Physical assaults of children in their care have resulted in a Junction City day care’s license suspended upon recommendation by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. An Investigator toured Little Rainbow Day Care Home April 28th. In the license suspension order, the investigator said they witnessed one toddler being struck in the face by an adult, another pushed into a cabinet and other physical actions taken to move children from one activity to another. The screaming and yelling by one staffer towards children at the day care was also cited, and the day care’s owner, Pauline Leone, was identified…
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Law enforcement in western Kansas say a 14-month-old boy who was inside a sport utility vehicle when it was stolen from a driveway early Wednesday morning has been found safe. An Amber Alert was issued for the toddler after his mother reported that she had strapped him in to the SUV in the driveway of her Garden City home around 5 a.m. Wednesday to take him to a babysitter. The mother said that when she briefly went back inside, she saw the SUV drive away. About three hours later, police found the SUV with the child still inside abandoned a…
Republican lawmakers have advanced a plan to provide hundreds of millions of dollars to Kansas businesses hurt by coronavirus pandemic restrictions. They’re also poised to give GOP leaders the final say over how the federal COVID-19 relief funds are spent. The Republican-controlled state Senate voted 26-13 on Tuesday to approve a bill to set aside $700 million in federal coronavirus relief funds for small businesses. The Senate is expected to override Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of a measure leaving to top lawmakers the final decisions on spending $4.8 billion in federal funds that Kansas expects to receive. The GOP-controlled…
WICHITA, Kan. — Kansas health officials say vaccinations to protect the public from COVID-19 slowed in April, even as more contagious variants of the coronavirus surged and hospitalizations from the disease rose in the state. The Wichita Eagle reports that Kansas Department of Health and Environment numbers show about 91,000 fewer people received first doses of the available vaccines in April than in March. Officials say there were 520 new hospitalizations and 157 new ICU admissions in April, compared with 438 new hospitalizations and 150 new ICU admissions in March. Meanwhile, confirmed variant cases nearly tripled over the last three…
ANTHONY, Kan. — Authorities say a Kansas man was sentenced to nearly five years in prison for trying to stab to death another 18-year-old. The Kansas attorney general’s office said in a news release Monday that Harper County District Judge Galen T. Wood also ordered 18-year-old Brian Sandoval of Anthony to pay the victim $9,390 in restitution. Sandoval pleaded guilty in March to attempted second-degree murder stemming from the December 2020 attack.
TOPEKA, Kan. — Republican lawmakers in Kansas have cut income taxes, lowered the age for carrying a concealed gun and tightened state election laws by overriding Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s vetoes of those measures. A series of votes Monday in the GOP-controlled Legislature demonstrated that its Republican supermajorities can control policy if they hold together. The tax measure will provide $284 million in relief over three years. The gun legislation will allow 18-, 19-, and 20-year-olds to carry concealed firearms. The elections bill will make it harder for people to collect absentee ballots from voters and deliver them to election…
The Riley County Police Department was recognized for its 30th year as an accredited department through a credentialing commission. Director Dennis Butler tells KMAN that being one of the agencies that can claim the commendation from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies shows a commitment to good police practices. Butler says the process includes an in-person visit by members of the commission once every four years. The accreditation visit was the eighth that RCPD has passed since gaining CALEA recognition for the first time in 1991. At the time, the RCPD was the first agency in the state…
WICHITA, Kan. — Police say a teen has died after being shot at a south Wichita car wash. The shooting happened just before midnight Monday, when police were called to the area for a report of a shooting. Officers who arrived on the scene found the teen with a gunshot wound to his neck. Police say the teen was taken to a nearby hospital, where he later died from his injuries. His name was not immediately released. Homicide detectives are investigating and say they don’t believe the shooting was random. No arrests had been reported or suspects named by Tuesday…
PRAIRIE VILLAGE, Kan. — Authorities say an Iowa man has been charged with killing an eastern Kansas man found fatally shot in his suburban Kansas City apartment last week. Johnson County prosecutors have charged 58-year-old Michael Balance, of Des Moines, Iowa, with first-degree murder in the death of 70-year-old John Hoffman, of Prairie Village. Officers found Hoffman’s body Saturday evening in his apartment and say he had been shot several times. Prairie Village police quickly identified Balance as a suspect in the shooting and contacted Des Moines police, who arrested him. Balance is being held in the Polk County Jail…
EL DORADO, Kan. — A man who testified that he wanted to kill Jews and was sentenced to death after he fatally shot three people at Jewish sites in Kansas has died in prison. The Kansas Department of Corrections said in a news release Tuesday that 80-year-old Frazier Glenn Miller Jr. died Monday at the El Dorado Correctional Facility. Miller, who was also known as Frazier Glenn Cross Jr., was sentenced to death for the killings in 2014 in suburban Kansas City. The corrections department says preliminary indications were that Miller died of natural causes. Miller said during his trial…