The Kansas City Star reports Robert Poe III entered his plea to child porn charges Tuesday in federal court.

Wichita Police say 10- and 6-year-old girls were present when a drug-fueled celebration of a $75,000 winning lottery ticket resulted in an explosion at a south-central Kansas duplex.

The man who held police at bay for hours during a standoff at a Riley County trailer park will spend 36 months behind bars.

An argument outside of a Manhattan restaurant landed one man in jail after officials say he brandished a gun.

Around 9:30 PM Monday Evening police received a report of an armed robbery at the Dollar General store's 10th and Fairlawn location.

Brandon W. Dennis, 26, Wichita, was sentenced Monday on two counts of attempting to recruit teenagers to perform commercial sex acts.

Sources say Adam Lanza saw himself as being in direct competition with Anders Breivik, a Norwegian man who killed 77 people in July 2011.

48-year-old Herman Wyatt was booked Friday morning on charges of aggravated assault, criminal threat and criminal discharge of a firearm recklessly.

Authorities say two brothers accidentally blew up their house after celebrating a $75,000 winning lottery ticket by purchasing marijuana and meth.

A drug bust at a Manhattan home led to the arrest of a Kansas State University student. Officials say the raid was the result of an ongoing drug investigation.

Topeka Police Department detectives are attempting to identify a black male suspect in connection with several recent robberies which may be linked together.

Judge Cheryl Rios-Kingfisher sentenced Dustin Leftwich Friday morning to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the death of Brenna Morgart.

Two boys plot to kill a girl outside their Washington state school unravels. The boys also intended to kill six more students one by one, authorities say. One boy was going to stab the girl; the other was to use a gun to guard him.

And the mother of the ex-police officerd accused of killing four people offered "condolences to anyone that suffered losses or injuries" resulting from Christopher Dorner's actions. Dorner was killed in the wood east of Los Angeles on Tuesday.

Sixteen people who smoked synthetic marijuana were hospitalized with kidney problems last year in six states, including Kansas. All recovered but five of them needed dialysis.

The Great Bend Tribune reports employees with the Barton County Road and Bridge Department discovered damage to heavy equipment Thursday morning at a job site south of Ellinwood.

Forty-nine-year-old Becky L. Book of Pittsburg admitted Thursday to receiving more than $26,000 in salary and mileage payments for meetings with taxpayers that never took place.

Rep. George "Joe" Edwards of Haysville says he was hit from behind and robbed as he returned to his room at the Ramada Hotel in Topeka, but hotel officials say their evidence doesn't support the claim.

"What do you have up your sleeve for your love tomorrow?" the 29-year-old asked her thousands of followers on Twitter a day before. "Get excited." Olympic "Blade Runner" Oscar Pistorius is charged with Reeva Steenkamp's murder this morning.

Brown was picked up in the 2800 block of South Broadway and booked into Sedgwick County Jail around 9:45 p.m. Wednesday.

Officials say he showed a black handgun and got away with an unknown amount of money.

This photo provided by the San Bernardino sheriff's department shows slain San Bernardino Sheriff Deputy Jeremiah MacKay who died Tuesday in the inferno at the cabin. (AP Photo, San Bernardino Sheriff's Department via The Riverside Press-Enterprise)

A Kansas State University graduate student charged in an accident on K-18 that left two people dead is being sued by the family of one of the victims.

A Manhattan man is facing charges stemming from alleged sex offenses involving children.

Army veteran Donald Gene Garst was sentenced Tuesday in federal court in Topeka.