WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Wichita police believe the shooter who fired on a home and struck a sleeping 4-year-old boy targeted the wrong address. The shooting happened around 3 a.m. Thursday. Police say the boy and his mother were asleep in a bedroom of a duplex at the time. The 4-year-old was taken to St. Francis Hospital with a gunshot wound in his back. Police said he was in stable condition after surgery and is expected to recover. Police said five shots were fired from outside the home. A search for suspects continued Thursday afternoon.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A Topeka man who faces more than 100 child pornography charges will get a new attorney. A Shawnee County judge on Wednesday appointed a new attorney for Jason W. Hachmeister, who said he no longer trusted attorney Napoleon Crews, of Lawrence. The 39-year-old Hachmeister is charged with 108 counts of sexual exploitation of a child. His trial is scheduled to start June 24. Hachmeister is charged in another case with killing his mother in 2011. Prosecutors say the child pornography was found on Hachmeister’s personal computer during an investigation into the September 2011 killing of 58-year-old Sheila…
HOLCOMB, Kan. (AP) Holcomb city officials have voted to delay implementing a new state law that allows concealed weapons in public buildings. The law takes effect July 1 but local governments are allowed to seek a delay until Jan. 1, 2014. The law requires local governments to allow concealed weapons in public buildings unless they have an adequate plan for security at the buildings. The Holcomb City Council voted Wednesday to seek the delay. City administrator Robin Pena said the six-month extension will give Holcomb time to create a plan to keep everyone safe. The Garden City Telegram reports council…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A woman whose husband was convicted of killing a Kansas woman is no longer facing charges of helping him avoid arrest. Charges were dismissed Wednesday against Rebecca Hollister, wife of Roger Hollister, who was convicted of killing Patricia Kimmi, 58, of Rural Horton in 2009. Rebecca Hollister, of Topeka, was charged in March with aiding a felon. Prosecutors had alleged she tried to help her husband avoid arrest and conviction after Kimmi’s death. Roger Hollister died in March while serving a life sentence in the El Dorado Correctional Facility. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports Nemaha County Attorney Brad…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Gov. Sam Brownback is preparing to sign legislation making additional cuts to Kansas income taxes over the next five years. The Republican governor scheduled a signing ceremony Thursday in Overland Park, with another ceremony later in the day in Wichita. The changes in income tax rates include an adjustment in the standard deduction for personal income taxes. The legislation also addresses the state sales tax, which had been scheduled to drop in July from 6.3 percent to 5.7 percent. Lawmakers voted instead to trim the rate slightly to 6.15 percent, which will raise an estimated $777 million…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A federal judge has rejected claims by a former Kansas City, Kan., police detective that he was punished for refusing to conceal a motorist’s beating by federal agents. U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten issued a summary judgment Wednesday for the Unified Government of Wyandotte County, the sheriff and an undersheriff in the 2011 lawsuit brought by Max Seifert. Seifert alleged he suffered retaliation for investigating Drug Enforcement Administration agents involved in a 2003 road-rage incident that left a man with permanent brain damage. Marten ruled Seifert failed to prove that his testimony in that case led…
KINGMAN, Kan. (AP) The charred home of a former Kansas lawman convicted of killing his wife and setting fire to their house could be demolished before the end of the month. Jurors in the south-central Kansas community of Kingman found Brett Seacat guilty Tuesday of first-degree murder, arson and child endangerment in the 2011 death of Vashti Seacat. She was found dead with a gunshot wound to her neck inside the burned-out home. KWCH-TV reports Kingman officials planned to accept bids Thursday to demolish the condemned house. A neighbor, Burel Nicks Jr., says he plans to throw a block party…
Iranians are heading to the polls to choose a new President on Friday. A total of six candidates are running, while 50 million Iranians are eligible to vote.
The most destructive wildfire in Colorado history continues to burn through miles of tinder-dry woods for a third day. The Black Forest Fire northeast of Colorado Springs is only 5 percent contained.
President Barack Obama has authorized sending weapons to Syrian rebels, after the White House disclosed that the United States has conclusive evidence President Bashar Assad’s government used chemical weapons against opposition forces.