KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Federal prosecutors say the government isn’t required to pay for an expert to investigate whether recordings inside a private prison violated inmates’ constitutional rights. Attorneys say some of their meetings and phone calls with clients at the Corrections Corp. of America prison in Leavenworth have been recorded in violation of the inmates’ Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial. U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson has appointed Ohio attorney David Cohen as special master to look into possible violations of attorney-client privilege. He will be paid $500 an hour to identify confidential information in possibly hundreds of hours…
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Officers with the Topeka Police Department arrested a 28-year-old Manhattan man Wednesday. Jermaine Patton was apprehended at approximately 10:00 PM at a location in Topeka for failing to appear in Riley County District Court. The original offense listed on this warrant was violation of the offender registration act. The warrant had a bond of $10,000 and Patton is no longer confined at the time of this report.
Riley County Police Department Captain Tim Hegarty stopped by for today’s edition of In Focus. Hegarty:
TOPEKA — A Kansas sheriff’s detective claims in a lawsuit he was fired after refusing to end an investigation into rape allegations against a Holton man. In the lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal court, Al Dunn claims Jackson County Sheriff Tim Morse pressured him to back off the investigation into rape allegations against Jacob Ewing. The lawsuit claims Morse faced complaints from Ewing’s family and friends who believed they could influence Morse’s re-election bid. Morse told The Topeka Capital-Journal the claims are “baseless” and “ludicrous,” and his department hasn’t faced pressure to back off the investigation. He also said he wouldn’t…
In just one month scores of community members may gather in Rezac Auditorium at Manhattan High School for what may be a long and impassioned public comment session hosted by the USD 383 board of education. The “mascot issue” is nothing new to the residents of Manhattan, although the topic has resurfaced in 2016 due to ReImage MHK, a new group seeking to rebrand Manhattan High School in an effort to make the Little Apple more culturally friendly. USD 383 has made local and regional media this week after Eric Reid, assistant superintendent, compiled a rough estimate of just how much…
TOPEKA — Westar Energy has filed a request to raise its prices by about $17.4 million, which would raise the average residential bill in Kansas by about $1.54 per month. Westar spokeswoman Gina Penzig says the company filed the request with the Kansas Corporation Commission to recover costs that weren’t available when last year’s full price was conducted. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the bulk of the $17.4 million request is related to environmental upgrades at power plants, primarily in the LaCygne Generation Station, to meet federal requirements. Other costs include $6.5 million used to make investments in the grid design…
WICHITA — More than twice as many Kansas voters are now casting ballots at early polling sites across Kansas, compared to the last presidential election. The latest figures from the Kansas Secretary of State’s office show 67,211 people voted in-person as of 8 a.m. Thursday more than double the 33,832 who did so at that point in the 2014 election. Mail-in ballots are going out at roughly the same pace, with 173,893 mail-in ballots sent out since Oct. 19 across the state. Johnson County Election Commissioner Ronnie Metzger says they have broken all-time records every day since in-person voting began Monday.…
Today’s guests were Ken Woods from the Kansas Regenerative Medicine Center and Pawnee Mental Health Executive Director Robbin Cole. Ken Woods: Robbin Cole:
Officers with the Riley County Police Department arrested Tieler Reeves, 19, of Westmoreland, Kansas on October 26, 2016, at approximately 10:00 AM. Reeves was arrested on the offense of probation violation and given a bond of $10,000.00. The original offense listed on this warrant was conspiracy to commit aggravated robbery. Reeves was confined at the Riley County Jail at the time of this report. This arrest took place in the 800 block of Church Ave. in Manhattan. Jeffrey Hughes, 43, of Manhattan, was arrested while at the Riley County Police Department on October 27, 2016, at approximately 1:30 AM. Hughes…
October sales tax numbers for the city of Manhattan were impressive and described as “good” by City Finance Director Bernie Hayen. $970,635 were collected compared to $892,303 last year at the same time. That’s still lower though than the more than one million dollars collected in October of 2013 and 2014. It’s $74,219 more than budgeted for this month. Hayen adds the October numbers actually reflect the amount collected in August. Accomodation and Food Services accounted for about two-thirds of the increase. And a payment from a cellular cable provider for $12,000 was a payment which did not appear last…