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…
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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.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas revenue officials say the state collected $62 million more in taxes than expected in January. A preliminary report Thursday from the Department of Revenue says January’s tax collections totaled nearly $635 million almost 11 percent above an official forecast for the month. The report also says the state collected about $3.7 billion in the first seven months of the current fiscal year. That’s $95 million more than officials had expected. January’s larger-than-expected collections are likely to dramatically shrink the projected $267 million gap between anticipated revenues and current spending commitments for the fiscal year that starts…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The chief justice of the Kansas Supreme Court is asking legislators to spend more money to improve the operations of the court system and allow more flexibility in assigning district judges. Chief Justice Lawton Nuss submitted his annual State of the Judiciary message Thursday in writing. The chief justice has traditionally delivered the address in a speech to the Legislature. But House Speaker Ray Merrick blocked the speech this year, saying lawmakers’ time could be better spent on other things. Nuss says additional funds to help the court system modernize its case management system would improve its…
TIPTON, Kan. (AP) A Salina hospital official sustained minor injuries when he was accidentally shot during a weekend hunting excursion in northern Kansas. The Salina Journal reports that Joel Phelps, chief operating officer of Salina Regional Health Center, suffered pellet injuries mostly to his legs in the accident Saturday. Phelps says he was injured when another hunter tripped and the gun that hunter was carrying discharged. He declined to name the other hunter. A Salina trauma surgeon who was also part of the hunting group treated Phelps at the ranch and said the wounds were superficial. Phelps says he was…