OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas mother whose 17-month-old son died in a fire after she left him home alone was sentenced Thursday to three years of probation. Karlie Phelps, of Shawnee, pleaded guilty in…

Fire investigator Eric Lawrence surveys the charred remnants of a house at 303 S. Monroe St. in LaHarpe Tuesday morning after it was destroyed in an overnight fire. LaHarpe firefighters were called to the scene…

Iola firefighters were called to a house fire Saturday evening in the 500 block of South Fourth Street. The fire was extinguished within a few minutes, with the damage limited to a single room and…

Former Iola City Councilman Austin Sigg and his brother, Ethan, were flown from Sigg’s rural Allen County home after both suffered serious burns in a flash explosion on Tuesday. Sheriff Bryan Murphy said the pair…

FORT SCOTT — Emergency crews battled overnight Monday into Tuesday morning to fight a fire that devastated Fort Scott’s Mary Queen of Angels Catholic Church. The southeast corner of the structure was engulfed in flames…

A fire at the Allen County Landfill this week may have been caused by lithium batteries, Public Works Director Mitch Garner said. There’s no way to know exactly what caused the fire, Garner said, but…

Fire officials have not determined what caused a fire that destroyed a vacant house on the city’s edge Sunday evening. Iola firefighters were called to the fire at 1371 1300 St. at 6:36 p.m., according…

It’s not known what caused a fire at the Allen County Landfill on Sunday afternoon, but there’s some speculation that fireworks could be the reason. The fire started in the middle of the landfill collection…

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Destructive Southwest fires have burned dozens of homes in northern Arizona and put small New Mexico villages in the path of flames that are expected to chew away Friday at wide…

HAVEN, Kan. (AP) — Investigators have labeled the cause of a fire and explosions at a Haven gas plant as undetermined, the Kansas Fire Marshal’s office said. However, no foul play is suspected in the…