Husband critical after shooting; wife in jail
Wichita police arrested a 43-year-old woman in a shooting early Friday that left her estranged husband in "very critical condition" with a gunshot wound to his head, a police official said.
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Wichita police arrested a 43-year-old woman in a shooting early Friday that left her estranged husband in "very critical condition" with a gunshot wound to his head, a police official said.
More than a month before Wichita abortion provider George Tiller's shooting death, the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Kansas City received an anonymous letter warning that the man now charged in the case "would do physical harm" to Tiller or any other abortion provider, the agency said.
On a recent Sunday, members of a south Wichita congregation found their church lawn flooded with what looked like thousands of gallons of water.
EL DORADO — A judge ordered an Augusta man to stand trial on second-degree murder charges in the shooting death of a teenage girl last month.
LEXINGTON, Mo. —Hours after a father and his four middle-age sons shuffled into court Thursday, a sixth man was arrested in connection with an expanding child-rape-and-sodomy investigation.
In Wichita and across the nation, the high price of gold is bringing items out of jewelry boxes and into businesses eager to buy a metal that has become extra precious in a troubled economy.
Attacking statements made by the Sedgwick County district attorney and stories in The Wichita Eagle, public defenders for Scott Roeder this week asked for his first-degree murder trial to be held elsewhere.
WICHITA — A Sedgwick County District Judge has set a hearing next month to determine whether Scott Roeder's first-degree murder trial will proceed here or elsewhere.
LEXINGTON, Mo. —They said they were just little girls trying to bury their horror in jars around the farm.
Sedgwick County has received a petition from 203 health care professionals requesting funding for a multidisciplinary center that would serve abused children under one roof.
Veterans Day asks us to regard as special people who didn't think they were special at the time of war, and have them explain what they can't explain to those who weren't there. Floyd and Lloyd Simmons were 18-year-old twins from Yates Center when they were drafted in 1944.
Scott Roeder's lawyer said Tuesday that the defense his client had hoped for in the murder trial of a Wichita abortion provider isn't legal.
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A Wichita middle school teacher was charged Monday in northern Oklahoma with possession of drugs, Blackwell police said.
Scott Roeder confessed Monday to killing Wichita abortion provider George Tiller, saying he had no regrets because "pre-born children were in imminent danger."
Home burglaries in Wichita have jumped sharply this year compared with 2008, with burglars targeting big-screen televisions and other electronics.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. —Vincent Mosby signed a marriage contract and paid a dowry in a religious ceremony in August, police said.
WASHINGTON — Joe Sullivan was sent away for life for raping an elderly woman and was judged incorrigible, though he was only 13 at the time of the attack.
Larry Williams expected to wait 10 years to see the death sentence carried out for his daughter's killer. Now, 13 years later, Williams said he may have to wait another decade before Gary Kleypas exhausts his appeals.
State courts in Kansas will have to close their doors for one week each month beginning in February if the Legislature doesn't restore $8 million to the judiciary budget, Supreme Court Chief Justice Robert Davis said Friday.