Burlingame News

Sometimes you intend to pat someone on the back and end up thumping them on the head instead.

The slayings of Karen, Emily and Lauren Kahler and Dorothy Wight near Burlingame, Kan., have brought the number of deaths in Kansas related to domestic violence this year to 32 adults and 13 children, said Sandy Barnett, executive director of the Kansas Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence.

In the week after his arrest on suspicion of a murder spree in Burlingame, Kan., Kraig Kahler was scheduled to make three appearances in the Boone County Courthouse.

A hearing for 46-year-old James Kraig Kahler was scheduled Thursday in Osage County District Court in Lyndon.

Winter weather has sparked more than a dozen fender benders and slide offs around the Capital City Tuesday.

The Columbia Tribune has a piece here about Karen Kahler, who was killed this weekend with her two daughter and grandmother in Burlingame, Kan.

Funerals were held on Saturday for three of the victims of a shooting in Burlingame.

Osage County Sherrif's deputies are still searching for evidence in a weekend triple murder in Burlingame.

An 89-year-old woman has died from injuries suffered in a weekend shooting in northeast Kansas that also left her granddaughter and two great-granddaughters dead, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Spokeswoman Ashley Anstaett said Wight died Tuesday at a Topeka hospital but the attorney general's office delayed the announcement until family members were notified.

Wight, 89, died Tuesday afternoon at a Topeka Hospital . An old town tradition, lost for more than two decades, is brining the community together after the tragic week.

It's been a difficult year for Osage County, Kan. The killings Saturday of Karen, Lauren and Emily Kahler in Burlingame are the second triple homicide to rock the county of almost 17,000 people this year.

Sunday, November 29, 2009 The search for a man suspected in a fatal shooting just south of Burlingame Saturday evening apparently ended in the arrest about 7:30 a.m. today of James "Kraig" Kahler, 46.

A former Missouri city official previously accused of assaulting his wife was charged Monday with capital murder in the shootings of her and their two teenage daughters in eastern Kansas.James Kraig Kahler, 46, also was charged with one count of attempted first-degree murder in the shooting of his estranged wife's 89-year-old grandmother and one ...

A Kansas judge set bail at $10 million Monday morning for an ex-Utilities Director of Weatherford.

James "Kraig" Kahler makes his first appearance Monday at the Osage County Courthouse in Lyndon.

Crystal Brown cbrown@weatherforddemocrat.com Kraig Kahler, the former head of Weatherford's municipal utilities department, is in custody in Kansas following the shooting deaths of his wife and two children Saturday.

Jim Dougherty, retiring director of De La Salle Education Center, talked during an interview at the school in Kansas City.

Burlingame, Kan. - A former city official from Columbia who lost his job after he was charged with assaulting his wife is suspected of killing her and two of their children in eastern Kansas.

Authorities say three people are dead and one is in critical condition following a shooting in Burlingame on Saturday and that the suspect was caught early Sunday morning.