Greensburg News

A former Wichita police officer who pleaded guilty in January to sexual battery while on duty has been accused of abusing two children.

Abay's physicians quickly realized sending a doctor to the Kiowa County Memorial Hospital once a month would not be enough.

A Kansas meteorologist says the deadly tornadoes that killed hundreds of people last year in Joplin and in the South don't measure up to the monster storm that destroyed almost all of Greensburg five years ago.

View larger image Rusty Wallace, a 55-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series winner, rides in the Firefighter's Parade as this year's Firefighter's Marshal.

Wichita, KS - On May 4, 2007, the sun set on the town of Greensburg, Kan. By sunrise, the town no longer existed.

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This view, looking from the south end of Greensburg to the north, shows what it looked like a few days after the town was leveled by a tornado and what it looks like today.

GREENSBURG, Kan. - Greensburg will mark the fifth anniversary of a tornado strike that wiped out much of the town and killed 11 people with a dramatic reading by locals of a new play about the disaster and its aftermath.

With another season of destructive storms having already begun, and the one year anniversary of the EF5 tornado that tore though Joplin, MO coming up on May 22, communities are on alert.

One of the tornadoes that developed during the April 14 outbreak touched down just northwest of Greensburg - so close that residents of the town all but wiped out by a 2007 tornado could see it.