Wichita Falls Police said a man shot Tuesday in a robbery has died. Police identified him as Jourdyn Jones, 23, of Wichita Falls. His family has been notified. The Wichita Falls Police Department Crimes Against Persons detectives are investigating this incident as a murder, making it the third murder in the city in 2024. One man […]
The 1920 building at the southeast corner of English and Broadway — once home to “one of the handsomest automobile dealers in the southwest,” according to a 1991 Eagle story — is about to get new life. Arena South Management, which has five other buildings in that area of downtown, is converting the four-story building […]
On a frigid day in January, Amy Frey is perusing a massive warehouse near 37th North and Hydraulic for furniture options to complete her new apartment. “Do I get to pick out a bed?” she asks a volunteer at His Helping Hands, the nonprofit she’s working with to pick up household items for free. One […]
In the wake of a cyberattack at the Wichita County Courthouse, County Judge Jim Johnson warns residents to “exercise diligence” to monitor their credit reports, bank statements and other sensitive documents and report any suspicious activity to their financial institutions. The county suffered the attack on May 7. Johnson said was done by “malicious actors.” […]
The Wichita Falls area did not entirely escape tornadoes Saturday but lucked out compared to other parts of Texas and Oklahoma. A tornado was confirmed about a mile northeast of Windthorst at 5:15 p.m. Saturday. It was observed to stay on the ground for about 10 minutes as it moved to the northeast. Damage was […]
Props to the Kansas Court of Appeals for respecting homeowners’ rights — and the English language — in a dispute between a Wichita couple and their homeowners association over who has to fix the fence. I’ve never lived in an HOA — and frankly, I never will. I’m too fond of the freedom to park […]
You know your family’s been around Wichita awhile when it has a street named for it. Or, in Don Martinson’s case, three of them. There’s Martinson Street, which runs through Delano and south Wichita. It was named by Martinson’s grandfather, who developed much of Delano in the late 1880s. A little farther west are Charles […]
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — One Kansas family is fighting to show respect to their loved one, trying to get him a headstone over 50 years after he was killed in action. Private First Class Christopher Gutierrez is buried at Wichita’s Calvary Cemetery. He is a Purple Heart recipient, shot and killed in South Vietnam in […]
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Several KSN viewers sent in photos of the aftermath of Saturday’s storm in Wichita. Many trees split or had damage to their limbs, which fell and caused even further damage. Matt Kiser sent in photos of a tree that split down the middle and fell on a fence near North Maize […]
A former Wichita physician was sentenced Friday to a decade in prison for selling opioid prescriptions for personal gain to customers without a legitimate medical need for the medications, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. Steven R. Henson, 63, admitted to writing oxycodone, methadone and alprazolam prescriptions to illegitimate patients between July 2014 and August 2015, […]
Starting Tuesday, some looking to fly out of Wichita will have to plan to leave a few minutes early to arrive at Wichita Eisenhower National Airport. On May 28, the bridge that connects westbound Kellogg (U.S. 54) to southbound Eisenhower Airport Parkway will close for maintenance until early June, according to the Kansas Department of […]
A 21-year-old Wichita woman died Wednesday night after being taken to Ascension Via Christi St. Francis with a gunshot wound, Wichita police Capt. Aaron Moses said during a news conference Thursday morning. Police were called for a walk-in shooting victim at 9:24 p.m. Jadidah Ponce died at the hospital. “At this point in the investigation, […]