TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Police say a suspect in a Topeka homicide is in custody after he engaged law enforcement officers in two gunfights in Nebraska. Topeka police say in a news release that the 33-year-old man was arrested early Thursday after he allegedly robbed a convenience store and engaged in two gunfights in Johnson County, Neb., about 25 miles north of the Kansas-Nebraska border. One deputy was injured. The man is a suspect in a shooting Wednesday in Topeka that left one man dead and a woman injured. The victim’s name has not been released. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports police…
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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Wichita fire officials say a woman is lucky to be alive after she was nearly crushed in a garbage truck. Battalion Chief Frank Buck says the woman crawled into a trash bin while looking for scrap metal early Thursday. Jeff Gillis, the Waste Management driver, told KFDI that he emptied the trash receptacle into his truck and was preparing to press a button to compact the garbage when the woman’s sister drove up and stopped him. When the driver turned off the engine, he and his sister could hear the woman’s screams. Firefighters were called to rescue…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A Salina man who escaped from prison while awaiting sentencing for killing his girlfriend’s 14-month-old son is back in custody. Antonio Brown, 29, called the U.S. Marshals office in Wichita Wednesday night to surrender, ending a search that began when he walked away from the Saline County jail Monday. U.S. Marshals say Brown apparently arrived in Wichita Tuesday and turned himself in because he had no place else to go. Brown pleaded no contest in January to first-degree murder and child abuse in the beating death. Authorities say he walked out of a jail holding cell after…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) The family of a Chinese exchange student who was critically injured while attending Emporia State University is seeking help to pay for her rehabilitation. Twenty-three-year-old education student Yali Huang was flown to a Wichita hospital in November after being struck by a Jeep while walking across a street. After coming out of a 10-week coma, she’s ready to be moved to a rehabilitation facility. But her exchange student insurance doesn’t cover that type of care, and she’s not ready to travel to a facility closer to her home Shenzhen, a city in southern China. University students plan…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A Kansas House committee is preparing to hear testimony on legislation to restrict where strip clubs can operate and what activities go on inside. The measure before the House Federal and State Affairs Committee on Thursday comes two years after the last attempt to regulate strip clubs. That bill died in the state Senate. The so-called Community Defense Act would establish where adult businesses can be located, ban lap dances and regulate dancing onstage in various levels of undress. Supporters say the measure targets businesses that hurt communities. Opponents argue the restrictions could cost Kansas as many…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas Department of Administration has rejected bids from two potential buyers for a historic home west of the Statehouse. Interim Secretary Mark McGivern said Wednesday the department now plans to sell the Hiram Price Dillon house at a public auction. A date hasn’t been set. The state has owned the 12,000-square-foot house since 1998, when a church nearby traded the property for a parking lot. Dillon was a prominent attorney and built the home in 1913. McGivern said neither of the offers submitted earlier this month represented a fair market value. A Topeka development firm bid…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) A former Internal Revenue Service agent in Kansas had pleaded guilty to theft of public money in a deal with prosecutors that may spare her any prison time. Becky L. Book, 49, of Pittsburg admitted Thursday to receiving more than $26,000 in salary and mileage payments for meetings with taxpayers that never took place. Prosecutors allege Book claimed she worked 744 hours between March 2010 and April 2011 but actually took those hours off as unauthorized personal time. The government agreed as part of its plea deal to recommend a sentence of probation, although it is…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site is offering financial help to teachers who want to bring students to the former Topeka school. Transportation grants are available to schools within 75 miles of the historic site, which tells the story of the U.S. Supreme Court decision that declared segregated schools unconstitutional. The grants also cover travel costs to other Topeka sites that explore similar issues. Those include the Kansas State Capitol, which features a mural of the fiery abolitionist John Brown. Other sites that fall under the grant include the Kansas Museum of History and…
On today’s InFocus, Tom talks with Major Turner with Fort Riley, followed by Tim McDonald, Flint Hills Christian School Administrator. [mp3-jplayer]
A Carnival official says a snapped towline has delayed the disabled Triumph’s expected arrival in Mobile. Terry Thornton said about 3:25 p.m. Central time that the cruise ship was seven to 10 hours from port.