Author: KMAN Staff

Riley County Police are investigating an aggravated robbery, reported in the parking lot of a local motel Sunday afternoon. Jason Ickler, 29,  from Russell and Catlin Miller, 22,  from Claflin reported they were held at gunpoint by two males in the 500 block of Tuttle Creek Boulevard. Items taken included a wallet, keys, i.d. cards, and cash, totaling  a loss of $930. At this point, suspects are unknown and the investigation continues.  If anyone has any information contact CrimeStoppers at  539-7777. —- A man was arrested after it seems that he was trying to return stolen goods from a different location. Ronald Schneid,…

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HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) Both suspects in what authorities have described as a mistaken-identity killing in Hutchinson have now had their trials postponed. Billy Joe Craig and Charles Christopher Logsdon are charged with first-degree murder in the 2011 shooting death of Jennifer Heckel. Investigators have said they believe the men planned to rob someone else and went to the wrong house. The Hutchinson News reports that a Reno County judge granted a continuance this week for Craig, who was scheduled for trial Nov. 13. No new date was immediately set. Logsdon’s trial has been rescheduled from Sept. 24 to Oct. 22.…

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TRIBUNE, Kan. (AP) A western Kansas man is injured after crashing his fixed-wing airplane into a Greeley County cornfield. The Garden City Telegram reports 52-year-old A.B. Smith of Sharon Springs was flying the single-engine Cessna at 10:38 a.m. Friday when he lost control of the plane when banking to turn. The Kansas Highway Patrol says Smith was able to straighten out the plane and crash landed in a field near Tribune. It came to rest on its landing gear in an upright position. Smith was taken to Greeley County Hospital, which declined to release information about his condition late Friday.…

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KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) A former Wyandotte County deputy will be required to register as a sex offender after being placed on three years of probation for having sex with a female inmate. The Kansas City Star  reports 25-year-old Robert Saladrigas also will have to complete a sexual offender treatment program as a condition of his probation. Saladrigas pleaded guilty in June to one felony count of unlawful sexual relations. He was sentenced Friday in Wyandotte County District Court. His attorney called the crime, which happened in early May, a “horrible lapse of judgment” for which Saladrigas was remorseful. Saladrigas…

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A Junction City man has been arrested on first-degree murder and aggravated battery charges in connection with an early morning shooting at a National Guard armory. Police say Sterling Hickman, 33,  was taken into custody at noon Saturday. He is accused of killing 25-year-old Antonio Maxwell and shooting 30-year-old Jamaica Chism, both of Junction City. Police say the shooting happened at 3:51 a.m. Saturday at the armory, which had been rented out for an event that started at midnight and ended at 3 a.m. Maxwell was pronounced dead at Geary Community Hospital. Chism was taken to a Topeka hospital, but no…

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