TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A Topeka man will be sentenced May 8 for a fatal shooting during an attempted robbery. A Shawnee County jury on Tuesday convicted Kyree Mashon McClelland of first-degree murder and four other felonies in the August shooting of 32-year-old Timothy James Stone. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that testimony at the trial indicated that Stone was shot during a struggle with McClelland and another man after McClelland had pulled a gun and demanded money. McClelland was severely beaten and had to be put into a medically induced coma to help with recovery from blunt force trauma to the…
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WESTWOOD, Kan. (AP) Patient growth is prompting the University of Kansas Hospital to expand more quickly than planned. In July 2010, the hospital’s board approved a plan to open a 32-bed patient unit and build two new floors for future expansion at its Center for Advanced Heart Care in Kansas City, Kan. The Lawrence Journal-World reports a new plan calls for adding 84 beds to the hospital on all three new floors. The hospital’s authority board was told Tuesday that the entire space will be filled in by this summer. Hospital officials say when the $56.7 million project is done,…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) A woman was killed and a man suffered minor injuries when they were hit by a vehicle in Kansas City, Kan. Police said the woman and man were walking in the road when they were hit Tuesday evening. The driver stopped and stayed at the scene until police arrived. The women’s identity has not been released.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Police in Wichita say three teenage girls who plotted to escape from a juvenile detention facility instead found themselves being evacuated wearing nothing but towels. The Wichita Eagle reports the girls, ages 16 and 17, soaked a washcloth in a flammable liquid and set it on fire in a vent Monday night. Police Lt. Doug Nolte says they planned to slip out when the center was evacuated because of the fire alarm. When the smoke detector didn’t immediately go off, they jumped into the shower to cover their absence. That’s when the fire alarm went off. The…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Committees in the Kansas House and Senate are facing critical votes on legislation redrawing the state’s political boundaries. The House Redistricting Committee scheduled a debate and a vote Wednesday on a bill adjusting the outlines of the state’s four U.S. House districts. The Senate approved a bipartisan plan last month, but Republican Gov. Sam Brownback and many GOP legislators don’t like it. It would leave Congresswoman Lynn Jenkins, the senior member of the state’s all-Republican delegation in the U.S. House, with a slightly more Democratic district. The Senate Reapportionment Committee’s agenda Wednesday called for votes on separate…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A federal judge has granted a Nebraska gas firm immediate access to 9,100 condemned acres in south-central Kansas at the center of a fight over gas seeping from the company’s underground storage facility. U.S. District Judge Monti Belot on Tuesday issued a preliminary injunction sought by Northern Natural Gas Co. prohibiting owners of gas wells on the properties from using them to develop other underground formations. Northern wants to use the existing wells to inject water underground to stem the seepage of gas from storage. It also wants authority to enter affected properties. Belot’s order requires the…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The first tax bill of the 2012 session is one House vote away from going to the Kansas Senate, where prospects are less than certain. House members will take a final vote Wednesday on the measure that would reduce income tax rates and eliminate the sales tax charged on food. Passage of the bill would mark the second time in two years that the House has voted to cut income taxes. The plan would also phase out earnings taxes for thousands of partnerships, sole proprietorships and other small businesses. Republican Gov. Sam Brownback has pushed cutting tax…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A Topeka man is being held on suspicion of murder, sexual assault and other charges in the killing of an 8-year-old girl. Police found the body of Ahliyah Irvin around 5:45 a.m. Tuesday in the same southeast Topeka apartment complex where family members reported her missing about 45 minutes earlier. Authorities have not said how the girl was killed or exactly where in the apartment complex she was found. But WIBW-TV reports that Police Chief Ron Miller describes the crime as “particularly heinous.” About 50 officers converged Tuesday morning on a school district building after a suspicious…
GALENA, Kan. (AP) Authorities in southeastern Kansas have one person in custody as they investigate a fatal shooting. The Cherokee County News-Advocate reports that several people called 911 shortly before midnight Monday reporting a shooting in Galena. Officers found a wounded man at the scene and took him to a hospital in Joplin, Mo., where he died early Tuesday. He’s identified as 32-year-old Justin Eakes. The Cherokee County Sheriff’s Department says a 38-year-old man was arrested and held on suspicion of voluntary manslaughter. Charges are expected later in the week. Details about the two men’s relationship were being withheld while…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) A California man is going to prison for the armed holdup of a Dodge City bank in October 2010. The U.S. Attorney’s office says 33-year-old Angel Garcia Aguirre, of Santa Paula, Calif., was sentenced Tuesday to 12 years and three months behind bars. Garcia Aguirre pleaded guilty last year to one count each of bank robbery and brandishing a firearm, admitting he and another man robbed a Bank of America branch in Dodge City on Oct. 21, 2010. He said he stood in the lobby while the other man jumped over a teller’s counter and grabbed…