Crime

Wichita police arrested 30-year-old Deadrian Burns on charges of attempted first-degree murder and aggravated battery on Sunday.

For the first time since Friday’s shooting in Lyons, we’re hearing from one of the men who was wounded.

The Shawnee County Sheriff’s Office said a teen was taken into custody early Saturday morning following an incident at the Petro Deli, north of Topeka.

Friday, WPD officials were alerted to threatening statements directed toward city of Wichita Mayor Brandon Whipple.

The Wichita Police Department has identified the man at the center of a standoff Tuesday night as 33-year-old Patrick Newborn

The Kansas Bureau of Investigation and Independence Police Department are investigating after two men were found dead early Friday.

A Barber County District Court judge on Wednesday sentenced 42-year-old Ora Munger to 351 months (29 years, three months) for one count of attempted second-degree murder, three counts of aggravated robbery, two counts of mistreatment of an elder person, and one count of criminal damage.

A 61-year-old man arrested earlier this week in connection with the shooting death of his brother heard formal charges against him Thursday in Sedgwick County District Court.

A disturbance Wednesday evening (Oct. 14) led to shots fired and serious injury to a teenage girl.

According to Sheriff David Falletti with the Cowley County Sheriff’s Office, the oil tank only had a mesh top.

The Kansas State Board of Healing Arts said Tuesday it has obtained an injunction against Shawn Parcells for practicing medicine in Kansas without a license.

The Kansas Bureau Investigation (KBI) said Friday two have been injured in a shooting in Salina.

The KBI and the Crawford County Sheriff’s Office have identified the skeletal remains of a man found on Aug. 10 in western Crawford County.

A man suspected of murder in Louisiana is in the Harper County Jail following his arrest early Tuesday morning in Attica.

The Wichita Police Department arrested a 20-year-old man they say pointed a gun at a woman and robbed her overnight in southeast Wichita.

Fort Hays State University said Thursday it is investigating the report of a potential hate crime.

He was sent to the hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.

On the national scale, the U.S. Department of Labor predicts $26 billion in unemployment benefits were sent to scam artists by mistake. The KDOL is investigating how fraudulent claims were paid out by the state, and just how much money this will cost taxpayers.

The suspect in one of three recent sexual assault cases made his first appearance in court on Tuesday.

She was sentenced to six years in prison.

The number of sexual assault cases in Wichita is on the rise, and police say it’s an alarming trend.

The man took off running when he heard approaching voices.

A judge on Monday (Oct. 5, 2020) sentenced a Los Angeles woman to 18 months in federal prison for transporting 60 pounds of methamphetamine to Kansas.

In a 28-page review of the case, reviewing investigation details and citing state law, Sedgwick County District Attorney Marc Bennett on Monday announced that two officers who fired shots that fatally wounded a man involved in a May 23, 2019 standoff at a south Wichita apartment complex, won’t face criminal charges.

Police say it happened early Sunday in S. Wichita.

A 34-year-old man was arrested after he forced a woman into his car and sexually assaulted her Tuesday night.

It happened during a barbecue

Wichita police are investigating a Friday night shooting reported in the 1300 block of North Volutsia, west of 13th and Hillside in north Wichita.

The Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism is asking for the public’s help to find out who poached a whitetail deer in Trego County.

A Wichita Police Department (WPD) K9 team seized pounds of illegal drugs off the streets of Wichita in the past seven days.