Oscar Pistorius' family denies reports that Pistorius was distraught and contemplating taking his life. The Olympic athlete is charged with killing his girlfriend.

The Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office says a deputy and suspect are both in serious condition at Wesley Medical Center following a police chase that ended in gunfire.

The eight teenagers crammed into an SUV that was only supposed to seat five, and they were speeding down a two-lane road, officials say. Now an Ohio community grieves

44-year-old Eric Srack will serve a year of federal probation on one count of introducing a misbranded drug into interstate commerce.

An attorney told a federal judge Monday that Thomas Blubaugh deserves less than 46 months because of conflicting provisions in his plea agreement.

Wendell Betts is charged with one count of domestic battery and one count of intimidation of a witness.

One of nine suspects in the shooting death of a Topeka woman and the wounding of her partner has pleaded no contest in the case.

Riley County police are investigating an altercation outside of a Manhattan hotel after a Kentucky man said he was hit with a baseball bat during an argument.

This year, officials say the massive "Fake Patty's Day" party was a "very managed event" thanks to local authorities and the numbers of incidents and arrests were comparable to last year's event.

Topeka Police were called to a Topeka apartment building Monday after a body was found in a parked car.

A woman suspected in the murder of a Mayetta man in January, has now been booked in the Shawnee County Jail.

Officials were called to the scene on S.W. 17 just before 8:00 p.m.

Jimmy Netherland was sentenced Friday morning in Shawnee County District Court to life in prison.

The Kansas Supreme Court upheld Robert Longstaff's convictions on two counts of rape of a child under age 14 and one count of aggravated indecent liberties with a child.

U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten on Thursday scheduled a May 7 trial for Alfred Dutton. The Army and Marine veteran from Eureka is charged with unlawful possession of unregistered destructive devices.

Wichita police Lt. Chris Halloran says officers tried to stop the man's car for traffic violations about 2 a.m. Friday but he drove off. Eventually the car crashed through a chain link fence and the driver got out. Police believe he jumped into the pond.

Antonio M. Brown Sr.'s original February sentencing date on a murder conviction for the death of a 14-month old was delayed when he escaped the Saline County jail.

Federal prosecutors are taking the lead in a deadly Manhattan arson case, seeking stiffer penalties for the suspects in the federal court system.

Franklin County Sheriff Jeff Curry made his first court appearance Wednesday and was tentatively scheduled for an ouster hearing next week.

52-year-old John Duncan was indicted Wednesday on one count each of bank fraud and money laundering.

26-year-old Robert Eugene Gibson was indicted Wednesday on one count of bank robbery.

Julio Acevedo, 44, walked to officers waiting in cars in the parking lot in Bethlehem, Pa., and was arrested on charges of leaving the scene of an accident.

Twenty-two-year-old Christopher Cervantes was scheduled to go on trial this week for second-degree murder. Instead, he pleaded guilty Wednesday to voluntary manslaughter in death of 30-year-old Bradley Wellbrock.

Shawnee police called Johnson County Med-Act around 2:30 p.m. to verify that two bodies found along Millcreek Streamway Trail were dead.

Israel Mireles received a life sentence for the 2007 death of 18-year-old Emily Sander in an El Dorado motel room.