TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A southeast Kansas farmer is accused of filing false income tax returns and receiving millions of dollars in refunds. The U.S. Attorney’s office says 47-year-old Jerold Fisher, of Arma, was charged Thursday with one count of filing false claims. A phone number for Fisher could not be found, and prosecutors said he did yet have an attorney. According to the charges, Fisher was a registered agent for Fisher Alfalfa Farms and prepared tax returns for himself and his mother from 2006 through 2009. Prosecutors say Fisher received a refund of more than $3.8 million after claiming he…
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Sometime between 2:15 and 2:30 pm on Friday June, 1, a call come in to the Manhattan Fire Department about a chemical spill. According to Deputy Chief of Operations Scott French, on the second floor of Mosier Hall in one of the labs, a container of nitric acid was spilled splashing one person and exposing others. The wing was closed off as the spill was taken care of in the proper manner and the acid was disposed of. The people who were in the proximity of the acid were transported to hospital for precaustionary measures and later released.
The Pottawatomie County Sheriff’s Office has located Emily Renae McGuire, the 16-year-old runaway, in Westmoreland. McGuire was taken into custody without incident and the case will be forwarded to the Pottawatomie County Attorney’s Office. Camille Marie Petit, the other 16-year-old runaway, is still missing at this time. If you have any information, contact the Pottawatomie County Sheriff’s Office at (785) 457-3353. Camille Marie Petit has also been located.
The Pottawatomie County Sheriff’s Office has taken two separate reports of runaway teens. The first is Camille Marie Petit, 16 year old Emmett resident, and the other is Emily Renae McGuire, 16 year old Westmoreland resident. Petit is believed to have left her home in Emmett without permission of her parents on Wednesday, May the 30th. She is 5′ 6″ and weighs about 120 lbs. She had red hair and brown eyes. She has other family in the Wamego area. McGuire is believed to have left her home in Westmoreland without permission of her parent on Thursday, May 31st. She is 5′ 1″ and weighs about 100 lbs. She has…
With elections coming this year. filings for various positions keep rolling in. The Riley County Commission second district seat is among those being contended for, and a new challenger has joined the race, Scott Seel. The seat is to be vacated by Commissioner Al Johnson in January of 2013.
1. According to Riley county police reports a Riley County residence was burglarized with an estimated loss of over 10-thousand dollars. 66-year-old Lonnie Foreman of 329 North Noble told police that sometime between the 26th and 30th of May his house was broken into, and several items were taken from the home. One of the items reported stolen was a silver dollar gold metric valued at 10-thousand dollars. Captain Kurt Moldrup of the Riley county police department says the case is still under investigation, and no arrests have been made at this time. 2. A Salina man was arrested by…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas Revenue Department says the state collected nearly $27 million less in taxes than expected in May. The agency reported Thursday that May’s tax collections totaled slightly more than $564 million. Economists and researchers had forecast last month that May revenues would total nearly $591 million. Officials attributed the lower-than-expected figure to a slowing of growth in individual income tax receipts. Still, Kansas Revenue Secretary Nick Jordan says revenues through the first 10 months of the current fiscal year totaled $5.4 billion an increase of 8 percent over the same period a year ago.
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) A 20-year-old Kansas man faces nearly three years in prison after pleading no contest to blackmailing a former girlfriend to get her to send him provocative pictures of herself. Todd Murphy, of Hutchinson, was originally charged with sexual exploitation of a child for a September 2010 incident involving a 16-year-old girl. The Hutchinson News reports that Murphy pleaded Wednesday to the lesser charge, which was amended by Reno County district attorney Keith Schroeder after he spoke with the girl’s family. Schroeder says Murphy hacked into the girl’s email account and obtained a picture of her in a…