LAWRENCE – A Kansas man has been ordered to spend more than 15 years in prison for abandoning his infant stepdaughter in an apartment complex trash compactor. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that 28-year-old Marquis Young was sentenced Friday in Douglas County. That’s where he pleaded no contest in May to reduced charges of aggravated battery and child abuse. He initially was charged with attempted first-degree murder after the baby was found in July 2016 in the trash bin. The then-9-month-old suffered two skull fractures but has recovered. Young’s wife has testified she went to spend the night with friends after…
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ATCHISON – Authorities are investigating the crash of a P-51 Mustang that killed two people. Authorities say the plane crashed around 10:30 a.m. Sunday about 60 miles northwest of Kansas City in Atchison County, Kansas. The pilot and a passenger both died in the crash. The victims have been identified by the Kansas Highway Patrol as Bethany Root, 34, of Atchison, who was the General Manager of the Atchison Airport and Vlado Lenoch, 64, of Burr Ridge Illinois, who piloted one of the planes in the Amelia Earhart festival Saturday. Lt. Bryce Whelply of the Kansas High Patrol says the cause…
A Junction City man died in a Clay County accident Sunday. James Jenkins, 29, was driving a Chevrolet Impala eastbound on K-82 at the west end of the Milford Lake causeway when he drove off the north edge of the roadway and rolled down the embankment. The Kansas Highway Patrol reports the accident occurred at 3:10 a.m. Sunday. Jenkins was not wearing a seat belt. And in an un-related accident on the Kansas Turnpike Saturday, a 75-year-old Manhattan man was injured. According to the Kansas Turnpike Authority, Duane McKinney was eastbound at about milepost 195 near Lecompton and started to…
The welcome home ceremony for Fort Riley’s 1st Infantry Division’s headquarters was held Friday night. As reported previously by KMAN, more than 150 soldiers were formally welcomed home and reunited with loved ones and Big Red One leaders also uncased the division’s colors, signifying the completion of the unit’s deployment to Iraq. This group is part of over 300 soldiers with the 1st Infantry Division headquarters stationed in Iraq and Kuwait who are expected to return this month.
KANSAS CITY, Kansas-The second trial of a man charged with fatally shooting a 22-year-old woman in Kansas City, Kansas, has ended in another hung jury. Wyandotte County jurors deadlocked Thursday after hearing the case against 29-year-old Antoine Fielder. He is charged with murder in the June 2015 shooting death of Kelsey Ewonus. The single mother of a 1-year-old son was found in a car parked a few blocks north of the University of Kansas Hospital. Kansas Department of Corrections records show Fielder was paroled from prison in 2014 after serving time on drug sale charges. No decision has been made…
KANSAS CITY, Kansas-Authorities say the death toll has grown to four from a stolen vehicle crash in Kansas City, Kansas, that ended with a survivor taking a vehicle from a good Samaritan. Police identified the fourth victim in a new release Thursday as 18-year-old Cory Thornburgh, of Shawnee. Also killed in Sunday’s crash was 20-year-old Cameron Shafer, of Kansas City, Kansas, 20-year-old Hayden Gottman, of Lenexa, and 18-year-old Joshua Lindsey, of Overland Park. Thornburgh and Shafer died at a hospital, while the other two died at the crash scene. Police said that when a motorist stopped to help, a surviving…
Today’s guests on In Focus included Geary County Sheriff Tony Wolf, US Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas, and Manhattan Regional Airport Director Jesse Romo. Wolf: Roberts: Romo:
LEAVENWORTH-Police say a suspect was fatally shot in northeast Kansas as an officer was investigating a vehicle theft. Leavenworth police Chief Patrick Kitchens says the officer had responded Tuesday night to the theft report. The officer was at the scene about 10 minutes before reporting that shots had been fired. Kitchens says other officers then responded and that the suspect was pronounced dead. Kitchens provided no other details, including the name and race of the suspect. He directed further questions to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, which is reviewing the shooting. A KBI spokeswoman said in an email that the…
EL DORADO-Authorities say a third-grade Wichita teacher has been arrested on suspicion of being a drug dealer after a two-month investigation. The Wichita Eagle (http://bit.ly/2tLYZBG ) reports that records show the 48-year-old teacher was booked into the Sedgwick County Jail on Tuesday. Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Lt. Lin Dehning says she was arrested on suspicion of seven counts of cocaine distribution. She is being held on $57,500 bond. Wichita School District spokeswoman Susan Arensman says she is a teacher at Enders Open Magnet Elementary School. The school’s website lists her as a third-grade teacher there.
Today’s guests on In Focus were both from Fort Riley. Our first guest was Sports Program Coordinator Reed Scott and Anit-Terrorism Officer Patrick Burch.