LAWRENCE, Kan. — A 27-year-old Paola man was sentenced to more than three years in prison after a fatal crash killed a Baker University employee. The Douglas County District Attorney’s office said Tuesday that Tayler Livingston was sentenced to 41 months in prison for involuntary manslaughter. Authorities said Livingston’s car was trying to pass another vehicle on Kansas 33 about 6 miles east of Baldwin City in February 2020. The Kansas Highway Patrol says Livingston’s vehicle hit a car driven by 25-year-old Deeva Sharma, of Leawood. Sharma died in the crash. The district attorney’s office say Livingston was intoxicated at…
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A 57-year-old Sedalia man admitted in federal court that he tried to arrange the murder of a victim in a statutory sodomy case. Jon Mark Wilson pleaded guilty Tuesday to using a cell phone and crossing state lines in commission of a murder for hire. He admitted that he paid an undercover agent $2,000 to murder the victim in a statutory sodomy case. Prosecutors said Wilson asked another person in January 2019 to arrange the murder. That person contacted law enforcement and arranged a meeting with the undercover officer in Kansas City, Kansas. Wilson was arrested…
WICHITA, Kan. — Federal officials say a convicted sex offender who escaped from a state hospital in Kansas in June has been captured in Utah. The U.S. Marshal’s office announced Tuesday that 42-year-old John Freeman Colt was arrested in Wayne County, Utah, after a citizen reported seeing him camping on federal land. In June, Colt escaped Larned State Hospital by creating a staff identification badge and pretending to be a doctor. Prosecutors say he walked through five secure doors on his way out of the hospital. The U.S. Marshal’s Service said Colt apparently had help and had been able to…
The following summary of calls for service/reports filed by the Riley County Police Department is a portion of those received by police. Some names, addresses, and case details are withheld to follow local, state, and federal law as well as in an attempt to protect community members from being victimized further. Those arrested are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. MANHATTAN, KAN. – Officers responded to the report of a medical call in the 800 block of Colorado St. in Manhattan on September 28, 2021, around 8:03 a.m. When officers arrived on scene, they found a deceased…
On Wednesday’s edition of In Focus we spoke with Lt. Colonel (Ret.) Art DeGroat, Director of K-State Military and Veterans Affairs and Mark Claussen, Executive Director of the USO Kansas Program & Center at Fort Riley.
On Tuesday’s edition of In Focus we spoke with Pottawatomie County Commissioner Dee McKee and County Planner Stephan Metzger.
TOPEKA, Kan. — Topeka police are investigating the death of a man whose body was found Saturday in a park. Police said Richmond McDaniels Jr.’s body was found around 5 a.m. Saturday in Gage Park. Authorities did not release many details about how the 38-year-old died or who found his body. Police said McDaniels’ family has been notified of his death.
WICHITA, Kan. — A Wichita man has been arrested on suspicion of drunken driving and manslaughter after a head-on collision that killed a 19-year-old from Caldwell. Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Lt. Benjamin Blick said the crash happened early Saturday around 2:45 a.m. on Kansas Highway 254 in northeastern Sedgwick County. Blick said the 39-year-old man who was arrested was driving a GMC Sierra pickup truck the wrong direction in the eastbound lanes of the highway when he collided with a Chrysler PT Cruiser driven by Clayton Patterson who died after the collision. The 39-year-old was being held Sunday in lieu of…
WICHITA, Kan. — Court documents say a woman now charged with involuntary manslaughter in the crash death of her 5-year-old daughter told a deputy that she had been drunk at the time of the March crash. Sedgwick County Sheriff’s deputies say in an arrest affidavit that Nory Lam was holding her injured daughter, Aleah Reyes, in her lap in the backseat of the crashed sport utility vehicle when deputies arrived around 3 a.m. March 7. The deputy who questioned Lam said she told him, “We were drunk driving,” and said the crash was her fault. The girl died as paramedics…
TOPEKA, Kan. — Authorities are investigating as a homicide the death of a 29-year-old Topeka man whose body was found when firefighters responded to a house fire. Police say in a news release that Palmer S. Thompson died under suspicious circumstances in Sunday’s house fire in Topeka. A preliminary investigation has determined the fire appears to have been intentionally set. The structure is a total loss. The Topeka Fire Department estimated damages at $121,540, including $15,000 for the contents. No working smoke detectors were found. Fire crews responding to a call at 7:30 a.m. found smoke and fire coming from…