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WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Politicians and organizations have been reacting to the news that the U.S. Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade. We will update this story as we get more comments. Some of the comments we are receiving mention the Value Them Both Amendment that will be on the August Primary ballot. Voting […]

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — A Wichita man stood in court on Friday and heard his sentence from a judge for a 2021 shooting that took the life of one person at a restaurant in Jan. 2021. Adrian Nicholas Zongker, 27, will serve 50 years in prison with the possibility of parole. He will have to […]

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - A McPherson County judge sentenced a woman to nearly eight years in prison for her role in a November 2019 deadly crash that killed a couple from Canton. The judge sentenced 44-year-old Julie Ann Hunter to 95 months (seven years, 11 months) for two counts of...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — A man was transported to a local hospital with critical but non-life-threatening injuries on Thursday night after a shooting in west Wichita. The Wichita Police Department (WPD) said around 9:30 p.m. on Thursday, officers responded to a shooting call near W 13th St. N and Maize Rd. in west Wichita. When […]

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — The Wichita Police Department says officers have stopped some illegal drugs from getting into the wrong hands. WPD Patrol East community police officers were conducting drug interdiction activities in the 300 block of S. Webb Road on Wednesday. There are several hotels in the area just north of Kellogg. Officers pulled […]

Kansas protects the right to an abortion in its state constitution. Kansas is one of the states that might see the greatest increase in number of abortion patients due to its proximity to so many states that are stripping away access, said Danika Severino Wynn, vice president of abortion access at Planned Parenthood.

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — A Wichita woman who pleaded guilty to murder cannot withdraw the plea. That’s the decision from a district court judge this week. Charity Blackmon, 32, was initially charged on suspicion of first-degree murder in a hit-and-run and a shooting that killed bicyclist Merrill Rabus, 54, in east Wichita back in March […]

BARTON COUNTY, Kan. (KSNW) — A former Kansas Department of Corrections (KDOC) officer was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter by a jury on Thursday. Freddie Thomas, a former Ellsworth Correctional Facility employee, was initially granted immunity based on self-defense in the Sept. 2015 shooting of 39-year-old Jeremy Saldana, but a court reversed the ruling in […]

WICHITA, Kan. (KAKE) - If you are going to Hartman Arena to see ZZ Top tonight, you need to know about some road work which could change your route. The northbound exit from I-235 to northbound I-135 will be closed from 7 pm to 9 p.m. tonight. Crews will be off-loading beams for bridge construction.

BUTLER COUNTY —Friends of 21-year-old Kansas girl who died in a weekend accident have created a fundraiser to assist her family. On Sunday law enforcement authorities and emergency crews located the body of Carley Bullard who was reported missing along the Walnut River after an ATV crash South of Augusta.

A 63-year-old knife-wielding intruder stabbed a man in the head at his Washington apartment, police said. The intruder was carrying a 9-inch knife when he went to an apartment on June 22 in Mount Vernon, police said in a news release. A 43-year-old woman answered the door and then ran...

A man was shot in west Wichita following a dispute over a stolen motorcycle. It happened around 9:30 p.m. Thursday night near 13th and Maize.

LAWRENCE — Kansas House candidate Jaelynn Abegg said her consideration for public office began while advocating earlier this year in Topeka against Senate Bill 160, which would have banned transgender athletes from school sports. Abegg, who labels herself as a progressive Democrat, is running against incumbent Republican Rep. Brenda Landwehr in the GOP-leaning 105th District […] The post Wichita candidate for Kansas House focuses on transgender rights, health care, business appeared first on Kansas Reflector.

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - Police seized several types of drugs following a traffic stop in southeast Wichita on Wednesday. Officers from Patrol East were conducting drug interdiction activities in the 300 block of S. Webb Road when they stopped a vehicle leaving a hotel in that area. The driver, a 36-year-old from Haysville, was found to be in possession of drug paraphernalia and three handguns.

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - Crime Stoppers of Wichita-Sedgwick County is seeking information regarding a drive by shooting that occurred on May 21 in the 400 block of N. Clayton in Wichita. At approximately 6:45 p.m. that evening, WPD Officers responded to a drive by shooting call and located a parked...