WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Reports of shots fired at a Kansas sheriff’s deputy brings 30 squad cars to the scene where investigators discover the sound was actually an electrical transformer blowing. The Wichita Eagle reports dozens of officers responded to a call about a Sedgwick County deputy in trouble in west Wichita on Wednesday afternoon. Police set up a perimeter and closed parts of two streets in their search for a shooting suspect. Sedgwick County Sheriff Jeff Easter says the deputy was standing with her back to a transformer at 3:06 p.m. and felt a concussion after hearing what sounded like…
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KIOWA, Kan. (AP) – Authorities estimate that a wildfire has burned 625 square miles in Oklahoma and Kansas. Preliminary estimates from the Oklahoma Forestry Services say about 220 square miles have burned in Oklahoma and 405 square miles in Kansas. The worst damage in Kansas is in Barber and Comanche counties, where the fire continues to burn Thursday. Forestry Services spokeswoman Michelle Finch-Walker says crews are surveying the wildfire by aircraft Thursday morning and more concrete numbers will be available once that’s complete. An emergency management official said earlier Thursday that the fire had burned more than 300 square miles in southern Kansas.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Top Republican lawmakers hope to pass a school funding plan that would avoid an increase in state spending while attempting to satisfy a Kansas Supreme Court order to help poor school districts. The Senate planned to debate a bill Thursday that redistributes about $83 million of the state’s $4 billion-plus in annual aid to its 286 school districts. If the measure passes the GOP-dominated Senate, the Republican-controlled House was expected to schedule a vote later Thursday. The measure shifts some of the $83 million to poor districts but also guarantees that no district sees a reduction in…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) A Kansas City, Kansas, man has admitted that he fatally shot a man who answered an online sex ad. The Kansas City Star reports that 24-year-old Ladarrious White pleaded guilty Tuesday in Wyandotte County to intentional second-degree murder. Prosecutors say White shot 31-year-old Jose Solis-Robles last October after the victim responded to an ad placed by White’s female companion, 25-year-old Kimberly Winn of Kansas City, Kansas. Winn pleaded no contest Tuesday and was found guilty of aggravated battery and promoting the sale of sexual relations. Charges of attempted aggravated robbery and a conspiracy count against White…
In this edition of In Focus, Cathy Dawes chats with Executive Director of Pawnee Mental Health, Robbin Cole; along with Lieutenant Colonel Robert Parish, Clinical Neuropsychologist and the Chief of the Traumatic Brain Injury clinic at Irwin Army Community Hospital.
Paul Meyer, 19, of Manhattan was arrested while at the Riley County Police Department on March 23, 2016 at approximately 11:50 AM. Meyer was arrested on a warrant for failure to appear with an original offense of aggravated assault. He was given a bond of $12,000.00 and at the time of this report was no longer confined at the Riley County Jail. Officers with the Riley County Police Department arrested Tyrell Scott, 23, of Wichita, Kansas on several warrants for probation violation (X4) and failure to appear (original offenses included no drivers license, aggravated escape from custody, possession of…
Lacee Sell has been named the Executive Director of Teaching and Learning for Manhattan-Ogden USD 383. Sell currently serves as the Superintendent of USD 473 in Chapman, KS. She has served in that position since 2011. Prior to that, she was Superintendent of Schools for Clinton County School District in Plattsburg, MO. She has also served as an assistant superintendent, principal and assistant principal for Oak Grove School District in Oak Grove, MO. She started her career as a special education teacher and coach in DeSoto and Prairie Village, KS. She has a B.S. in Education (K-12 SPED and K-12 PE) from Emporia State University, a M.S.…
KIOWA, Kan. (AP) Authorities say a wildfire in south-central Kansas still poses a threat but conditions are improving in the two counties most affected. Ben Bauman, director of public affairs for the Kansas Department of the Adjutant General, said in a statement early Thursday that the fires in Comanche County were under control. Fires in adjacent Barber County have improved but are still being monitored. Bauman says the fire went around the town of Medicine Lodge, where authorities had said earlier that up to 1,000 structures were threatened. One home and outbuilding were destroyed on the outskirts of town. The…
Two women were injured in a Wednesday evening accident in Riley County. Bonnie Turner, 53, of Joplin, Missouri and Bethany Thurston, 23, of Pittsburg, Kansas were both taken to Via Christi Hospital in Manhattan following the five p.m. accident on westbound I-70 near the Riley-Wabaunsee county line. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, Turner was driving a 2005 GMC Envoy westbound in the right lane when the vehicle left the north side of the roadway and overturned. Both women had seat belts on.
A Kansas Department of Corrections inmate serving more than 40 years in prison for Riley County convictions of second degree murder and rape has apparently been passed over for parole. 67 year old Danny Lee Sprecker, 67, was up for public comment sessions in January, but his current status just updated on the KDOC website indicates his earliest possible release date now is March first of 2021. Sprecker is being held at El Dorado. His crimes in Riley County occurred in May of 1973 for the murder and December of 1968 for the rape.