DODGE CITY, Kan. (AP) Dodge City is preparing to welcome 16 physically challenged veterans who are riding bicycles across the country to show people that they aren’t defined by those challenges. The Sea 2 Shining Sea ride started in San Francisco on Memorial Day. It is scheduled to end in Virginia Beach on July 28. The riders will be in Dodge City Tuesday through Thursday. The Dodge City Daily Globe reports that the city has several events planned to welcome the riders. They include a welcoming line when the riders arrive, dinners and admission to some of the city’s Wild…
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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Law enforcement agencies are looking for an inmate who didn’t return to his work release facility during the weekend. The Kansas Department of Corrections says Pete Vazquez was due back from his job with a construction company Saturday evening. He was declared an escapee early Sunday. Corrections spokesman Jan Lunsford says employers often call the facility to ask that release inmates stay longer. He says somebody called on Vazquez’s behalf but it wasn’t his work supervisor. KAKE-TV reports Vazquez was serving a sentence in a Finney County theft case. He had been at the work release facility…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The first of nine defendants charged in a crime spree that resulted in one woman’s death is scheduled to go on trial. Twenty-six-year-old Anceo D. Stovall of Topeka goes on trial Monday. He faces numerous charges, with the most serious being first-degree murder in the death of 40-year-old Natalie Gibson. She and 42-year-old Lori Allison was shot outside their home last July 21. Stovall’s trial will be followed by a series of trials of other defendants scheduled from July through October. Stovall’s attorney, Jonathan Phelps, says he will present evidence that his client was not present when…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A Kansas state school board candidate who thinks the state should stop teaching evolution in its public schools also attends Westboro Baptist, the Topeka church known for anti-gay protests worldwide. Jack Wu told The Topeka Capital-Journal that he decided to run for the State Board of Education after learning that Democratic incumbent Carolyn Campbell would otherwise be unopposed for a second term. She is also from Topeka and represents the 4th District of eastern Kansas. Campbell supports the state’s current science standards, which treat evolution as a well-established, core scientific concept. But Wu’s link to the Rev.…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas City-area woman who filed a federal lawsuit over political redistricting in Kansas is asking to have more than $45,000 in legal bills covered by the state, bringing its total potential cost to more than $700,000. Robyn Renee Essex, a Republican precinct committee woman from Olathe, submitted her request to the three federal judges who heard her lawsuit and redrew the state’s political boundaries earlier this month. The judges drew new congressional, legislative and State Board of Education districts to account for population changes over the past decade because the Legislature failed to do the job.…
1) A 22 year-old victim received facial injuries and broken nose after a dispute with his 21 year-old girlfriend at their residence in Manhattan No arrests were made for the incident. 2) The Riley County Police department reported Monday that Vanessa Thomas came back on Sunday to find her ethernet card, 32 inch Samsung TV, a Toshiba laptop, 50 DVDs, Toshiba Blu Ray player, and a laptop charger all missing from her residence in the 900 block of Humbolt. Total loss was estimated around $2100. 3) Erin Downs reported to the Riley County Police Department Friday that and unknown suspect…
One last series of jumps separates K-State junior Erik Kynard from a trip to the Olympic games in London. The three-time NCAA champ in the high jump will compete in the finals on Monday night at the US Olympic Trials in Eugene, Oregon. Kynard breezed through the prelims on Saturday night as one of only four competitors to clear all three heights without a miss. He jumped 6′ 10 3/4″, 7′ 1/2″, and 7′ 1 3/4 in his first try. The top three finishers will qualify for the London Olympics next month in Monday night’s high jump finals at 7:50pm…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Carlos Beltran had three RBIs and Matt Holliday and Allen Craig each had two, powering the St. Louis Cardinals to an 11-8 victory Sunday and their first three-game sweep in Kansas City since 2009. Mike Moustakas had two home runs for the Royals, who gave up 41 hits and 30 runs to their state rivals in the three games. The previous weekend in St. Louis, the Royals won two out of three. Beltran gave the Cardinals an early lead with a three-run homer in the first, lining Jonathan Sanchez’s 0-2 pitch 389 feet over the…
SONOMA, Calif. (AP) Emporia native Clint Bowyer raced to his first victory on a road course, and first with Michael Waltrip Racing, holding off Kurt Busch at Sonoma. Bowyer dominated Sunday’s race, but defending race winner Busch was all over his bumper late. A caution with four laps remaining set up a final restart and overtime finish, and forced Bowyer to earn the victory. He raced side-by-side with Busch at the green flag, but cleared Busch and pulled away for the win. Tony Stewart passed Busch on the final lap to claim second, and Busch wound up third. Brian…