Crime and Public Safety

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (624+ words) TOPEKA — Troy Alan Martin was northbound on Topeka Boulevard when his car struck a large pothole, jolting the vehicle with enough force that it slammed into a median, rolled several times and ejected him onto the street. Martin, who wasn't…...

1+ day, 17+ 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…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (695+ words) But none of the aforementioned departments utilizes a real-time database like the one recently unveiled in Overland Park, and that needs to change. For the sake of transparency, law and order and public safety, any police department in our region…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (589+ words) TOPEKA — Attorney General Kris Kobach asserted a stabbing death in southwest Kansas could have been averted through compliance with a federal court order for deportation of the man later charged in the slaying. Lagos-Gonzales was charged Sept. 3 and has been…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (610+ words) TOPEKA — Attorney General Kris Kobach asserted a stabbing death in southwest Kansas could have been averted through compliance with a federal court order for deportation of the man later charged in the slaying. Honduran national charged with fatal stabbing of…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago   (169+ words) Melvin Strode, a 52-year-old blind man who lives with a traumatic brain injury, has been missing since before dawn Thursday, and Kansas City, Kansas police are calling him endangered as the search stretches into its second day. Strode was last…...

1+ week, 20+ hour ago   (117+ words) KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department is asking for the public's help to find a missing blind man who suffers from a traumatic brain injury. Melvin Strode, 52, was last seen on foot around 5 a.m. Friday near North…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (229+ words) A north-central Kansas man is jailed in connection to a home invasion last month, where a woman was assaulted in Republic County. Jardyn J. Bartman, 32, of Scandia, Kansas, was arrested by agents with the Kansas Bureau of Investigation on Thursday afternoon....

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (40+ words) Firefighters in Overland Park responded to a house fire on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2026, near W. 127th Street and Bond. Firefighters in Overland Park responded to a house fire on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2026, near W. 127th Street and Bond....

2+ week, 9+ hour ago   (559+ words) A growing fight over large data centers in Kansas has spilled out of city halls and into courtrooms, as residents in several communities who used citizen petitions to try to block the projects are now being sued by their own…...