OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A suburban Kansas City teenager has been sentenced to nine months of probation for her part in a failed $8 Xanax deal that ended in a deadly shooting. The Kansas City Star reports that Jordan Denny, of Olathe, was sentenced Thursday for drug charges. She originally was charged with felony murder in the March 2019 death of 17-year-old Rowan Padgett. The affidavit says Matthew Lee Bibee Jr., who is awaiting trial on a capital murder charge, arranged to buy the anxiety medication through Denny. She told authorities her supplier fell through and that she asked Padgett…
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Environmentalists are struggling to get Kansas lawmakers to even discuss climate change as a serious issue. They’re pushing the issue in a state where energy production remains an important industry and some top Republicans question the widespread scientific consensus that human activity is warming the planet. States like Virginia, Minnesota and California are setting goals for eventually getting all of their electricity from renewable resources, but Kansas proposals on energy efficiency and encouraging farmers to capture and store carbon dioxide have languished. And House Majority Leader Dan Hawkins said lawmakers have other priorities, adding, “The planet…
ABILENE, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a convicted felon was arrested after he tried to use a fake $100 bill to add money to a jailed inmate’s account. The Dickinson County Sheriff’s Office said an employee immediately recognized the bill as a counterfeit Wednesday and notified investigators. Karl Landon Jr., 43, is jailed on suspicion of possession of counterfeited currency with the intent to defraud. Kansas Department of Corrections records show that he has previous convictions, including for assault, battery and drugs.
Kansas State University is reporting record-high job placement rates in one of its most recent graduation classes. According to the university’s post-graduation report, 97 percent of bachelor’s degree graduates in the 2018-2019 class either found jobs or continued their education less than six months after graduating. This is up from 96 percent in the 2017-2018 class and 95 percent in the 2016-2017 class. 2018-2019 bachelors degree graduates also reported a median salary of more than $48,000, which Career Center Director Kerri Keller says is up 7 percent from a year ago. 56 percent of these graduates found jobs in Kansas…
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 filed a report for criminal damage to property in the 1100 block of Fremont St. in Manhattan on February 19, 2020, at approximately 9:55 AM. Officers listed the City of Manhattan as the…
On Thursday’s edition of In Focus we spoke with Manhattan Area Chamber of Commerce President & CEO Jason Smith.
The Kansas Bureau of Investigation and the Junction City Police Department have identified the employee who died after an incident Tuesday morning in the parking lot of the Junction City Police Department. Mark Roberts, 58, of Junction City, died Tuesday morning outside the police department. Roberts was a retired Junction City police officer, who since retirement had also worked in a civilian position for the police department. He served the department and community for 27 years. At around 9:10 a.m. on Tuesday, a JCPD officer exited the police department and discovered the body of Roberts, who had suffered a fatal…
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Manhattan Tuesday rejected a request to rezone a 15,000 square foot property in the southeast of town to permit light industrial land use. The request to rezone the land to I-3 zoning was made by the owner of the property, Devon Ojeda of BigKat Development, LLC. Located at 922 Riley Lane — just south of Howie’s Recycling Center and the railroad tracks — the property contains a vacant single-family home that’s fallen into disrepair and is located in a residential zoning district that is slated to remain so in the city’s comprehensive land use plan. “Although there is that impact…
TOPEKA — Kansas lawmakers are considering measures to require the public disclosure of information from investigations when a law enforcement officer kills someone and isn’t charged with a crime over the death. But law enforcement officials expressed strong reservations about two disclosure bills during a House Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday. Critics said requiring disclosure could endanger witnesses or make them less likely to cooperate fully and could allow private or embarrassing information about the deceased or their families to circulate. The bills were inspired by the fatal shooting by police of a Kansas City-area teenager in January 2018 and his…