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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.
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.
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.
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.
The phone rang at 11:33 a.m. Thursday.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Bel Aire police said Tuesday they suspect foul play in the March disappearance of an 82-year-old man.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Was it the Clutter murders or Truman Capote, as a storyteller, that keeps the interest alive five decades later?
All four were in their mid-30s when the Clutters were brutally murdered.
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.
They came in through the doggy door armed with shotguns and pistols.
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.
