Kansas Supreme Court affirms verdict in Wichita teen's death
The state's highest court upheld the capital murder and aggravated kidnapping convictions of a Wichita man who was paid to kill a pregnant 14-year-old girl.
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Signs marking major construction projects under way at Wichita schools say Progress as Promised. Now many district residents are loudly disputing that claim, saying a new boundary proposal breaks promises leaders made when they campaigned for a $370 million bond issue in 2008.
TOPEKA – Taxpayers who earn less than $25,000 a year would see an average income tax reduction of $11.64 under a proposal detailed by House Republican leaders this afternoon.
Charges have been filed against a Topeka man accused of poaching a deer that could have broken a state record that has stood for more than 35 years, according to the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism.
The state's highest court upheld the capital murder and aggravated kidnapping convictions of a Wichita man who was paid to kill a pregnant 14-year-old girl.
Several parents stood at busy street corners in west Wichita this morning to protest a plan that would close their neighborhood school and send students to schools farther away and across major thoroughfares.
Layton Bulcao, 83, received his mail-in ballot Thursday for the Feb. 28 special election on whether developers of the planned Ambassador Hotel should get to tap into the city’s bed tax to help build the $22.5 million project in downtown Wichita.
The Obama administration has given 10 states a waiver from the federal law known as No Child Left Behind — once a bipartisan hope to raise education standards, but now generally regarded as too cumbersome and draconian.
Kansans are expected to receive about $50 million as the state’s share of a $25 billion deal with the nation’s biggest mortgage lenders over foreclosure abuses after the housing bubble burst.
Heights senior Perry Ellis was named a McDonalds All-American on Thursday and will be one of 24 seniors playing in the annual all-star game March 28 at Chicagos United Center.
Intrust Bank Arena is reviving its Wichita Ribfest, an outdoor barbecue festival originally scheduled for last August.
No one had the winning numbers in Wednesday night’s Powerball drawing, so the jackpot will jump to an estimated $310 million.
Rhonda Arrington says she let a bounty hunter into her mother’s house to look for a relative last month because “I wasn’t trying to hide anyone.”