PARTRIDGE, Kan. (AP) Cattle, deer, even the occasional horse are all known to create road hazards in Kansas. But it was a flying turkey that did in one driver’s windshield. The Reno County sheriff’s office says a 65-year-old Larned man suffered minor injuries around 9 a.m. Monday when the big bird crashed through the windshield of his SUV. The turkey landed in the man’s lap, then moved over to the lap of his passenger. KWCH-TV reports the turkey did not survive the crash. The male motorist was treated at the scene for minor cuts and glass in his eyes. The…
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SALINA, Kan. (AP) A Salina man has been sentenced to three years of probation for filing false tax returns on his income from a strip club he owned. The U.S. Attorney’s Office says Kirk Roberts, 49, must also pay taxes totaling $153,000 under the sentence he received Monday in federal court. Roberts pleaded guilty in January to failing to report nearly $538,000 in cash receipts at his Wild Wild West club from 2006 through 2008. Investigators said the club charged customers a nightly cover charge. It also charged nightly cash fees from dancers for performing onstage or using private rooms.…
SALINA, Kan. (AP) It’s unlikely that a Salina woman will ever top her first trip to the circus. Jenna Krehbiel was attending the Isis Shrine Circus on Saturday at the Salina Bicentennial Centennial Center when she decided she needed a bathroom break. When she walked into the bathroom, she found a tiger standing about 2 feet away. The big cat escaped briefly after performing for the circus. Staff members blocked off all entrances where the public could come into contact with the tiger and it wandered into the bathroom. The Salina Journal reports Krehbiel used a door to the bathroom…
WINFIELD, Kan. (AP) Residents and city officials in Winfield say their town’s children will have another playground. The playground at Island Park was destroyed in an arson fire last month. It was the second time since 2008 that arsonists ruined the playground. Winfield City Manager Warren Porter tells KWCH that the city received an insurance check of $624,000 last week. However, the insurance company won’t give the city replacement coverage again, only liability. Porter says that could change the design of the park. A Facebook page set up after the fire helped raise another $1,600 in donations. A teenager was…
BURLINGTON, Kan. (AP) A woman who is suing an east-central Kansas school board will soon be serving on that board. Monique Hart won an election to the Burlington Unified School District, and will take her seat in late June. That’s just days after Hart’s $7.4 million lawsuit against the board is scheduled to go to court. Hart sued the board and superintendent Cliff Williams last May. She claims Williams gave the board false information about her that ended her job, and that the district published confidential information on her employment. Hart worked for the district from 2000 until the district…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Wichita police say two boys are in protective custody and their mother is jailed on suspicion of child endangerment. Officers were called to a north Wichita home Saturday and found a 7-year-old boy wandering the streets. He told police his mother had locked him out of the house and left with his 9-year-old brother. Wichita police spokesman Sgt. Scott Brunow says the boy said he hadn’t eaten or taken a bath for two days. Officers were unable to locate the mother. Neighbors called police when she returned to the home Saturday night. Brunow says the home was…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A federal judge has scheduled a summer trial for a Wisconsin man accused of joining a cyberattack on Wichita-based Koch Industries. The scheduling order handed down Friday in the case of Erick J. Rosol, 37, of Black Creek, Wis., sets his trial for June 25 in U.S. District Court in Wichita. Rosol was indicted on one count each of damaging a computer and conspiracy to damage a computer. Prosecutors allege the computer hacking group Anonymous asked conspirators in February 2011 to send a high volume of repeated requests to Koch’s website, crashing the site. Rosol is also…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The retired Dallas homicide detective who was handcuffed to Lee Harvey Oswald when the suspected assassin of President John F. Kennedy was killed is coming to Washburn University. James Leavelle, 92, will speak about the experience during a public forum at 11 a.m. Tuesday in Washburn’s Memorial Union. He’ll also take questions from the audience. Leavelle gained fame as the officer in the light-colored suit who was escorting Oswald when the accused assassin was shot to death by Jack Ruby in November 1963, two days after Kennedy was killed. A photograph of the shooting is one of…
GIRARD, Kan. (AP) The U.S. Department of Agriculture says a southeast Kansas electrical cooperative is getting about $15 million to make system improvements. The USDA says the funds will help Girard-based Heartland Rural Electric Cooperative build 242 miles of distribution line and make other improvements. The money includes a loan of about $192,000 for smart grid projects. The agency says 12 other states are also getting a total of about $280 million for similar upgrades in rural areas, resulting in the construction of more than 1,900 miles of new or improved electric line.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Gov. Sam Brownback says he’s hoping Kansas will have a charity ball at the Statehouse when the building’s $332 million renovation is complete. Brownback says his office is working on plans for such an event early next year, but any discussions so far are tentative. But the governor told reporters at a tree-planting on the Statehouse grounds last week that he’s looking forward the end of the renovation. It began in 2001 and is supposed to be done by the end of this year. The project has included improvements to offices, meeting rooms and mechanical systems, the…