old Caleb Schwab was decapitated while on a waterslide in 2016, has been charged with involuntary manslaughter.
{FD} More veterans seek Trump’s pardon for combat-zone convictions
When Michael Behenna told his parents he wanted to enlist in the Army to serve his country after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, they were proud.
{FD} Several Kansas billboards call for prosecution of officer who fatally shot unarmed man in ‘swatting’ incident
Multiple billboards seen in Kansas on Friday called for the prosecution of a police officer after he shot and killed an unarmed man during a fake emergency call last year.
{FD} Adrian Lamo, hacker who turned in Chelsea Manning to FBI, found dead
Authorities in Kansas have confirmed the death of Adrian Lamo, the computer hacker who turned in Chelsea Manning to law enforcement for giving thousands of documents to WikiLeaks.
{FD} Kansas man pleads guilty in deadly bar shooting
A man charged with killing an Indian national and wounding another in a shooting last year at a suburban Kansas City bar pleaded guilty Tuesday to premeditated first-degree murder.
{FD} Kansas man deported after disgruntled ex-girlfriend reports him to ICE, report says
An illegal immigrant living in Kansas was deported Friday after his ex-girlfriend reported him to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to a report.