Aurora, Colorado shooting suspect James Holmes is due in court on Monday morning. A public defender has been appointed for him.
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Last week’s extreme heat didn’t deter area police in certifying in a specialized skill. Click here to see Video of training event.
President Barack Obama dashed to Colorado on Sunday to meet with families of those gunned down in a movie theater and to hear from state and local officials about the shooting that left 12 people dead and dozens more injured.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A man has suffered series injuries after crashing a car while fleeing from Topeka police. The Topeka Capital-Journal reported that the chase started early Saturday when an officer attempted to pull over the car for a traffic violation. Lt. Scott Gilchrist says the driver fled through a residential neighborhood before his vehicle flipped over. The driver was ejected and taken by ambulance to a nearby hospital with serious injuries.
On Saturday morning Riley County Police arrested an Ogden man near the 300 block of North Park in Ogden Kansas for multiple alleged violations. 22-year-old Christopher Ray was arrested near his residence at approximately 06:00. According to police reports Ray endangered a child, committed criminal damage to property, and intimidated witnesses. Ray is being held by police without bond.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The northeast Kansas town of Harveyville is firming up plans to rebuild after its historic church building was destroyed in a killer tornado. The Topeka Capital-Journal reported that a building committee for the Wabaunsee County town’s United Methodist Church met this past week to talk about the project. Plans call for a one-story structure to be built on the same land where the former building stood for more than 100 years. It was leveled nearly five months ago in an EF2 tornado packing winds of 120 to 130 mph. One person was killed in the tornado, and…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) The University of Kansas School of Medicine has an unusual request for businesses. The school’s Wichita campus wants to sort through their trash as part of a project aimed at reducing the amount of waste going to landfills. The trash assessments are free and take about an hour to complete. The Wichita Eagle reported that funding for the program comes through an Environmental Protection Agency cooperative agreement. Participating businesses face no addition regulations but can receive recognition for reducing their waste. School officials say they had an assessment performed on the school last summer and a follow-up…
The Olympic torch began its tour of London on Saturday, and thousands of people turned out to watch the flame begin its seven-day trip of the Olympic host city.
The famed statue of Joe Paterno was taken down from outside the Penn State football stadium, eliminating a key piece of the iconography surrounding the once-sainted football coach accused of burying child sex abuse allegations.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Sedgwick County has agreed to pay $20,000 to settle a lawsuit that alleged a deputy was at fault in a police pursuit that killed two men from the south-central Kansas town of Haysville. The Wichita Eagle reports that the lawsuit was filed last year by the estate of Beau Blake. He was a 25-year-old passenger in a fleeing Camero that collided with a soybean truck in 2009. The car’s 19-year-old driver, Colton Emerson, also died. The lawsuit named commissioners and the pursuing deputy. It said the deputy violated policy by not using emergency lights and driving in…