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WICHITA | Prosecutors are opposing a change of venue for the trial of the man who has publicly admitted killing George Tiller to save "unborn children."
A federal judge today sentenced three people who concocted a bizarre scheme to stage a sexual assault in Waldo to boost the payoff of a civil lawsuit.
Former Attorney General John Ashcroft said today that prosecuting terrorists in federal court in New York City rather than a military tribunal jeopardizes the safety of Americans. In a press conference in Overland Park, Ashcroft, a former two-term Missouri governor and senator, said information coming out of a future trial could provide important intelligence to terrorists. Ashcroft was in Overland Park to help raise money for fellow Republican Todd Tiahrt’s campaign for the U.S. Senate. Tiahrt of Wichita currently serves in the U.S. House from Kansas’ 4th Congressional District.
A major storm may affect the beginning of next week's holiday travel. This weekend looks cloudy but nice. And the sun should come out a bit Sunday.
A new on-ramp opened shortly before 2 p.m. today for motorists traveling from Levee Road to northbound Interstate 29/35. It is the fourth of 16 new ramps to open in connection with the Paseo Bridge project, which also includes the widening of I-29/35 northeast of the downtown loop.
Reality: 21,000 extra teens downtown — plus the massive buses that brought them here — means fewer spaces than usual for the rest of us to park. Suggestion: Pay attention to signs.
TOPEKA | The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday upheld Benjamin Appleby’s murder conviction and Hard 50 prison sentence for killing Leawood teen Ali Kemp in 2002. But the court reversed a second conviction — and a 19-year sentence — for attempted rape, saying it would be unconstitutional to convict Appleby twice for the same offense.
Authorities today charged a teen who allegedly shot and killed 20-year-old Taylor Holman on a Midtown Kansas City street. Nathaniel A. Brown, 18, of Kansas City is charged with second-degree murder and armed criminal action in the Sept. 13 homicide.
Buying art is Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art director Bruce Hartman’s favorite pastime. On Thursday he learned he can pick up the pace, thanks to a million-dollar gift from Johnson County philanthropist and art collector Mary Cohen.
A bystander called police after hearing a gunshot and seeing a man limping out of a Northeast area carwash stall Thursday afternoon. When officers arrived, according to their report, the victim said he had been shot in the knee but refused to say who shot him or why.
Facing a budget shortfall, the North Kansas City School District will decentralize its leadership and reduce the number of administrators in its central office, including top management positions. The school board approved the district office reorganization Thursday night at a special meeting called to address budget concerns.
Following an online media report that the University of Kansas was reviewing the performance of Athletic Director Lew Perkins, Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little said today that no such review was underway.
TOPEKA | Labor officials say the Kansas unemployment rate declined to 6.4 percent in October, though an analyst cautions the job market remains weak.
LAWRENCE | The Lawrence Human Relations Commission has voted not to recommend adding gender identity to the city's anti-discrimination policy.
JEFFERSON CITY | A teenager accused of killing a 9-year-old neighbor was sent to a mental hospital after her attorney said she showed signs of severe depression and anxiety.
Missouri's Sean Weatherspoon has been named one of five finalists for the Butkus Award, the honor given to the best linebacker in college football.
If you were going to the Elton John and Billy Joel concert Dec. 1, hold on to those tickets. The Sprint Center show has been rescheduled to 7:30 p.m. Feb. 27.
A dump truck driver was found dead Thursday afternoon after his truck veered off a rural, southwest Missouri highway and came to rest in a pond. The crash that killed Ronnie Kimbrough, 67, of Stella was discovered several hours after it happened on Missouri O near Stark City, according to a preliminary report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol.
An armed robber ran off with money from a Jackson County convenience store Thursday night — but his newfound wealth and freedom didn’t last long. Quick-acting Sheriff’s deputies caught him within two minutes of the 911 call, then took the stolen money back.
Kansas City police will conduct a sobriety checkpoint this weekend at a location in the city known for DUI-related crashes and arrests. The checkpoint will take place after 11 p.m. tonight or Saturday.
TOPEKA, Kan. | An audit in Kansas shows that the National Teachers Hall of Fame lost nearly $251,000 from 2006 through 2008.
LAWRENCE | The top-ranked Jayhawks got back to dominating, blowing out overmatched Central Arkansas 94-44 at Allen Fieldhouse on Thursday.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico | Behind a strong shooting night from Rodney McGruder, the Kansas State basketball team defeated Boston University 80-70 Thursday in its first game of the Puerto Rico Tip-off.
Jackson County sheriff’s deputies arrested a man this evening within two minutes of receiving a call about a convenience store robbery. The crime was reported about 6:30 p.m. at the Little General store, at U.S. 24 and Salem Drive, and the robber was said to be traveling north from the store on foot, said Sgt. Steve Leone of the sheriff’s office. Deputies recovered money after catching the man.
JEFFERSON CITY | Seven emergency responders, including two from the Kansas City area, have been given the Missouri Medal of Valor for savings lives in 2008.
Kansas City police today released surveillance photos of a man suspected of stealing items from GameStop, 906 Westport Road, last weekend. The thefts are thought to have occurred between 4:30 p.m. and 5:15 p.m. Friday or Saturday, police said.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. | An explosion has leveled a house in Springfield and damaged eight others, but authorities say no one was injured.
A 22-year-old man was charged Wednesday with second-degree murder in the shooting death of Jose Luis Salazar. Wyandotte County District Attorney Jerome A. Gorman charged Cristian Ruiz, of Kansas City, Kan., in the Nov. 15 shooting of Salazar, 28. The victim’s body was found in an alley near 9th Street and Armstrong Avenue.
Two men were charged today with carjacking a vehicle that contained a young child. Charles White, 19, and Frank T. Scharschell, 22, were charged in Wyandotte County District Court with aggravated robbery, aggravated burglary, aggravated battery, kidnapping and aggravated endangering a child.
A 33-year-old Kansas City, Kan., man was sentenced to 52 months in prison this morning for a traffic wreck that killed Waynedale Avery. Howard Lewis Jr. pleaded no contest to involuntary manslaughter in September. Lewis was driving drunk and traveling at a high rate of speed when he struck a utility pole on Parallel Parkway near Victory Drive on Jan. 8, 2007. Lewis’ blood alcohol content was .14, well above the legal limit of .08. The crash killed Avery, who was riding in Lewis’ car.
Congressman Dennis Moore's office has confirmed that it will submit the name of Overland Park attorney Barry Grissom to be the next U.S. attorney for Kansas.
Kansas City homicide investigators are seeking the public’s help in identifying persons of interest who may be connected to a Nov. 4 shooting death. The victim, Maurice West, 20, of Kansas City, was walking with a friend near 116th Street and Holiday Drive about 4 p.m. when two men confronted them. The two groups argued and shots were fired.
A Kansas City man pleaded guilty to federal bank robbery charges today.
A federal judge sentenced a Mississippi man to 10 years in federal prison today for attempted commercial sex trafficking of a child.
Lee’s Summit police are seeking the public’s assistance in identifying two persons responsible for a recent vehicle theft. Police responded to Northwest Hemlock Street in northern Lee’s Summit on Oct. 15 on a black 2005 GMC S15 that had been stolen. The victim’s wallet and other personal belongings were inside.
Utility delays have forced a three-week delay of the opening of the 95th Street bridge project over Interstate 435. The bridge was scheduled to open Wednesday, but Kansas Department of Transportation officials announced today that the bridge will remain closed to all eastbound and westbound 95th Street traffic until Dec. 9.
Former Kansas State University President Jon Wefald gave too much power to deputies who operated with too little oversight, according to a final review of financial irregularities identified in a recent audit.
Kansas City officials ceased ticketing drivers, beginning Wednesday, for making right turns at Northwest 68th Street at U.S. 169 in the Kansas City Northland. Many drivers had complained they were wrongly receiving red-light camera notices for making right turns onto northbound U.S. 169.
The Royals announced Thursday that next year's team will wear a new powder blue hat with their powder blue jerseys, which have been worn every home day game since the 2008 season.
The Kansas City area has violated the federal Clean Air Act after exceeding the air quality standard for ozone eight times this summer, state officials said today. The violation occurred because the area has exceeded the federal standard several times every summer for the last three years.
A 17-year-old pleaded guilty Friday to murdering a Border Patrol agent who was shot eight times in head, neck and torso in the mountains east of San Diego.
A 2-year-old boy dragged a 1-year-old Arizona girl Friday from a house fire that killed her mother and injured two other adults, authorities said.
A retired State Department worker and his wife accused of a three-decade-long plot to spy for Cuba have pleaded guilty in federal court.
The Justice Department intends to drop manslaughter and weapons charges against one of the Blackwater Worldwide security guards involved in a deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting, prosecutors said in court documents Friday.
The Senate ethics committee on Friday admonished Democratic Sen. Roland Burris for misleading investigators about his maneuvering to get Barack Obama's old Senate seat from the governor who was ousted for trying to sell it.
Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska is a "yes" in a crucial weekend test vote on health care.
As the nation's military academies try to recruit more minorities, they aren't getting much help from members of Congress from big-city districts with large numbers of blacks, Hispanics and Asians.
A Pennsylvania university's requirement that overweight undergraduates take a fitness course to receive their degrees has raised the hackles of students and the eyebrows of health and legal experts.
The Pacific resort island of Saipan was reeling Saturday from one of the most violent attacks in its history, when a gunman killed five people, including two small children and himself, in a rampage that ended at a World War II historical site.
An attorney for a condemned killer says Ohio's new lethal-injection plan is so untested it would amount to human experimentation if used for the first time next month.
A foot model in New York City is suing her upscale apartment building, claiming the co-op board is trying to force her out because she married its former doorman.
Two former Pennsylvania judges accused of taking kickbacks to supply private detention facilities with juveniles have been granted partial immunity from civil liability.
A look at key issues in the health care debate:
Suitably opaque, Section 2006 takes up only a few dozen lines in a sweeping health care bill that runs to 2,074 pages and mentions neither Sen. Mary Landrieu nor her state of Louisiana.
The Catholic Diocese of Wilmington is obligated to pay retirement benefits to six priests who are confirmed pedophiles, church officials argued in a bankruptcy court filing seeking permission to keep making the payments.
An air taxi with eight people aboard made an emergency landing on tundra when the engine failed near Alaska's Bering Sea coast.
Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska, one of three moderate Democratic senators wavering on whether to allow debate on health care legislation to proceed, said Friday that he would vote to move the bill forward.
This city did not wait for Washington's health care overhaul. Most uninsured adults here are already reaping the benefits of a government-run health care program - seeing doctors, filling prescriptions, and getting surgeries they could not otherwise afford.
A retired State Department employee and his wife are expected to plead guilty Friday in federal court to charges that they have been spying for Cuba for decades.
Hoping to see the USA in your Chevrolet Volt or Nissan Leaf? The tiny Iowa town of Elk Horn will have plenty of electric charging stations and no wait - if you can get there.
A list of congressional districts with the fewest military academy nominations for the classes of 2009 to 2013, the officeholders and the total nominations they have made. All 20 are Democrats from districts where whites make up less than half the population, and all but two of the districts include major urban areas.
An attorney for the Army psychiatrist charged in the mass shooting at Fort Hood says his client will have his first court hearing in his hospital room on Saturday.
The University of Nebraska's governing board on Friday voted down a proposal to restrict the school's rules governing embryonic stem-cell research beyond what the federal government allows.
The rumble of Navy patrol aircraft flying overhead will soon be a thing of the past as the remaining P-3 Orions depart from Brunswick Naval Air Station.
A former smoker who just won a $300 million verdict in Florida against Philip Morris USA has pulled out of a news conference about the case.
The ringleader of a group described by prosecutors as plotting terror attacks on Chicago's Sears Tower and FBI offices in hopes of sparking an anti-government insurrection was sentenced Friday to 13 1/2 years in prison by a federal judge.
An Arizona family is pleading with burglars to return a wooden music box containing the ashes of their 5-month old son.
A key U.N. committee approved a resolution Friday urging Iran to halt the persecution of political opponents following the country's disputed presidential election and release those still detained.
The FBI has dispatched investigators to Arkansas to look into a police officer's use of a stun gun on a 10-year-old girl who refused to take a shower.
Police believe a batch of drugs blamed in Michael Jackson's death was purchased by his personal physician at a Las Vegas pharmacy, court documents released Friday show.
An interactive exhibit featuring life-size models of Leonardo da Vinci's 500-year-old inventions and machines is opening in New York City's Times Square.
The Army says there will be an outside review of how body armor for its soldiers is tested.
