SALINA, Kan. (AP) Salina police didn’t have much of a challenge finding a suspect when some ice cream was stolen from a Dairy Queen. Police say the man recently broke into the Dairy Queen and stole $200 worth of ice cream. While leaving with his treats, the man dropped some mail in a nearby parking lot, giving police his name and address. Police Lt. Sean Morton says when officers went to the address on the mail, they arrested a 30-year-old man. KAKE-TV reports the man is also a suspect in a burglary at a Salina plumbing business. He apparently dropped…
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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Federal prosecutors in Kansas say a Canadian man accused of assuming his dead brother’s identity left a trail of evidence. The government filed a notice Wednesday outlining evidence it plans to introduce at the Jan. 28 trial of Leslie Lyle Camick. The Winfield resident faces charges including aggravated identity theft, retaliation against a witness and wire fraud. Prosecutors allege Camick hatched a scheme in 1997 to assume the identity of an infant brother who died decades ago and flee Canada, where he owed child support and was wanted in a criminal case. He first came to the…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Gov. Sam Brownback proposes to add $44 million for higher education to the state’s current and next fiscal year budgets to offset cuts made last year by legislators. But some Democrats were skeptical Thursday of the Brownback’s proposals. Spending on higher education was an unusual area of disagreement between Brownback and fellow Republicans in the GOP-dominated Legislature. Lawmakers trimmed a total of about $46 million in higher education spending for the current fiscal year and the one beginning July 1 combined. Brownback had wanted to keep spending flat. He’s proposing to restore about $11 million over the…
BURLINGTON, Kan. (AP) Officials of Kansas’ Wolf Creek nuclear plant will meet with federal regulators in Texas next week to discuss progress in making sure the plant’s workers aren’t afraid to report safety concerns. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued a letter in August after determining a “chilled work environment” exists within the quality assurance group at the Wolf Creek Generating Station near Burlington, Kan. That letter came after the Occupational Safety and Health Administration found that a Wolf Creek contractor had fired an employee for raising concerns about how work was being performed at the plant. The NRC issued the…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) One person is dead after being shot in broad daylight outside of City Hall in Kansas City, Kan. The Kansas City Star reports officers heard multiple gunshots shortly before someone reported the shooting at 3:20 p.m. Thursday. Initial reports were that the man was shot in the head while between City Hall and the health department building directly to its east. Police shut down part of a nearby street to investigate the shooting. Information about a suspect was not immediately available.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A federal judge has postponed sentencing for a woman who admitted harboring workers in the country illegally as part of a human trafficking operation in Asian massage parlors in Wichita. A court notice filed Wednesday says the Jan. 29 sentencing of Xiuqing Tian of Framingham, Mass., will be rescheduled. Tian has agreed to testify against her former employers, Gary Kidgell of Waltham, Mass., and his wife, Yan Zhang, of Wichita. But their trial was put on hold when Zhang’s lawyer requested an evaluation to determine if she’s competent to be tried. Tian admitted in her plea deal…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A 40-year-old Topeka man has pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder for killings that happened a dozen years apart. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports Monroe Eugene Lockhart III entered his pleas Thursday in the Jan. 3, 2012, fatal shooting of his business partner, 39-year-old Corey Brown, and the Feb. 14, 2000, shooting of 25-year-old Damon Anderson. Deputy Shawnee County prosecutor Jacqie Spradling told a judge Thursday that Lockhart shot Brown twice in the head for disrespecting him by refusing to intervene on Lockhart’s behalf in a dispute with Brown’s father. She says Lockhart shot Anderson because…
COLBY, Kan. (AP) Major highways have reopened in northwest Kansas after being shut down because of high winds and blowing dust. The Kansas Department of Transportation closed Interstate 70 from Colby to the Colorado border at mid-afternoon Thursday. Sections of Kansas 27 and U.S. Highways 36 and 83 in Sherman, Cheyenne, Rawlins, Thomas and Sheridan counties were also closed for a time. But the wind subsided as darkness fell, allowing the highways to reopen. In Goodland, the National Weather Service reported winds of 45 mph with gusts up to 55 mph Thursday afternoon. Similar gusts were reported throughout the region,…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Federal prosecutors want to shield some evidence in the case of a Wichita man accused of plotting a suicide bombing at Wichita’s Mid-Continent Airport, where he worked as an avionics technician. A filing Thursday asks the court to limit who can see formerly classified information that has been declassified in order to prosecute Terry Loewen, 58. Prosecutors allege Loewen tried to get what he believed was a car bomb onto the tarmac on Dec. 13. Charges include attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction and attempted material support to al-Qaida. The government wants to protect identities…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas legislators are scheduled to begin hearing testimony on two measures regarding the state’s death penalty law, one to abolish the practice and another to shorten the time inmates have to file appeals. Both bills will come before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday. Chairman Jeff King, an Independence Republican, has anticipated testimony could spread into next week. Kansas has had the death penalty since 1994 but has yet to carry out an execution by lethal injection. Currently, there are nine death row inmates. State senators deadlocked 20-20 in 2010 over a similar death penalty bill. The…