KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) A Missouri man has been ordered to stand trial in last year’s killing of a well-known dog breeder from Kansas City, Kan. The Kansas City Star reports a Wyandotte County judge on Wednesday bound Darrell Lee Broxton, 50, over for trial on charges of first-degree murder, theft and auto burglary. Broxton, of Kansas City, Mo., is accused in the December 2012 death of 69-year-old Peter Belmont Jr. in the older man’s Kansas City, Kan., home. A doctor testified during the preliminary hearing that Belmont had been attacked with a sharp implement, such as a hatchet. Belmont…
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas Senate’s top Democrat is calling Republican Gov. Sam Brownback’s nomination of his chief counsel to the state Court of Appeals a political maneuver. But the GOP-dominated Senate was expected Wednesday to confirm Caleb Stegall’s appointment to the state’s second-highest court by a wide margin. Minority Leader Anthony Hensley of Topeka said the appointment represents political cronyism. But Judiciary Committee Chairman and Independence Republican Jeff King said Stegall is well-qualified. King predicted that Stegall will be a strong asset to the court. The 41-year-old Stegall was Jefferson County’s elected prosecutor for two years before joining Brownback’s…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Kansas Congressman Mike Pompeo says he will vote in support of authorizing a U.S. strike on Syria. The Republican congressman spoke Tuesday to The Associated Press by phone from Israel. Pompeo is traveling to several Middle Eastern countries this week as part of his role on the House Intelligence Committee. The rest of the state’s all-Republican delegation is opposing a military response to an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria that killed hundreds. Pompeo says a no vote in Congress would guarantee a bad outcome. He says the Iranians are watching how Americans respond to the alleged…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) Police are looking for a gunman who shot and killed a woman inside a northeast Kansas City, Kan., house. Officers responding to reports of a shooting about 2:20 a.m. Wednesday found the woman dead in the home. The woman, in her early 20s, was shot several times. The gunman was gone when officers arrived. Police did not release suspect information.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Four Wichita residents have pleaded guilty in a mortgage fraud scheme that cost lenders hundreds of thousands of dollars. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Wichita announced Tuesday that the four defendants admitted to conspiring with another man to make false statements in prepared loan applications. That allowed money to be transferred to buy homes in Wichita. KAKE-TV reports the four are Christopher Ginyard; Henry Pearson Jr.; Janice Young and Henry Pearson Sr. In their pleas, the four admitted to conspiring with co-defendant Manjur Alam, who prepared the loan applications. Sentencing is set for Nov. 25. They each…
PITTSBURG, Kan. (AP) A southeast Kansas man has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison for his role in the death of a Pittsburg man three years ago. Forty-one-year-old Charles F. Mitchell of Pittsburg was sentenced Tuesday for in the death of Ian P. Monaghan,29. Mitchell and Amie Lee Ryburn, 33, were originally charged with first-degree murder after Monaghan was found shot to death in July 2010 in a field two miles west of Pittsburg. The Joplin Globe reports Ryburn, who was the person who shot Monaghan, pleaded guilty earlier this year to second-degree murder and manufacturing methamphetamine.…
On today’s InFocus, Cathy returns to talk with Brad Starnes, USD 378 superintendent, followed by USD 383 board member Dave Colburn and Superintendent Bob Shannon, followed by Scott Hertsig, Head Instructor with ATA Martial Arts, and ending with Captain Don Stubbings with the K-State Campus Police. [mp3-jplayer]
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A knife is collected for evidence outside Spring High School Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013, in Spring, Texas. At least one person has been killed and others injured in an altercation at the high school in suburban Houston. The Harris County Sheriff’s Office did not say whether the people involved in the fight about 7 a.m. Wednesday at Spring High School were all students. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
President Barack Obama says the international community’s credibility is on the line if a chemical attack on civilians in Syria goes unanswered. He says the red line was set when the treaty condemning the use of chemical weapons was ratified.