TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A Topeka man is being held on suspicion of murder, sexual assault and other charges in the killing of an 8-year-old girl. Police found the body of Ahliyah Irvin around 5:45 a.m. Tuesday in the same southeast Topeka apartment complex where family members reported her missing about 45 minutes earlier. Authorities have not said how the girl was killed or exactly where in the apartment complex she was found. But WIBW-TV reports that Police Chief Ron Miller describes the crime as “particularly heinous.” About 50 officers converged Tuesday morning on a school district building after a suspicious…
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GALENA, Kan. (AP) Authorities in southeastern Kansas have one person in custody as they investigate a fatal shooting. The Cherokee County News-Advocate reports that several people called 911 shortly before midnight Monday reporting a shooting in Galena. Officers found a wounded man at the scene and took him to a hospital in Joplin, Mo., where he died early Tuesday. He’s identified as 32-year-old Justin Eakes. The Cherokee County Sheriff’s Department says a 38-year-old man was arrested and held on suspicion of voluntary manslaughter. Charges are expected later in the week. Details about the two men’s relationship were being withheld while…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) A California man is going to prison for the armed holdup of a Dodge City bank in October 2010. The U.S. Attorney’s office says 33-year-old Angel Garcia Aguirre, of Santa Paula, Calif., was sentenced Tuesday to 12 years and three months behind bars. Garcia Aguirre pleaded guilty last year to one count each of bank robbery and brandishing a firearm, admitting he and another man robbed a Bank of America branch in Dodge City on Oct. 21, 2010. He said he stood in the lobby while the other man jumped over a teller’s counter and grabbed…
While it’s been a fairly mild winter, the deadline for the Low Income Energy Assistance program, otherwise known as LIEAP is approaching. The Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services will be accepting applications for LIEAP through Friday, March 30. Applications must be received in the LIEAP Processing Center or a SRS office by close of business on March 30. LIEAP provides an annual benefit to help qualifying households pay their winter heating bills. The primary groups assisted through the program are people with disabilities, the elderly and families with children. An average benefit of $262.97 will be received by…
Governor Sam Brownback’s 2013 fiscal plan requested that Pawnee Mental Health and Services eliminate their family centered systems of care. Robbin Cole, Executive Director of Pawnee, explained to Riley County Commissioners earlier this week this will put a strain on Pawnee considering they would lose $300,000 from their budget starting in July. The Family Centered Systems of Care is a $5 million budget item that comes from tobacco settlement dollars. This allows community mental health centers to provide critical support to children with serious emotional disturbances and their families. “In terms of the impact, locally,” Cole said. “The potential elimination…
Riley County Emergency Preparedness officials took the state-wide tornado drill directly to Amanda Arnold Elementary school Tuesday afternoon, with the grand prize winner of a poster contest pushing the siren button during the 1:30 test. Jamie Kim is a kindergartner at Amanda Arnold, and County Emergency Management Coordinator Laurie Harrison says Kim’s selection as grand prize winner speaks highly of her message. Other winners in the same kindergarten class were Avery Freeman and Brynn Ray. Teacher Deb Shepek tells KMAN Kim says she wants to be an artist someday .Shepek adds the children have been learning about what to do in…
KMAN’s Chris Swick takes a look at Your Farm for KMAN’s Morning News.
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – A six-run fourth inning that was highlighted by Wade Hinkle’s first career grand slam and a tremendous effort out of the bullpen by Gerardo Esquivel sent Kansas State to a 9-5 victory over Minnesota Tuesday evening at the Metrodome. The Wildcats, who moved to 10-6 on the season, earned their first ever win at Minnesota in four tries and won for just the second time in nine games against the Golden Gophers. Minnesota fell to 7-9 with the loss. Hinkle, who was 2-for-5 with a career-best five RBI, recorded the big hit in the fourth after the two…
KMAN’s Chris Swick takes a look at Your Health for KMAN’s Morning News.