KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) The Kansas City Royals have put infielder Yuniesky Betancourt on the disabled list with a sprained right ankle and purchased the contract of Irving Falu from Triple-A Omaha. The move was made before Thursday night’s game against the New York Yankees. Betancourt hurt the ankle toward the end of spring training, but still managed to play in 15 of the Royals’ first 23 games. He was hitting .280 with a homer and three RBIs. Falu has spent parts of 10 seasons in the minors and was in his fourth straight year at Omaha, where he…
Author: KMAN Staff
Federal indictments in Topeka include one for a Geary County case that occurred last month. Fidel Hernandez-Jaracuaro, 42, who is not a United States citizen, is charged with unlawfully re-entering the country after being convicted of an aggravated felony and deported. Hernanez-Jaracuaro was found in Geary county April fourth. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison and a fine up to 250-thousand dollars. The Department of Homeland Security investigated the case.
A man convicted in a 1982 Riley county second degree murder case has apparently been passed over for parole. Michael Long, 58, was sentenced in March of 1983 in connection with the case, occurring in August of 1982. Long’s next possible release date is May of 2014. He is currently incarcerated at the Larned Correctional Mental Health Facility and has been there most of the 29 years he’s served.
State House Representative Sharon Schwartz, a Rep. from Washington, Kan., has notified the public that she has filed for re-election. Schwartz has served eight terms in the position since being first elected in 1997. “It’s important that we have somebody who can be a credible voice for agriculture and rural Kansas and I feel like I still have that to offer,” Schwartz said. Schwartz serves as representative for the 106th District which includes the northern part of Riley County. She is the chairman of the Agriculture and Natural Resources Budget Committee and the Vice Chair of the Joint Committee on Pensions, Investments, and Benefits.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A Kansas woman has filed a federal lawsuit over the state Legislature’s failure so far to redraw the state’s political boundaries. Robyn Renee Essex, a resident of the Kansas City suburb of Olathe, filed her litigation Thursday in U.S. District Court. She argues the state’s existing political boundaries violate her constitutional rights because they haven’t been adjusted yet to account for changes in population over the past decade. One of her attorneys, Brent Haden, of Columbia, Mo., is a former chief of staff to Kansas House Speaker Mike O’Neal, a Hutchinson Republican. In the lawsuit, Essex expressed…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A Wichita man has pleaded guilty to bank fraud in which he stole more than $1 million. U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said in a statement Thursday that 59-year-old John Kammerer pleaded guilty to one count of bank fraud. Kammerer admitted that while working as a controller for Network Results of Kansas, he accessed the company’s bank account to steal more than $1.2 million. The fraud involved Kammerer issuing checks to the account of HMK Enterprises, which he controlled. Sentencing is set for July 19. He faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison and forfeiture…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) An anti-abortion group says it has been given abortion records that were improperly discarded at a clinic in Kansas City, Kan. Operation Rescue said Wednesday a confidential informant delivered the records from Central Family Medicine to the organization. The records involve 86 women and minors treated at the clinic in April. The Kansas City Star reports clinic officials said Wednesday that a locked trash bin was broken into last week but no records were improperly discarded. The clinic’s attorney said Kansas City, Kan., police and the FBI have been notified. Operation Rescue president Troy Newman says…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) A 19-year-old man is charged with killing two people and wounding two others in separate shootings in Kansas City, Kan. Wyandotte County prosecutors charged Eric D. Clay Wednesday with two counts of first-degree murder in the March 4 shooting deaths of 16-year-old Renesha Jones and 21-year-old Keith E. Barrett. Barrett, of Kansas City, Kan., and Jones, of Kansas City, Mo., were killed at an apartment in a shooting that also wounded a baby. Prosecutors also charged Clay with two counts of criminal discharge of a firearm for shootings in January and February that injured two women.…