OLATHE — Prosecutors say a man who kidnapped and raped a suburban Kansas City sheriff’s deputy is a dangerous sexual predator who raped another woman while her toddler was in bed with her. The Kansas City Star reports that prosecutors made their case Wednesday for 23-year-old Brady Newman-Caddell to serve more time in prison than what’s called for in Kansas sentencing guidelines. He and another man, William Luth, were convicted previously of abducting the deputy from outside the detention center in Olathe, Kansas, in October 2016 as she headed to work. She was released in the Missouri suburb of Lee’s…
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WICHITA — A man and a woman have been arrested in the shooting of 4-year-old boy in an apparent road rage incident after one vehicle cut off another in a Kansas city. Wichita Police Chief Gordon Ramsay says the boy was shot in the stomach Wednesday evening and is in stable condition. The boy was one of six children inside a sport utility when someone in a silver Ford Mustang fired two shots just before 5 p.m. The Wichita Eagle reports that the Mustang took off after the shooting but was later stopped. Police said Thursday that a 21-year-old woman…
TOPEKA — Kansas authorities are looking for an inmate who escaped from a work crew in Topeka. The Shawnee County Department of Corrections says 27-year-old Brian Andrew Worrell ran away Wednesday on his first day with that crew. Maj. Tim Phelps. Worrell told the Topeka Capital-Journal that Worrell is not thought to be an active threat to any member of the public. Worrell was part of a community work crew was helping with code compliance work. Worrell ran away when the crew supervisor began taking photos of the work. The remaining inmates were then secured. He had been booked into…
Geary County Sheriff Tony Wolf was arrested this morning by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation on a charge of felony theft and misuse of public funds. He was booked into the Geary County Jail and released on bond. He also has been placed on administrative leave by the department. Sheriff Wolf is accused of gifting a county-owned firearm to a third and using government money in an unlawful manner. The KBI investigation into Wolf began in August before being presented to Dickinson County Attorney Andrea Purvis. Purvis was appointed as the special prosecutor on the case and sought a warrant…
Are you smarter than a librarian? You can find out through a game of trivia. A team of librarians from K-State will participate in a trivia competition at Arrow Coffee Thursday night. Teams of up to 6 members can link up to participate in the competition. Doors open at 7 p.m. and the game starts at 7:30. There is a 5 dollar per person participation fee with all proceeds going to the Hale Library recovery fund. They’ll also be giving out Hale t-shirts in return for a 20 dollar donation to the fund. And if your team manages to outwit…
Wednesday’s guests were Manhattan-Ogden USD 383 Assistant Superintendent Eric Reid and Board of Education member Jurdene Coleman. They were followed by Manhattan Area Technical College President Jim Genandt.
PAOLA — Authorities have a suspect in custody in a hit-and-run crash that injured a 12-year-old boy in eastern Kansas. Police in Paola said in a Facebook post that the crash happened Tuesday afternoon. The boy was taken to a hospital, but the extent of his injuries weren’t immediately known. The post said the sport utility vehicle that hit the child was leaking fluid as it left the scene. Police announced later in the day that the suspect was in custody. The suspect’s name wasn’t immediately released. The investigation is ongoing.
HUTCHINSON — Floodwaters are receding in Kansas after several creeks and rivers overflowed in the state. The Hutchinson News reports that water levels on the Cow Creek and the Arkansas River in the Hutchinson area had shown a 2.5 foot (0.75 meter) drop Tuesday from their peaks last week. First responders need the levels to drop even further before the damages can be assessed. Reno County Emergency Management listed 37 road closures on Thursday, but the dangerous situations that led to six water rescue calls last Thursday have diminished. Last week, Gov. Jeff Colyer has issued a state of disaster…
LENEXA — A Democrat running for a suburban Kansas City legislative seat has been cited twice for drunken driving. The Kansas City Star reports that 28-year-old Brandon Woodard, of Lenexa, Kansas, previously acknowledged being arrested in 2012 when he was a 22-year-old senior at the University of Kansas. Because Woodard was then vice president of the university’s student senate, the student newspaper, the Daily Kansan, wrote about it. The Star then asked him about it after he announced his candidacy for the 30th District seat in the Kansas House. Woodard says he wasn’t trying to hide a second 2014 drunken…
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue will deliver the next Landon Lecture, scheduled for November 1st. The series is named for former Kansas Gov. Alf Landon, who was the 1936 Republican nominee for president. The series was established in 1966 to bring in speakers to discuss issues facing business, politics and international relations. Perdue’s speech is titled “Leave it Better than you found it: Lessons in Public Service I learned on the Farm.” Perdue, the former governor of Georgia, grew up on a dairy and crop farm. Perdue is the 11th Secretary of Agriculture to participate and 179th speaker overall…