LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) A Topeka woman is facing tougher charges in the shooting death of a 51-year-old Lawrence man. Brittny Adams, 20, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to premeditated first-degree murder in the July death of Gary Edens. She was charged with second-degree murder before Wednesday’s preliminary hearing. The Lawrence Journal-World reports prosecutors increased the charges after a former Douglas County Jail inmate testified that Adams frequently bragged about killing Edens at his home. She also allegedly told a man who was with her to kill Edens’ son but the son escaped injury after a struggle. A detective testified that Adams told…
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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A Kansas man convicted of killing a 14-year-old girl in 2006 is awaiting a Sedgwick County judge’s ruling on his request for a new trial. An attorney for Elgin “Ray Ray” Robinson argued in Sedgwick County Court Wednesday that his client deserves a new trial because he did not have adequate defense during his trial for killing Chelsea Brooks. The girl disappeared from a Wichita skating rink. Her body was found later in a Butler County field. Prosecutors argued Wednesday that Robinson received adequate representation. The Kansas Supreme Court upheld Robinson’s convictions for capital murder and other…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas labor officials say the state’s unemployment rate dropped to 5.1 percent in November, its lowest mark in nearly five years. The state Department of Labor reported Thursday that November’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate declined from 5.6 percent in October. The jobless rate in November 2012 was 5.5 percent. The department said that unemployment was last so low in December 2008. Department spokeswoman Barbara Hersh said about 6,000 Kansans who had been receiving unemployment benefits found jobs in November. Also, the department said about 19,900 more Kansans were employed in private-sector, non-farm jobs in November than in…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Police say two men were critically wounded in a double shooting at a clothing resale store in eastern Wichita. KFDI-FM reports Thursday afternoon’s shootings at the Flying Pig Boutique apparently stemmed from a dispute between a woman’s former and current boyfriends. Police Capt. Hassan Ramzah says investigators believe the ex-boyfriend entered the store carrying a shotgun and asked for the current boyfriend. Police say the ex-boyfriend shot the other man’s legs, then shot himself in the head. The woman was not believed to be in the store at the time.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A new Kansas Board of Regents policy gives university leaders more authority to remove staff and faculty over comments made on social media. The regents approved the policies Wednesday, the first of their kind by the organization that governs Kansas’ system of universities, community colleges and technical schools. The Kansas City Star reports the policy was in response to a tweet made this fall by University of Kansas journalism professor David Guth regarding a shooting at the Washington Navy Yard. Guth tweeted comments hostile toward the National Rifle Association and their opposition to gun control. The policy…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas legislative leaders have taken steps to keep retiring or defeated lawmakers from going to conferences and taking trips at the state’s expense. Top leaders of the House and Senate agreed unanimously Wednesday to revise the Legislature’s travel reimbursement policies. The suggested change came from House Minority Leader and Lawrence Democrat Paul Davis. The new policy says that if lawmakers don’t file for re-election or are defeated, they aren’t entitled to state reimbursement of expenses for out-of-state trips. The new policy makes an exception when the outgoing legislator is an officer of a recognized organization or is…
On today’s InFocus, Cathy talks with Lyle Butler, Manhattan Area Chamber of Commerce President.
On today’s InFocus, Cathy talks with USD 383 Board member Darell Edie and Associate Superintendent Bob Seymour, followed by Evan Tuttle, Exectutive Director of the Aggieville Business Association.
Updated 11:20 p.m. The National Weather Service on Thursday issued two weather advisories for Northeast Kansas which could be impacted by the first major winter storm of the season. A Freezing Rain Advisory is in effect until 6:00 a.m. for Pottawatomie and Wabunsee Counties. The advisory has been cancelled for Riley and Geary Counties. More significantly a Winter Storm Watch has been issued for the area from 12:00 a.m. CST Saturday until 6:00 a.m. CST on Sunday for the entire listening area as a weather system that is out in the Pacific Ocean is slated to move through the region.…
London authorities say at least seven people were seriously hurt and 80 others injured at a theater which partially collapsed during a packed performance of a show during the height of the Christmas season.