WICHITA, Kansas (KSN) — A former teacher, athletic director, and Garden Plain football coach, will face trial on charges that he tried to pay an undercover cop posing as an underage prostitute cash for sex. Todd Puetz faces charges of ...

TOPEKA — The state House took action today trying to force the Senate into a vote on whether to move up the deadline when new Kansas voters will be required ... “There isn’t any court in the land that is going to say that one sex has ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. — A Kansas City man accused of 17 animal abuse charges wants to bring live alligators into a Columbia courtroom when he goes on trial in July. The Columbia Daily Tribune reports an attorney for 67-year-old Ken Henderson made the ...

WICHITA Before graduating last year and joining the pro tennis tour, Jack Sock went 80-0 at Blue Valley North with four Kansas ... Mission North's Keenan Smith to advance. Daniel handed Pham, 25-2, both of his losses this season. Off the court ...

The Kansas Attorney General’s Office paid outside attorneys almost ... and ban corporations from taking a tax credit from contributions they make to Planned Parenthood. The bill’s provisions include applying sales taxes to any drugs used to perform ...

Carolyn McGinn, R-Sedgwick. Under some Senate maps ... He said the federal court would likely defer the state legislative maps to the Kansas court. The congressional map would probably be the only one decided at the federal level, he added.

The Wichita City Council needs to vote “no” on any sales-tax increase to accommodate ... has more courage and intelligence than our entire Kansas Legislature and governor. I want Kobach for Kansas attorney general. Will our nation ever ...

WICHITA, Kansas (AP) --A 65-year-old Army and Marine veteran from southeastern Kansas who was preparing for the end of the world will go to prison for possessing incendiary bombs. The U.S. Attorney's office says Alfred Dutton, of Eureka, was sentenced ...

A child sex offender who escaped from Lansing Correctional Facility last month was captured this afternoon in Kansas City ... was taken to the Wyandotte County Jail, where he will be held until he is transferred back to the prison.

The Kansas Supreme Court has upheld the second ... That sentence is running concurrently with the sentence imposed in Douglas County. His earliest possible date of release from prison is in 2033.

Does it matter that all judges swear an oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution and the Kansas Constitution? No. Does it matter that in order for lawyers to become eligible to practice law, they must swear the same? Apparently not. What does matter ...

A group of teenagers who participated in what appeared to be a fake robbery at a northeast Wichita Subway restaurant this week were apparently playing a dangerous “game” called Urban Skittles, the Sedgwick County District Attorney’s Office ...

WICHITA, Kansas (AP) — A former southeastern Kansas city clerk has admitted embezzling $120,000 in ... of Thayer in a scheme that continued until July of last year. The U.S. attorney's office says Whittley pleaded guilty Monday to one count each of ...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - A 65-year-old Army and Marine veteran from southeastern Kansas who was preparing for the end of the world will go to prison for possessing incendiary bombs. The U.S. Attorney's office says Alfred Dutton, of Eureka, was sentenced Monday ...

Sentenced to life in prison for first degree murder ... chance to meet Trooper "Bud" Pribbenow. The Kansas Prisoner Review Board will hear public comments from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m on May 22 in Room 3080 of the Finney State Office Building in Wichita.

TOPEKA — The Senate passed and sent the governor a bill that would outlaw the use of foreign legal codes in Kansas courts, a bill broadly written but particularly aimed at Islamic “Sharia” law. The decision, which sends the bill to the ...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - A former southeastern Kansas city clerk ... Whittley admitted pocketing cash paid by residents for utility bills, municipal court payments, park fees and wildlife licenses and permits. She also issued additional paychecks to herself ...

WICHITA, Kansas — A former Garden Plain school coach accused of sex crimes was in a Sedgwick County courtroom Thursday ... after driving out to the home of the detective. Defense attorneys for Puetz said detective entrapped the coach by ...

Kansas is the only state in which legislators failed to produce a congressional redistricting plan, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Normally, a federal court reviews a congressional map already approved by lawmakers ...

WICHITA, Kansas — A former Wichita police officer serving probation for sex crimes is in trouble with the law again. Joseph McGill, 28, was arrested in Hutchinson Tuesday and booked into the Sedgwick County Jail on charges of aggravated ...

Nearly two dozen members of a Hispanic gang were arrested in Kansas this week under a federal grand jury ... All but one of the men named in the indictment are being held in various jails around Wichita. One suspect is not yet in custody.

WICHITA, Kansas — Several suspects involved in a Subway robbery prank on North Rock Road Monday could be prosecuted according the Sedgwick County District Attorney's office. The dangerous game called "Urban Skittles" is played by an ...

(AP) – The Nebraska Supreme Court says a Kansas woman can be sent to jail for ... they would be shamed or publicly disgraced doesn’t apply in criminal cases. Lancaster County Attorney Joe Kelly says his office will speak with the woman ...

Holmquist, Pratt, drive while license suspended/cancelled/revoked, five days in jail, conditionally suspended 90 days ... Bankruptcies WICHITA - The following persons from central and southwest Kansas have filed bankruptcy petitions with ...

TOPEKA — The Kansas House moved today to ease penalties on some small ... At present, the offenses are considered “presumptive prison” on the state drug-crime sentencing grid. That means a judge who wants to give a lesser sentence has ...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - A former southeastern Kansas city clerk ... Whittley admitted pocketing cash paid by residents for utility bills, municipal court payments, park fees and wildlife licenses and permits. She also issued additional paychecks to herself ...