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Joyland was founded on June 12, 1949 by Lester Ottaway to house a miniature 12-inch (300 mm) gauge steam locomotive. It was originally located at 1515 East Central but soon moved to its final location at 2801 South Hillside. After Lester Ottaway’s death in the mid-1950s, his three sons, Herbert, Harold and Eddie continued running the park.
The Wichita Police Department was created on April 13, 1871. A notable figure in the Department’s history was O.W. Wilson, who was considered an innovative police reformer. Wilson was credited with starting the Criminal Justice Program at Wichita State University, previously called the Municipal University of Wichita in 1937.
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of Kansas.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 371 law enforcement agencies employing 7,450 sworn police officers, about 266 for each 100,000 residents.
KMUW first took to the air on April 26, 1949, as a 10-watt station owned by Municipal University of Wichita (the former name of Wichita State University). The call sign was derived from the first letters of the university name. It was the first noncommercial FM station in Kansas, second FM station in Kansas, and the first 10-watt noncommercial ...
Sedgwick County Zoo. / 37.7158; -97.4104. The Sedgwick County Zoo is an AZA -accredited wildlife park and major attraction in Wichita, Kansas, United States. Founded in 1971, with the help of the Sedgwick County Zoological Society, the zoo has quickly become recognized both nationally and internationally for its support of conservation programs ...
An ex-Kansas police chief who led a raid on a newspaper is charged with obstruction of justice. August 14, 2024 at 12:45 PM. ... the home to the state's largest city of Wichita.
Until his identity was finally discovered by police, he was known as the "BTK killer". Rader was particularly known for sending taunting letters to police and the media. In 2005 a letter that Rader sent on a floppy disc included meta-data that led police to identify and arrest him. [59] Wichita became the scene of a robbery and mass murder in ...
The Kansas Bureau of Investigation ( KBI) is the state bureau of investigation of the U.S. state of Kansas. The KBI is a division of the Kansas Attorney General and responsible for providing investigative and criminal laboratory services to criminal justice agencies, as well as investigating and preventing crime in the state of Kansas. [ 4][ 5 ...