Updated: 4:38 PM Two minor injuries were reported Thursday morning from a house fire in east Wichita.

Updated: 8:01 AM One lane reopened northbound on Interstate 135 in Wichita, after all were closed due to a five-car collision.

Updated: 8:23 AM Electricity goes out for hours for hundreds of customers; restoration underway.

Updated: 12:02 PM Report of shooting at a downtown hotel turns out to be a naked man who cut himself falling from a window.

Updated: 3:43 PM Enough rain has fallen in western Kansas that one school district is operating buses on mud routes only Friday.

Updated: 8:15 AM Ex-spokesman Tim Bell says that former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has died. She was 87.

Updated: 5:57 AM It was looking like the Jayhawks were on their way to victory and the Elite Eight.

Posted: 1:00 AM Jeff Meyer served on Gregg Marshall's first staff at Winthrop.

Updated: 9:04 AM A 53-year-old Salina man who had sex with an underage girl more than 100 times is sentenced to life in prison for rape.

Updated: 8:59 AM The New Jersey man who won the $338 million Powerball jackpot owes approximately $29,000 in child support.

Updated: 8:46 AM Kansas lawmakers are taking a long weekend before what they hope is a final push to finish most of their business for the year.

Updated: 8:42 AM Prosecutors have narrowed their case against a 66-year-old Kansas veteran after an appeals court tossed out key evidence in a case charging him with unlawful possession of unregistered destructive devices.

Updated: 8:36 AM Sentencing has been postponed for a 20-year-old Topeka man convicted of killing a teenage passenger while driving drunk.

Updated: 8:25 AM Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback is preparing to sign legislation altering the way judges are appointed to the state Court of Appeals.

Updated: 8:59 AM The Kansas Senate's top negotiator on taxes says canceling a scheduled decrease in the sales tax is vital to allowing future reductions in income tax rates.

Updated: 8:18 AM North Korea says it's cutting off a key military hotline with South Korea that allows cross border travel to a jointly run industrial complex in the North.

Updated: 8:16 AM Kentucky's Legislature has approved a bill that would allow the state to quickly license hemp growers if the federal government ever lifts a ban on the crop.

Updated: 9:35 AM The batteries in the blanket can overheat, posing a burn hazard.

Updated: 8:25 AM Italy's highest criminal court has overturned the acquittal of Amanda Knox in the slaying of her British roommate and ordered a new trial.

Updated: 8:11 AM Deer and turkey hunters in Kansas will be able to use more legal equipment during upcoming hunting seasons.

Updated: 8:09 AM Kansas House leaders say they'll take their time on a final version of the new state budget, waiting first to resolve differences with the Senate over taxes.

Updated: 5:51 PM Police have arrested two teenagers suspected in the shooting death of a baby in a stroller and the wounding of the baby's mother.

Updated: 8:19 AM Officials say a Marine killed a male and female colleague at a base in Virginia before committing suicide.

Updated: 1:54 PM A Kansas Senate committee is taking up legislation to block tax breaks for abortion providers and bar public schools from using sex education instruction from abortion providers.

Updated: 8:16 AM Parents, teachers and community members are vowing to push back against a plan by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's administration to close 54 schools.