Sarah Motter
Digital Producer/Assignment Editor
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: May. 8, 2023 at 12:48 PM CDT
|By Tori Whalen, Sarah Motter and Emily Van de Riet
The Topeka Zoo’s lioness Zuri has died at age 19, the zoo announced Thursday.
Updated: Apr. 3, 2023 at 5:23 PM CDT
|By Sarah Motter and Andrew McMunn
Police said Daisy Skilling, 18, was charged in connection to the death of a 17-year-old.
Updated: Dec. 7, 2022 at 9:35 PM CST
|By Sarah Motter and Jordan Gartner
A coach in Kansas has started a petition to remove fans from select sporting events following what’s being called a racist incident.
Updated: Oct. 6, 2022 at 3:45 PM CDT
|By Sarah Motter and Emily Van de Riet
A woman in Kansas fought off a would-be burglar with a frying pan, police said.
Updated: Aug. 8, 2022 at 6:31 PM CDT
|By Sarah Motter and Andrew McMunn
A man who had been arrested for nonviolent crimes twice last week was later arrested Thursday morning after police say he hit a woman with a baseball bat.
Updated: Jul. 29, 2022 at 10:36 AM CDT
|By Sarah Motter and Emily Van de Riet
Authorities in Kansas are looking for two people they say stripped a woman of her clothes at gunpoint, stole her car, and left her in the middle of the road.
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: 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. 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: Aug. 11, 2021 at 5:28 PM CDT
|By Sarah Motter and Ed Payne
The Kansas Bureau of Investigation said law enforcement found Nina Senkbeil safe in Fall River. Her father Jacob Senkbeil was arrested.
Updated: Jun. 22, 2021 at 8:39 PM CDT
|By Sarah Motter and Melissa Brunner
Zoey Landis is not expected to walk again after a car crash Sunday left her spinal cord stretched in two places.