Sarah Motter
Digital Producer/Assignment Editor

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: 5 hours ago
|By Sarah Motter and Jordan Gartner
A sports reporter in New Orleans covering the Super Bowl has died.
Updated: Jan. 6, 2025 at 5:56 AM PST
|By Sarah Motter and Amanda Alvarado
A missing woman was found dead during a winter storm, according to police.
Updated: Dec. 30, 2024 at 7:15 AM PST
|By Sarah Motter and Amanda Alvarado
A man was arrested following a string of thefts from multiple Home Depot locations.
Updated: Dec. 30, 2024 at 3:07 AM PST
|By Sarah Motter and Gray News staff
A speeding vehicle led police officers to find the driver had been gaming while behind the wheel.
Updated: Dec. 23, 2024 at 12:25 PM PST
|By Sarah Motter and Akim Powell
A dad in Missouri is accused of rough handling his 2-month-old daughter, causing 14 fractures throughout her body, according to authorities.
Updated: Dec. 18, 2024 at 7:24 PM PST
|By Sarah Motter and Gray News staff
A couple was arrested after a hotline tip led investigators to find a toddler had been left alone while they passed out on methamphetamine.
Updated: Dec. 2, 2024 at 7:36 PM PST
|By Sarah Motter and Gray News staff
Police in Kansas City are investigating the death of a man found inside a donation bin on Thanksgiving.
Updated: Nov. 21, 2024 at 9:53 AM PST
|By Sarah Motter and Debra Worley
The crimes have spurred a security alert from the National Football League.
Updated: Nov. 10, 2024 at 12:44 PM PST
|By Greg Dailey, Joe Hennessy, Mark Poulose, Sarah Motter and Gray News staff
A woman and a child died following a shooting that involved police in Missouri last week.
Updated: Oct. 31, 2024 at 9:25 AM PDT
|By Sarah Motter and Dorothy Sedovic
A man was declared dead after he was found trapped by heavy machinery near a farm in Kansas.
Updated: Oct. 30, 2024 at 5:46 PM PDT
|By Sarah Motter and Jordan Gartner
Multiple Applebee’s restaurants in Kansas City closed this week.
Updated: Aug. 25, 2024 at 7:22 PM PDT
|By Sarah Motter and Gray News staff
Investigators in Kansas are working to identify a deceased man who was pulled from a lake in Wyandotte County Lake.
Updated: Aug. 22, 2024 at 4:45 PM PDT
|By Sarah Motter and Jordan Gartner
Sainthood is not being considered for a nun whose body has been confirmed to not have decomposed.
Updated: Aug. 21, 2024 at 12:25 PM PDT
|By Sarah Motter and Emily Van de Riet
A tenant has filed a lawsuit against her landlord in Kansas City, Missouri after raccoons fell through her damaged roof and attacked her while she was sleeping, records show.
Man arrested at Morgan Wallen concert for allegedly making threats to shoot Kansas City Chiefs stars
Updated: Aug. 4, 2024 at 12:00 PM PDT
|By Sarah Motter and Akim Powell
A man who attended Morgan Wallen’s Friday night concert in Missouri has been arrested after allegedly making a “terrorist threat” against two Kansas City Chiefs players.
Updated: Jul. 5, 2024 at 2:18 PM PDT
|By Sarah Motter and Emily Van de Riet
The Kansas City Zoo & Aquarium welcomed a new baby giraffe over the weekend.
Updated: Jun. 29, 2024 at 5:02 PM PDT
|By Sarah Motter and Akim Powell
A man in Missouri died after the lawnmower he was driving flipped and pinned him underneath the water of a private pond.
Updated: May. 23, 2024 at 7:50 AM PDT
|By Sarah Motter, Debra Worley and The Associated Press
Patrick Mahomes said Wednesday that while he doesn’t agree with all the beliefs espoused by kicker Harrison Butker during a recent commencement address, the Chiefs quarterback nevertheless respects his teammate’s right to make them be known.
Updated: Apr. 22, 2024 at 9:45 AM PDT
|By Sarah Motter and Gray News staff
Tasha Haefs was charged in the 2022 death of her 6-year-old son.
Updated: Mar. 11, 2024 at 7:51 AM PDT
|By Sarah Motter and Amanda Alvarado
A woman celebrated her 105th birthday.
Updated: Feb. 16, 2024 at 10:42 AM PST
|By Sarah Motter and Debra Worley
Charges have been filed against two teenagers after one person died and 22 were injured in a shooting following the Kansas City Chiefs championship parade.
Updated: Feb. 14, 2024 at 10:37 AM PST
|By Sarah Motter and Gray News staff
Travis Kelce reflects on a jaw-dropping moment caught on national television.
Updated: Jan. 4, 2024 at 11:17 AM PST
|By Sarah Motter and Emily Van de Riet
Every single member of a police department in Kansas walked out on the job or officially resigned after a government agency arrived for a department assessment.
Updated: Nov. 28, 2023 at 7:28 PM PST
|By Sarah Motter and Jordan Gartner
Game wardens in Kansas say they searching for a poacher after finding a headless deer in Clay County.
Updated: Oct. 17, 2023 at 8:04 AM PDT
|By Sarah Motter and Gray News staff
A reward was offered for info leading to arrest of a suspect who threw a jug of milk at a passing tractor-trailer.
Updated: Oct. 3, 2023 at 9:29 AM PDT
|By Sarah Motter and Gray News staff
A man has been arrested in connection with the rape and killing of a 5-year-old girl, police in Topeka said.
GRAPHIC: Manifesto leads to man’s arrest for various child sex crimes in Florida, Kansas, police say
Updated: Sep. 7, 2023 at 8:31 AM PDT
|By Sarah Motter and Gray News staff
A man was arrested in connection with a case that covered hundreds of child sex crimes that spanned decades in different states, police said.
Updated: Aug. 30, 2023 at 9:38 AM PDT
|By Sarah Motter and Gray News staff
The 39-year-old has four wins on the PGA tour, including the major held at Pebble Beach in July 2019.
Updated: Aug. 30, 2023 at 9:00 AM PDT
|By Sarah Motter and Gray News staff
A bull terrier is back home with his Colorado family after being found in Kansas.
Updated: Jun. 16, 2023 at 9:12 AM PDT
|By Sarah Motter and Emily Van de Riet
A juvenile bald eagle that was hit by a car in Kansas has been successfully released back into the wild after its recovery.
Updated: May. 8, 2023 at 10:48 AM PDT
|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 3:23 PM PDT
|By Sarah Motter and Andrew McMunn
Police said Daisy Skilling, 18, was charged in connection to the death of a 17-year-old.
Updated: Feb. 6, 2023 at 11:23 AM PST
|By Sarah Motter
While arguably one of the most unbiased fans watching Super Bowl 57, Donna Kelce says she will not be tossing the coin at the start of the game, a more deserving group will.
Updated: Jan. 26, 2023 at 4:53 AM PST
|By Sarah Motter
Biologists with the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks encountered a catfish that weighed nearly 80 pounds on the Kansas River and have dubbed it a River Monster.
Updated: Dec. 7, 2022 at 7:35 PM PST
|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 1:45 PM PDT
|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 4:31 PM PDT
|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 8:36 AM PDT
|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 4:27 AM PDT
|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 6:39 PM PDT
|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 11:15 AM PDT
|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. 15, 2022 at 2:15 PM PDT
|By Sarah Motter
The father who paralyzed his daughter and injured his son in a Father’s Day drunk driving crash has been sentenced to nearly 27 years in prison.
Updated: Apr. 1, 2022 at 2:26 PM PDT
|By Sarah Motter and Gray News Staff
Police are accusing a Kansas man of murder in the death of his infant daughter.