1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (707+ words) A U.S. District Court judge has issued an order forbidding enforcement of a bipartisan Kansas law adopted in 2004 that allowed certain immigrant students at public colleges and universities to pay in-state tuition rates rather than higher out-of-state rates. Beneficiaries of the…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (101+ words) Wichita Eagle A Newton man has been sentenced to nearly 19 years in prison after being convicted of child sex crimes. Michael Jacobs, 42, was sentenced Tuesday by Ninth Judicial District Judge Jason Lane to 226 months in prison, according to a news…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (296+ words) A Sedgwick County judge on Tuesday ordered a Springfield, Missouri, man to serve life in prison with no parole eligibility for 25 years in the shooting death of a 37-year-old Bel Aire man earlier this year, the Sedgwick County District Attorney’s…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (215+ words) A second man has been convicted of giving drugs to a 15-year-old girl who died from an overdose in southeast Wichita last year. Isaac Hord, 25, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to one count of distribution of a controlled substance causing death…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (256+ words) Wichita Eagle A total of 126 bills passed during the spring legislative session went into effect July 1. The new laws cover issues including cell phone use in cars and classrooms, honey sales, kratom and license plate frames. Here are six new…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (254+ words) A 25-year-old Wichita man was sentenced Friday to 27 1/2 years in prison in connection with the drug overdose death of a 15-year-old girl last year. Court records say Niklas Tyler Wiley had been carrying on an illegal sexual relationship with the…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (355+ words) One person is dead after a fire at a west Wichita duplex Thursday afternoon. It happened in the 1500 block of South Fivewood, just off of Kellogg, after 2 p.m. According to emergency communications scanner traffic, one person was reportedly not breathing. Neighbors…...

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2+ week, 3+ day ago   (966+ words) The Wichita City Council voted 6-1 to increase the city’s budget by more than $39 million next year — an increase driven largely by rising public safety personnel costs, escalating operating costs at new water and sewer treatment facilities, and growing city debt…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (136+ words) Wichita Eagle The man whose body was recovered from a north Wichita lake on Friday afternoon has been identified as 44-year-old Michael Brandon Goering of Wichita, the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office said. Firefighters pulled Goering’s body from the KDOT East…...