The St. Louis Cardinals and the Boston Red Sox are ready to renew their October rivalry in the World Series. This is the fourth time the Cardinals and Red Sox have met in the World Series.
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Hurricane Raymond weakened to Category 1 on Tuesday and began slowly drifting away from Mexico’s already storm-battered Pacific coast, but heavy rain continued to fall on a region that is already saturated from recent storms.
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) Police in Lawrence say a male pedestrian has died after being hit by a freight train. 6News Lawrence reports officers were called to the scene in the Burcham Park area at mid-afternoon Tuesday. Sgt. Trent McKinley says the adult male was hit by a Burlington Northern Santa Fe train. He was placed in an ambulance but died before reaching a hospital. The man’s name was not immediately released. Police say there is no pedestrian or roadway crossing where the accident happened. Personnel from BNSF are helping in the investigation.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) The operators of a Wichita restaurant have been indicted on federal charges of employing people who are in the country unlawfully. The U.S. Attorney’s office says Yong Lin, 33, and his wife, Zhuo Mei Weng, 29, were arrested Tuesday. They were booked into the Sedgwick County Jail and are scheduled to have initial court appearances Wednesday. Prosecutors brought the case after federal agents and Wichita police searched the couple’s World Buffet Grill and three west Wichita apartments. The indictment had been sealed since it was filed Sept. 11. Lin and Weng are charged with conspiracy and harboring…
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) Hutchinson police say a couple has killed a kitten by taking turns throwing it against doors and walls. Det. Curtis Black said the suspects were upset that the 5-month-old yellow tabby kept “using the restroom inside.” The Hutchinson News reports that authorities found the dead kitten in the couple’s home Saturday while responding to a disturbance. The animal’s body was taken from the home for a necropsy to be performed. The couple was arrested and released on bond.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A woman has been arrested after her young child was found wandering in southeast Wichita. Lt. Doug Nolte said Monday that a neighbor called 911 on Sunday night to report that a 4-year-old boy was walking into the street and crying for his mother. The Wichita Eagle reports that officers found the child’s mother passed out on couch in an apartment with an open front door. Nolte says the woman had drunk a large amount of alcohol. Officers took the woman into custody on an outstanding warrant and for suspicion of child endangerment. The boy was placed…
ANDOVER, Kan. (AP) A parolee suspected in recent burglaries has been found in a south-central Kansas pond days after a police chase. KWCH reports that Nicholas Vampran had recently been paroled after serving four years for several crimes, including burglary. On Wednesday, Derby Police chased the 35-year-old into southern Butler County, where he ditched a stolen pickup truck and ran into a field. His body was discovered Sunday in a pond and was identified Monday. An autopsy determined he drowned. Butler County Sheriff Kelly Herzet says he suspects Vampran was trying to hide from the tracking dogs in the water…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas Supreme Court is preparing to hear arguments on whether revisions made last month by the Legislature in the state’s “Hard 50” sentencing law should be applied retroactively. A judge sentenced Johnson County resident Dustin B. Hilt in 2010 to life in prison without the chance of parole for 50 years for the murder of a 19-year-old woman. Hilt’s lawyer will argue Tuesday that the sentence should be thrown out in light of revisions passed by the Legislature. The amended law requires juries rather than judges to decide whether to impose the minimum 50-year sentence. Hilt…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A judge is expected to consider whether to toss out a stalking case filed by a woman who opened Wichita’s first abortion clinic since Dr. George Tiller’s murder. The hearing Tuesday before Sedgwick County Judge James Beasley is the latest in a string of legal actions against abortion opponents since Tiller was gunned down in 2009 at his church. In March, clinic operator Julie Burkhart won a temporary order of protection against stalking against Mark Holick, pastor of Spirit One Christian Ministries in Wichita. Holick’s lawyer argues that if Burkhart succeeds, restraining orders will be sought against…
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) A Reno County judge has delayed a decision on a 14-year-old Hutchinson boy’s request to bar public access to court proceedings over the arson deaths of his mother and younger sister. The teen is charged with first-degree murder in the two deaths and the attempted murder of his father in the Sept. 26 fire at the family’s home. The state is seeking to prosecute him as an adult. Judge Patricia Macke Dick put off her ruling after a hearing Tuesday on a defense motion for an order to close hearings, seal the court record and impose a…