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East High School was on lockdown for about an hour after shots were fired across the street around 11 a.m., police said Monday. No victims had been located, Officer Charley … Click to Continue »

Police say shots were fired at English and Poplar at 11 A.M. The school was on lockdown for about an hour. No victims have been found, police say. … Click to Continue »

Ruth Johnson Colvin noticed a problem in 1962 — more than 11,000 people where she lived in upstate New York could not read. And it was a problem she would … Click to Continue »

100 years ago, Lebanese immigrants in Wichita began a little church in Delano. Today, a resurgence of immigration has given St. George Orthodox Christian Cathedral a renewed sense of its past. … Click to Continue »

The law officers who shot and killed Ciara Howard in the laundry room of an Olathe house last August had been warned by their own SWAT teams: Going into the … Click to Continue »

Attorneys for Eddy’s Chevrolet Cadillac want a judge to throw out a civil lawsuit accusing the dealership of negligence in connection with the hit-and-run that disabled Wichita police officer Brian … Click to Continue »

The two-year-old boy who was not breathing when police found him Friday has died from his injuries, Officer Paul Cruz with the Wichita Police Department confirmed on Sunday. On Friday, … Click to Continue »

Unlike many of its suburbs, Wichita has no public storm shelters for residents to use when severe weather threatens. There are multiple reasons for that, said Cody Charvat, acting director … Click to Continue »

Police have issued a Silver Alert for a Wichita woman who has gone missing for the second time this week. Michelle Foy, 59, was last seen at the Dollar General … Click to Continue »

In five years, more than a quarter of students in Wichita public schools will need help learning to speak, read and write English, according to new trend data from the … Click to Continue »