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OTTAWA, Kan. (AP) A former cross-country truck driver has been found guilty for the second time in the 2000 kidnapping and rape of a Kansas teenager. A Franklin County jury on Monday convicted Ralph E. Corey, 53, of five charges for kidnapping a 16-year-old Ottawa girl as she left work. She was driven to several locations in Ottawa and sexually assaulted. After Corey was found guilty of the same charges in July, a juror admitted accessing information about the case from a smartphone during the trial. That violated the judge’s instruction, leading to a mistrial. The Lawrence Journal-World reports the case…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The ranks of Republican and unaffiliated voters are surging in Kansas, while the number of Democrats has plummeted since 2008. The Kansas secretary of state’s office says there are now 439,639 registered Democrats, a drop of more than 45,000 since the 2008 election. Democrats make up just over 25 percent of the state’s registered voters. Republican registrations increased by over 11,000 to 782,161 people. That’s nearly 45 percent of the state’s voter totals. Unaffiliated registrations reached 508,204, an increase of more than 25,000 since 2008. Unaffiliated voters now make up 29 percent of the state’s voters. The…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Kansas Gas Services’ request to increase rates by $32 million a year would include about $8 million in executive bonuses. The gas company says the bonuses allow it to hire the executives whose expertise in running the company is good for shareholders and ratepayers. But a consumer watch group is arguing that the bonuses encourage executives to concentrate on profits, rather than efficiency and customer service. The Kansas Corporation Commission is scheduled to take technical testimony on the rate increase starting Nov. 7 in Topeka. The Wichita Eagle reports the commission staff is recommending that the company…
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) A managed health care company is moving 300 workers from offices in Kansas City, Mo., a few miles across the state line to Overland Park, Kan. KSHB-TV reports Coventry Health Care of Kansas Inc. plans to make the move next April. Coventry’s Kansas City offices are located in the southern part of the city, about a block from the Kansas border. Coventry Health Care of Kansas provides health benefit products and services to individuals in Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. It’s a subsidiary of Maryland-based Coventry Health Care Inc., and also has offices in Wichita.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Three more people are now charged in connection with last week’s killing of a Topeka woman. Ashley Alcala, a 34-year-old mother of two, died after being found severely injured in her home last Thursday. Her husband, Manuel Campos Alcala, is being held on $1 million bond on charges of first-degree murder and conspiracy. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports two 19-year-old men and a 58-year-old woman from Texas have now been charged with felony first-degree murder and conspiracy in the death. They’re being held in El Paso County, Texas, on other charges. The charge of felony first-degree murder applies…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A southwest Missouri man wounded in a summer shooting in northeast Kansas has died. The Topeka Capital-Journal reported Tuesday that Michael P. Bailey, 41, of Nevada, Mo., died Friday. He had been hospitalized since July 13, when he was shot in Topeka. The Shawnee County coroner performed an autopsy Monday. Sheriff Herman Jones says the coroner is holding the body for further review and hasn’t made a final determination on the cause of death. Jones says his office is waiting for those results before proceeding with the case. Two other men one from Nevada and another from Topeka…
OSWEGO, Kan. (AP) A Kansas man has been sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of a child sex crime that occurred in 2010. Nicholas Coree Joplin, 24, of Parsons was sentenced Tuesday by Labette County District Judge Robert J. Fleming. The Wichita Eagle reports that the case was prosecuted by the Kansas Attorney General’s office under Jessica’s Law. The statute mandates a life sentence with no possibility of parole for 25 years for adults convicted of certain sex crimes against children younger than 14. A jury convicted Joplin in April on a single count of aggravated indecent liberties with…
Officials of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation recently announced that two Manhattan High School students were named Semifinalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program – Sophia Harms and Austin Canady. There are approximately 16,000 Semifinalists in the 58th annual National Merit Scholarship Program from across the country. These high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for 8,300 National Merit Scholarships, worth more than $34 million, that will be offered next spring.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) Texas coach Mack Brown once welcomed the Longhorn Network. Now he sounds like he’d rather do without it. Brown complained Monday about his weekly time commitment to produce three shows, the network’s access to practice and the tips opposing coaches may get from watching it. Brown says he “didn’t ask for” the network, the school’s 20-year collaboration with ESPN that pays Texas $300 million. Brown says he wants to sit down with network and school officials to address his concerns. The network shows the first 30 minutes of daily drills and some of the conversations…