46+ min ago (127+ words) TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - A train derailed Saturday night alongside Bridge Road in Perry, Kansas, with over 20 freight cars going off the tracks, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office. The sheriff's office told 13 News the incident occurred around 10 p.m. Saturday. They add that no injuries or casualties were reported. Railroad crossings were blocked east of Thompsonville and two west of Thompsonville, officials said. A 13 News reporter at the scene saw multiple boxcars, tankers and the engine overturned. Union Pacific rail workers were still repairing damage to the tracks as of 10 a.m. 13 News has reached out to Union Pacific but has not received a response. This is a developing story. 13 News will provide updates at wibw.com....

1+ day, 1+ hour ago (159+ words) GARDEN CITY, Kan. (KWCH) - A Garden City woman was arrested early Saturday morning for driving into a church while drunk. Garden City police shared that around 1:30 a.m. on Saturday, police were ... GARDEN CITY, Kan. (KWCH) - A Garden City woman was arrested early Saturday morning for driving into a church while drunk. Garden City police shared that around 1:30 a.m. on Saturday, police were called to the 300 block of east Campbell Street for a crash. When they arrived, they found a car had ran into the wall of Garden Valley Church. After investigation, police report that 45-year-old Chelby Wilson was driving north on 3rd Street when she nearly hit a parked car. While trying to avoid the crash, she overcorrected, jumped the curb, hit a sign and hit a fire hydrant before hitting the church. Wilson was later determined to be driving under the influence…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago (259+ words) WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - Enjoy the decent weather while it lasts because winter makes a return this weekend. It is a cold but quiet start to the day with wakeup temperatures in the 20s and 30s. Expect similar highs to yesterday in the upper 40s to low 50s. Winds will be breezy today, gusting up to 35 mph. Late tonight across northern and eastern Kansas, scattered showers will begin to develop ahead of our storm system. By Saturday morning, rain will begin to transition to a rain/snow mix across northern Kansas and gradually move east. Areas south of I-70 will mostly see rain. Rain and winter mix will exit the area by the early afternoon. Snow accumulations will be little to none due to warmer ground temperatures. The best chance for minor snow accumulations will be across northern Kansas, where amounts will likely be under an…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago (230+ words) WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - We are kicking off Thanksgiving cold and quiet, but later today under mostly sunny skies, temperatures will be near normal in the low 50s. Winds will remain light throughout the day. Friday will follow suit with highs in the 50s with mostly cloudy skies. Winds will become breezy with gusts up to 35 mph. Temperatures will fall throughout the day on Saturday, with numbers in the 30s by the late afternoon. With north wind gusts of 40-50 mph, it will feel much colder. Feels like temperatures on Sunday morning will be in the single digits across the state. Below normal highs in the 30s will continue Sunday and Monday. Looking ahead, there will be another chance of some light snow across the state on Monday. Snowfall amounts will generally be light. Temperatures will slowly climb back to the 40s later in the week. Today:…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago (76+ words) WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - I-135 southbound is closed from Park City down to Wichita's North Junction as crews work to clear the scene of a crash. Two people were hospitalized with non-life-threatening ... WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - I-135 southbound is closed from Park City down to Wichita's North Junction as crews work to clear the scene of a crash. Two people were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries. Avoid the area if possible....

5+ day, 14+ hour ago (332+ words) WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - An eight-year-old was nearly killed by a phone charger while lying in bed, but he says it was his quick thinking that kept him alive. "It was just scary," said Lorenzo Lopez. "I almost thought I was going to die." Lorenzo Lopez is your ordinary eight year old. He likes sports, video games, and his favorite color is blue. But the other night was anything but ordinary. "It was chaos, but I do remember some of it," Lopez said. Lopez was sleeping with a phone plugged into a charger nearby. The charger was plugged into an extension cord, and the charger cord was slightly unplugged. "Lorenzo rolled over in his sleep and his chain necklace just happened to fall in between where the gap was on the extension cord and the charger, which is what shocked him,…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago (220+ words) The AG's office said it was unaware of the inappropriate link until contacted by 12 News. Officials quickly removed the document that was linked but have not provided additional details about the security breach. Other reports indicate the breach may be connected to a recent hack of Granicus, a cloud-based platform the AG's office confirmed it uses. Granicus primarily serves government agencies and provides technology to improve government operations and citizen engagement. An AG's office spokesperson said it was unsure if Granicus had contacted them about the confirmed hack and that it had only learned about the hack through media reports Bill Ramsey, a cybersecurity expert with Market Advisory Group in Wichita, said the hack may not have compromised personal data. "It could be that just the website itself was breached, not the data that stands behind the website," Ramsey said....

5+ day, 20+ hour ago (185+ words) The AG's office said it was unaware of the inappropriate link until contacted by 12 News. Officials quickly removed the document that was linked but have not provided additional details about the security breach. Other reports indicate the breach may be connected to a recent hack of Granicus, a cloud-based platform the AG's office confirmed it uses. Granicus primarily serves government agencies and provides technology to improve government operations and citizen engagement. An AG's office spokesperson said it was unsure if Granicus had contacted them about the confirmed hack and that it had only learned about the hack through media reports Bill Ramsey, a cybersecurity expert with Market Advisory Group in Wichita, said the hack may not have compromised personal data. "It could be that just the website itself was breached, not the data that stands behind the website," Ramsey said....

5+ day, 21+ hour ago (234+ words) WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - The Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office is investigating a fatal, three-vehicle crash that happened late Saturday afternoon at the intersection of 135th Street West and 63rd Street South, between K-42 Highway and Clearwater. The sheriff's office identified the man killed in the crash as 63-year-old Dwayne Wesley Evers, of Clearwater. At about 5:30 p.m., deputies, along with fire department crews from Clearwater and Sedgwick County, and Sedgwick County EMS responded to the crash involving an Amazon delivery van, a pickup and a motorcycle. The sheriff's office said that Wesley was the motorcycle's driver. His passenger, a 58-year-old Clearwater woman, suffered critical injuries. The pickup's driver, a 70-year-old Clearwater man, was taken to a Wichita hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, the sheriff's office said. The Amazon delivery driver, a 25-year-old man from Wichita, was not injured. The sheriff's office reported that preliminary findings in the…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago (363+ words) ABILENE, Kan. (KWCH) - A family in Abilene is recovering after a man broke into their home and destroyed everything while a child was there. The Kooser family's home in Abilene was broken into when nobody was home except the 11-year-old daughter, Harper Curry. He climbed into a window where he discovered her inside. Curry said she could hear him talking to her while she was trying to escape. "I know you are in there', like stuff like that, after he comes through the window," Curry said. "He was also threatening to murder my dogs, me, my family." Curry's quick thinking and brave actions helped lead to his arrest. Among all the chaos, Curry got out of the house and looked for help. She went to the house of a police officer. "I ring the doorbell saying, help, help.' I'm crying,…...