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Every weekday, Kansas.com's Wichita Crime Maps show you all the crimes reported yesterday across Wichita, and every crime reported in your neighborhood for the past week. See them here.

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Police watch for DUI over holiday

BY STAN FINGER, The Wichita Eagle | Today at 12:06 a.m.

Local law enforcement officials launch a weeklong crackdown on unsafe driving today in an attempt to make streets and highways safer over the Thanksgiving travel period.

Brazen burglars strike in College Hill

BY TIM POTTER, The Wichita Eagle | Nov. 22 at 2:46 a.m.

While a College Hill couple and their two small children slept upstairs early last Sunday, burglars went room to room downstairs.

Fax scam CEO, manager each sentenced for fraud

By ROXANA HEGEMAN, Associated Press | Nov. 21 at 12:08 a.m.

The president of a Florida consulting firm convicted in a massive fax blast scam was sentenced Friday to 68 months in prison for his role in defrauding thousands of small business owners across the United States, Mexico and Canada.

  • Copper theft suspect arrested on return trip

    BY STAN FINGER, The Wichita Eagle | Nov. 21 at 12:08 a.m.

    There are legendary tales of criminal masterminds — and then there's the guy who tried to steal copper pipe from a rental house near downtown.

  • Theft, burglary charges for pregnant woman

    BY STAN FINGER, The Wichita Eagle | Nov. 21 at 12:08 a.m.

    A pregnant woman believed to have stolen from west Wichita residents once they let her inside to make a telephone call has been arrested and charged, authorities said Friday.

  • Extradition flights save county time, money

    BY RON SYLVESTER, The Wichita Eagle | Nov. 21 at 2:23 a.m.

    Steve Saffell keeps a Taser tucked by his seat in the cockpit and a handgun holstered underneath his right arm. As pilot of the Sedgwick County sheriff's airplane, Saffell's passengers are usually wearing handcuffs and leg irons.

  • Wichita grandad warns of telephone con artists

    BY HURST LAVIANA, The Wichita Eagle | Nov. 21 at 1:53 a.m.

    The phone rang at 11:33 a.m. Thursday.

  • Police warn about pregnant con artist

    BY HURST LAVIANA, The Wichita Eagle | Nov. 20 at 12:03 a.m.

    Police Thursday warned west Wichita residents to beware of a young pregnant woman who has been talking her way into people's homes and stealing cash from their wallets and purses.

  • Incest material found in Mo. home

    By MARIA SUDEKUM FISHER, Associated Press Writer | Nov. 19 at 12:06 a.m.

    INDEPENDENCE, Mo. —The wife of one of six men charged in a child sex abuse case recently found material depicting incest that was hidden in the family's home, according to a search warrant.

  • County settles rape lawsuit

    BY HURST LAVIANA, The Wichita Eagle | Nov. 19 at 12:05 a.m.

    Sedgwick County commissioners agreed Wednesday to spend $85,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a former Judge James Riddel Boys Ranch resident who said he was raped while being held at the home for troubled teens.

  • More sex charges against Mo. family

    BY MARIA SUDEKUM FISHER, Associated Press | Nov. 18 at 12:05 a.m.

    LEXINGTON, Mo. —Prosecutors in western Missouri filed 15 additional sex charges against a family already accused of sexually abusing children as a newly released search warrant claims some of the suspects forced their victims to help kill and bury a man in 1988.

  • Foul play feared in man's disappearance

    BY HURST LAVIANA, The Wichita Eagle | Nov. 18 at 12:05 a.m.

    Bel Aire police said Tuesday they suspect foul play in the March disappearance of an 82-year-old man.

  • Marriage License Applications, Divorces Granted

    Nov. 17 at 10:33 a.m.

    Marriage License Applications

  • Ark City man charged in online solicitation

    BY TIM POTTER, The Wichita Eagle | Nov. 17 at 7:18 a.m.

    As part of a wider investigation into reports that teenage girls in Wichita and Arkansas City have been solicited for sex over the Internet, a 25-year-old man has been charged in Sedgwick County.

  • Goddard ex-cop gets probation

    BY TIM POTTER, The Wichita Eagle | Nov. 17 at 12:06 a.m.

    A former Goddard police officer will serve two years of probation for a crime in which he was accused of offering to help a woman he arrested in exchange for sex.

  • Etheredge case in need of new lead attorney

    BY BILL WILSON, The Wichita Eagle | Nov. 17 at 12:24 p.m.

    Thomas Etheredge's trial on securities fraud charges is set for Jan. 19, but the status of the Wild West World founder's lead defense attorney is in doubt.

  • New court for mentally ill is well-received

    BY RON SYLVESTER, The Wichita Eagle | Nov. 16 at 9:23 a.m.

    Judge Bryce Abbott said he was glad to see the woman walking to his bench in Wichita Municipal Court. "It's so nice to see someone who's not in handcuffs," Abbott told her.

  • Wichita reporter wrote book about murders

    BY BECCY TANNER, The Wichita Eagle | Nov. 15 at 5:10 a.m.

    Was it the Clutter murders or Truman Capote, as a storyteller, that keeps the interest alive five decades later?

  • Pair recount friendship with Capote

    BY BECCY TANNER, The Wichita Eagle | Nov. 15 at 5:12 a.m.

    All four were in their mid-30s when the Clutters were brutally murdered.

  • Wichita police investigate possible child abduction

    BY HURST LAVIANA, The Wichita Eagle | Nov. 13 at 6:01 p.m.

    WICHITA — Police are asking for the public's help in finding a young girl who may have been abducted from a south Wichita neighborhood this afternoon.

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