ARKANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) Arkansas City residents will be able to legally shoot off fireworks this year. The City Commission voted Tuesday to change municipal code to allow the use of fireworks within city limits and to set a permit fee for fireworks sales. The Arkansas City Traveler reports the changes take effect immediately, allowing fireworks vendors to set up in time for July 4. Fireworks could be used only 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. July 1-3 and from 10 a.m. to midnight July 4. A facility of 500 square feet or less would pay a base permit fee of…
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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Three people are charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of former Wichita South High football player Jordan Turner. Ebony Nguyen, 21, Kristofer Wright, 20, and Eric Jackson, 21, were charged Tuesday in their first court appearance. Preliminary hearings for Nguyen, Wright and Jackson are set May 21. Each is being held in Sedgwick County Jail in lieu of $1 million bond. The defendants indicated Tuesday either they would hire attorneys or seek public defenders. A farmer discovered Turner’s body May 1 southeast of Wichita. He had been shot to death. A fourth suspect, an 18-year-old…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Topeka police say they are investigating the death of a 5-month-old child. Officers went to an apartment in central Topeka Tuesday evening to check on the child’s welfare. Police say in a news release the child was found in a bedroom and was declared dead. The name and gender of the child have not been released. Authorities have made no arrests as the investigation continues.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A Canadian man will spend eight years in prison for taking a 12-year-old Kansas girl he met on the Internet. Stewart Kenneth Cody McGill, of Bewdley, Ontario, was sentenced Wednesday on one count of traveling with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct. The 21-year-old man pleaded guilty in February under a plea deal that spared him a minimum 10-year sentence had he been convicted at trial. His attorney, Roger Falk, cited his client’s “low mental capacity.” He said while there was a difference in chronological ages between him and the girl, their developmental ages were close.…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas legislators are returning to the Statehouse to resume the 2013 session, continuing negotiations to settle spending issues for the fiscal year beginning July 1. Legislators have been on a monthlong break since April 5. House and Senate budget committees met briefly over the interim to review a new state revenue forecast and remaining issues in the $14.5 billion. A rally is scheduled Wednesday morning by social service advocates. They want Gov. Sam Brownback to keep in-home services for the developmentally disabled from being administered by three private health insurance companies as the state’s Medicaid provider. The…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) A play that tells the real stories of people involved in the litigation that toppled segregated education is being performed this week in Kansas City, Kan. The Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site in Topeka says it has worked with the Kansas City Kansas Community College to put on a performance of playwright Marcia Cebulska’ “Now Let Me Fly.” Because the National Park Service is helping to offset the cost, tickets are free to Thursday and Friday performances at the campus theater. It’s being performed by the theater production company “Say I Am Productions.”…
It’s time to talk about the Pottawatomie County Schools, as Cathy sits down with USD 320 Supt. Denise O’Dea and USD 323 Supt. Darrel Stufflebeam. [mp3-jplayer]
The investigation continues after a truck was stolen from a local business in Pottawatomie County. An unknown person or persons entered the fenced area behind Griffith Lumber on Levee Drive sometime early Sunday morning. Once inside they took a 2008 GMC box truck and drove through the fence. The vehicle was recovered on Monday in the 500 block of Bertrand, but damages from the incident are in excess of $1,000 and the Pottawatomie County Sheriff’s Department is looking for tips. Anyone with information on this crime is asked to contact the Pottawatomie County Sheriff’s Office at 785-457-3353.
A civil lawsuit against the city of Manhattan saw action in Riley County court on Wednesday afternoon. Four individuals who support the organization “Save Our Social Services”, or SOS, asked for a summary judgement against the city. The case was brought to the courts by the plaintiffs in hopes its petition to have the city enact an ordinance requiring two percent of the city’s general fund budget to be earmarked for social services would go forward as a legal referendum. The petition would make the city adopt the measure as an ordinance, or put the issue to a vote in…
Jodi Arias has been convicted of first-degree murder Wednesday in the gruesome killing of her one-time boyfriend in Arizona after a four-month trial that captured headlines.