A Riley County man is dead, the victim of an apparent homicide. Riley County Police responded to what was initially reported as an injury accident in the area of 7th and Walnut in Ogden around 10:30 p.m. Friday night. Officers arrived to find a citizen administering CPR to the victim, Ronald Taylor, 28, of Ogden, who had apparently been shot prior to driving into a residence. An ambulance then took Taylor to Irwin Army hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Neighbors in the area reported hearing shots in the area, but no one was able to pinpoint the location of the shooting.…
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline says a disciplinary panel’s recommendation that his law license be suspended indefinitely is part of an effort to punish him for investigating abortion providers. Thursday’s report by a three-member panel of the state Board for Discipline of Attorneys says Kline repeatedly violated professional ethics standards. It also says he and his subordinates misled other officials to further their investigations of abortion providers. In a statement emailed to The Associated Press, Kline said he’s being targeted for what he called his “willingness to investigate politically powerful people” a reference to abortion providers.…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) The state of Kansas is opposing Dodge City clinic’s request for a federal court injunction forcing the state to restore its federal family planning funds. The state says the order would be an “affront” to its sovereignty. The arguments came in documents filed Thursday in a lawsuit by Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri over a new state law that stripped its federal funds for family planning. The unaffiliated Dodge City Family Planning Clinic joined the lawsuit this week, saying it lost its funding as “collateral damage” to a law targeting Planned Parenthood. The state asked the…
OTTAWA, Kan. (AP) An eastern Kansas sheriff’s office has lost its second deputy in four months after 28-year-old Russel Geist died of unknown reasons. Franklin County Sheriff Jeff Curry said Thursday that Geist fell ill Wednesday morning and died at an Ottawa hospital that night. The Lawrence Journal-World reports Geist was the son of retired Ottawa Police Detective Rick Geist. Curry says the younger Geist started work with the Sheriff’s Office in 2005 and was promoted to deputy in September 2010. Franklin County Deputy Samuel Smith died in July when his patrol car left the road and hit a tree…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas officials have lifted advisories about high levels of blue-green algae in some lakes, but warnings remain in place for others. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment says algae levels have declined at Milford Lake, Dillon Park Lake near Hutchinson, Harvey County Camp Hawk Lake and Augusta’s Santa Fe Lake. Warnings remain in place for Memorial Park Lake in Great Bend, Harvey County West Lake and Warnock Lake in Atchison County. Additionally, advisories remain for the Augusta City Lake, Harvey County East Lake and Logan City Lake in Phillips County. Blue-green algae become a problem when…
OLATHE, Kan. (AP) A Johnson County deputy fatally shot a man who was fleeing from arrest. The sheriff’s office says in a news release that the deputy on Thursday evening saw a vehicle facing the wrong direction on a city street. When the deputy went a check on the car, a man ran away. Another deputy who caught up with the man fired his gun. The man was dead at the scene. The department did not release any other details. Neither deputy was injured.
PITTSBURG, Kan. (AP) Three suspects have been arrested in the shooting death of a 21-year-old Pittsburg man. Police say they are looking for a fourth suspect in the Oct. 6 death of Ryan Clay Arlan Bailey at a home in Pittsburg. The three people arrested Thursday by Joplin, Mo., police are 22-year-old Rickey Ramone Smith, 18-year-old Oscar DeLeon, and 18-year-old Randu Rivera, all of Joplin. They are charged with first-degree murder and are currently jailed in Joplin on bond warrants. It was not immediately clear if the three suspects had attorneys. The Pittsburg Morning-Sun reports that police are looking for…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) A mental health center in Kansas City, Kan., will close temporarily after failing a state fire inspection. Kansas officials say Rainbow Mental Health will close while it completes about six months of work to fix the worst fire hazards. However, an eight-bed unit will continue to operate. Eight patients will be able to stay as long as four days before being moved to a state mental hospital in Osawatomie if needed. Rainbow Mental Health has 36 beds to house mentally ill people brought in by Wyandotte and Johnson counties. The Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation…
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) It will cost adults more to attend next year’s Kansas State Fair but tickets for children and the elderly will stay the same. Fair officials said Thursday that adult ticket prices will increase from $8 to $10 at the gate and from $5 to $6 for advance tickets. Tickets for children aged 5 to 12 will remain at $3 in advance and $4 at the gate. Those 60 and older will pay $4 and $6, respectively. Fair general manager Denny Stoecklein says the fair resisted raising ticket prices in recent years because of the struggling economy. But…