January 14, 2021 Intense gusts force wind warnings in 8 states, cause power outages for hundreds of thousands Damaging wind gusts shook the Pacific Northwest and Rocky Mountain states on Wednesday, felling trees, downing power lines, closing roadways and killing one person.
January 14, 2021 Kansas game warden frees tangled deer by literally shooting their antlers apart Game wardens with KDWPT first learned of the tangled deer last Thursday, after a concerned bowhunter in Jackson County alerted the department of their “unfortunate entanglement,” the wardens wrote on Facebook.
January 13, 2021 US carries out its 1st execution of female inmate since 1953 A Kansas woman was executed Wednesday for strangling an expectant mother in Missouri and cutting the baby from her womb, the first time in nearly seven decades that the U.S. government has put to death a female inmate.
January 12, 2021 Judge halts execution of only woman on federal death row A judge has granted a stay in what was slated to be the U.S. government’s first execution of a female inmate in nearly seven decades — a Kansas woman who killed an expectant mother in Missouri, cut the baby from her womb and passed off the newborn as her own.
December 31, 2020 Who is Lisa Montgomery, the only woman on death row in the US? The only woman on federal death row was set to be executed by lethal injection on Jan. 12, but Lisa Montgomery, 52, got a brief reprieve when, on Christmas Eve, a federal court pushed the date back.
December 17, 2020 Federal lawsuit: Kansas deputy purposely ran over Black man The lawsuit argues the deputy used excessive force and was "callously indifferent" to the victim's civil rights.
December 16, 2020 Teen Kansas hunter's 42-point buck confirmed as world record It didn’t take long for this hunter to start setting world records.
December 16, 2020 Kansas mayor resigns amid threats over support of coronavirus mask mandate A Kansas mayor announced Tuesday she has resigned over threats she’s been receiving after publicly supporting the city’s COVID-19 mask mandate.
December 14, 2020 US Supreme Court won't revive Kansas voter ID law The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review an appeal from Kansas seeking to reinstate voter identification laws which a federal appeals court had declared unconstitutional earlier this year.
December 3, 2020 Kansas mayor charged with felony perjury: report A mayor in Kansas was arrested and charged with perjury on Wednesday, court documents show, according to reports.