WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court says a lower court should not have overturned the conviction and death sentence of a man who admitted killing a Kansas sheriff. The high court Wednesday unanimously overturned the Kansas Supreme Court’s decision to throw out Scott Cheever’s death sentence for the 2005 fatal shooting of Greenwood County Sheriff Matt Samuels. The Kansas court said Cheever’s rights against self-incrimination were violated by prosecutors who used a court-ordered mental evaluation from a different trial against him. Cheever’s own expert argued that methamphetamine use had damaged his brain. Justice Sonia Sotomayor said that because Cheever’s side raised…
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas Supreme Court will hear arguments next week in the appeals of two brothers sentenced to death for murders committed in December 2000. Justices have scheduled two-hour hearings on Tuesday for Jonathan Carr and his brother, Reginald Carr. The Carr brothers were convicted for killing three men and a woman on Dec. 15, 2000, as the victims knelt side-by-side on a snow-covered soccer field. The four friends and another woman who was shot in the head but survived were at a Wichita home when two armed intruders forced them to engage in sex with each other,…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) A 67-year-old suburban Kansas City man has pleaded guilty to federal charges related to buying $1.8 million in contraband cigarettes. The U.S. Attorney’s office for western Missouri said in a release Wednesday that Randall H. McColley, of Overland Park,waived his right to a grand jury and pleaded guilty to conspiracy to traffic in contraband cigarettes. The prosecutor’s office says McColley admitted that he bought contraband cigarettes from undercover agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The undercover agents sold him more than 100,000 cartons of contraband cigarettes between May 2011 and February 2012.…
On today’s InFocus, Cathy talks with Darrel Stufflebeam, Rock Creek USD 323 Superintendent, and Denise O’Dea, Wamego USD 320 Superintendent.
A mid week version of “The Game” breaks down the Big 12 coaches all conference teams and which wildcats made the list. Did the coaches get the list right? The K-State men’s basketball team survived a scare against South Dakota, the guys break down the win for Bruce Weber’s Wildcats. Charles Davis of Fox Sports joins the show to talk about college football and the bowl outlook. John Kurtz got a chance to catch up with Mark Snyder of the Detroit Free Press to preview the match up between Michigan and K-State in the BWW bowl. Plus, Mitch Holthus stops by to give his take on where the Chiefs are at with three games left in the regular season. All that and much more on a jam packed version of “The Game” on KMAN.
(KDOT) The closure of two rest areas a mile west of Junction City on I-70 is expected to save the state more than $200,000 a year. The east and westbound rest areas were closed Monday. Because of their close proximity to private sector businesses, travelers will still have access to the same services in addition to food and fuel. “The cost of maintaining the rest areas had become prohibitive considering the duplicated services in the area,” said District Engineer Randy West of the Kansas Department of Transportation. “Maintenance costs exceeded $200,000 a year and the rest areas were also subject to…
The procession for former South African president Nelson Mandela makes its way through the streets of Pretoria, South Africa, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013. The body of Nelson Mandela is being taken in procession to the Union Buildings in Pretoria where it will lie in state for three days. Each morning his remains will be transported from the mortuary to the government buildings. (AP Photo)
Ukrainian riot policemen pull a Pro-European Union activist out form a tent camps on the Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013. Security forces clashed with protesters as they began tearing down opposition barricades and tents set up in the center of the Ukrainian capital early Wednesday, in an escalation of the weeks-long standoff threatening the leadership of President Viktor Yanukovych. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)
DE Ryan Mueller, S Ty Zimmerman, C B.J. Finney and WR/KR/PR Tyler Lockett were all named first team All-Big 12 selections by the Big 12 coaches. Lockett was a first team selection at both wide receiver and kick returner/punt returner in addition to being named the Special Teams Player of the Year. He joins Brandon Banks (2009) as the second K-State wide receiver to ever take home that honor. Mueller also won the Big 12 Defensive Lineman of the Year award, the second straight Wildcat to do so (Meshak Williams). Despite that honor, Mueller missed out on being named Defensive…
A Grandview Plaza man faces an aggravated indecent liberties with a minor charge, following his arrest Monday afternoon. Geary County Sheriff’s Deputies took Brandon Nations into custody shortly before three p.m. Monday on two Geary County warrants. One of the warrants was for aggravated indecent liberties and the other for probation violation.