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A Wichita man who opened fire inside the Burlington Coat Factory store in east Wichita last summer avoided a prison sentence Thursday but will have to spend 60 days in a jail work-release program, a Sedgwick County judge ruled Thursday.
Sedgwick County prosecutors said Thursday that they will not seek the death penalty for a Wichita man accused of killing two people at a Wichita Dollar General store last year.
Police are urging residents of a southwest Wichita neighborhood to be alert after a rash of home burglaries late Sunday night and early Monday morning.
A Sedgwick County jury on Tuesday began hearing evidence in a first-degree murder trial that is being held this week despite the fact that one of the state’s key witnesses committed suicide last month.
Wichita police say a group of alleged shoplifters, including one who reportedly was armed, whose photos were posted Tuesday on the agency’s social media pages have been identified, thanks to phone calls from the public.
A Wichita man was sentenced Monday to more than 10 years in federal prison for distributing child pornography.
A former Goddard physician who is a convicted felon has been arrested and charged with a federal firearms violation after he allegedly gave his pistol to a bail bondsman for partial payment.
Hundreds of dollars in Crime Stoppers rewards go unclaimed annually, according to the director of the organization.
A body believed to be that of the 18-month-old daughter of murder victim Kaylie Bailey was found Saturday in Osage County, Kan., authorities said early Sunday. Lana-Leigh Bailey had been presumed dead, but searchers had been unable to locate her body, despite six days of intensive searching.
A Kansas man suspected of killing three adults and a young child on a farm near Ottawa now faces a bevy of murder charges, two of which could bring the death penalty.
Wichita police late Friday were investigating the possible abduction of an 11-year-old girl who was found after about 40 minutes, a police supervisor said.
The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday upheld the capital murder conviction of Israel Mireles, who was convicted of killing 18-year-old Butler Community College student Emily Sander in 2007 before dumping her body 50 miles away in Woodson County.
A homeless man was sentenced Thursday to 13.5 years in prison for beating another homeless man to death near the Keeper of the Plains statue in Wichita.
The city has been sued twice over claims that the same Wichita police officer drove dangerously on duty, leading to the death of a 12-year-old girl in one instance and resulting in serious injuries to a motorist in another.
Police think two store robberies Monday night are related.
Police on Tuesday shed no new light on the investigation into an alleged rape late last month reportedly involving a former member of Wichita State University’s Final Four basketball team.
Three of four suspects arrested in former Wichita South High football player Jordan Turner’s death were formally charged with first-degree murder Tuesday in Sedgwick County District Court.
Two brothers charged last week with first-degree murder in the shooting death of a 29-year-old man are among four people charged with killing another man at around the same time, according to district court, jail and police records.
A man who led police on an apparent car chase then jumped into a pond near Park City was prounounced dead about 30 mintes after divers found him unresponsive in the water, a Sedgwick County dispatch supervisor said late Saturday.
Criminals in Sedgwick County are “flunking out” of probation at a higher rate than the rest of the state, committing more crimes and jeopardizing public safety, officials said.
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