For weeks, Charley Melvin couldn’t sleep. His body was failing him, his mind was on fire. He was so “wild for relief,” he even tried whiskey-beer cocktails to stanch the insomnia. Ever since that damned…

GARNETT — A bogus call to authorities alleging a shooting and hostage situation caused quite a disruption here Wednesday afternoon. The Garnett Police Department provided details of the “swatting” call, which led a team of…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man has been accused of growing thousands of poppies at his north-central Kansas home in order to manufacture heroin, authorities said Monday. A federal indictment charged Matthew Pfeiffer, 43,…

MIAMI (AP) — A Florida teen hacked the Twitter accounts of prominent politicians, celebrities and technology moguls to scam people around globe out of more than $100,000 in Bitcoin, authorities said Friday. The 17-year-old boy…

Arrests reported Allen County sheriff’s deputies arrested Sunny T. Wagner, 35, Iola, for suspicion of driving while suspended Sunday. Edward M. Sargent, 31, Gridley, was arrested by the Kansas Highway Patrol Sunday for suspicion of…

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — The United States on Thursday carried out its second federal execution this week, killing by lethal injection a Kansas man whose lawyers contended he had dementia and was unfit to…

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Kan. (AP) — Two people were arrested after fleeing from officers in northeast Kansas and crashing into a cow and a fence, authorities said. Jackson County Sheriff Tim Morse said 18-year-old Skye Joe…

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A lawsuit against a Veterans Affairs hospital in Kansas where a former physician assistant molested countless patients involves “the largest sexual abuse scandal in the history of the VA,” a…

CHANUTE — An Allen County sheriff’s deputy assisted Chanute police officers in responding Wednesday for a report of possible child abuse. During the investigation in the 900 block of South Evergreen Street, Travis E. Seuser,…

LAHARPE — A 27-year-old man was arrested after a pickup was reported stolen from LaHarpe Friday morning and recovered the next day in Spring Hill. Allen County sheriff’s deputies were notified of the theft from…