GLEN ELDER, Kan. (AP) Crews have been searching a north-central Kansas lake for a missing boater. KAKE-TV reports that the man fell out of the boat Saturday on Waconda Lake in Mitchell County. Authorities say another man who was in the boat was rescued early Sunday morning. The two men were boating on the lake late Saturday night when their boat capsized. The Mitchell County Sheriff’s department says the search was continuing Sunday evening for the missing man.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback and legislative leaders are considering whether to grant permission for the state to issue bonds to help finance a visitor center at the Statehouse. The proposal on their agenda Monday is part of a larger plan to help finish a Statehouse renovation that has lasted 12 years and cost $320 million. State budget director Steve Anderson outlined the proposal last week. It also calls for tapping $7 million in transportation funds for work on the Statehouse grounds. Anderson said in a memo that an additional $5 million in savings from other parts of…
WICHITA, Kan. — A Wichita man has been sentenced to 320 months in federal prison for enticing a 14-year-old girl to send him nude photos of herself, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today. Shane M. McClelland, 26, Wichita, Kan., was convicted in a jury trial in May on one count of producing child pornography. During trial, prosecutors presented evidence that McCelland used the Internet to strike up a relationship with a 14-year-old girl in Batavia, N.Y. At McClelland’s request, the girl sent photographs of herself naked to McClelland. The mother of one of the girl’s friends became aware of…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A prosecutor is close to deciding whether to file charges over illegal homemade fireworks found in a pickup parked near the Kansas Statehouse in February. A spokeswoman says Shawnee County District Attorney Chad Taylor expects to make a decision in the coming week. The pickup’s owner was detained but released from custody the same day after officers saw the fireworks in the vehicle in a parking lot south of the Capitol. The Capitol Police initially described the materials as improvised explosive devices, or homemade bombs. The owner was detained in a tunnel connecting the Statehouse to a…
LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) Law enforcement officers are looking for a man who escaped from the minimum security unit at the U.S. Penitentiary in Leavenworth. Prison officials say 49-year-old Joel Rodriguez was missing from his assigned quarters Sunday afternoon. The prison’s statement gave no information on how he might have escaped. Rodriguez was sentenced this year to 98 months in prison for selling drugs. He began serving his sentence on March 28. He is considered non-violent.
SUNRISE BEACH, Mo. (AP) A young Kansas girl drowned while on a family vacation at the Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri. The Missouri State Highway Patrol’s water division says the body of 6-year old Grace Shaw was found floating in the lake Sunday morning. She was from Stillwell, Kan. The patrol says the child wandered away from the family before she drowned. Her body was found near a dock at the lake’s Chimney Point Cove.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) More than 5 inches of rain fell over the weekend, bringing the parched Quivira National Wildlife Refuge back to life. Barry Jones, a specialist at the refuge in Stafford County, says the basins there held no water until the rains began on Thursday and fell through Sunday. Jones says more than 8,000 ducks swooped into the refuge while the rains filled nearly every basin. Rattlesnake Creek, which feeds the wetlands, was flowing again after not flowing for months. The Wichita Eagle reports the rain provides hope that the birds will arrive for their annual fall migration, which…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas Revenue Secretary Nick Jordan says the state is withholding part of the payment to the company responsible for the new motor vehicle registration system while problems are being resolved. Glitches have forced residents throughout Kansas to wait in long lines to renew their tags since the $40 million system went online in May. Jordan told the Topeka Capital-Journal on Monday the final 10 percent of a $25 million contract with 3M Co. is being withheld. There’s no timetable for making the payment. However, the Department of Revenue is delaying the next phase of its computer modernization…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A Kansas woman who drove the getaway car following a January holdup in Wichita has been sentenced to 29 months in federal prison. The U.S. Attorney’s office says Brittany Holt (23), of Topeka, was sentenced Monday for aiding and abetting armed robbery. In her guilty plea, Holt admitted driving David Johnson to a Subway sandwich shop in Wichita where Johnson showed a replica of a handgun and demanded money. Holt then led officers from several agencies on a half-hour chase at speeds up to 100 mph. She and Johnson were stopped in Butler County. Johnson was sentenced…
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) The University of Kansas Law School is receiving an $800,000 donation aimed partly at helping Kansas residents attend the school. Officials announced the gift from David and Debbi Elkouri on Monday. The Elkouris live in Wichita and Houston. Of the total, $500,000 will establish the Elkouri Family Scholarship Fund through KU Endowment. The other $300,000 will support scholarships for Kansas law students. One law student from Kansas will receive a $16,000 scholarship each year. David Elkouri says the university is losing qualified Kansas applicants to other law schools, many of them out of state. David Elkouri earned…