A Topeka man faces sentencing April 11 for sex trafficking in a case involving Junction City and Manhattan. Reginald Newman, 29, pleaded guilty in early February. His wife Tiara Jade Newman, 22, also of Topeka, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to committing sex trafficking. In her plea, she admitted that on March 21, 2015, she and her husband took a 17-year-old girl from Topeka to Junction City for the purpose of prostitution. The Newmans rented two rooms at a Value Place motel in Junction City. The rooms — one room for performing commercial sex acts and the other…
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Following a national search, Kansas State University has named Peter K. Dorhout as vice president for research. Dorhout has served as the interim vice president for research since January. He will continue to lead the university’s research, scholarship, creative activities and discovery programs as they align with the goals of K-State 2025 strategic plan. “Peter Dorhout has been an effective leader and collaborator at Kansas State University,” said President Kirk Schulz. “His comprehensive understanding of the challenges researchers encounter along with his strategic vision of increasing research at a land-grant university will continue to move Kansas State University forward to…
WICHITA — A government report shows Kansas farmers are planning to plant a whole lot more corn this year. The National Agricultural Statistics Service reported Thursday that Kansas growers intend to plant 4.8 million acres of corn. That is a 16 percent jump from a year ago. Its prospective plantings report shows farmers are seeding fewer acres of the state’s other major crops. The 8.5 million acres of winter wheat planted last fall for harvest later this year are down 8 percent from the previous season. Soybean planted acres are down just 1 percent to 3.85 million acres compared to a year…
OTTAWA — Jurors have recommended the death penalty for an eastern Kansas man convicted of killing four people, including a toddler. The Franklin County jury recommended the sentence Thursday for 30-year-old Kyle Flack, who was convicted last week of capital murder in the deaths of 21-year-old Kaylie Bailey and her 18-month-old daughter, Lana. He also was convicted of premeditated first-degree murder for killing 31-year-old Steven White and second-degree murder for killing 30-year-old Andrew Stout. They were killed on separate days in the spring of 2013 near a rural farmhouse where Flack sometimes stayed in Ottawa, about 50 miles southwest of Kansas City.…
Thursday’s guest were: Michelle Haub and Anne Harts of Meadowlark Hills in Manhattan on Parkinson’s month Phil Anderson regarding the finished Manhattan bridge pier welcome sign project
A teen suspect in an attempted murder case in Pottawatomie County entered pleas of no contest Thursday to attempted second degree murder, discharge of a firearm at an occupied vehicle, and criminal possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Dakota Fair’s charges involve the shooting of Tyrel Britton, 23, in late December on Mt. Zion Road in rural St. George. Fair’s sentencing is set for May 19th. Britton was flown to Topeka for medical treatment following the shooting but survived his injuries. Law enforcement officials at the time indicated Fair was believed to have fired a gun from the…
OLATHE — Authorities have arrested a suspect in a fatal shooting outside a bar in the Kansas City suburb of Olathe. Police said in a news release that a 38-year-old man was shot late Wednesday at the Double Nickel Bar & Grill and died at the scene. The man’s name wasn’t immediately released. Police say the 28-year-old male suspect was taken into custody near the area. Authorities are urging anyone with information to come forward.
BAZAAR — Kansas has been gearing up for the 85th anniversary of the central Kansas plane crash that killed Notre Dame football legend Knute Rockne and seven other people. The Wichita Eagle that buses will transport people Saturday to the site of the wreckage near the small town of Bazaar. The Flint Hills site is marked with a marble-and-limestone monument. A morning ceremony will include a flyover, a moment of silence and the playing of bagpipes. After the ceremony, there will be a program at the Bazaar Schoolhouse that will include a talk about Rockne. His death at age 43 at the…
Ryan King, 22, of Manhattan was arrested on Wednesday at approximately 9:20 p.m. while in the 800 block of Bertrand Street following a drug investigation. King was arrested on the offenses of distributing marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia to grow or manufacture, unlawful possession of a hallucinogenic drug, possession of drug paraphernalia. He was given a bond of $20,000 and at the time of this report was no longer confined at the Riley County Jail. This arrest stemmed from a drug investigation which led to a search warrant of 823 Bertrand Street. Officers with the Riley County Police Department took…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A Navy veteran seeking to get five of his children back from state custody in Kansas says his use of medical marijuana to treat PTSD not the family’s past scrapes with the law prompted the state’s action. The case originated in Riley County. Raymond Schwab has campaigned on the Statehouse steps to get his children back, and drawn national attention as medical marijuana proponents describe the case as an example of government overreach. The Schwabs declined to name who it was that reported them, but someone took their children to the police in Riley County, saying they…