DERBY, Kan. (AP) One person has been killed and another hurt in an all-terrain vehicle accident near the south-central Kansas town of Derby. The Wichita Eagle reports that the accident was reported at 9:10 p.m. Friday. Emergency dispatchers said one person on the four-wheeler was killed and another suffered potentially serious injuries but did not require hospitalization. The Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the cause of the accident.
Author: KMAN Staff
A roll-over accident caused by a distracted driver caused a slight delay on Fort Riley Blvd and an injury. As KMAN news previously announced on Saturday, at approximately 4:30 p.m., a roll-over accident occured on Fort Riley Blvd and Scenic Drive, near Stagg Hill. Hannah Byun, an 18 year old from Junction City, was driving her 2006 Pontiac G6 Eastbound on Fort Riley Blvd. She was attempting to change the song on her iphone when she swerved to miss a traffic cone. She overcompensated, and clipped a 2000 GMC Yukon driven by Michael Packer, 48, also of Junction City. Byun’s car then…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) The Army is taking over the prosecution of a Missouri soldier accused of killing a man the day before attending his wife’s funeral. The Kansas City Star reported that 22-year-old Justin Cannon of Peculiar faces military charges that include murder. They were filed Friday, the same day Missouri dropped its case. The killing happened last summer when Cannon returned to the Kansas City-area to attend the funeral of his 16-year-old wife, Amber. Her death was ruled an overdose. Authorities allege Cannon was camping when he struck 24-year-old Michael Griggs in the head with a rock, killing…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A Kansas lawmaker says there’s no need to talk about new home schooling requirements, despite plans made last month by the state Board of Education to have that discussion. House-Senate Legislative Educational Planning Committee chairman Steve Huebert says several board members have heard of children being kept at home to baby-sit younger siblings. But he told the Lawrence Journal-World that current state law is adequate to investigate such claims without having to consider new laws to address the issue. Board of Education member Sue Storm says board members have been “hammered” by people who support home schooling.…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas officials say incidents of sexual misconduct against inmates at the state’s prison for women have been rare since the start of 2011. Corrections Secretary Ray Roberts said Friday he was surprised by a finding from the U.S. Justice Department that characterized such problems at the Topeka Correctional Facility as rampant. The finding was contained in a letter Thursday to Gov. Sam Brownback. Brownback said Friday the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division didn’t take into account what he called aggressive steps taken since January 2011 to address the problems. The prison’s warden, Hope Cooper, said since the…
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) A Kansas man’s complaint about money getting lost in the mail didn’t quite get the result he hoped for. Federal prosecutors say the Lawrence man told postal authorities that he mailed about $10,000 to California, but the cash somehow went astray. According to court documents, investigators learned the man was allegedly buying marijuana from California by mail, then distributing it in Kansas. State and federal agents raided his home in April and reported finding about $7,100, plus more than a pound of marijuana and drug sales paraphernalia. Federal prosecutors filed a civil lawsuit Thursday seeking forfeiture of…
SALINA, Kan. (AP) A 42-year-old central Kansas man has been sentenced to nearly 19 years in prison for killing his wife and attempting to kill his sister-in-law. The Salina Journal reported that Judge Rene Young heard emotional statements from the victims’ families and friends Friday before imposing the maximum sentence against Michael Andrew Paulson. Paulson was convicted in July of second-degree murder in the 2010 stabbing death of Valerie Paulson. He also was found guilty of attempted second-degree murder for injuring his sister-in-law, Jessie Putman. Prosecutors said Paulson was facing the prospect of divorce and hid with a knife in…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Kansas Congressman Mike Pompeo says conservative victories in the state are a model for the rest of the nation. Pompeo and other members of the state’s all-Republican congressional delegation appeared Friday at a joint meeting of the Kansas Chamber of Commerce and the Wichita Metro Chamber of Commerce. Campaign money from the two business groups helped conservative Republicans defeat moderate members of the GOP in last month’s Kansas primaries. Pompeo says the nation faces a clear choice in the November elections, much as Kansas faced in the Republican primary. Several other members of the delegation agreed with…
Several drivers had to be pulled from their vehicles around Phoenix by fire crews.The National Weather Service issued flash flood warnings Friday for parts of Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix.
Republicans are fueling their attacks on President Barack Obama Friday with the latest job numbers, which show that fewer than 100,000 jobs were created last month.