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Sedgwick County officials see confusion about tornado sirens
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — With the peak of tornado season arriving in Tornado Alley, Sedgwick County officials moved to address public confusion about the role of outdoor warning sirens. The need was evident after strong storms flirted with the m...
Boy suffering from rare disease joins college team in Kansas
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — This was the day Julian Randle had been anticipating for years. The lights. The cameras. A coach singing his praises to the gathered crowd. His proud parents at each end of the table, his mom wiping away tears, as he signed a let...
Tornado warning times decline everywhere except Kansas
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A recent decline in the accuracy of tornado warnings is not as alarming as it may appear, weather officials say. Forecasters are doing well with storms that produce strong tornadoes - those that measure EF-2 or higher on the E...
Tornado warning accuracy declines since Greensburg incident
GREENSBURG, Kan. (AP) — Forecasters knew there could be severe weather in southern Kansas on the first Friday in May 10 years ago — but nobody expected anything like what happened. A massive tornado was churning north through the Gypsum Hills, ill...
Hesston chief who stopped Excel shooting denies being hero
HESSTON, Kan. (AP) — Hesston Police Chief Doug Schroeder isn't comfortable with being called a hero. He was simply doing what had to be done, he said, when he received word the afternoon of Feb. 25 that there was a man shooting people at the Excel p...
Wet summer erases drought from Kansas
WICHITA, Kan. (AP, posted Sept. 26, 2016) — What would eventually become Kansas was once described as an arid region barely hospitable enough for habitation. "These vast plains . may become in time as celebrated as the sandy deserts of Africa," the e...
