WICHITA, Kan. — A Wichita man has been sentenced to three years of probation in a 2018 crash that killed two women. Prosecutors said 40-year-old Tito Kyando was sentenced Friday for two counts of involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of 21-year-old Uriel Salabao and 20-year-old Miyah Latney. Jurors convicted him of the charges in March. Police found Kyando was driving 88 mph in a 40 mph zone shortly before ramming his sport utility vehicle into the subcompact car in which the women were riding. They had been turning left. If Kyando violates the terms of his probation, he could face…
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TOPEKA, Kan. — Authorities are investigating a weekend homicide in Topeka. Police Lt. Jerry Monasmith says officers were called around 5:45 a.m. Saturday to a central Topeka neighborhood, where they found a person had been shot to death. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the victim later was identified as 55-year-old Terry Tignor. No other details were immediately released.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A 31-year-old man from Kansas City, Kansas, was shot and killed Saturday. Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department spokeswoman Nancy Chartrand said officers found 31-year-old Vincent Locke inside a home around 4:30 p.m. Saturday. He was taken to a hospital where he later died. Chartrand said Locke and a 51-year-old man had an argument before the shooting. The older man fled the scene before officers arrived, but he was arrested later. Police detectives were talking to family members, who were home at the time of the shooting, to learn more about what led to the fatal confrontation.
MELVERN, Kan. — Authorities have identified the man killed in an accident at a rock quarry in eastern Kansas. Osage County Sheriff Laurie Dunn said that 68-year-old Frank Rockers Jr. was killed in the incident. Rockers was taking samples at the bottom of a chat pile when it gave way and buried him at the Harshman Construction rock quarry near Melvern. Two workers immediately began to recover Rockers and were joined by fire rescue units. But Rockers didn’t survive. His name wasn’t immediately released.
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — More than 200 Sprint employees in Overland Park, Kansas, have been laid off since the company merged with T-Mobile. The Kansas City Star reports a June 17 notification to state regulators shows T-Mobile cut 241 positions at the former Sprint headquarters. A judge approved a merger of the two companies in February and it became official in April. A T-Mobile spokesperson says the company plans to eventually hire 5,000 new workers across the organization. In a statement, the company said the layoffs in Overland Park were part of an overall study of where to best place…
Riley County Health Director Julie Gibbs updates us on the latest COVID-19 related news in Riley County over the weekend, including 127 total cases now since testing began in March.
Following a morning march, at least 100 Manhattan residents continued Juneteenth observations Friday night at City Park with a flashlight vigil for those killed by police nationwide. Juneteenth commemorates the date when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas and announced the emancipation of enslaved people in the state on June 19, 1865. Also known as Black Independence Day, the institution of slavery persisted in Union-held territory until the 13th amendment’s ratification that December. Manhattan’s observation would have entered its 31st year if COVID-19 had not prompted the celebration’s cancellation. Amid nationwide activism following the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd, local Black Lives…
Manhattan and Riley County officials at a joint meeting Thursday agreed to draft an interlocal agreement to service the new Keats Sewer District. County and city staff will now work out service details and price points to connect the planned sanitary sewer system in Keats to Manhattan’s treatment facility before returning to the bodies for final approval. The project is anticipated to be financed with forgiveable federal grants for up to 45 percent of the project as well as 40-year loans to be divided and charged to benefiting property owners. Exact cost estimates are pending. “I think this is the right…
“Black lives matter! Black lives matter!” These were some of the chants that could be heard from Black Lives Matter supporters as they marched around City Park in recognition of Juneteenth, the day that marks the anniversary of when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, to announce the end of the Civil War. Prior to the march, BLM supporters and Riley County Police Department officers, who were for the most part wearing face masks, gathered in Triangle Park to listen to a lineup of speakers, which included Carl Taylor, a local pastor, who spoke about the…
BELLE PLAINE, Kan. — More than a century after the arrival of the railroads to the Flint Hills of Kansas, a large-scale track expansion is tearing up a scenic stretch in the last remaining tallgrass prairie left in the nation. The BNSF Railway is laying nearly 42-miles of track from Ellinor to El Dorado. The railroad says the work is occurring along its right-of-way and 19 parcels of land it is acquiring. Documents show the project involves eight wetland fills, realignment of streams at three locations, seven new bridges and 36 culvert extensions. No environmental impact study was required.