OKLAHOMA CITY - The owner of a dilapidated Oklahoma Panhandle wind farm has presented plans to clean up the most dangerous of the wind turbine towers. The Oklahoman reports the plans are to address dangerously broken-down towers and turbines of…
TOPEKA, Kan. - A Kansas racial justice panel appointed by Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly has recommended expanding Medicaid, adding another income tax bracket for top-income earners, restoring a food sales tax rebate and banning Native American mascots and team names…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - Former Kansas Attorney General Vern Miller, who gained notoriety for several law enforcement stunts during nearly 50 years in law enforcement, has died. Miller died Friday at his home in Mesa, Arizona. He was 92. His…
SAYRE, Okla. - Nearly all Oklahoma prisons have returned to normal operations after a statewide lockdown following a fight at one facility in the western part of the state. The statewide lockdown had been ordered Friday after a fight among…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Officials said Saturday that the city of Kansas City will receive more than $8 million in federal money to address issues related to homelessness. Some of the money will help pay for 140 beds in the…
FAIRWAY, Kan. - One person is dead after their vehicle slammed into a tree in the Kansas City area with enough force to split the car in two. The crash happened Sunday morning along Shawnee Mission Parkway near 55th Street…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Two Kansas City officers were injured when an impaired driver tried to flee police Saturday. The incident happened shortly before 5 p.m. Saturday when officers were trying to arrest the driver of a Cadillac CT5 near…
TOPEKA, Kan. - Lobbyist James E. “Jim” Gardner had a blood-alcohol level more than three times the legal limit at the time of a February crash that injured his passenger, according to a criminal complaint. The complaint, filed May 6,…
ABILENE, Kan. - For the third time this week, a small earthquake has caused a little shaking in Kansas. KSNT-TV reports that the latest was a magnitude 3.2 earthquake detected southeast of Abilene just after 7 a.m. Saturday. Like the…
SMITH CENTER, Kan. - Several small earthquakes have rattled north-central Kansas. The largest had a magnitude of 3.5 and was reported Friday in Jewell County. Two other quakes measuring 2.3 and 2.5 on the Richter scale were recorded Saturday in…
ATCHISON, Kan. - A Kansas district has decided to ditch its “Redmen" and “Braves" mascots after public opinion shifted. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the Atchison school board approved the change unanimously this past week. It was a reversal from…
WICHITA, Kan. - Wichita police are investigating a fatal shooting that happened during a party at a home that was being rented out. The shooting was reported near Douglas Avenue and Oliver Street around 3 a.m. Sunday. Wichita Police Officer…
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - A judge dismissed a lawsuit filed against the Blue Valley school district by a Johnson County Commissioner who was denied entry into a district meeting because she refused to wear a mask. Johnson County District Judge…
HUTCHINSON, Kan. - A Texas man has been sentenced to three years and two months in prison in a deadly Kansas crash. The Hutchinson News reports that Benjamin Buzzini also was ordered Friday to pay about $2,090 in restitution. He…
OKLAHOMA CITY - Oklahoma City police officers shot and killed an inmate who took a correctional officer hostage at a county jail Saturday, authorities said. Oklahoma City police Sgt. Megan Morgan said the officer who was held hostage was freed…
HUTCHINSON, Kan. - A Kansas man convicted of killing an 18-year-old woman and the 2-year-old twins she was baby-sitting in 1984 has died in an Oklahoma prison. Arnold Ruebke Jr., of Kingman, died on Tuesday, confirmed Karen Cunningham, Victim Services…
STRAFFORD, Mo. - A Missouri man…
TOPEKA, Kan. - Leaders of a Kansas school district that is named for an early 20th century Ku Klux Klan leader are meeting Monday to discuss whether to ditch the name. The discussions come after student journalists at Seaman High…
ST. LOUIS - Missouri’s rate of new coronavirus cases is ticking upward after months of decline. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the state’s coronavirus…
MISSION, Kan. - A fire that destroyed an annex building of the First Baptist Church in Mission, Kansas, has been ruled an accident by investigators, and there will be no criminal investigation, the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and…
ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Health officials and community groups are working together to help vaccinate seniors and other people who might have difficulty getting to a clinic for the coronavirus. As part of the vaccination campaign, the Urban League of…
OKLAHOMA CITY - The number of Oklahoma hospital patients with COVID-19 continues to sink. State health officials say under 13,000 patients with the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 are hospitalized as of Saturday. That's 407 fewer than on Friday. State health…
OKLAHOMA CITY - The Oklahoma State Department of Health reports more than 1,000 new coronavirus cases and nearly 30 new deaths. The 1,036 new cases and 26 new deaths reported by the Oklahoma State Department of Health brings the state’s…
ST. LOUIS - An 18-year-old woman is dead after the car she was in crashed into a concrete median as the driver tried to speed away from a shooting. The incident happened just before 1:30 a.m. Saturday in north St.…
