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The Kansas Supreme Court unanimously ruled Tuesday that while a citizen-petitioned grand jury is constitutional, a group investigating a Wichita abortion clinic can't form a grand jury to go on a "fishing expedition" for patient records.
Prosecutor Marc Bennett pointed at Ted Burnett and asked the woman in the jury box if she could impose the death penalty. "We're not talking hypotheticals, what we're asking is... if you could consider giving this man, sitting here in the white shirt, death?" Bennett said.
Ted Burnett smoked pot a few times with the teenage boy who had been hanging around his apartment complex. That boy, Everett Gentry, would later testify in court, implicating 51-year-old Burnett in an alleged murder-for-hire scheme that will have him on trial for his life this week.
Through the first three months of the year, Sedgwick County has billed 17 cities for more than $956,000 for housing their inmates in the Sedgwick County Jail.
A 76-year-old retired doctor will spend nearly three years in federal prison for unlawfully dispensing prescription drugs through an Internet pharmacy he owned in Wichita.
A Wichita police officer suffered minor injuries after colliding with a pickup while he was responding to an emergency call early Thursday.
Adair, Tyrone C. and Barnett, Davette L., both of Wichita. Adeisa, Mobolaji A. and Ojo, Oluwasey A., both of Wichita. Beard, Ryan S. and Boyd, Whitney L., both of Fairway.
Criminal complaints from police beats in Wichita. Missing dates indicate days where no reports were filed. 1500 block of N. Sheridan, April 19.
This was a South Broadway sting with a twist. Eight women were arrested Monday evening on 13 different offenses, including several sex crimes.
A drug bust in Mulvane resulted in 11 arrests Tuesday, including two at Mulvane High School. Mulvane Police Chief Dave Williams said those arrested included a 21-year-old woman and 10 males ranging in age from 16 to 21.
Ted Burnett's capital murder trial will go on next week in Wichita as planned.
"Who are you?" asked U.S. District Judge Monti Belot. "Ted Riley Floyd," the 28-year-old man answered. "Do you sometimes go by the name Nathaniel James Levi?" the judge asked.
Three law enforcement officers who played key roles in the investigation of the January 2005 shooting death of Greenwood County Sheriff Matt Samuels were honored last week in Kansas City, Kan.
Wichita police used a helicopter and dogs to search a west Wichita neighborhood for more than six hours Saturday before realizing that reports of a missing 89-year-old woman were false.
A New Jersey man pleaded guilty to conspiracy Friday in a junk fax scheme that defrauded business owners across the nation of millions of dollars.
Stephen Schneider said if the Kansas Board of Healing Arts had conducted its investigation into his Haysville medical clinic swiftly, he might not be facing federal criminal charges.
A former East High School wrestling coach will face trial this summer, accused of having sex with a student. Bryant Richard no longer works for the Wichita public schools and will go to trial on a charge of "unlawful sexual relations" with a senior.
The teenage daughters of Stephen and Linda Schneider said the Christmas decorations are still up at their Haysville home. "We won't open the presents until both our parents are there," 16-year-old Zoyie said Thursday after learning her father will return home from jail today. Her mother remains in federal custody.
Stephen Schneider won't win his freedom without an argument. Federal prosecutor Tanya Treadway has asked a judge to modify the conditions for the former doctor's bond, set for a hearing at 2 p.m. today in Wichita.
A woman accused of the hit-and-run deaths of two highway workers near Lawrence has been convicted of leading police on a chase after the men were struck.
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