KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) A northeastern Kansas man has been sentenced to more than five years in federal prison for buying child pornography from a supplier in Italy. The U.S. Attorney’s office says 57-year-old Daniel Aldridge, of Overland Park, was also fined $12,500 under the sentence he received Tuesday. Aldridge pleaded guilty earlier to one count of receiving child pornography. The investigation began in 2007 when Interpol agents investigated a suspected child porn ring in more than 30 countries. U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom says investigators found Aldridge’s name among 50,000 emails between the Italian supplier and his customers. Prosecutors say…
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LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) Ten members of the Occupy Lawrence movement pleaded not guilty to violating city park hours. The protesters made their first court appearance Tuesday. They rejected a plea offer of a $200 fine, $60 in court costs, a six-month-suspended jail sentence and a year of unsupervised probation. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that the protesters’ next court appearance was scheduled for Dec. 12. The 10 people were ticketed last month for violating city park hours after protest members began camping in South Park. The group was told on Oct. 25 that it could no longer stay overnight in the…
BALDWIN CITY, Kan. (AP) A King James Bible from a collection at Baker University is featured on the cover of December’s National Geographic. The university said in a news release Wednesday that the Bible is from the university’s William A. Quayle Bible Collection. The magazine’s cover story commemorates the 400th anniversary of the King James version of the Bible. Baker said in a news release that the university’s Quayle Bible Collection includes several examples of the King James Bible, including two copies of the first edition from 1611. The collection began with a 1925 gift from the estate of Bishop…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A Wichita woman was found not guilty by reason of mental disease in the stabbing death of a friend. A Sedgwick County District Court jury on Wednesday found Catie Collins not guilty of second-degree murder in the death of 20-year-old Boston Sicard last year. The jury found Collins guilty of misdemeanor battery. Collins’ attorney argued during the trial that Collins believed she was acting in self-defense when she stabbed Sicard on Sept. 11, 2010 during an argument. The Wichita Eagle reports that testimony during the trial indicated Collins suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, bipolar disorder and was…
LANSING, Kan. (AP) Two men who escaped from the Lansing Correctional Facility turned themselves in to police. Prison officials say 28-year-old Matthew Glen Allender and 22-year-old Chad Duane Amack surrendered to police Wednesday night in Kansas City, Kan. They had escaped from the prison’s minimum security unit on Tuesday. Amack is serving a 23-month sentence for theft and aggravated burglary in Shawnee County. Allender is serving a 23-month sentence for a theft case from Shawnee County.
HAYS, Kan. (AP) A Kansas woman who received national attention when she graduated from Fort Hays State University at the age of 95 is still taking classes. But Nola Ochs is taking time this week to celebrate her 100th birthday. The weeklong celebration began Tuesday, when she was a special guest at a Fort Hays basketball game. Ochs, of Jetmore, earned a bachelor’s degree from Fort Hays in 2007. At the time, she was the world’s oldest graduate. She earned a master’s degree in 2010, and is still taking classes this semester. The Hays Daily News reports that her actual…
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) Officials at Lawrence Memorial Hospital are anticipating a federal investigation and possible fine after an online security breach potentially compromised 8,000 patients’ financial information. The Lawrence Journal World reported that the hospital mailed letters to patients this week. The problem occurred in September when a company that hosts the hospital’s online bill paying service was doing a system upgrade. The company apparently left a portal open that contained payment records from 28 patients. That information was accessed by Google, which then cached the page and kept the information public. Hospital officials also believe that portal provided a…
The Manhattan – Ogden school board had a lot of issues to tackle during their regular business meeting, but they were given a surprise. Doug Jaeger, CEO of Adolfson and Peterson Construction, presented a check to the board and told them that A & P was going to renovate the concession stand since there wasn’t funds allocated to that project. Even with this news, the board had a lot to discuss. The board started the night with a work session concerning the Manhattan High School East project. The board was shown the diagrams that were spelled out in the green…
Kansas State University’s public safety team cleaned up after a small explosion of waste bottles in an agronomy laboratory early this morning. No one was in the laboratory at the time, and no one was injured. Steve Galitzer, the university’s director for public safety, said a custodian in Throckmorton Hall heard noise in a laboratory around 6 a.m. The university’s public safety team was called in and found that a waste bottle overpressurized, causing other bottles nearby to rupture. Galitzer said the team has cleaned up the lab and turned it back over to the researcher. The team is not…