TOPEKA, Kan. — The Latest on the criminal case involving an Army solider charged with distributing explosives information online (all times local): 4:25 p.m. A prosecutor says an Army soldier charged with distributing information about making explosives online is a Satanist who wanted to overthrow the U.S. government. Assistant U.S. Attorney Anthony Mattivi said during a federal court hearing Thursday in Kansas that 24-year-old Jarrett William Smith had a specific plan to overthrow the government and told the FBI he was distributing information on explosives “for the glory of his Satanist religion.” But an attorney for Smith said he is…
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Alan Murray, the CEO of Fortune, an international media company that is responsible for the Fortune 500, presented the 191st Landon Lecture in McCain Auditorium Friday morning. Murray’s speech, entitled “The Future of Facts: Searching for Truth in the 21st Century,” focused on the importance of facts and truth in both the news industry and society as a whole and how facts and truth are consumed. Murray says that despite how critical facts are, overall faith in them and their existence is fading. He also says continuing to have apathy for and disbelief of facts presents a danger to society.…
SALINA, Kan. (AP) — A Salina-based nonprofit that provides child welfare and adult services plans to merge with the former St. John’s Military School, which closed in May after years of litigation over its supervision of cadets. Saint Francis Ministries, an Episcopalian organization, announced Thursday that it will lead a collaboration to establish future uses for the nearly 40-acre campus in north Salina. The Salina-Journal reports the campus name has been changed to St. John’s Ministries and School. The Rev. Bobby Smith, dean and CEO of Saint Francis Ministries, says initial plans include working with the business and educational leaders…
LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) — A 76-year-old northeast Kansas man has pleaded guilty to trying to rape a 4-year-old girl. FOX4KC reports Galen Hurt, of Linwood, pleaded Thursday in Leavenworth County court to attempted rape and aggravated child endangerment. Hurt was originally charged in 2018 with rape of a child. Investigators say the girl told her mother that Hurt touched her inappropriately while she was at his house. Leavenworth County Attorney Todd Thompson said his decision to offer the plea out of consideration for the girl, who is now 6.
Riley County Police Department Captain Josh Kyle joined the show Friday to discuss a variety of topics from facilities to drones and Text-to-911 technology and some community policing events happening in the near future. Mercy Community Health Foundation Senior Development Director Tina Rockhold also highlighted where the foundation is at in terms of fundraising for a new cath lab and interventional radiology lab at Ascension Via Christi in Manhattan.
Twin Valley League 8 Man Wetmore 0 (1-3) at Frankfort 50 (4-0) Axtell 58 (4-0) at Pike Valley 10 Hill City 22 at Clifton-Clyde 50 (4-0) Blue Valley 0 at Hanover 46 (4-0) Stockton 20 at Washington Co. 24 (3-1) Rock Hills 1 at Linn (Forfeit due to injuries, disqualifies Linn from playoffs) 0 (0-4) Onaga 42 (2-2) at Doniphan West 36 3OT (0-4) Twin Valley League 11 Man Republic Co. 14 at Valley Heights 34 (4-0) Centralia 30 (3-1) at St. Mary’s Colgan 0 Troy (2-1) at Christ Prep Academy…
LAWRENCE, Kan. — An Emporia couple has committed $1 million to the internal medicine program at the University of Kansas School of Medicine in Wichita. The university on Wednesday announced the gift from Scott and Julie Smiley. The money will be divided into three funds. One will benefit the Department of Internal Medicine, another will support residents in the internal medicine program, and the third will fund student scholarships, with preference given to students interested in internal medicine. Scott Smiley, a native of Newton who graduated from the school of medicine in Wichita, is a physician in Emporia. Julie Smiley…
TOPEKA, Kan. — A state committee has agreed to replace a plaque commemorating the completion of the Kansas Capitol renovation that named only former Gov. Sam Brownback with a plaque bearing the names of four governors involved in the project. The original plaque was installed during a dedication ceremony in 2014 after the $325 million project was completed. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the renovation project began in 1999 and ended in 2014, when Brownback was governor. The new privately-financed plaque approved by the Capitol Preservation Committee will include the names of Govs. Bill Graves, Kathleen Sebelius, Mark Parkinson and Brownback.…
DURHAM, Kan. — A couple has decided to reopen a tiny central Kansas cafe that closed after suffering extensive damage in Fourth of July flash flooding. The Wichita Eagle reports that the restaurant, called Main Street Cafe, was among one of many businesses and homes inundated in the Marion County town of Durham after a thunderstorm. The owners said at the time that they hoped someone younger will step in and reopen the cafe. Enter Mark and Kris Wiebe, who had been setting up a booth they called Homemade Anytime at farmers markets around the area for about 17 years.…
TOPEKA, Kan. — A federal grand jury in Kansas has indicted an Army soldier on charges that he distributed explosives information and threatened to set fire to a home. The indictment charges Jarrett William Smith with two counts related to the explosives and one count linked to trying to gain entry to a home and injure someone listed only as D.H. The indictment alleges he made the threat from Kansas to Michigan. Federal prosecutors have said Smith discussed his plan to kill far-left-leaning “antifa” activists and described how to build a bomb that could be triggered by calling a cellphone.…