WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Wichita’s schools will be getting an upgraded security system. The Wichita School Board voted Monday night to approve a $3 million contract to improve the district’s surveillance system and other security upgrades. The board authorized the district to buy hardware, software, and services from Aventura Technologies. The company will also design and install a centralized surveillance system. The district’s current security system was installed nine years ago and uses analog cameras and dial-up modems. Superintendent John Allison says the system breaks down and is inefficient. The proposed upgrades would include high-definition cameras, new computers, and a centralized…
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OLATHE, Kan. (AP) Johnson County authorities say a man charged in the death of a South Carolina pediatrician died in his jail cell. Master Deputy Tom Erickson says John Meredith Hodges, 45, was found unresponsive in the cell on Monday. Efforts to resuscitate him failed. Erickson says the death is being investigated as a suicide but released no other details. Hodges was charged with first-degree murder in the death of Franchesca D. Brown, 39, of Myrtle Beach, S.C. Brown’s body was found last September near an Overland Park hotel. She was in the city to attend a medical conference. Police…
OTTAWA, Kan. (AP) Olathe police are waiting to learn whether one of the three bodies found in a neighboring county is that of a young mother reported missing along with her daughter. Sgt. Brad Caldwell said Tuesday that Kaylie Bailey, 21, and her 1 .5-year-old daughter, Lana Bailey, were last seen Wednesday. They were reported missing Friday. Caldwell says Olathe police have sent detectives to the Franklin County crime scene because of the open missing person case. Olathe police had provided the Franklin County Sheriff’s Department with an address to check Friday. But Caldwell declined to say whether it was…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Passenger rail supporters in Wichita are planning what they describe as a “major announcement” this week. The Wichita Eagle reports the announcement will be made during a news conference Friday afternoon at Wichita’s Union Station. City officials are characterizing the news conference as an “update on significant developments regarding passenger rail advocacy in this area.” Wichita Vice Mayor Pete Meitzner will lead the news conference, along with business representatives who serve on his local steering committee. Rail backers have been trying to persuade Amtrak to bring passenger train service to the city. One proposal would expand the…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A Kansas board has nominated 10 properties around the state for listing on the National Register of Historic Places, including two public school buildings. The Kansas State Historical Society says the state Historic Sites Board of Review nominated the sites during its quarterly meeting earlier this month. The nominees include the historic Belleville High School building in Belleville, which opened in 1931. The structure is now a middle school that the local school district plans to close. Another nominee is the former Franklin Elementary School in Kansas City, Kan. It opened in 1898 and closed in 1973.…
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KMAN News has learned that Michael Schuster, the Manhattan Physician who was indicted on four federal charges of prescribing illegal medications to active duty Ft. Riley soldiers has entered a plea of not guilty. The plea was entered Tuesday afternoon during a hearing in front of U.S. Magistrate Judge Gary Sebelius. The following is the story from our partners at the Associated Press: A Kansas doctor has pleaded not guilty to four federal charges, including illegally distributing prescription drugs out of his Manhattan medical clinic. Fifty-three-year-old Michael Schuster, of Manhattan, was indicted last week on multiple counts alleging he operated…
In a hearing on Tuesday morning a former Kansas State student entered of plea of no contest to two counts of involuntary manslaughter. 25-year-old Miles Theurer plead no contest to the counts after reaching a plea agreement with the prosecution that included the dropping of two counts of aggravated battery. Theurer is now awaiting sentencing on the charges involving the double fatality accident on K-18 in May 2012. 31-year-old Micheal Stanley and Elizabeth Young of Ogden were killed in the crash, and autopsies revealed the cause of death to be severe trauma from the head on collision. In court on Tuesday…
The Senate has passed a bill that could end tax-free shopping on the Internet for many shoppers. The Senate voted 69 to 27 Monday to pass the bill, sending it to the House.
Three women who went missing separately about a decade ago have been found alive in Cleveland. Three men are now under arrest.