The Latest Breaking News from Sedgwick County

Monster 80-million-year-old fossil found by boy, 12, who plans to display it at Kansas county fair

The Kansas preteen has spent at least 30 hours cleaning the fossil, which he plans to show at the Sedgwick County Fair in July

The Independent UK · May 27

Kansas death penalty faces new challenge with ACLU invoking landmark abortion decision

The ACLU is mounting a major new effort to overturn Kansas’ death penalty, arguing it’s racially discriminatory and that, because of a landmark state Supreme Court decision upholding abortion rights, officials must clear a high legal bar to show capital sentences are constitutional.

Tribune News Service · Jan 18, 2023

Kansas secretary of state charges nearly $120,000 for recount; anti-abortion activist files lawsuit

Two new punches were thrown Tuesday in a fight over election conspiracy theories that has placed Kansas’ Republican secretary of state at odds with die-hard Republican anti-abortion activists and election deniers.

Tribune News Service · Aug 23, 2022

`From crisis to death': Probing teen's last, desperate hours

When police were called to deal with a teenager in the throes of a mental health crisis, everything went wrong

The Independent UK · May 13, 2022

Powerful tornado barrels into path of 960 buildings in Kansas

‘Direct tornado strike’ began in Sedgwick County before travelling into Andover, flattening buildings in its path

The Independent UK · Apr 30, 2022