Sarah Motter
Digital Producer/Assignment Editor
Topeka, Kan.

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: Nov. 28, 2023 at 10:28 PM EST
|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 11:04 AM EDT
|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 12:29 PM EDT
|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 11:31 AM EDT
|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 12:38 PM EDT
|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 12:00 PM EDT
|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 12:12 PM EDT
|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 1:48 PM EDT
|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 6:23 PM EDT
|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 10:35 PM EST
|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 4:45 PM EDT
|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 7:31 PM EDT
|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 11:36 AM EDT
|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 7:27 AM EDT
|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 9:39 PM EDT
|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 5:26 PM EDT
|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 6:28 PM EDT
|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.