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The Christmas Day wardrobe for the Duchess of Cambridge included a touch of Kansas. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that Kate Middleton wore a Vallnord alpaca fur hat from Tonganoxie-based Peruvian Connection on Monday to a Christmas service in Sandringham, England. The company has a store in...

Icy conditions on Interstate 70 are being blamed for a Kansas accident that killed a woman, her two daughters and a family friend after the pickup truck they were in fell off a bridge. The accident happened Tuesday morning amid snowfall. The Kansas Highway Patrol's crash report says 47-year-old...

Kansas is delaying the launch of a new computer system for issuing driver's licenses. The Department of Revenue announced Wednesday what it called a slight delay for the KanLicense system that was supposed to launch Jan. 2. The announcement came less than two weeks after a state audit raised...

A police pursuit with shots fired this morning on Wichita's west side. It started just after 10 a-m at Central and Gilda, near I-235 ... the report of an officer in trouble and shots fired. Police chased a vehicle at speeds reaching 80 miles per hour on west Wichita streets ... deploying stop...

A police pursuit with shots fired this morning on Wichita's west side. It started just after 10 a-m at Central and Gilda, near I-235 ... the report of an officer in trouble and shots fired. Police chased a vehicle at speeds reaching 80 miles per hour on west Wichita streets ... deploying stop...

Work on a supersonic business airplane may take place, in part, in Wichita. According to Aerion Corp. Executive Chairman Brian Barents, it's likely that some of the parts on the company's $120 million AS2 supersonic business jet will be made by Wichita suppliers. The Wichita Eagle reports that...

Sedgwick County is once again providing a tree recycling program for non-artificial Christmas trees. For the sixteenth year you can find nearly two dozen drop off sites in Wichita and Sedgwick County through January 23. County park personnel will ground the trees into mulch, which will then be made...

Wichita police are investigating a stabbing. It happened around 9:30 a.m. Tuesday morning at an apartment near 16th and Ash. Police said they were called to an area hospital at around 10:15 a.m., after the injured woman went to the hospital on her own and underwent surgery. Her injuries were...