58-year old Davis Hazlett of Olathe was sentenced to 51 months in prison on charges stemming from an online chat with two minor girls in 2003. Prosecutors say Hazlett posed as a boy and convinced the girls to undress in front of their web cam.

A jury is deliberating whether Gary Kleypas should be sentenced to death for the 1997 killing of 20-year old college student Carrie Williams. Kleypas was previously sentenced to death, but the Kansas Supreme Court overturned it due to flaws in jury instruction.

One Topeka bank was robbed while an attempt was made on another Monday morning. Police say one man made off with an undisclosed amount of money from the UMB Bank on Topeka Blvd.

Bush says government is working to reduce "disruptions in finance industry;" Dow plunges over 200 points.

Fast fingers wins a 21-year-old $1,000 in the State Fairs texting contest.

Mexican food was missing from an otherwise fun Hispanic Heritage Celebration.

First Lady Laura Bush will come to Topeka in place of her husband for a fundraiser for State Treasurer Lynn Jenkins.

Wisconsin mom allegedly uses daughter's identity to attend school, join cheerleading team.

Attorney fined $500 for filing lawsuit that claimed supermodel damaged expensive umbrella.

Dog goes way above and beyond pet tricks, calling 911 when owner has seizure.

Lehman Brothers, a 158-year-old investment bank choked by the credit crisis and falling real estate values, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection from its creditors on Monday and said it was trying to sell off key business units.

Oil prices plunged to a seven-month low Monday as the Gulf Coast energy infrastructure appeared relatively unharmed after Hurricane Ike and traders bet that Lehman Brothers' bankruptcy could ignite a massive liquidation of commodities.

Stocks are tumbling in early trading and Treasury bond prices are soaring as investors react to a stunning reshaping of the landscape of Wall Street.

A 47-year-old man who died trying to save 8 people from a rain-swollen river in southern Kansas is being remembered as a popular guy who always tried to help others.

Heavy rains have closed several roads in Lyon County. Highway 99/57 is closed north of Emporia to road 195 and south to road 130 towards Olpe.

Declining property-tax revenues, high energy prices and other financial headwinds will create greater economic hardships in 2009 for most cities across the U.S., a new report says.

The state's top legislative leaders on Sunday announced what they described as a breakthrough in California's record budget impasse, potentially ending a stalemate that set a new standard for dysfunction in a Capitol with a long history of blown budget deadlines.

The Federal Reserve announced late Sunday several steps to cope with the worst credit crisis in decades, including broadening the types of assets that investment banks can put up to get emergency loans from the Fed.

"Man's best friend" doesn't go far enough for Buddy - a German shepherd who remembered his training and saved his owner's life by calling 911 when the man had a seizure.

Cries of adulation - and hunger - followed Haitian-born singer Wyclef Jean and actor Matt Damon as they toured flood-ravaged Gonaives to call attention to widespread suffering in the marooned city.

Chinese police arrested two brothers suspected of adding a dangerous chemical to milk they sold to a company that produced infant formula that killed two babies and sickened more than 1,200 others.

Data showing Arctic sea ice may reach its lowest level on record this summer underscores the need for governments to speed up talks on a new climate pact, the Worldwide Fund for Nature said Monday.

When O.J Simpson and five other men pushed into a cramped casino hotel room to confront two memorabilia peddlers a year ago they were only trying to retrieve keepsakes and family heirlooms that Simpson hoped to pass along to his children.

Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama said Monday the upheaval on Wall Street was "the most serious financial crisis since the Great Depression" and blamed it on policies that he said Republican rival John McCain supports.

Commuters were set to return to Southern California's rails Monday, the first work day after a grisly train collision that left 25 dead and 138 injured.