TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas and 45 other states have reached a settlement with a Florida company over allegations of improper signing of mortgage documents. Attorney General Derek Schmidt said Thursday the agreement requires Lender Processing Services Inc. to re-examine previously signed documents to ensure that the rights of homeowners were protected. The company will be required to review documents signed between Jan. 1, 2008 and Dec. 31, 2010, to determine if they need to be corrected. The settlement requires proper execution of the documents and prohibits signatures by individuals without firsthand knowledge attested to in the documents. It also requires…
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An inmate serving time on Geary county convictions of attempted first degree murder, aggravated kidnapping, and aggravated sodomy is eligible for parole in the near future. Tabor Adkins, 65, was convicted in the 1983 cases and has been in jail ever since. As KMAN news told you at the time Adkins was up for parole in September of 2009, but parole was denied at that time. Public comment sessions will be March 18th at the City Hall In Kansas City, March 20th in the Finney State Office Building in Wichita, and March 22nd at the Landon State Office Building. Letters…
KMAN has received more information concerning the incident that occurred on Thursday in the Country Estates area. The Riley County Police Department along with the Pottawatomie County Sheriffs office and the ATF, Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, issued three drug related search warrants in the morning hours between 10 and 11 am. These resulted in the arrest of Robert Beattie, 25, Shameke Strong, 30, Scott Pittenger, 26, and Robert John Edleston II, 33, all of Manhattan. Each is being charged with at least possession of methamphetamine and possession of drug paraphernalia. Beattie, Strong, and Pittenger all had a bond of $10,000 each, while…
Update from Woodrow Wilson staff: As of 9:45am, Woodrow Wilson students will be returning to their school via bus in the next 20 minutes. We received the all clear from first responders to let students and staff back into the school. No explosives were found inside of the building. _________________________________________________________________________ This morning as students were coming into school, a student told a staff member at Woodrow Wilson that another student told him that he had placed a pipe bomb inside of Woodrow Wilson. Woodrow staff called the Manhattan Fire Department (MFD) and RCPD — both agencies have responded. Woodrow Wilson…
Investigators have confiscated more than $13.6 million worth of phony sports merchandise over the past five months and expect to seize more in New Orleans during Super Bowl week, a federal law-enforcement official said Thursday.
Anxious parents went to an Atlanta area middle school to check on their children after shots were fired in the courtyard. Police said a 14-year-old boy was shot in the back of the neck by another student.
On today’s InFocus, Cathy talks with Deb Rodenbaugh Schaub with the Rotary Peace forum, followed by Tricia Vershage with Fort Riley on an upcoming event. [mp3-jplayer]
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A prosecutor has cleared two Wichita police officers of wrongdoing for fatally shooting a woman last summer while investigating a domestic dispute. Sedgwick County District Attorney Marc Bennett on Thursday released his office’s finding in the July 10 shooting of Karen Jackson, 45, clearing the officers of any criminal conduct. Police Chief Norman Williams says his department will now conduct its own administrative investigation of the shooting to make sure the officers followed procedures. Williams said after the shooting that Jackson stabbed herself with a knife shortly after police arrived at the scene, then walked toward officers…
MCPHERSON, Kan. (AP) Two suspects in the death of a Tabor College football player will face trial. After a preliminary hearing ended Thursday, Alton Franklin and DeQuinte Flournoy were bound over for trial on charges of being accessories to second-degree murder. Twenty-six-year-old Brandon Brown was found unconscious Sept. 16 at a McPherson Party. The redshirt defensive lineman from Tabor College died about a week later. The suspects both are former McPherson College football players from Dallas. Broadcaster KWCH reports that they remain jailed on $250,000 bond. During the hearing a forensic pathologist testified that Brown died from blunt force trauma…
MISSION, Kan. (AP) A 3-year-old boy is in critical condition after being shot in an apartment in northeast Kansas’ Johnson County. Broadcaster KSHB reports that the child was taken to Children’s Mercy Hospital after he was wounded Thursday afternoon with a 9 mm handgun. Mission police believe a single bullet went through the boy’s left arm and hit his abdomen. The boy was at home with his father, the father’s roommate and the roommate’s fiance at the time. Police said the gun was “out and available.” Authorities are investigating.