DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. (AP) In the nearly 40 years after he escaped from a Kansas military prison, convicted killer James Robert Jones carved out a new life for himself in Florida. He lived under an assumed name, got married and worked for an air conditioning company. But it all came to an end Thursday when Jones or Bruce Walter Keith, as the former Army private was known in Florida was recaptured with the help of facial-recognition software. Barry Golden of the U.S. Marshals Service said Friday that the first words out of Jones’ mouth were: “I knew this would catch…
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OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) Police in a northeast Kansas community are investigating a report of a sexual assault on an 11-year-old girl. Overland Park police said the incident was reported in an apartment complex shortly after 7 a.m. Friday while the girl was walking to a bus stop. Extra patrols were being conducted in the large Johnson County community in a search for the suspect, described as a white man in his 20s. He was reportedly wearing black clothing, with a surgical mask on his face and thick gardening gloves on his hands. Police did not release any other details…
LYNDON, Kan. (AP) A former Topeka man will be tried for the 2011 killing of another man whose head was severed in what witnesses described as a voodoo ritual. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports James Paul Harris (29) was bound over for trial following a hearing Friday in Osage County District Court. Harris is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Topeka resident James Gerety (50), who was reported missing in March 2011 by a law firm that handled his personal affairs. A mushroom hunter found Gerety’s partial remains a year later in the Osage County town of Carbondale. A…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas medical board plans to appeal a court order overturning its revocation of a doctor’s license over her referrals of young patients for late-term abortions. The State Board of Healing Arts made the decision Friday to take the case of Dr. Ann Kristin Neuhaus of Nortonville to the Kansas Court of Appeals. Shawnee County District Judge Franklin Theis last week said Neuhaus kept inadequate records but that the board failed to show that she provided inadequate mental health exams. Theis ordered the board to reconsider its revocation of Neuhaus’ charity-care license in 2012 over exams in…
A piece of Wamego history went up for auction Saturday. The Leach-Ditto home was built in 1890, with the second story addition completed in 1904. Over the years, the home saw many changes, once being converted into multiple apartments. Dr’s. Bill and Rose Ditto purchased the home in 1987 and completely renovated the home, keeping as much as the original as possible. The home is over 6,000 square feet, with 5 bedrooms and 4 1/2 baths, 4 garages, 4 gas fireplaces, a large family room all done in walnut. It is heated and cooled with 5 separate HVAC units. There are 70…
The Wamego Red Raiders Girls Basketball team will look for its second consecutive State Championship when they face Bishop Miege in the Class 4A Division I title game Saturday afternoon at the Bicentennial Center in Salina. Wamego (24-0) enters the game on a 39-game winning streak after Friday’s 52-39 victory over Kansas City Piper. Bishop Miege which has won double-digit State titles in Class 5A over the years, now in its first year in Class 4A reached the title game with a 64-52 win over Andover Central. The game can be heard on our sister station Hot Country B 104.7…
A demonstrator carries Russian and Ukrainian flags during a march to oppose president Vladimir Putin’s policies in Ukraine, in Moscow, Saturday, March 15, 2014. Large rival marches have taken place in Moscow over Kremlin-backed plans for Ukraine’s province of Crimea to break away and merge with Russia. More than 10,000 people turned out Saturday for a rally in the center of the city held to oppose what many demonstrators described as Russia’s invasion of the Crimean Peninsula. In a nearby location, a similar sized crowd voiced its support for Crimea’s ethnic Russian majority, who Moscow insists is at threat from…
A woman writes on a board of messages and well wishes dedicated to people involved with the missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner MH370, Saturday, March 15, 2014 in Sepang, Malaysia. A Malaysian passenger jet missing for more than a week had its communications deliberately disabled and its last signal came about seven and a half hours after takeoff, meaning it could have ended up as far as Kazakhstan or deep in the southern Indian Ocean, Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak said Saturday.
Levi MaVorhis threw a complete game, two-hit shutout to lead K-State to a 10-0 win over Northern Colorado. The win is K-State’s eighth in a row, and the two-hitter was the first at K-State since Chase Mitchell two-hit Kansas in 2005. MaVorhis retired the first 18 batters he faced before Northern Colorado’s Jake Ekman led off the 7th inning with a line drive that went just over the glove of K-State’s Carter Yagi at second base. K-State’s offense was locked in as well. The Wildcats scored three runs in each of the first two innings to jump all over the…
The Manhattan high girl’s basketball team lost their 20 game win streak with a 42-35 loss in the 6A state tournament semi finals on Friday afternoon. Manhattan led 5-3 after the end of the first quarter but Maize outscored the Indians 21-12 in the 2nd quarter to seize control and MHS couldn’t get over the hump. Manhattan was led by Darby Price who finished with 12 points and seven rebounds. She was the only MHS player to reach double figure scoring. Caroline Ballard finished with just five points as she was hurt with foul trouble as she picked up her…