Travis Heying The Wichita Eagle Julie Mah is a lifelong Kansan. She graduated from Kansas State University and has been a journalist for more than 40 years.

The victims in the doomed plane that crashed in the Potomac include U.S. and Russian figure skaters, reports say.

An American Airlines flight departing from Wichita, Kansas, collided with a military helicopter while approaching Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. The collision occurred around 9 p.m ...