Sarah Motter
Digital Producer
Topeka, Kan.
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A Kansas native that is interested in sharing the views of Kansans through a journalistic lens. I am a University of Kansas alumna and enjoy spending time with my animals while I am not working. I enjoy the social media aspect of my job as I feel it allows me to interact with more viewers.
Updated: Jun. 22, 2022 at 3:59 PM CDT
|By Sarah Motter
A Linn County firefighter has passed away due to the extent of the injuries he sustained while battling a blaze on Monday night.
Updated: Jun. 17, 2022 at 6:22 PM CDT
|By Sarah Motter
N 1900 Rd. has been closed at the railroad tracks after a train derailed toppling 20 cargo cars full of coal.
Updated: Jun. 15, 2022 at 4:09 PM CDT
|By Sarah Motter
Students at Kansas Board of Regents colleges and universities will not see a tuition increase in 2023, however, a slight fee increase is in store for a few students.
Updated: Jun. 8, 2022 at 12:10 PM CDT
|By Sarah Motter
Kansas has been ranked among the top half of states which are best for racial equality in civic engagement.
Updated: Jun. 8, 2022 at 11:34 AM CDT
|By Sarah Motter
Kansas Governor Laura Kelly has warned about 10 million food-insecure children will lose access to two guaranteed hot meals per school day with the end of the extension on Child Nutrition Waivers.
Updated: May. 25, 2022 at 2:47 PM CDT
|By Sarah Motter
The man who allegedly told Lawrence dispatchers that God made him kill his wife has been granted a competency evaluation.
Updated: May. 20, 2022 at 6:27 AM CDT
|By Sarah Motter and Gray News staff
A 5-year-old boy taken from Rose Hill, Kansas, has been found safe.
Updated: May. 18, 2022 at 10:43 AM CDT
|By Sarah Motter
The Kansas Supreme Court has decided that redistricting maps brought before it for the Sunflower State were completely legal and valid.
Updated: May. 12, 2022 at 2:00 PM CDT
|By Sarah Motter
Kansans will soon be able to place bets on their favorite sports teams with the Governor’s signature freshly inked on the state’s new sports betting bill.
Updated: May. 12, 2022 at 11:30 AM CDT
|By Sarah Motter
Evergy has warned against decorative metallic Mylar balloons ahead of graduation parties as they pose a threat to electric lines.
Updated: May. 10, 2022 at 2:45 PM CDT
|By Sarah Motter
The Topeka Zoo will reveal the name and gender of Bornean orangutan Rudy’s new infant as it continues to learn and reach new milestones.
Updated: May. 5, 2022 at 2:45 PM CDT
|By Sarah Motter
After a thorough investigation and review, a Lawrence priest has been cleared of sexual assault allegations made against him.
Updated: May. 5, 2022 at 12:04 PM CDT
|By Sarah Motter
Kansas Governor Laura Kelly has signed a bill to help address the state’s ongoing housing shortage - especially in rural communities.
Updated: Apr. 28, 2022 at 4:58 PM CDT
|By Sarah Motter
A southwest Kansas man has been convicted of the murder of 3-year-old Carlos Valenzuela III after the child had been physically abused.
Updated: Apr. 28, 2022 at 11:31 AM CDT
|By Sarah Motter
The Kansas Board of Regents has suggested high schoolers take one more unit of math in order to graduate, as well as a computer science course.
Updated: Apr. 26, 2022 at 8:39 PM CDT
|By Sarah Motter, Chris Fisher and Jordan Gartner
A Kansas girl remains in a medically-induced coma after her mother said a tree limb fell on her daughter’s head while they were walking to a local park.
Updated: Apr. 26, 2022 at 1:15 PM CDT
|By Sarah Motter and Chris Fisher
A GoFundMe has been created for a second-grader in St. Mary’s who is in critical condition after high winds caused a tree branch to fall on her.
Updated: Apr. 21, 2022 at 12:05 PM CDT
|By Sarah Motter
Albert Wilson, the man convicted in a 2019 Lawrence rape case that was dismissed has filed a lawsuit to sue the State of Kansas for wrongful conviction and imprisonment.
Updated: Apr. 16, 2022 at 2:17 PM CDT
|By Sarah Motter
Former Kansas State University President Jon Wefald has died of a heart attack. He was 84-years-old.
Updated: Apr. 15, 2022 at 5:03 PM CDT
|By Sarah Motter
Governor Laura Kelly has vetoed two bills - one which targets transgender athletes and one that would have created the parents’ bill of rights for elementary and secondary school students.
Updated: Apr. 12, 2022 at 2:12 PM CDT
|By Joseph Hennessy and Sarah Motter
Governor Laura Kelly signed House Bill 2644 Tuesday morning to designate the Sandhill Plum as the official fruit of Kansas.
Updated: Apr. 11, 2022 at 4:41 PM CDT
|By Sarah Motter
Sanctuary cities will become a thing of the past in Kansas after Governor Laura Kelly signed a bill that would outlaw them.
Updated: Apr. 6, 2022 at 11:13 AM CDT
|By Sarah Motter
Kansas health care workers are in for a bonus for their outstanding work during the COVID-19 pandemic - of about $51 million.
Updated: Apr. 5, 2022 at 4:43 PM CDT
|By Sarah Motter
A GoFundMe has been created to help the family who lost their 12-year-old son in a Shawnee County car accident on Sunday which may leave their other son paralyzed.
Updated: Apr. 5, 2022 at 10:37 AM CDT
|By Sarah Motter
A State of Disaster Emergency has been issued for Kansas as high winds and dry weather are expected for the foreseeable future.
Updated: Apr. 2, 2022 at 3:53 PM CDT
|By Sarah Motter
Former K-State men’s basketball coach Bob Huggins will be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
Updated: Apr. 2, 2022 at 1:51 PM CDT
|By Sarah Motter
An inmate at Lansing Correctional Facility died on Friday after he was taken to the hospital.
Updated: Apr. 2, 2022 at 1:11 PM CDT
|By Sarah Motter
The Kansas Legislature and Governor Laura Kelly passed a bill that will allow the state to build a Gold Star Families memorial on Statehouse grounds.
Updated: Apr. 1, 2022 at 4:26 PM CDT
|By Sarah Motter and Gray News Staff
Police are accusing a Kansas man of murder in the death of his infant daughter.
Updated: Mar. 30, 2022 at 3:04 PM CDT
|By Sarah Motter
A bill that would ban sanctuary cities in the Sunflower State has passed the Kansas Legislature and is headed to the Governor’s desk for consideration.
Updated: Mar. 24, 2022 at 11:29 AM CDT
|By Sarah Motter
The question of whether or not to add a ‘legislative veto’ amendment to the Kansas Constitution will appear on voters’ ballots in November.
Updated: Mar. 23, 2022 at 2:58 PM CDT
|By Sarah Motter and Joseph Hennessy
A KHP Trooper who risked his own life to help a stranded driver and her daughter during a February snowstorm was honored by the Governor on Wednesday.
Updated: Mar. 11, 2022 at 2:10 PM CST
|By Sarah Motter
Emergency crews and Jackson Co. residents helped pull an 85-year-old Holton man out of his vehicle after it slid into a creek Friday morning.
Updated: Mar. 9, 2022 at 2:35 PM CST
|By Sarah Motter
Ft. Riley’s senior commander and about 300 other Kansas soldiers are headed to Europe as tensions between Ukraine and Russia intensify.
Updated: Mar. 3, 2022 at 12:14 PM CST
|By Sarah Motter
Overland Park police will get a pay bump to help direct traffic for the opening of Kansas’s first Whataburger location.
Updated: Mar. 2, 2022 at 4:31 PM CST
|By Sarah Motter
The U.S. Senate has passed a resolution introduced by Senator Roger Marshall to ban the CMS COVID-19 vaccine mandate from taking effect and now heads to the House of Representatives.
Updated: Feb. 24, 2022 at 3:27 PM CST
|By Sarah Motter
13 NEWS has obtained a recording of a conference in which the state’s education commissioner made comments that have state leaders calling for his resignation.
Updated: Feb. 24, 2022 at 10:38 AM CST
|By Sarah Motter
Kansas’s Attorney General has urged courts to reopen litigation into one of the nation’s four COVID-19 vaccine mandates currently entangled in legal battles.
Updated: Feb. 10, 2022 at 2:33 PM CST
|By Sarah Motter
Governor Laura Kelly is hoping to make good on her 2018 campaign promise to expand Medicaid with new legislation introduced on Wednesday.
Updated: Feb. 10, 2022 at 12:22 PM CST
|By Sarah Motter
Nearly a year after her death, an Atchison Co. woman’s autopsy report has finally confirmed she died from an allergic reaction to the COVID-19 vaccine.
Updated: Jan. 27, 2022 at 5:01 PM CST
|By Sarah Motter
Over $22 million is headed to Kansas communities to help purchase emergency vehicles and other needed equipment.
Multiple human trafficking suspects taken into custody after warrants served at six Shawnee Co. spas
Updated: Jan. 26, 2022 at 4:15 PM CST
|By Sarah Motter and Isaac French
Multiple human trafficking suspects have been taken into custody after warrants were served at six spas in the Shawnee Co. area.
Updated: Jan. 7, 2022 at 3:56 PM CST
|By Sarah Motter
After a family member took a 2-month-old girl to the hospital for difficulty breathing, the child’s father was arrested for child abuse by the KBI.
Updated: Jan. 6, 2022 at 11:00 AM CST
|By Sarah Motter
Kansans could see two new issues on the ballot in November 2022 - marijuana legalization and Medicaid expansion.
Updated: Jan. 4, 2022 at 1:08 PM CST
|By Sarah Motter
A Kansas couple is now pleading with the community to get vaccinated against COVID-19 after their brush with the virus almost took their unborn child.
Updated: Jan. 4, 2022 at 11:25 AM CST
|By Sarah Motter
Steaks for turtle soup and alligator sausage - Sen. Roger Marshall made bets with Senators from Louisianna ahead of the K-State LSU bowl game Tuesday night.
Updated: Dec. 28, 2021 at 3:43 PM CST
|By Sarah Motter
Following a windstorm, wildfires and extreme drought, the USDA has offered assistance to help Kansas farmers rebuild.
Updated: Dec. 25, 2021 at 11:48 AM CST
|By Sarah Motter
Salina Police are looking for the public’s help to solve a Christmas Eve hit-and-run that left one person with severe injuries.
Updated: Dec. 24, 2021 at 11:28 AM CST
|By Sarah Motter
Applications for broadband acceleration grants are now open.
Updated: Dec. 24, 2021 at 11:18 AM CST
|By Sarah Motter
One parent with experience in the child welfare system will be chosen as a voting member of the Task Force on Permanency Planning.