OLATHE, Kan. (AP) Police in northeast Kansas are investigating why a woman smashed her car into a payday loan store, pinning an employee behind a desk. KCTV reports the incident happened around 10 a.m. Thursday at Ameribest Payday Loans and Check Cashing, located in a strip mall in the city of Olathe. Police said the 65-year-old driver was trying to park her car but instead crashed through the store’s front window and an interior wall. A female employee suffered an ankle injury and was briefly pinned by her desk and debris. She was taken to a hospital to be checked.…
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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) CareFusion Corp. has agreed to pay $40.1 million to settle allegations it paid kickbacks and promoted its medical technology products for uses not approved by the Food and Drug Administration. The Justice Department announced the settlement Thursday with the California-based company of a whistleblower lawsuit unsealed in U.S. District Court in Kansas. The deal also resolves claims that CareFusion paid more than $11.6 million in kickbacks to a physician who co-chaired the Safe Practices Committee at the National Quality Forum, a nonprofit group that recommends health care practices. Dr. Cynthia Kirk, a former CareFusion vice president, initially…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Federal prosecutors in Kansas have filed so many firearms cases that the Midwestern farm state ranked third last year among the 94 judicial districts nationwide in the number of gun prosecutions. U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom says in a news release Thursday that his office prosecuted 298 firearms cases in 2013, up from 291 the previous year, when the District of Kansas also ranked third. The Kansas district led the nation in federal firearms prosecutions in 2011 with 279 cases. Only Puerto Rico and the Western District of Missouri prosecuted more firearms cases in 2013. Federal statutes prohibit…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) A northeast Kansas woman has pleaded guilty to trying to drown her two young daughters in a bathtub. The Kansas City Star reports Johnna Green, 24, of Kansas City, Kan., entered the pleas Thursday to two counts of attempted second-degree murder. Wyandotte County prosecutors initially charged her with attempted first-degree murder. Green called 911 last April 2 saying she had just killed her daughters, ages 1 and 4, by drowning them because they were sick. The dispatcher told her to take the girls out of the bathtub, and a police officer who found them unconscious on…
SALINA, Kan. (AP) A man is planning to offer rides from Salina to Denver for people who want to buy legal marijuana. Bart Allen says he hopes to drive a 12-passenger Mercedes van for Saturday overnight trips to Denver, beginning this weekend. He says his target customers will be people 45 or older who want to learn whether the drug could help them ease medical conditions. The Salina Journal reports Allen says his passengers will tour marijuana dispensaries (at least one marijuana dispensary and grow site), and then enjoy a night out in Denver before returning on Sunday. Allen said…
More than 15,000 Illinois residents have applied for concealed carry permits in the first 72 hours Illinois State Police began accepting applications. Chicago officials worry about having enough resources for the background checks
The White House and Congress debated how the U.S. could help end recent Al-Qaida linked violence in Iraq on Thursday. Meanwhile, the bloodshed continues after a suicide bombing kills at least 21 people in Baghdad.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A Wichita man is charged with second-degree murder after a police chase led to an accident that killed a 34-year-old woman. Prosecutors on Wednesday charged Javier Rizo (23) in the Oct. 27 death of Maria Martinez. She was in a vehicle that was hit by a van allegedly driven by RIzo while it was fleeing from police. Investigators say the van ran a stop sign and hit Martinez’s vehicle. The van drove away. Rizo was arrested on Sunday after police received an anonymous tip. Other people in the van had already been arrested Rizo is being held in…
MULVANE, Kan. (AP) Two Mulvane High School students are charged with criminal threat after they allegedly made threats on social media to “shoot up” the high school. Mulvane Police Chief Don Williams says the two were arrested Monday morning before school started. Someone who saw the threats on Twitter notified authorities. Williams says the students told officers they were joking and had no plans to harm anyone. He says the students didn’t have any weapons when they were arrested. District spokesman Tom Keil says school proceeded normally after officers determined the school was safe.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Researchers at Wichita State University predict Kansas will see slightly higher job growth in 2014 than it did last year. A forecast issued Wednesday by the Center for Economic Development and Business Research predicts Kansas employment will increase by 1.4 percent this year, with a gain of 18,000 jobs. By sector, professional and business services are expected to see the biggest increase at 3.3 percent, with more than 5,300 new jobs. The education and health services sector is second with anticipated growth of 2.7 percent, or roughly 5,100 jobs. A net loss of 700 jobs is forecast…