WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A judge has delayed until next year the trial of two Wichita restaurant operators accused of employing people who are in the country unlawfully. U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten on Thursday postponed the trial of Yong Lin, 33, and his wife, 29-year-old Zhuo Mei Weng, until March 11. The couple had been previously scheduled to go to trial on Dec. 17. The couple is charged with conspiracy and harboring people who are in the U.S. unlawfully. The indictment alleges they paid the workers at their World Buffet Grill in cash and failed to complete employment eligibility…
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A 25-year-old northeast Kansas man has been charged in head-on crash that killed a Topeka man in 2010. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Aaron Emerson Meade, of Meriden, is charged with involuntary manslaughter while driving under the influence after a crash in March 2010 that killed Neil L. Highsmith, 50. Shawnee County District Court records show Meade was charged Nov. 15. He was booked into the Shawnee County jail Thursday, where he was being held on a $50,000 cash or surety bond. Lee McGowan, chief of staff for the county district attorney’s office, said he couldn’t comment…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) Police say four people were arrested after a shooting in which at least one bullet entered an elementary school in Kansas City, Kan. No one was injured in the shooting Wednesday near Whittier Elementary School. Police on Thursday chased a vehicle thought to be connected to the shooting. The vehicle eventually was stopped by a tire-puncturing device on Interstate 670 and the four people were taken into custody.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The chairman of the Kansas Corporation Commission is proposing ending cost studies for proposed rate increases that are less than 10 percent. KCC chairman Mark Sievers made the suggestion in a statement responding to Westar Energy’s recent $30.7 million rate request, which was approved Thursday. Sievers suggested that the commission could presume rate increases of less than 10 percent are reasonable. He says that would save time and the expense of cost allocation and rate design studies. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports cost allocation was an issue in Westar’s latest case because the utility sought larger increases for…
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) A University Daily Kansan columnist has resigned after his editors found that he lifted much of a recent column from another publication. In an editorial published Thursday, the Kansan reported writer Bryenn Bierwirth had resigned and apologized for the column. It says Bierwirth’s column on hospice care and dying “borrowed” its key points from an article published last year by The Guardian. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that Bierwirth was an opinion columnist and account executive for the Kansan. Editor-in-chief Trevor Graff wrote that the paper would be reviewing procedures to try and prevent similar problems in the…
On today’s InFocus, Cathy talks with Riley County Police Director Brad Schoen, followed by U-S Congressman Tim Huelskamp of Kansas.
Due to an early K-State Basketball game, there was no In Focus.
The Boeing 747 ‘Dreamlifter’ that mistakenly landed at a small Kansas airport took off for its intended destination eight miles away, McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita.
Senate Democrats Thursday invoked what’s known as the nuclear option – changing the rules to diminish the power of the Republican minority by blunting the GOP’s ability to block final votes on nominations and legislation.
The Kansas Highway Patrol worked a couple of injury accidents in Riley County Thursday afternoon and evening, both on I-70. One accident occurred a little after four on westbound I-70, 12 miles from Manhattan. A 2003 Ford driven by Vicki Patton-Deunk,56, of Effingham, Illinois was westbound when Patton-Deunk lost control while trying to slow down on an icy bridge. The Ford entered the north ditch and struck a vehicle that was already disabled. Patton-Deunk was taken to Mercy Regional Health Center for treatment. And at 5:45 on I-70 Eastbound half a mile east of Tallgrass Road, a 1995 Nissan driven…