The Kansas Supreme Court will conduct a special evening session Sept. 24 at Manhattan High School in Manhattan as part of its ongoing outreach to familiarize Kansans with the high court, its work, and the overall role of the Kansas judiciary. According to a press release from the Office of Judicial Administration, the court will be in session from 6:30 p.m. to about 8 p.m. Monday, Sept. 24, in the Manhattan High School Auditorium at 2100 Poyntz Avenue. It will be the Supreme Court’s first visit to Manhattan in the court’s 157-year history, and it will be only the ninth…
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MINNEAPOLIS — A man from Maine will be sentenced in August after being found guilty of killing a Kansas man while on a cross-country trip. The Salina Journal reports 35-year-old Robert Colson, of Bucksport, Maine, was convicted Friday of killing Matthew Schoshke of Tescott in August 2017 during a burglary at Schoshke’s home. Prosecutors said Colson shot Schoshke five times before stealing his pickup, several other items and his dog. Colson drove to California, where he was arrested while trying to escape from an Amtrak train after a train passenger was stabbed. Prosecutors said Colson was on a bus trip…
MAYFIELD — Kansas farmers are harvesting a smaller winter wheat crop amid an ongoing drought, but the size of the crop is offset some by higher-quality wheat and rising prices. Kansas Wheat marketing director Aaron Harries says the state’s harvest is probably close to the halfway mark. The hot, dry weather this past week has created ideal harvest conditions. Yields are down but test weights are mostly good. Growers are also seeing higher protein levels in many loads, which leads to higher prices. Kansas is the nation’s leading wheat producer with a forecast of 270 million bushels, down 19 percent…
LAWRENCE — The Lawrence City Commission this week will again consider an ordinance creating a community police review board. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that the commission will meet Tuesday after multiple revisions aimed at ensuring the board would have sufficient access to police files and recordings. The proposal calls for the board to review racial and other bias complaints made against police when the person filing the complaint disagrees with the findings by the police department. Approval was delayed over concerns that the ordinance allows for the board to be denied access to the police investigation files and recordings. The…
Monday’s guests were McCain Auditorium Executive Director Todd Holmberg and Riley County Historical Museum Director Cheryl Collins.
LAWRENCE — Lawrence police say a Missouri man has been taken to jail on suspicion of indecent exposure after allegedly “mooning” officers who pulled him over in a traffic stop. The Lawrence Journal-World reports the incident happened Thursday in Lawrence. Lawrence Police Department spokeswoman Kim Murphree says officers initially pulled the 23-year-old Liberty resident over on suspicion of operating a vehicle under the influence and having an open container. She says he walked away from the vehicle to supposedly go to a gas station to relieve himself but instead stopped on the sidewalk and started yelling at officers and exposing…
TOPEKA — The Sierra Club has filed a lawsuit against the Kansas Department of Health and Environment challenging permits for a pork facility expansion. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the lawsuit filed Thursday alleges permits issued for the expansion of a Phillips County hog production facility violate state law and set a dangerous precedent by undermining protections for surface water. The department has decided to allow farmer Terry Nelson to subdivide his existing swine breeding operation into two limited-liability companies, Husky Hogs and Prairie Dog Pork. The lawsuit accuses the department of authorizing Nelson to elude limits on the number…
ARKANSAS CITY — Fire investigators are trying to determine what caused a fire at a group home for the developmentally disabled adults that left one person dead. The fire broke out Thursday afternoon at an Easterseals Capper home in Arkansas City. Fire Chief Bobby Wolfe says rescuers were able to pull one person out of the home but that person later died. Wolfe says investigators will use an arson dog but there are no early indications that the fire was set intentionally. One firefighter was treated and released at a hospital for injuries from the fire. State fire officials are…
WICHITA — Wichita police have arrested a father and son who allegedly rammed a pickup truck into a Wichita bingo hall and stole an ATM. Officer Charley Davidson said two of three suspects were arrested Wednesday. Officers responding to the Bingo Casino in south Wichita early Monday found the front door shattereds and the ATM gone. Surveillance video showed three people arriving at the business in a white truck. Two of the suspects broke the front windows and then put a tow cable around an ATM. The truck backed into the business and pulled the ATM through the doors. The…
Country Stampede is set to start Thursday, June 21, and Tuttle Creek Lake officials are offering tips to help event attendees find their way. There are multiple construction projects obstructing popular routes to the state park. Through traffic to the event grounds from the west entrance off of Highway 24 is blocked by work on the stilling basin. Access to Dyer Road is also cut off from eastbound Highway 13 traffic crossing the dam due to bridge construction at the spillway. “So far we’re working through those and the general public is starting to adapt to that fairly well,” Tuttle…