Updated: KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Kansas City officials say one of two people who were missing after an explosion destroyed a restaurant has been found but the search continues for a woman who worked there. Kansas City Fire Chief Paul Berardi said early Wednesday that a man who was reported missing was found at St. Luke’s Hospital receiving treatment. He says there has been no sign of the female employee since the explosion Tuesday evening at JJ’s restaurant on the Country Club Plaza. Searchers used cadaver dogs to search the rubble overnight and are waiting for heavy equipment to remove…
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On today’s InFocus, Cathy talks with Manhattan Mayor Loren Pepperd and City Manager Ron Fehr. [mp3-jplayer]
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) Authorities say a woman found dead in a Colorado motel was an Army corporal from Fort Riley, Kan., and another soldier believed to be her boyfriend is being held in North Carolina on suspicion of murder. Police said Tuesday that Kimberly Walker had been strangled and had a blunt force injury. She was found Sunday in a Colorado Springs motel. Army Sgt. Montrell Lamar Anderson Mayo, who was stationed at Fort Carson outside Colorado Springs, surrendered to police in Greenville, N.C., Sunday. An arrest warrant affidavit quotes other soldiers as saying Walker was Mayo’s girlfriend and…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Authorities say two children were present when a drug-fueled celebration of a $75,000 winning lottery ticket resulted in an explosion at a south-central Kansas duplex. Wichita police Lt. Doug Nolte said Tuesday the 10- and 6-year-old girls weren’t injured. The Wichita Eagle reports that the explosion happened Friday after a man refueled butane torches that he and his brother planned to use to smoke drugs. Eventually, butane vapor reached the pilot light in the furnace. One of the brothers was treated at a hospital after sustaining second-degree burns on 10 percent of his body. He hasn’t been…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A new government report shows that the United States now has 2.2 million farms after losing 11,630 farms last year. The National Agricultural Statistics Service’s annual snapshot of farms released Tuesday also pegs the total land in U.S. farms at 914 million acres. That is 3 million acres fewer acres when compared to the previous year. The average farm size is 421 acres. But the numbers for the nation’s biggest farms with $500,000 or more in sales jumped by 8.6 percent to 145,190 farms. The agency said that higher commodity prices contributed to the increase in that…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) A Kansas, City, Kan., man arrested as part of an international child pornography crackdown admitted that he traveled from Kansas to Missouri to have sex with a minor. The Kansas City Star reports Robert Poe III entered his plea Tuesday in federal court. Poe was charged in August with three counts of traveling to entice a minor to engage in sex. He was accused of using a gun to force two boys to perform oral sex on him. Poe, on Tuesday, denied using a gun but said prosecutors had enough evidence to convict him. Poe was…
SALINA, Kan. (AP) Police have arrested the brother of a man who briefly escaped from jail while facing sentencing for killing his girlfriend’s young son. Saline County authorities arrested Joshua Danny Brown, 30, of Wichita Monday on a charge of obstructing apprehension or prosecution. Brown’s brother, Antonio Brown, 29, escaped Feb. 11 from the Saline County jail. He was scheduled to be sentenced the next day on murder and child abuse charges for the October 2011 death of his girlfriend’s 14-month-old son. Brown turned himself in to Wichita police Feb. 13. The Salina Journal reports a second man, Eric Terry,…
President Barack Obama said Tuesday he accepted Marine Gen. John Allen’s request to retire rather than proceed with the White House’s previous plan to make him commander of NATO forces in Europe
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) Lawrence school district officials have told an 8th grade teacher to change a lesson on slavery that included having some of the students wear mock shackles. Mike Wormsley at Liberty Memorial Central Middle School has taught the lesson for years. The two-week role-playing exercise is designed to show students the roles of slaves and slave owners. Part of the lesson required some students, including black students, to wear mock shackles in school. District officials this year told Wormsley they understood the value of the exercise but wanted him to end the use of shackles because it isn’t…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A bill introduced in the Kansas House would require the state’s schools to provide evidence in classrooms questioning the existence of climate change. The bill, introduced last week, says instruction about scientific controversies should include evidence for and against the theory. The only controversy identified in the bill is “climate science.” The Topeka Capital-Journal reports no hearings have been scheduled for the bill before the House Education Committee. The bill comes at the same time the Kansas State Board of Education is preparing to vote on new science standards, which are still being developed. Another bill currently…