Kansas officials are sharing what they know after an American Airlines flight that departed from Wichita crashed in Washington, D.C., Wednesday night.

The city had tried for years to host the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, and to get a direct flight to the northeast.

A woman who made a name for herself in Wichita and was in the process of doing the same thing in Washington was on the plane that crashed in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. Kiah Duggins was a civil rights attorney who worked with a legal group in D.

Kiah Duggins was preparing for a new role as a professor at Howard University Law School at the time of her death. Civil rights attorney Kiah Duggins was among the 64 passengers and crew on the American Airlines flight from Wichita,

Kiah Duggins was an attorney with Civil Rights Corps. She grew up in Wichita and attended Wichita East High School. In 2015, she represented the Miss Kansas Organization as Miss Butler County. Former Sedgwick County Commissioner Lacey Cruse described Duggins as “a brave and beautiful soul,

A former Miss Kansas contestant and attorney Kiah Duggins has been named as one of the victims of the flight from Wichita, Kan. that crashed into the Potomac on Wednesday night. Duggins was flying into DC as she was “preparing to be a law professor at Howard University in the fall,