HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) A Fort Bragg solider was just one day away from being sentenced in Kansas for punching a woman in the face when he killed himself and a superior officer last month. On Friday, a Reno County judge formally dismissed the aggravated battery charge against Ricky G. Elder. Prosecutors said the 27-year-old Army specialist from Hutchinson was home on leave in April 2010 when he hit the woman so hard that he shattered her eye socket. The Hutchinson News reported that Elder’s military service led to numerous delays. In the midst of the case, he was deployed. The…
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A Shawnee County Commission candidate is offering a reward for the return of 250 campaign signs. The Topeka Capital-Journal reported that Bob Archer says the signs were stolen from people’s yards earlier this week. The current Topeka City Council member said in a statement released Saturday morning that the signs had been located at residences throughout the city. The signs were stolen between the hours of midnight and 6 a.m. both Thursday and Friday. He estimated that the signs for worth about $1,000. Archer says he has ordered new signs and hopes to have them out in…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Authorities have released the name of a man killed while barging into a Topeka home. Cpt. Jerry Stanley said Friday that the victim of Thursday night’s shooting was 31-year-old Cyril K. Smith. The Topeka Capital-Journal reported that he was one of at least two men who entered a Topeka house with several people inside. Gunfire erupted, and Smith was killed. Police say one person believed to be linked to the case has been arrested, and several other people have been interviewed. Stanley said the motive for the intrusion is being determined. But he stressed that there isn’t…
The Blue Earth Plaza, outside the Flint Hills Discovery Center, welcomed numerous special guests to take part in the official ceremony to designate the Kansas River Water Trail as the newest addition to the National Water Trails System on Saturday, July 14th. Guests included: Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, Governor Sam Brownback, Mayor Loren Pepperd, and Regional Director of the National Parks Service, Mike Reynolds. Prior to the ceremony, Secretary Salazar and Governor Brownback canoed the Kansas River and performed a special reenactment of how Manhattan was founded at Fairmont Park. Brownback spoke about the importance of the preservation…
A District of Columbia police officer who worked as a motorcycle escort for the White House and other officials has been moved to administrative duty after he allegedly made threatening comments about Michelle Obama A District of Columbia police officer who
A truck overturned in Western Kentucky, covering a highway with watermelons. Nobody was hurt in the accident.
Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney insisted on Friday that he had “no role whatsoever in the management” of a private equity firm after early 1999, and demanded that President Barack Obama apologize.
STRONG CITY, Kan. (AP) U.S Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is making a two-day visit to Kansas. During his first stop Friday night at Strong City in east-central Kansas, he and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will dedicate a new $6 million visitor’s center at the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve. From there Salazar will head to Manhattan’s Flint Hills Discovery Center. Gov. Sam Brownback will join him Saturday in announcing that the Kansas River is being designated as the newest addition to the National Water Trails system. The national designation will provide money for highway signage directing people to…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A 37-year-old Wichita man has been sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of shooting his roommate to death. The Wichita Eagle reports that Michael Williams was sentenced Friday. He was convicted earlier of first-degree murder in the death of Sean Putnam, a former police officer who was shot in the head in December 2010. Williams will be eligible for parole in 25 years. His defense attorney, Steve Mank, argued before the sentencing that Williams should have a new trial because police did not disclose information that Putnam had been a suspect in alleged sexual assaults.…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) After years of financial struggles, Wichita’s Indian Center is out of debt and optimistic about the future. Officials at the Mid-America All-Indian Center say they have control of the center’s finances after debts forced the center to close in 2005. The center is sponsoring its second American Indian Festival this weekend, which highlights the diverse tribes in the Wichita region. The center opened in 1976. It briefly closed in 2005, with the city taking over its operations because of financial issues and missing artifacts. The center took out a $175,000 loan from the city and paid it…