Prosecutor: No charges in Black Kansas teen’s custody death

SEDGWICK COUNTY– A Kansas has been sentenced for a shooting and for robbing a business in south Wichita. District Judge Bruce Brown sentenced Jacob Caddell, 21 of Wichita, to 17-years in prison, according to the Sedgwick County District Attorney's office. In May of 2021, a man in his 20’s...

HUTCHINSON — A man who escaped from the minimum security unit at Hutchinson Correctional Facility back on February 16th is now in the Reno County Correctional Facility. Gabriel Sanchez Jr. walked away from the prison just two weeks before he was to be released on a Reno County conviction for assault and battery of a law enforcement officer and fleeing/eluding local law enforcement. He was captured two days later.

SEDGWICK COUNTY—Law enforcement authorities investigating a fatal officer involved shooting have identified the suspect who died during the 9-hour standoff as 39-year-old Gregorio M. Banuelos, according to Wichita Police Captain Jason Stevens. Just after 1:30a.m. Wednesday, police responded to report of a shooting at a home in the the...

TOPEKA —Law enforcement authorities are investigating a suspect for alleged theft. The United State's Attorney's office reported Chelsea Pulse, 27, of Junction City is charged with one count of embezzlement of the mail, two counts of theft of the mail, and one count of delay of mail. The U.S. Postal Service is investigating the case.

BUTLER COUNTY — USD 394 in Rose Hill issued a statement Wednesday following the May 19 abduction of a 5-year-old boy from the daycare at the school. As law enforcement authorities continue their investigation of the incident, the district shared a statement, "We are taking the time to review our procedures with child safety at the focus of the review." The USD 394 day care facility will reopen on Tuesday.

TEXAS COUNTY—A Missouri woman dies just before 7:30a.m. Friday in Texas County. The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported a 2007 Ford Ranger driven by Penne L. Kinserlow, 53, Licking, was northbound pulling out of a private drive at U.S. 63 five miles north of Houston, Missouri. The driver failed...

BARTON COUNTY – Today, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) arrested a former police officer from the Ellinwood Police Department, according to a media release from the agency. Just after 8 a.m., KBI agents arrested 40-year-old Christopher W. Rowland of Great Bend, at 1025 Main St. in Great Bend.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A 25-year-old Missouri woman is accused of leaving four dogs locked in a hot car while she had lunch in a central Florida restaurant, police said. The woman, identified in online jail records as Tesia C. White, who was visiting the area from...

JACKSON COUNTY —Law enforcement are investigating a suspect following a Monday night manhunt south in rural northeast Kansas. Just before 9p.m. Monday, The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office was notified by neighbors of a burglary in progress at 2830 102nd Road south of Delia, according to Sheriff Tim Morse.

GRUNDY COUNTY—A Missouri teen was injured in an accident just before 7:30p.m. Wednesday in Grundy County. The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported a 1997 Dodge Ram driven by a 17-year-old boy from Chillicothe was northbound on NW 22nd Avenue one mile north of Trenton. The pickup began to slide,...

COWLEY COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating several different scam calls in Cowley County Sheriff's Office over the past few weeks, according to Sheriff Dave Faletti. The first was a "Cybersecurity for Amazon" which resulted in a $21,500 loss in Apple gift cards and the scammer getting all the...

Beto Lugo-Martinez is a grassroots activist who advocates for clean air. A big part of his work is fighting the expansion of “gas guzzling” vehicles and making sure that historically underserved communities receive infrastructure updates, partly to encourage driving an electric vehicle in Kansas City. Kansas City is...

MCALLEN, Texas– U.S. Senator Roger Marshall and Kansas Sheriffs Calvin Hayden (Johnson County), Brian Hill (Shawnee County), Roger Soldan (Saline County), Jeff Richards (Franklin County), and Tim Morse (Jackson County) toured the southern border last weekend for briefings, tours, and meetings with border patrol officials, within DHS and the state of Texas.

A scammer used a Saline County man's money against him, and now the local man is out $60,500. Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan said this morning that a 69-year-old Saline County man reported that on Friday he received an email allegedly from Geek Squad telling him that they were renewing his membership. In the email was the amount of the renewal fee and a phone number to call.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A state lawmaker charged with fraud involving medical treatments has been sued by a patient over the care she prescribed for him to relieve back pain. Rep. Tricia Derges, a Nixa Republican, is scheduled to go on trial in federal court next month on charges...

St. Joseph Health officials say the ongoing opioid problem is continuing to get worse. St. Joseph Health Department Health Educator Nancy King says the introduction of fentanyl into the drug supply has been a problem. "That has greatly increased the number of overdose and overdose fatalities in the fentanyl poisonings...

LIVINGSTON COUNTY—A Missouri woman was injured in an accident just after 5p.m. Monday in Livingston County. The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported a 2005 Ford Mustang driven by Kennadie G. Crowe, 20, Chillicothe, was southbound on Route D two miles south of Utica. The car traveled off the right...

KANSAS CITY (AP) — A man will be laid to rest on Saturday, more than 80 years after he died in the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. The U.S. Navy returned the remains of Seaman 1st Class Wilbur Francis Newton to Kansas City International Airport on Tuesday. Newton was...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt has signed a bill requiring public school students to use only the bathroom of the sex listed on their birth certificate. About a dozen conservative states have passed laws targeting the transgender population over bathroom use, participation in school sports, and gender-affirming treatments or surgery for young people.

A report published Monday by a federal watchdog sheds new light on the scope of missing foster kids in Missouri, an issue that infuriated state lawmakers last year and led to accusations that Department of Social Services leadership was failing to take accountability. The U.S. Department of Health and Human...