WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Wichita police say rain and speed contributed to an accident that left four emergency responders and a driver with minor injuries. Police say two firefighters and two paramedics were helping a driver up a hill after a car had gone into a ditch in front of Newman University late Monday. Police Lt. Mike Hennessey says the driver of a second car lost control at the same spot. The car spun around, hit a concrete wall and then hit the emergency crews and the first driver, knocking them all back down the hill. All five were taken to…
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) State officials and the son of a deceased investigator are awaiting a judge’s decision on whether the son can use his father’s files from the 1959 Kansas murders that inspired the book “In Cold Blood.” Tuesday morning’s hearing in Shawnee County District Court comes in a lawsuit by the Kansas attorney general’s office against Ronald Nye of Oklahoma City. Judge Larry Hendricks could rule on whether Nye can publish material from his father’s files. His father was a Kansas Bureau of Investigation agent who investigated the 1959 murders of the Clutter family in Holcomb. Richard Hickock and…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The National Park Service is offering free bus tours of Topeka sites tied to the Bleeding Kansas era and the civil rights movement. The Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site says the first tours will be Saturday, with tickets available starting around 9 a.m. The first 90-minute tour begins at 10:30 a.m., the second at 12:30 p.m. and the final one at 2:30 p.m. The featured stops tell a messy racial story that begins in 1854, when Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act that allowed settlers to decide for themselves whether to permit slavery. Fighting ensued…
SHAWNEE, Kan. (AP) A northeast Kansas elementary school has been named a Green Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education for its environmental activities. The Shawnee Mission District’s Bluejacket-Flint Elementary in Shawnee was among 64 schools nationwide receiving the honor Monday. The designation recognizes efforts by individual schools to reduce the impact on the environment, lower energy costs and promote better health. Bluejacket-Flint used federal energy standards to reduce utility use by 52 percent, resulting in a 29 percent cut in energy costs in one year. A parent-teacher group also spent $50,000 on an outdoor classroom to teach students…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A judge has agreed to delay sentencing for a Canadian man who was found in Michigan with a 12-year-old Kansas girl he met on the Internet. Stewart Kenneth Cody McGill, of Bewdley, Ontario, had been scheduled to appear Wednesday in federal court in Wichita on a charge of traveling with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct. But U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten granted on Monday a delay because of a scheduling conflict. The sentencing is now set for May 8. The 21-year-old man pleaded guilty in February under a deal with that will lock him…
We check in with Pottawatomie County on today’s InFocus. Cathy sits down with Commission Chair Pat Weixelman, Anne Smith, ATA Director, Dustin Trego, County’s Management Assistant Operations, and Tricia Brooke Fruendt with SMH Consultants for a Justice Center update. [mp3-jplayer]
The mother of the suspected Boston bombers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has asked the media to leave her alone as she grieves for her sons. She says she is trying to understand how they are implicated in the deadly blasts.
Communities Missouri fought Tuesday to hold back surging rivers swollen by days of drenching rain, even as an approaching storm system threatened new downpours.
The college basketball world and K-State fans were caught completely off guard when sophomore guard Angel Rodriguez announced on Monday night that he would be transferring from the Wildcat program. Rodriguez said in a statement from K-State, he would like to transfer to a school that would allow him to be closer to his mother and two brothers, who live in his native San Juan, Puerto Rico. The big question is where Rodriguez will continue his college career after sitting out a year due to NCAA transfer rules. Alex Kline of The Recruit Scoop at Rivals.com speculates the most likely…
Update: April 25– WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A Manhattan doctor linked to drug overdoses by active-duty Fort Riley soldiers remains jailed for now as a possible flight risk. Federal prosecutors told a magistrate judge Wednesday that Michael P. Schuster, of Manhattan, has more than $1 million outside the U.S., a home in Paraguay and two passports. A hearing to determine whether he should remain in custody pending trial has been set for Tuesday in Topeka. Schuster is charged in a criminal complaint with conspiracy to distribute drugs. His first hearing left unanswered whether any soldiers or family members died from overdoses,…