HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) A former volunteer firefighter has been sentenced to a year of probation for setting three Reno County grass fires amid severe drought last fall. The Hutchinson News reports Cody Knox, 19, apologized Friday in Reno County District Court. Knox was initially charged with setting 14 grass fires from Oct. 16 to Nov. 27, 2012. Prosecutors dropped 11 counts last month in exchange for his guilty pleas to three of the charges. Knox used a cigarette lighter to set the fires, all of which occurred near Arlington. No structures, fences or livestock were threatened. At the time of the…
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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A Wichita chiropractor has been charged with carrying out a $1.3 million health care fraud scheme. The U.S. attorney’s office says Jeffrey D. Fenn, 32, of Wichita, surrendered his license Friday, the same day a federal indictment was unsealed. The 26-count indictment alleges that Fenn submitted false claims to Medicare and other health care benefit providers for services that were medically unnecessary or were never performed. Fenn is also accused of evading taxes by overstating his business deductions by $367,000 in 2011. He’s also charged with identity theft and 16 counts of money laundering. Online court records…
Bay Area rapid transit authorities and striking workers both made offers late Friday they said had a single aim: get trains running again.
The appointment of a special prosecutor in a high-profile sexual assault case in Missouri is expected to give the case a fresh start. AP does not generally name victims of sexual assault, but the alleged victim’s family has granted interviews.
Updated at 3:30 p.m. Saturday A Randolph teenager died and two other teens were injured in a one-vehicle accident that occurred at approximately 2:30 Saturday morning near Leonardville. 17-year old Trevor Redding of Randolph, a senior at Blue Valley High School died in the accident. The other teens involved have been identified as 19-year old Garrett Olson of Leonardville and 17-year old Lane Howe of Riley. Both were transported to Mercy Regional Health Center in Manhattan, their conditions were not available. According to the crash report from the Kansas Highway Patrol, Olson was driving a 1990 Honda Accord Eastbound on…
The Tribe defeated Topeka High Friday night 22-7, gaining another Centennial League championship and ending Topeka High’s undefeated season.
The Associated Press ATCHISON, Kan. — The fractured board of directors of MGP Ingredients in Atchison can hold a long-delayed stockholders meeting, which had been put off by a fight over the company’s future, the Kansas Court of Appeals ruled. The appeals court this week lifted a stay it had placed on the stockholders meeting in August. The meeting will be allowed as of Tuesday, although no meeting has been scheduled, The Atchison Globe reported. The court did not set a deadline for scheduling the meeting. Six MGP board members and the company’s President and CEO, Tim Newkirk, are trying…
On September 3rd, police were contacted by the family of David Welch and were informed that he had not returned home after leaving on the evening of September 2nd. State and other local law enforcement agencies were notified and a missing persons report was filed on September 6th. The Riley County Police Department was contacted Friday (10/18) by the Utah Highway Patrol in reference to a single vehicle, fatality accident involving a maroon Pontiac Montana van Welch was last seen driving. Utah Highway Patrol positively identify the deceased driver as missing Manhattan resident David Welch. The accident occurred on I-70,…
President Barack Obama on Friday nominated the Pentagon’s former top lawyer to run the Department of Homeland Security.
Jonathan Corpina, left, talks with fellow trader Dan Ryan on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Friday, Oct. 18, 2013. Stronger economic growth in China and a pickup in U.S. corporate earnings helped the stock market finish 28 points higher in Friday trading. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)