AUSTIN, Texas (AP) A longtime assistant to Texas football coach Mack Brown was fired earlier this year for sexual harassment, according to documents obtained by ESPN. The “Outside the Lines” program obtained documents from the university’s investigation of Cleve Bryant A Texas football department employee who graduated from the school a few years ago filed a sexual harassment complaint about a year ago. A university investigator then determined that Bryant made repeated unwanted sexual advances toward the young woman Bryant was the Longhorns’ associate athletics director for football operations. He also oversaw game-day operations, team travel and recruiting weekends…
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University of Oklahoma officials are scheduled to discuss its Big 12 affiliation on Monday. The school’s board of regents has posted the agenda for Monday’s meeting. It’s a single paragraph that says the board will consider switching conference affiliation, and any legal ramifications of such a move. The agenda says the regents may discuss the topic behind closed doors and “take any appropriate action.” University president David Boren said earlier this month that Oklahoma had been in contact with multiple conferences and expected a decision within a three-week timeframe that would run out next week. The Big 12 lost Nebraska…
For the second time in a week, a Fort Riley soldier has been found dead. This time the soldier was found in his house on Fort Riley by his Unit Monday evening. Post officials are announcing the soldier has been identified as Staff Sgt. Richard Denham, 42, who was assigned 1st Battalion, 28th Infantry regiment, 4th Infantry Brigade combat team, 1st Infantry Division. The cause of the death is under invevstigation. Last week Fort Riley authorities confirmed the death of 24 year old Nathan Matthews, found dead a a rural Geary county residence a week ago Tuesday. Matthews was with…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Former Kansas Attorney General Steve Six has joined a law firm in Kansas City, Mo., as a partner. The firm of Stueve Siegel Hanson LLP announced Wednesday that Six will work in its commercial litigation, public client and personal injury practices. Six is a former district court judge in Douglas County, Kan. He was appointed attorney general in January 2008 by then-Gov. Kathleen Sebelius after Paul Morrison resigned amid a sex scandal. Last year, Six was the Democratic nominee for a full term as attorney general but lost to Republican Derek Schmidt. President Barack Obama nominated…
SALINA, Kan. (AP) A New Cambria man is no longer facing first-degree murder charges in the shooting death of a woman in February. Prosecutors said Wednesday that the evidence did not support a murder charge against 40-year-old Steven Edward Charles Couch Jr. He had been accused of murdering 39-year-old Carol Sue Williams on Feb. 17 in a home they shared. She died of a gunshot wound to the head. The Salina Journal reports that Couch is still charged with criminal threat and possession of marijuana. Joyce Larson, Couch’s sister, said her brother has contended from the beginning that Williams’ wound…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A former Kansas Department of Corrections employee no longer faces a misdemeanor sexual battery charge involving a female inmate at a prison in Topeka. Shawnee County District Court records show that the misdemeanor charge of sexual battery against 31-year-old Andrew J. Grubb of Topeka was dismissed on Tuesday. Grubb had been accused of touching a female inmate at the Topeka Correctional Facility without her consent. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the Topeka prison was the subject of controversy in 2009 and 2010 over allegations of sexual contact between female inmates and male employees. It is the only…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas attorney general is investigating a nonprofit organization that has a state contract to serve mental health patients across the state. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that about $1 million in Medicaid funding might have been embezzled from Kansas Health Solutions. The organization is a subsidiary of the Association of Community Mental Health Centers, which includes 27 mental health clinics with a provider network in all 105 counties. A spokesman for Attorney General Derek Schmidt confirmed that the office has accepted the case for review. The organization’s former chief financial officer and executive director both left the…
IOLA, Kan. (AP) A 19-year-old volunteer firefighter from Iola is suspected of setting a series of arson fires in a southeast Kansas county. Allen County Undersheriff Bryan Murphy says the firefighter was arrested Tuesday while working at a grass fire. He could face 21 counts of arson in fires around Carlyle and Geneva townships. The Iola Register reports that 28 arson fires have been investigated in Allen County in the past month. Murphy said investigators believe only one person is responsible for most of the fires but they haven’t ruled out that others may have been involved. One of the…
Arrests have been made in Junction City in connection with several recent damage to property cases. Arrested Wednesday were Wayne King, 20, and Dean Murrietta Jr, 24, both soldiers stationed at Ft. Riley. The Junction City Police Department worked eighteen complaints involving damage to property, and one complaint of arson where a vehicle was set on fire early last Friday. The damage to property complaints involved three Junction City businesses having windows broken and 15 vehicles having one or more windows broken out of the vehicle. The vehicle that was set on fire was a total loss with a value of…
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) Recycling at the Hutchinson Correctional Facility is going to the dogs. For about a year, inmates at the prison have been dismantling mattresses and recycling materials from the beds to raise money. Now, inmates are using foam and material from the mattresses to make dog beds. Those beds are being donated to animal shelters and sold in a veterinary clinic to help the prison’s dog training programs. The Hutchinson News reports the dog bed program started about three months ago. So far, a few inmates have made 150 beds. Warden Sam Cline said he was pleased that…