After being found guilty of first degree murder in 2012, the man convicted of killing his girlfriend and one year old son will appeal his life sentence. According to media reports out of Topeka, Luis Aguirre appealed his sentence, saying the judge should have suppressed his statements to police after he was read his Miranda Rights. The murders happened back in September of 2009. Reports indicate the bodies were buried in a shallow grave near Ogden. Aguirre’s hearing is set for Tuesday at the Kansas Judicial Center.
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NEWTON, Kan. (AP) A Kansas man is accused of breaking into a home and grabbing a 3-year-old child before police wrestled the intruder away. The Hutchinson News reports an officer confronted the suspect around 11 p.m. Thursday in the south-central city of Newton. The suspect and the officer were both injured in a scuffle.
On today’s In Focus, Cathy talked to Riley County Extension Agriculture Agent, Greg McClure; Riley County Senior Service Center Assistant Director, Susan Peterson; and Executive Director of Konza United Way, Lee Ann Smith Desper.
This image provided by NASA shows Hurricane Gonzalo taken at 2:45 p.m. EDT by NASA’s Aqua satellite. Gonzalo was expected to pass within 29 miles (46 kilometers) of Bermuda on Friday night, close enough to be considered a direct hit, the Bermuda Weather Service warned. Gonzalo is a Category 4 storm late Thursday with top sustained winds of 140 mph (220 kph). It was centered about 340 miles (545 kilometers) south-southwest of Bermuda and was moving north-northeast at 14 mph (22 kph), the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry, left, whispers to Dr. Brett Giroir, director of the blue-ribbon task force Perry assembled to tackle Ebola and other infectious diseases, during a news conference to discuss Texas’ Ebola prevention efforts, Friday, Oct. 17, 2014, in Austin, Texas. Perry has joined calls for an air travel ban from countries hit the hardest by Ebola.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A Kansas man is going to prison for stealing more than $50,000 from a 75-year-old disabled woman. The Sedgwick County district attorney’s office said Friday that 35-year-old Jeremy Glenn, of Mulvane, was sentenced this week to slightly more than three years behind bars. Glenn pleaded no contest to felony theft and possession of methamphetamine. Authorities said Glenn stole from the woman after offering to help clean her home in Derby. He used checks and her ATM card to access her accounts. The sentence requires Glenn to repay $21,000 to the victim and $32,000 to Morgan Stanley for…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A Kansas National Guard member will be honored next week for helping save a woman from a burning house in Wichita two years ago. Tech. Sgt. Shawn A. Rucker will receive the Airman’s Medal from Maj. Gen. Lee Tafanelli, the Kansas adjutant general. The ceremony will take place Monday at McConnell Air Force Base. Rucker serves with the Guard’s 184th Intelligence Wing. Officials say he was driving home the night of Nov. 24, 2012, when he noticed a large plume of smoke and followed it to a house partly engulfed in flames. Two people were on the…
The Game is live in Norman, Oklahoma with John Kurtz and Corey Dean. WWE Hall of Famer Jim Ross kicks off the show. Bold Predictions and You Can’t Be Serious in the 2nd hour. There is a lot of KSU/OU talk.
Unemployment numbers for September show a decrease in all Manhattan area cities and counties. Numbers released Friday indicate the Manhattan metro area, which includes Riley, Pottawatomie, and Geary Counties, with a four percent unemployment rate last month, compared to 4.7 percent in August and five percent in September of last year. The city of Manhattan by itself had a 3.5 percent rate, compared to 4.1 in both August and September of last year. Junction City had a 5.2 percent rate, compared to 5.6 in August and 6.5 in September of last year. Area county rates for September were 3.6 percent…
The Kansas Court of Appeals has affirmed a Riley County Court decision in a wrongful death and medical negligence lawsuit involving a former doctor at Mercy Regional Health Center. The Higher Court found the local district court, with Judge John Bosch presiding, did not err in granting summary judgment in favor of Dr. William Freund, who was a cardiologist at the medical facility during 2008. The case in question involved Ruth Howe, 80, who was admitted to Mercy Regional in February of 2008. She died after having a procedure done, known as an electrocardioversion and shortly after suffered a stroke and died. But…