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National Philanthropy Day is a chance to recognize and pay tribute to people in the community who are helping to make a difference. The Wichita Chapter will celebrate those who have been nominated and selected from our community on Friday, during a luncheon the Hyatt Regency. Tony Morrow with Dear...

Mayor Jeff Longwell encourages all Wichitans to express their gratitude to veterans on this Veterans Day ... saying "we owe so much" to veterans and their families. Longwell tells KNSS News he will not seek public office again ... after his recent loss to mayor-elect Brandon Whipple. He says "there...

On this holiday Americans honor our military veterans. Originally Armistice Day, it celebrated the end of World War One ... on the eleventh hour, the eleventh day, of the eleventh month. The United States had 18.2 million living veterans as of 2018 ... 9 percent of them, women. 7 million veterans...

Dennis Livesay, dean of the College of Engineering at Wichita State University, has constructed a 75-square-foot LEGO city in his home over the last six years. Most of the city is his own creation, the buildings and minifigures each have their own story, and the city contains numerous media...

Richard Martin was only 18 years old when he was drafted into the Army Air Corps. Two years later, he spent the first part of his 21st birthday in the nose of a Boeing B-29 bomber over Japan. Now he’s 94 years old and the last living member of his squadron. He walked across campus on his own, with...

Police are investigating after a rape suspect died in an apparent suicide in northwest Wichita. Officers were called to the Wal-Mart at 21st and Maize Road around 2 AM Sunday morning to check on the welfare of a man in the parking lot. Officers tried to approach the man at first, but took cover and...

An analysis by The Associated Press of dams across the country has found that more than two dozen potentially dangerous dams in Kansas are in such poor shape they are vulnerable to failure.

Three people were injured after an early morning shooting in Lawrence.

Police in Hutchinson are investigating a shooting that left two people with non-life threatening injuries. The shooting happened around 5:30 Saturday evening at the Wal-Mart near 17th and Lorraine. Hutchinson police say a 54-year-old man and a 74-year-old woman were in a vehicle on an access road...

A former Lawrence police officer convicted of threatening another driver with a gun on a suburban Kansas City highway in a case of road rage has lost his peace officer's license. 53-year-old Jeffrey Brian Holtzman had his license revoked last month. Holtzman was sentenced in August to 12 months'...