Derby

A child dies following an accident inside of a Derby home. It happened in the 200 block of West Overlook Drive just after 10:30am Saturday morning. Derby police say the child somehow became entangled in a blanket. He was not breathing when crews arrived. He was taken to a Wichita Hospital where he later died. The child was just one week away from turning two-years-old. Officials expect to release more information after an autopsy is performed. That could come early next week.

A Derby neighborhood is on alert after a woman was sexually assaulted in her garage, the second such crime in just over a month. Derby Police said both crimes happened in the Glen Hills subdivision.  The latest occurred Wednesday night around 9:00 p.m. A woman was in her garage when a man wearing a ski mask and holding a knife threatened and sexually assaulted her, police said. In late March or early April, a woman was raped in her home not far from the location of Wednesday's assault.

Latest Update: Monday 12/21 The equipment stolen from a Derby church has been found. Pastor Joe Boyd of Aviator Church tells Eyewitness News Sedgwick County Sheriff's Deputies found the church's stolen trailer on Saturday along with another stolen vehicle. It wasn't until Monday that investigators connected the trailer to the church. Boyd says most of the equipment was still inside the trailer; the only items missing were some speakers and one audio component.

By Brian Heap (DERBY, Kan.) This week, "In the Zone" paid its first visit to Derby.  Every day about 1500 students attend Derby Middle School or The 6th Grade Center across the street.  That results in a log jam of traffic on Woodlawn as parents work to drop their children off. "This corner right here is the biggest traffic tie up in Derby," said resident Donnie White from the front porch of his home at Madison and Woodlawn. White says his biggest concern about speeding is not the cars on Woodlawn, but the cars on Madison, which is not labeled a school zone, but has plenty of children walking or riding their bikes everyday.

Derby's Woody Austin fired a 7 under 63 in the final round of the Greenbrier Classic on Sunday.  That was good enough to earn him a 5th place finish at more than $226 thousand.  Stuart Appleby has reached golf's magic number, shooting a 59 at the Greenbrier Classic. Appleby becomes the fifth PGA Tour player to reach the milestone. The Australian's round comes less than a month after Paul Goyos had a 59 at John Deere Classic. Appleby was 11 under par in Sunday's final round.

Detroit's Prince Fielder became only the second player to win multiple titles in the All-Star Home Run Derby, thrilling the crowd at Kauffman Stadium with eight splash shots into the right-field fountain and beating Toronto's Jose Bautista 12-7 in the final Monday night. On a night when the Yankees' Robinson Cano was repeatedly booed and went homerless, Fielder put on the most powerful display among baseball's big boppers. Winner at St. Louis' Busch Stadium three years ago, Fielder hit a total of 28 home runs over three rounds to cap the main event on the eve of the All-Star game, hitting the long drive of the night at 476 feet into the water.

Derby Police are looking for a suspect in an assault that took place Monday morning in the Glen Hills neighborhood. It's the third similar attack in that same neighborhood. Police say it is "extremely possible" they are connected. Police say an unknown male entered a residence in the Glen Hills neighborhood through an unlocked door and threatened the female resident with a knife. The victim received minor cuts/scratches during the assault. The suspect fled the scene in an unknown direction of travel.

Summer came to an end for many  Kansas kids Monday as they headed back to school.  While students faced the first day jitters, some Derby parents were also stressed.  The school district stopped busing some kids, even though train tracks and K-15 stand in the way. Sporting new book bags, there's something three Derby kids need to do before leaving for the first day of school.  "Ready smile.  Look at me, look at mommy," Cheryl Cobb says to her son and twin daughters.  After capturing the moment, Cobb's kids load into her van instead of onto a bus.  "I'm very stressed, it's not something I thought I'd have to deal with and now I do," she said.

By Kim Wilhelm (DERBY, Kan.) When Derby mother Brittny Zettl heard the ad on the radio, she was instantly intrigued.  Zettl says the ad offered to give you free groceries as part of a market research project.  "They said they would give you a thousand dollars to spend on groceries to track what you were spending the money on over the next year," said Zettl. She says she was skeptical at first, but after talking with someone from ATS Market Research, she signed up.  She was under the impression it was like a debit card to use to buy $1000 worth of groceries.