While the national economy shows flashes of hope, city government’s outlook is still grim and may be worse next year, according to Wichita officials and financial documents.

As it votes on the budget today, the Wichita City Council will consider declaring a financial emergency and granting City Manager Robert Layton the power to reduce employees’ pay, force them to take unpaid furloughs or lay off workers to balance the books through 2010.

Whether such measures would be taken or how many people would be affected is unclear.

Kansas Lottery officials said a Super Kansas Cash ticket worth $1.6 million was sold somewhere in the northeast part of the state.

The Wichita Fire Department and their search and rescue team is on the scene of a 2-alarm fire at an apartment complex on South Woodlawn Street.

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As a Goddard police officer, Calvin Schaffer offered to help dismiss criminal charges against a woman he arrested if she would have sex with him, a federal indictment says.

And while on duty, Schaffer used a Goddard police computer to send photos of himself — nude and semi-nude — in e-mails to the woman, according to the indictment, announced Wednesday by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Wichita.

Schaffer, 44, is charged with defrauding the Goddard Police Department and the people of Goddard.

Schaffer could not be reached for comment.

The charge is expected to prompt reviews of cases he has been involved with because his credibility now could be questioned, legal experts said.

Dixie Chicks singer Natalie Maines says one person really stood out at her Halloween party last weekend, and it turned out to be the real Michael Jackson.

Up to six inches of snow is possible in some areas. KHP has responded to five accidents.

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The killing of Carol Mould in September 2004 drew extra attention.

Some people speculated it could be the latest grisly work of the BTK serial killer, who had preyed on Wichita-area residents since 1974. When BTK — Dennis Rader — was arrested months after Mould’s death, the world learned that BTK was a husband, father, former Boy Scout parent volunteer and church leader.

Mould’s killing would remain unsolved.

But last week, Butler County investigators made an arrest in the case: William “Bill” Wherry Moore — another husband and father who has been active in his community, including volunteering with the Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts.

Mould’s husband, Doug, said he wonders whether Moore could have known his wife through their children’s school or Scouting activities in Benton.

an American, at least not officially. He always wanted to, but he worked six days a week, and he always had places to go with the family, and he just never quite got around to it. Every four years, wh…

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