Feature Reporting
Reaching Out: The Ongoing Relationship Between WPD And The Homeless
Originally aired March 18, 2015
Nearly 600 chronically homeless people live in Wichita, but a pilot program within the city's police department is working to reduce that number.
Investigative Reporting
Searching For Zebra Mussels In Wellington Lake
Originally aired September 3, 2015
Biologists and aquatic species experts checked more than a dozen lakes and reservoirs across Kansas last September. They took water samples to monitor the growth and spread of zebra mussels, an invasive clam that is starting to turn up in new places.
KMUW’s Deborah Shaar takes us through the monitoring process with a team at Wellington Lake in south-central Kansas.
News Documentary
The Pieces That Remain: Remembering The Wichita State Plane Crash
Originally aired October 2, 2015
On October 2, 1970, a plane carrying the Wichita State football team to play a game against Utah State crashed into a mountainside in Colorado. Fourteen first stringers were killed. Members of the coaching staff, fans and supporters of the Shocker program also lost their lives. There were only nine survivors.
In the time that has passed since the crash, there have been memorials and countless other remembrances. And while most people are no longer grieving, many still remember, each in their own way.
KMUW reporter Abigail Wilson’s uncle, Bob Renner, the quarterback for the Shockers that year, survived the crash; it has been years since he has talked about it, even to his own family. Some of her uncle’s teammates and their families helped to put together the pieces of this story.
