Wichita News

A jury has found a Wichita doctor responsible for more than $1.2 million in damages in a malpractice case.

When the Legislature decided in 2006 to allow people to carry a concealed handgun, it was with the stipulation that property owners could decide whether to allow guns on their property.

A Kansas law taking effect July 1 allows people with concealed-carry permits to take weapons into public buildings unless the buildings have adequate security in place.

And what of its companion websites for the South Central Kansas Prosperity Plan: Think Tomorrow Today and Let's Talk Prosperity ? Here's an excerpt from "Citizen Attachment: Building Sustainable Communities," which appeared in Government Finance Review .

A Sedgwick County district judge on Tuesday quashed a subpoena that sought to compel Wichita Eagle reporter Tim Potter to testify about contacts he had with lawyers representing inmates who claimed they were sexually abused in the county jail.

Billy L. Wilson, 52, who pleaded guilty to robbing the Commerce Bank Branch on March 1 in downtown Wichita, has been sentenced to 77 months in prison, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said Tuesday in a news release.

Laura Moriarty's newest novel, The Chaperone , is the story about Cora Carlisle, who is tasked to chaperone 15-year-old, silent film star Louise Brooks on a trip from Wichita, Kansas, to New York City.

Scrap-metal dealers hold the answer to copper theft in Wichita. Let the scrap dealers and the insurance companies work together on a solution each can live with.

A 31-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of child endangerment after leaving his 3-year-old son unattended in a car at a McDonald's around 5:40 p.m. Sunday, according to police.

Jim Broadhead of Wichita shows off one of two 1918 flower vases from an old J.C. Whitney catalog in his 1931 four-door Model A at the Airport Hilton on Monday.

Wichita police this week plan to send District Attorney Marc Bennett the results of a criminal threat investigation into a recent editorial in a free newspaper distributed in south Wichita.

Wichita police are still investigating a fatal two-car crash that happened last month on the city's east side.

The cause of a collision that killed two people on Kellogg in east Wichita last month remains under investigation, police said Monday.

Police are looking for four men who ran away after shots were fired at a southeast Wichita apartment complex.

Overnight showers and thunderstorms brought more than an inch of rain to parts of Wichita, according to the National Weather Service.

Showers and thunderstorms can be expected in the metropolitan area, primarily through noon.

It is called "I Survived BTK," and it is a documentary about how Charlie Otero has dealt with the murder of his mother, father and two youngest siblings in their Wichita home in 1974 by a serial killer driven by sexual fantasy involving bondage.

The financial outlook for the Kansas Department of Corrections got better after Gov. Sam Brownback restored almost $3 million in budget cuts Saturday.

John Martens sat, propped in the doorway of a cabin skirting south Wichita's city limits, watching traffic speed by.

Wichita police have arrested a 19-year-old man who fired a handgun Saturday afternoon into an apartment building, striking a bed where a 9-month-old boy lay sleeping.