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TOPEKA – A traveling medical worker has admitted infecting six patients in Kansas with Hepatitis C, including one who died, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.

David M. Kwiatkowski, 34, a forme…

YODER -- Sedgwick County Sheriff Jeff Easter congratulated 52 new law enforcement officers during their graduation from the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center (KLETC) Friday, May 24.
The new offi…

Marie Ola Schlereth, age 92, of Elkhart, Kansas passed away on Sunday, July 14, 2013, at Morton County Hospital in Elkhart, Kansas. She was born September 15, 1920, in Booneville, Arkansas, the daugh…

Olathe police are investigating a report of a possible theft of more than $10,000 from an school's parent-teacher organization.
The Kansas City Star reports $10,640 was reportedly taken from PTO fund…

Workers at a south-central Kansas thrift store found an inactive hand grenade in a box of donations.
The Wichita Eagle reports that workers at the Derby Goodwill Store found the grenade Wednesday.

The only homicide in the Kansas City suburb of Westwood remains unsolved, but authorities say they're still investigating the crime that took place a decade ago.
David "Ray" Ninemire, a 68-year-old f…

While former representative Brian Weber isn't planning to return to his legislative seat anytime soon, he has sought after different ways to remain involved.

Two Kansas anti-abortion groups are distancing themselves from comments from another abortion foe suggesting the state's new concealed carry law could increase the threat of shootings outside a Wichi…

The former wastewater manager for the city of Hays was charged with violating the Clean Water Act by lying about nitrogen levels in the city's discharges, the U.S. attorney's office said Tuesday.
A f…

The owner of Asian massage parlors in Wichita has asked a federal judge to release him from prison while awaiting trial on charges of recruiting women and coercing them into prostitution.
A magistrat…