The Junction City Police Department is seeking the Public’s assistance in locating and identifying any person that may be involved in the theft of water from the City of Junction. Currently, the City of Junction City cannot account for approximately 30% of their water usage and has been told by the State of Kansas that the City is exceeding its allotted usage of water and must bring this issue under control or suffer sanctions. Much of the missing water can be attributed to old inaccurate meters, and leakage but an element of the missing water is thought to be theft…
Author: KMAN Staff
A Riley county jury decision in a 2011 aggravated robbery and battery case has been affirmed by the Kansas Court of Appeals. The jury’s convictions were appealed by the defendant, Naazir Muhammad Jackson, who was found guilty not only of one count each of aggravated robbery and aggravated battery , but also two counts of possession of drug paraphernalia. Jackson maintained prosecutor misconduct denied him a fair trial, and says there was insufficient evidence to support the charges. The 32 page Court of Appeals decision was released Friday, again affirming the jury’s conviction. Judge David Stutzman presided in the case,…
GARDEN CITY, Kan. (AP) The mystery of what happened to bonds purchased for the Finney County public library in 1984 has moved to court. Finney County is suing Bank of America to determine the whereabouts of bonds valued at $60,000. The Garden City Telegram reports the founder of Brookover Feed Yards in Garden City bequeathed the bond to the library in 1984, and it was placed at what was then the Garden National Bank. A copy of the bond was put in a time capsule, which was opened in 2008. Garden City Bank has changed owners four times since 1984…
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) The Kansas State Fair is reviving the carnival train and animal parade through Hutchinson to celebrate the fair’s 100th anniversary. The parade was once an annual tradition when the carnival train came to town each September, with carnival equipment and animals parading down Hutchinson’s Main Street to the fairgrounds. The Hutchinson News reports the tradition faded because the carnival now brings in most of its equipment on trucks and the use of circus animals declined. State Fair Manager Denny Stoecklein says the parade will be revived on Labor Day. Entries in the parade are limited and must…
BONNER SPRINGS, Kan. (AP) Police are awaiting autopsy results before determining how two people died in a hotel in a Kansas City suburb. A maid found the bodies of a man and woman inside one of the rooms Thursday at the Holiday Inn Express in Bonner Springs. KCTV5 reports police believe the deaths were a murder-suicide but will not make a final determination until autopsies are performed Friday. Police on scene said the two people were passing through town on their way from North Carolina to Seattle.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A 42-year-old Wichita man who kicked his girlfriend 20 to 30 times with steel-toed boots will be sentenced in August for first-degree murder in her death. A Sedgwick County jury on Thursday convicted Anson Bernhardt for the September death of Amber Kostner, 38, who was still breathing when Bernhardt left her on the side of a road in Wichita. The Wichita Eagle reports that during the trial, jurors watched Bernhardt admit the crime to sheriff’s deputies. Prosecutors said Bernhardt kicked Kostner after the two had quarreled in a bar about breaking up. Defense attorneys did not dispute…
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) A community celebration is scheduled for July 22 on the University of Kansas campus to mark the 90th birthday of former Kansas Sen. Bob Dole. The event will be held at the Dole Institute of Politics where the former Republican U.S. senator’s archives are housed. The institute opened in 2003. Dole is not expected to attend. Dole served in the U.S. Senate from 1969 until 1996, when he retired to run for president but lost to Democratic incumbent Bill Clinton. Dole is a World War II veteran who served in Europe, where he was severely wounded in…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Officials are reaching out to the public to promote the impact passenger rail service could have in Wichita. The issue is slated as the discussion topic at the Tuesday Topics program to be held at noon at the Wichita central library auditorium on Aug. 27. The Wichita Eagle reports the brown-bag lunch seminar will feature Wichita Vice Mayor Pete Meitzner and Dale Goter, the city’s government relations manager. Kansas and Wichita are seeking nearly $13 million in federal grant money to complete the planning phase of a proposed project that would extend Amtrak’s Heartland Flyer passenger service…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A Kansas doctor is returning to court in her legal fight to regain her medical license after state regulators revoked it over her referrals of young patients for late-term abortions. Attorneys for both Dr. Ann Kristin Neuhaus and the State Board of Healing Arts expected a hearing Friday in Shawnee County District Court to be the final one before Judge Franklin Theis rules. Neuhaus is appealing the board’s revocation of her license in July 2012. Neuhaus provided second opinions that the late Dr. George Tiller needed under Kansas law to perform some late-term abortions at his Wichita…
So far the Riley County commissioner has been able to reduce the proposed mill levy increase 1.9, which is quite different than the little over three mill levy numbers the group started out with Thursday. That’s thanks to a clerical error discovered during a work session Thursday afternoon. A missed formula on an excel spreadsheet cell was found on Wednesday, and added a substantial boon for the mill levy reduction process. Commission Chair Dave Lewis explains the error involved around $177,000. Lewis adds that throughout the work session, commissioners have been able to cut hundreds of thousands of dollars, including…