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A police chase ends when authorities shoot and wound a suspected car thief near Pratt... a former state lawmaker with a troubled past runs for a school board seat in Wyandotte County... and a district in southeast Kansas moves to a four-day school week to combat an ongoing water crisis. Those headlines and more, inside.
Here's a summary of area headlines, as compiled by KPR news staffers.
Topeka police announced that Topekans Michael Tolan Jr., 16, and Eric Gonzales-Del Real, 18, were the two people killed in a traffic crash Sunday.
A loved one is being held in connection with first-degree murder in Saturday's killing in Topeka of 68-year-old DIanna Bloom.
Three Topeka police officers who shot and killed a man this summer were justified because the man charged at them with a knife, Shawnee County District Attorney Mike Kagay said.