WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A man accused of firing a shot at a security guard at a Wichita store will spend 60 days in a jail work-release program. A Sedgwick County judge on Thursday sentenced Jake L. Jacobs, 27, for shooting at a guard who asked him to pay for a drink he had taken inside the Burlington Coat Factory store in east Wichita. He also pointed his gun at other customers before police restrained him. The Wichita Eagle reports about 20 customers were in the store during last summer’s shooting but no one was injured. Jacobs pleaded guilty in April…
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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Sedgwick County prosecutors have decided not to seek the death penalty against a man charged with killing two people at a Wichita Dollar General Store. District Attorney Marc Bennett announced his decision Thursday during the arraignment of Marquis Marshall, 19. Marshall is accused of killing an employee and a customer at the Dollar General store in November 2012. Police say Zachary Hunt, 22, and Henry Harvey, 79, were shot several times. During Thursday’s hearing, defense attorney Ron Evans asked that a not guilty plea be entered on Marshall’s behalf.
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) A Hutchinson bail bondsman will stand trial on charges that he sought sex from women in exchange for bonding them out of jail. A Reno County judge ruled Thursday that Dwight Jurgens, 66, of Hutchinson will stand trial on eight charges including rape and aggravated human trafficking. The Hutchinson News reports Jurgens, who was released on $100,000 bond, will be arraigned June 3. Four women testified during a preliminary hearing that Jurgens bonded them out of jail when other bonding companies wouldn’t. They testified either that they had sex with Jurgens after he bonded them out, or…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A memorial service takes place in Wichita to honor Sedgwick County law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty. The ceremony was scheduled for noon Friday in the City Council chambers at Wichita City Hall. It’s part of an effort by law enforcement agencies across the nation to remember their fallen comrades. Twenty-nine law enforcement officers have died on the job in Sedgwick County since 1871. They include 19 Wichita police officers, eight Sedgwick County sheriff’s deputies and one officer each from Derby and Clearwater. The first was Sheriff’s Deputy Carlos B. King, who died in…
Surveillance video from the Ocean Inn in Fort Lauderdale, Florida captures the moment a car hit a parked vehicle, sending it into the pool.
The ousted chief of the Internal Revenue Service Steven Miller is telling Congress that his agency made errors in targeting conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, but he says the mistakes were not the result of partisan views.
Brandon Bolden, a guard from Sumter, South Carolina who played last season for Georgetown University has been added to the Kansas State Men’s Basketball program in an announcement made today by Head Coach Bruce Weber. The full release from K-State Athletics Communications is below. Kansas State head coach Bruce Weber announced today the addition of sophomore forward Brandon Bolden (Sumter, S.C./Quality Education (N.C.) Academy/Georgetown University) to the Wildcat men’s basketball program. A transfer from Georgetown, Bolden will receive a scholarship to attend the university and will have three years of eligibility after he sits out the 2013-14 season due to…
In front of the Riley County Law Enforcement Center on Friday morning, preparations were made for a ceremony to honor officers who now serve and who have lost their lives in the line of duty.In attendance during Friday’s event were not only the officers of the Riley County Police department and it’s staff, but representatives from the Kansas State University Police, Fort Riley, Junction City and others during the ceremony. Positioned under the flag poles, Mayor John Matta took some time to speak, as did Riley County Commission Chair Dave Lewis.Director Brad Schoen also made a few remarks reflecting on the tragedies…
A Manhattan man has ben sentenced to more than four years with the Kansas Department of corrections for aggravated burglary. Christopher Webber, 30, was remanded to serve 57 months with KDOC during his sentencing Thursday in Pottawatomie county court. Webber entered a plea of no contest in April to aggravated burglary. He had faced several charges in connection with a string of burglaries in Pottawatomie County, and in and around rural Manhattan. Also Thursday in Pottawatomie county court, Jon Getzlaff ,24, of Wamego was sentenced to 24 months on drug-related charges and 12 months on an escape charge. The sentences are to…
Fort Riley began efforts May 13 to capture headstone images and review interment records as part of an Army-wide gravesite accountability initiative to ensure all decedents interred in Army post cemeteries have been identified and are all properly commemorated. A team from Installation Management Command (IMCOM) helped launch the efforts and trained post cemetery staff and augmentees on the accountability process and the use the specialized tools. IMCOM’s goal is complete 100 percent accountability of 27 IMCOM post cemeteries at 17 locations by June 30, culminating in the review of more than 40,000 graves. The multi-faceted process incorporates many new…