The Wichita man who strangled a sheriff’s office K-9 last year will serve 29 months in prison for battering a law enforcement officer, plus one year in jail for killing the dog, a spokesman for the Sedgwick County District Attorney’s Office said. Kaylon Kirkwood, who pleaded guilty to the felony crimes in May, must also […]
Wichita Falls is among multiple cities stuck with the bill as the result of a legal settlement between the state of Texas and a mystery sales taxpayer. Sales taxes collected in Texas cities go to the state, which makes necessary adjustments and then sends back each city’s share. A city’s sales tax allotment is a […]
The city of Wichita plans to pay a contractor $85,000 to tell the city what it should do with its water treatment plant after a new plant begins operating next year. The Northwest Water Treatment Facility, a $573.2 million project nearing completion at Zoo Boulevard and Hoover Road, is expected to be completed in early […]
Authorities are asking the public for help in locating a missing 58-year-old woman from Augusta, Kansas. Beverly J. Roth was last seen in downtown Wichita on Saturday, the Augusta Department of Public Safety said. Roth was initially reported missing, found and taken to a local hospital. She was reported missing a second time after she […]
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Beverly Roth, 58, of Augusta, is missing. According to the Augusta Department of Public Safety, she was last seen in downtown Wichita around 2:45 p.m. on Saturday. “Roth has recently experienced bouts of confusion and has not checked in with family or friends,” said the Augusta Department of Public Safety. KBI […]
North Wichita commuters can expect more highway closures. Maintenance work will soon close two I-135 ramps starting July 2. On northbound I-135, the entrance ramp from east Central Avenue and the exit 7B ramp to E. 9th Street N. are expected to remain inaccessible through most of July, the Kansas Department of Transportation announced Friday. […]
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Visitors to downtown Wichita witnessed a celebration of Pride on Saturday. The annual Pride parade took to the streets shortly before noon, and there was also a large festival inside Century II. This year’s theme is YOUnited with Pride. Some of the people celebrating said the events are a great place […]
“Downtown is everybody’s neighborhood.” That’s the oft-repeated mantra used by Wichita government to justify hundreds of millions of public dollars that have been spent to subsidize the vision and profits of an exclusive downtown development club. It will be impossible for anybody to ever say that again with a straight face. Starting in January, the […]
The National Weather Service in Wichita has issued a heat advisory that will go into effect Monday ahead of expected “dangerous” 100-plus degree temperatures. The advisory also covers portions of central, south central and southeast Kansas. Monday’s forecast high sits at 102 with a heat index of 106. Tuesday’s high is expected to hit the […]
Seven businesses in Wichita and Derby were out of compliance during food safety and lodging inspections conducted by the Kansas Department of Agriculture last week. They were cited for a number of violations including spoiled pineapples covered in hundreds of fruit flies, old beef, dead insects in liquor bottles, trash and clutter, an employee who […]
Donald Wacker, one of two men involved in the kidnapping, rape and murder of 9-year-old Nancy Shoemaker in Wichita in 1990, has died, a Kansas Department of Corrections official said Thursday. Wacker died June 14 of natural causes. He was 60, KDOC spokesperson David Thompson said. Wacker and Doil Lane snatched Shoemaker in south Wichita […]
Until about two and a half months ago, Ken Hertel would keep hours at his “office” inside of Barn’rds, the roast beef restaurant at 3860 N. Maize Road. His office, in reality, was a table just south of the condiment stand, but he’d be there every day from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. on the […]