WINFIELD, Kan. (AP) A box truck that two inmates used to escape from the Winfield Correctional Facility in south-central Kansas has been found abandoned about 15 miles away. The Kansas Department of Corrections said in a news release that the truck sustained a blowout northeast of Rock and was found Sunday morning. The discovery was made one day after corrections officials identified 52-year-old Robert Cook and 48-year-old Frank Crutchfield as missing. Now, officials say a truck belonging to the nearby city of Douglass is missing and that the fugitives are suspected of taking it. The vehicle is described as a…
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HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) Tourists are flocking to sign up for vacation packages filled with storm chasing. For them it’s a trip of a lifetime, but some emergency workers find the tour groups a nuisance during what can be life and death situations. Rush County Emergency Management Director Jim Fisher recalled what happened in early May, the night a tornado wrapped in a wall of rain was about to flow through LaCrosse. When he needed to move some storm spotters down a county road, it was blocked by a tour van and a group of sightseers with tripods set up in…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Hundreds of Kansas inmates sentenced before new guidelines took effect in 1993 are serving prison terms that would have been much shorter under today’s law. The Wichita Eagle reported that the news guidelines generally called for shorter sentences for property crimes and longer ones for crimes of violence. The Kansas Legislature decided to apply the guidelines retroactively to more than 2,000 inmates who were serving time for relatively minor offenses. But more than 4,000 inmates convicted of more serious crimes were left to serve out their original sentences. The sentencing guidelines law in effect created two classes…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Efforts to take World War II veterans to see the war’s memorial in Washington are in flux in Kansas. The Wichita Eagle reported that one organization that conducted the free flights is on the verge of disappearing, and another is trying to replace it. Problems came to a head after Springfield, Ohio-based Honor Flight decided it no longer wanted Great Bend-based Central Prairie Honor Flights to help organize trips for the national network. Issues included a veteran breaking a rib after falling out of a top bunk bed in April 2011 and reports being filed late. Two…
Members of the nominating commission called in each of the eight attornies one by one to be interviewed for the 21st District Judicial Judge position. Individuals interviewed for the position were Grant Bannister, Amy Bipes, John Bosch, Sheila Hochhauser, Kendra Lewison, Kassie McEntire, and Phylemon Chuen-Man Yau. As they each stood before the panel of commissioners, they were asked to give an opening statement and a little bit of their background. After sharing their prepared speeches, the commissioners then asked them questions. All 8 interviews were completed by 1:00 p.m. and the commissioners then went into executive session. By 2:00…
MANHATTAN, Kan. – The capital murder trial of Luis Aguirre, accused of killing his ex-girlfriend and infant son, began on Monday inside Riley County District Court. In his opening statement, Riley County Attorney Barry Wilkerson said that the state will attempt to prove that Aguirre premeditated the murders of 18-year old Tanya Maldonado and the couple’s 13-month old son Juan in the Fall of 2009. The first man to the stand was Terry Lee Berrent, a 10-year Manhattan resident who first discovered the remains of Tanya and Juan in a shallow grave just east of Ogden, Kan., on Oct. 25, 2009. Berrent testified…
On Friday, Sal Tucker, 47, was driving his green, 1991, Ford F150 with a trailer, westbound on Fort Riley Boulevard. At one point, one of the wheels on the trailer left the road and got stuck in mud and clay causing the trailer and truck to flip over and block both lanes of traffic. Tucker was transported to Mercy Regional Health Center with shoulder and torso pain. He was treated and released. The Riley County Police Department believe alcohol is to be a factor.
1.) A series of aggravated burglaries in the Eugenie Field area are causing eyebrows to raise both at the Riley County Police Department and for local residents. The string of incidents started Thursday between the hours of 9 p.m. and 9 a.m. Sheila, 76, and Joseph Mills, 78, reported to the RCPD that their screen window had been slashed at 1723 Fairview Ave. Nothing was missing from the home. On Friday another aggravated burglary was reported, this time at 1730 Fairview Rd. around 2 a.m. Artyce Hendrick, 65, reported to the RCPD that $50 was missing from the home. Then around 4…
By Sgt. Gene Arnold, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team Public Affairs PAKTIKA PROVINCE, Afghanistan (June 16, 2012) – The 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, from Fort Riley, Kan., completed a transfer of authority with the 172D Infantry Brigade in eastern Afghanistan’s Paktika Province, June 16. The 4IBCT “Dragon” Brigade, 1st Inf. Div., has taken the charge of advising and assisting the local Afghan National Security Forces and government, which are already leading the way to success. “Our mission over the next few months is to maintain the momentum of the campaign that 172D Infantry Brigade has…
About 400 motorcyclists participated in the Governor’s Flint Hills Freedom ride, which began at the Statehouse and ended up in Wamego Saturday afternoon. Governor Sam Brownback tells KMAN it was a fun way to raise money for some good causes. An estimated $50,000 was raised for three causes as part of Governor Sam Brownback’s Flint Hills freedom ride Saturday. The event started at the State Capital, with a stop in Alma, and ending in Wamego. In addition to raising money, the Governor says the ride is another effort to draw attention to tourism. The causes benefiting from the ride included…