WICHITA — The Latest on the shooting of a Department of Revenue employee in Wichita: 3:55 p.m. The Kansas Department of Revenue says the man accused of shooting a seizure agent at its office in Wichita has two tax warrants totaling almost $400,000 related to his construction business. Police have identified the suspect as 51-year-old Ricky Wirths of Wichita. He is accused of shooting Cortney Holloway at the office in Wichita on Tuesday afternoon. Holloway is in stable condition. The tax warrants were filed in June against Wirths and his company Rick Wirths Construction. One warrant is for $196,455.46 in…
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For the second consecutive week, a Kansas State women’s soccer student-athlete has received the Big 12 Freshman of the Week award as the league office announced Hannah Davis as the honoree. Davis follows her teammate Brookelynn Entz who earned the program’s first league weekly honor on Sept. 12. That’s according to a release from K-State Athletics. Davis finished the week with a combined four points, scoring one goal and adding two assists. Davis has tied the school record held by Tatum Wagner for consecutive matches with a point at four straight games. The forward from Lincoln, Nebraska, broke through to…
Riley County Police have announced a missing 15-year-old from Ogden. Calob Haymond reportedly went missing from Salina Sunday afternoon at about 4:30. Calob, who is from Ogden, was taken to Salina on Friday by his family and dropped off at a friend’s house to spend the weekend. He and a friend were reportedly out walking and his last known location was in the Walmart area in south Salina. Calob is 5’9,” weighs 155 pounds, and has dark blonde hair dyed light pink, with hazel eyes. He was last known to be wearing a dark grey Pac-Man t-shirt and black athletic…
The Manhattan City Commission reviewed recommendations Tuesday contained in the latest draft of the Flint Hills/Fort Riley Joint Land Use Study. One such recommendation involves noise produced by Fort Riley and how it impacts potential home buyers close to the installation. Specifically, Fort Riley and the City of Manhattan have suggested a solution that ties noise disclosures to real estate transactions near post. Should the solution be implemented, the noise disclosure would automatically pop up in a title search. Another recommendation calls for the retooling of the study’s technical working group into an implementation committee, which Project Manager, Ray Greer…
A 55-year-old Kansas Department of Corrections inmate serving time on Geary County murder and rape charges apparently has been passed over for parole this time around. Oliver Smith, who was sentenced in 1989 in connection with 1986 cases, faced public comment sessions in July with a parole hearing held last month. The latest information from the KDOC indicates Smith’s earliest possible release date is November of next year. Smith is currently being held at the Hutchinson Correctional Facility.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is facing criticism for using a private email account for business associated with his work as vice chairman of President Donald Trump’s commission on election fraud. The Kansas City Star reports that a Kansas Press Association leader and a media attorney are questioning whether Kobach is flouting a year-old state law. It makes public officials’ emails about public business subject to disclosure under the Kansas Open Records Act even if they are on private accounts or devices. Kobach told the investigative site ProPublica last week that it would be a…
Today’s guests on In Focus were Manhattan Mayor Linda Morse and City Manager Ron Fehr.
LEAVENWORTH — A spokesman says Tyson Foods Inc. is evaluating its options after local official backed away from offering a key incentive for a planned chicken-processing plant in northeast Kansas. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Tyson spokesman Worth Sparkman said the company was disappointed in the Leavenworth County Commission’s decision Monday. The commission voted 2-1 to rescind a previous resolution in favor of issuing $500 million in industrial revenue bonds to help finance the project. The resolution would have made the project eligible for an 80 percent property-tax reduction. The commission’s vote came three days after a town hall meeting…
WICHITA — A patient of a psychiatrist stabbed to death in the alley behind his holistic practice in Kansas has been charged with first-degree murder. Twenty-one-year-old Umar Dutt made his first court appearance Monday in the Sept. 13 death of Achutha Reddy at the Holistic Psychiatry Services clinic in Wichita. He is being held on a $1 million bond. KAKE-TV reports that his attorney Kurt Kerns says the case is complex and sad. An attorney for Dutt’s family released a statement offering their condolences to the doctor’s family for their loss. Raj and Azra Dutt say their family has also…
An October first deadline for the Riley County Police department’s workers’ compensation self-insurance certificate renewal is quickly approaching–which has RCPD Director Brad Schoen concerned. Schoen told the Riley County Law Board Monday “time is running short.” Schoen and RCPD legal counsel Mike Gillespie stressed continued requests from state officials have made the process much more difficult this time around. Now local legislators have been asked to assist with a meeting involving the Secretary of Labor later this week… The law board approved a resolution and funding agreement recommended by Gillespie and RCPD Director Brad Schoen–which will also be considered later this…