WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Authorities have booked into jail a 28-year-old man who has been identified as a person of interest in a sexually battery at a Wichita high school. The Wichita Eagle reports that the man is being held on suspicion of multiple charges, including sexual battery and criminal discharge of a firearm. Jail records show the man was booked into jail Wednesday and is being held on a $65,000 bond. Authorities began investigating in September after an 18-year-old student told administrators that a stranger approached her in Wichita East High School and asked her where the gym was located.…
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MCPHERSON, Kan. (AP) A Wichita businessman has established a $1 million endowment that will provide a new music series and a student scholarship at McPherson College. The Salina Journal reports that Steve Clark is using the endowment at the central Kansas school to honor his mother, Fern Lingenfelter. The music series will include two annual music performance events with special emphasis on piano. It will be followed by the creation of the Fern Lingenfelter Scholarship in Music, an annual merit-based scholarship for one or more McPherson students majoring in music. Lingenfelter earned a certificate in piano in 1924, a bachelor…
LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) An interactive video game has been developed to train Army command teams on how to respond to accusations of sexual harassment and sexual assault. ELITE SHARP CTT was introduced for Army use earlier this month. Army members can download the game for free. The Leavenworth Times reports the game was developed with help from the Games for Training Program at Fort Leavenworth. Maj. Greg Pavlichko, who heads the program, acknowledges some of the language in the interactive game is colorful, but says that makes the game more realistic. Lt. Col. Jeff Bevington says officials involved with the…
Officers with the Riley County Police Department arrested Jesus Martinez-Rubio, 23, of Park City, Kansas on April 20, 2016 at approximately 12:00 PM. Martinez-Rubio was arrested on a warrant for the offense of failure to appear with an original offense of driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol. He was given a bond of $6,000.00 and at the time of this report was no longer confined at the Riley County Jail. He was arrested while at the Riley County Police Department. Brandon Mechels, 21, of Manhattan, Kansas was arrested while in the 2400 block of Seth Child Road on…
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) has issued a boil water advisory for the University Park Water District public water supply located in Riley County. KDHE officials issued the advisory because of a loss of pressure. Failure to maintain adequate pressure may result in a loss of chlorine residuals and bacterial contamination. The advisory took effect on April 20 and will remain in effect until conditions which place the system at risk of contamination are deemed by KDHE officials to be adequately resolved. Customers should observe the following precautions until further notice: Boil water for one minute prior…
The Manhattan-Ogden Board of Education met on Wednesday night in the midst of some negative news. Earlier that afternoon the Governor’s office announced a revenue shortfall totalling $290 million dollars. Coincidentally, the board would be speaking about budget matters with a report from Lew Faust, Director of Business Services. As reported by Faust, the district could possibly be relying on the taxpayers more than ever. The Governor’s office released three different proposals, which include ideas such as another drastic cut to highway spending along with more cuts to higher education. Faust also flirted with the idea of HB 2741, which is…
TOPEKA — A new fiscal forecast for Kansas has slashed the state’s projected tax collections by $348 million for the current and next fiscal years. The new forecast drafted Wednesday would leave the state with budget shortfalls totaling more than $290 million. The figures were included in documents prepared by legislative researchers ahead of a Wednesday evening Statehouse news conference and obtained by The Associated Press from another source. The forecasters reduced the projection for total tax collections for the current fiscal year by $177 million, or 2.9 percent, to about $5.86 billion. They also cut the estimate for the…
Two female students have sued Kansas State University, alleging it has refused to investigate their rapes at off-campus fraternity houses. The two civil rights lawsuits filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Kansas contend the university’s practice endangers students and violates federal law by creating a hostile learning environment for victims. Kansas State declined to comment. The suits say Kansas State is under a federal Title IX investigation. The students’ attorney, Cari Simon, says the U.S. Department of Education has said schools have an obligation to respond to such complaints, even if they occur off campus. She says Kansas State’s…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Police are looking for a woman who they say stole a purse from another woman who had collapsed and died before entering a Wichita building. According to authorities, a woman in her 50s was about to walk into the Inter-Faith Villa Courts building around 7:15 a.m. Saturday, when she died of natural causes. Police say that about 15 minutes later, a woman in her mid-20s walked around her body and stole her purse. Wichita police Sgt. Nikki Woodrow said Tuesday that when first responders arrived at the scene, a person told authorities about the theft. Woodrow says…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A Topeka city councilman charged with child abuse is resigning from the City Council. Jonathan Robert Schumm announced during a council meeting Tuesday that his resignation would be effective noon Wednesday. He said he is leaving his position to best serve his family’s needs and to honor an agreement he reached with the Shawnee County District Attorney’s office. Schumm and his wife, Allison Nicole Schumm, are charged with one criminal count each of aggravated battery and four counts of endangering a child. Court records show that Jonathan Schumm is accused of choking a child and threatening to…