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Wichita News

Local news for Wichita, KS continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.

2 hrs ago | Kansas' CW

Looking Back at Wichita's Katrina Response

New Orleans is more than 800 miles from Wichita. But what people were going through there in the days after Hurricane Katrina hit close to home.

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Related Topix: Wichita Metro, Family, Kids

10 hrs ago | KansasCity.com

Kansas Democrats target GOP heavyweights

Several hundred Kansas Democrats gathered Saturday in Wichita to begin what they see as the final stretch of their campaign to knock some heavyweight incumbent Republicans out of office.The Kansas Democratic ...

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Related Topix: Wichita State University, Kansas, Todd Tiahrt, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, US House of Representatives, Pat Roberts, Jerry Moran

15 hrs ago | KWCH

Missionary Plane Makes Stop in Wichita

They call it the first of it's kind, built to help those who help others. The Kodiak is a turbine engine plane made specifically for mission work.

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Sat Sep 06, 2008

Kansas' CW

Smoking Ban Begins In Wichita

City inspectors received dozens of phone calls on the first day of Wichita's city-wide smoking ban, but none of the calls were to report violators.

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Related Topix: Wichita Metro

KAKE

Man Charged With Sex Crimes At Retirement Home

A Wichita man has been formally charged with three serious felonies after he allegedly attempted to have sex with two retirement home residents.

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Related Topix: Sedgwick County, KS

Kansas.com

Bar fight may be linked to Wichita shooting

The shooting early Monday morning of a Wichita man may be linked to a dispute that erupted earlier at a nearby bar, police said today.

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Fri Sep 05, 2008

WIBW-TV Topeka

Judge: Suspect in Clerk's Kidnapping OK to Stand Trial

Sedgwick County District Judge Eric Yost issued the ruling Thursday after reviewing 39-year-old Robert Abner's mental evaluation and set a preliminary hearing for September 11th.

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Related Topix: Wichita Metro, Sedgwick County, KS, Viola, KS

KAKE-TV Wichita

Three Wichita Men Waive Extradition In Homicide Case

Reno County authorities aren't sure when the three Wichita men suspected of killing a Hutchinson man will be brought back to Kansas.

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Related Topix: Reno County, KS, Hutchinson, KS, Wichita Metro, Violent Crime

KAKE-TV Wichita

Sex Offender Arrested For Retirement Center Attack

A man is in the Sedgwick County Jail after police said he broke into a Wichita nursing home and sexually assaulted an 85-year-old resident.

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Related Topix: Sedgwick County, KS, Wichita Metro

Thu Sep 04, 2008

The Tennessean

3 Doors Down postpone concerts

Middle Tennessee mainstream rockers 3 Doors Down have postponed three shows due to singer Brad Arnold's acute laryngitis.

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WIBW-TV Topeka

Wichita Man Awarded $4M After Misdiagnosis

Kyle Jim was 11 when he was taken to Via Christi Regional Medical Center-St. Francis Campus in June 1996 for treatment of a fever and rash.

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Related Topix: Sedgwick County, KS

Kansas.com

Bush nominates Kansas' Melgren for judiciary

As the clock ticks on his administration, President Bush has nominated a bevy of judicial candidates to lifetime-tenured positions on the federal bench.

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Related Topix: George Bush, US News, Wichita Metro, US Politics, Sam Brownback, Kansas

Kansas' CW

Wichita Smoking Ban Starts Tomorrow

All businesses in Wichita have three options. They can ban smoking, ban minors or build a smoke room to allow both.

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Related Topix: Wichita Metro

Wed Sep 03, 2008

The Wichita Eagle

Machinists voting on Boeing contract

Machinists union members at Boeing Wichita are voting today at the Cotillion on whether to accept the company's contract offer.

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The Wichita Eagle

3 Wichitans arrested in Hutchinson shooting death

A family member found Kenneth Orlando White, 21, dead in the living room of his small rental home at 1612 W. Fourth, Apt.

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Related Topix: Wichita Metro, Reno County, KS, Hutchinson, KS, Violent Crime

KAKE-TV Wichita

Kansas Nat'l Guard to Louisiana

The Kansas National Guard has deployed an estimated 600 men and women to hurricane-battered Louisiana.

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Related Topix: Hurricane, Natural Disasters, Wichita Metro

Tue Sep 02, 2008

KSNW-TV

Boeing workers vote on new contract Wednesday

Heading into Wednesday's vote, both the union and Boeing say nothing has really changed since the company's final offer was rejected last week.

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Related Topix: Wichita Metro, Salina, KS

Mon Sep 01, 2008

KGW-TV Portland

Machinists, Boeing mark time till contract vote

Boeing Co. and the machinists who assemble its commercial planes marked time through a long holiday weekend before Wednesday's scheduled vote on the company's "best and final" contract offer.

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Related Topix: Wichita Metro

Kansas' CW

One Person Shot in Northeast Wichita

Wichita police are investigating a shooting early Monday morning in northeast Wichita.

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Related Topix: Wichita Metro

Sun Aug 31, 2008

UPI

Boeing union leaders call for strike

Leaders of the union representing Boeing machinists have recommended the rank and file vote to strike at U.S. plants next week.

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Wichita, Kansas is located in Sedgwick County and is part of the Wichita Metro Area. Zip codes in Wichita, KS include 67257, 67251, and 67259.

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