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May 1, 2017

4 dead, including gunman, after shooting at Topeka home

Police say four men are dead — including the suspected gunman — after a shooting at a home in Topeka, Kansas, that is part of a private business providing in-home care for people with special needs.

April 29, 2017

Videos reportedly show gruesome abuse of young Kansas boy

The maternal grandmother of a 7-year-old Kansas boy whose remains were found in a pigsty says she has seen videos that detail gruesome abuse the boy suffered at the hands of his father and stepmother.

April 26, 2017

Police to use DNA to identify man found encased in concrete

Investigators say DNA from the mother of a missing Missouri man could help to determine if it was his body found encased in concrete inside a dumpster in a storage unit.

April 26, 2017

Lawsuits: Missouri jail stunk like a sewer

Two men once detained at the Jackson County jail have filed separate lawsuits saying sewage frequently backed up in their cells and the stench was so intense at times that they could not sleep.

April 26, 2017

Some high plains farmers struggling after fires, drought

Deep snow is melting into Western mountain streams, but some farmers and ranchers on the high plains are struggling amid a lengthy dry spell and the aftermath of destructive wildfires.

April 23, 2017

Woman whose 10-year-old daughter was killed in 1999 loses second daughter to murder

Kansas police announced Sunday the capture of a man who they say murdered a woman near the playground named for the victim's sister -- who was just 10 when she was abducted and killed in 1999.

April 21, 2017

Homicide victim was sister of girl abducted, killed in 1999

A Kansas City, Kansas, homicide victim has been identified as the sister of a girl whose kidnapping 17 years earlier sparked a massive manhunt before she was found dead in Missouri.

April 20, 2017

Chelsea Manning tweets about impending prison release

With less than a month before her scheduled freedom, Chelsea Manning on Thursday tweeted her thoughts about getting out of prison after former President Obama commuted her sentence.

April 19, 2017

Kansas students invited to Washington correspondents' dinner

Six Kansas high school journalists who published a story that led to the resignation of their school's new principal will be special guests at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.

April 13, 2017

Catholic college to make changes to yoga classes

A Catholic college in northeast Kansas plans to rename its yoga classes and change the content to ensure they focus only on physical exercise and not spiritual or cultural elements.