WICHITA, Kan. — A second person has been arrested in a deadly Wichita apartment complex shooting and police are are looking for a third. The Wichita Eagle reports that 18-year-old Breckyn Isabella Elliott, of Wichita, was booked into the Sedgwick County Jail on Thursday night on suspicion of first-degree murder in the death of 17-year-old Eric Stokes. Another teen also was injured in last week’s shooting at Morgan’s Landing Apartments. Police said that five people were inside the apartment when three masked suspects forced their way inside. . The five people went into a bedroom, and the suspects began firing,…
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Vaccination rates vary widely across Kansas and Missouri as officials work to persuade more people to get the coronavirus shots. Statistics on the vaccination campaign show some communities making good progress distributing the shots while other, often rural areas, lag behind. In Kansas, a 26-percentage point gap exists between the county with the highest vaccination rate and the lowest. In Missouri, that gap is 33 percentage points. Health officials say the places with higher vaccination rates will have fewer cases of the virus. Alan Morgan, CEO of the National Rural Health Association, said the uneven vaccination…
TOPEKA, Kan. — A judge refused to reduce the $1 million bond for a man charged in the 2016 killings of a man, woman and an unborn child at a Topeka apartment complex. Shawnee County District Judge Bill Ossmann rejected Yanez Sanford’s request for his bond to be reduced to $500,000 on Friday. Ossmann said $1 million bonds are typical in murder cases. Ossmann also rejected a motion to have Sanford moved to a different jail for his safety because there was no evidence that he was in danger in the Shawnee County facility. The thirty-eight-year-old Sanford has been charged…
PRAIRIE VILLAGE, Kan. — Police have identified a man who was found shot to death Saturday in a Prairie Village apartment unit and announced an arrest in the case. Prairie Village police say 70-year-old John Hoffman died in the apartment after being shot several times. Officers were called to the apartment complex around 6 p.m. Saturday and found Hoffman’s bullet-riddled body. Police say a suspect was quickly identified and taken into custody. Police have not released the name of the person arrested or given a motive for the shooting.
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 near mile marker 194 on Tuttle Creek Blvd. in Randolph on April 30, 2021, at approximately 12:29 p.m. Officers listed a 42-year-old female as the…
Flint Hills Veterans Coalition members including President Chuck Sexton and his wife publicity director Melody Sexton, Past President Janet Nichols and Christine Benne. Manhattan Parks & Recreation – From the Flint Hills Discovery Center, Event Supervisor Jonathan Mertz and Recreation Director Randi Clifford.
Developing individual plans and studies to give students the chance to acquire the skills to investigate the careers and employ strategies to attune to their future career goals, the Pottawatomie County Economic Development Corporation has recognized the efforts of counselors in Wamego High School and elsewhere in the community to network, mentor, job shadow, and coordinate internships that 50 out of the 95 in the senior class participated in. Executive Director Jack Allston highlights that developing that individual plan of study is the real key, as students take the Work Keys test in February of their junior year, and then…
Business is starting to pick up at Manhattan Regional Airport. Manhattan Regional Airport is seeing a relatively significant increase in enplanements when compared to last year. Enplanement numbers at Manhattan Regional Airport this year during the month of April are 785 percent higher than in 2020. However, numbers are still down from where they were at pre-covid in 2019. “In ’19, we had 6,000 people fly and so, even in ’21, with 2,400 people flying, we’re still not quite to our ’19 pre-covid numbers,” Romo said. “We’re down 61 percent compared to that.” Wherever the numbers may be, Romo says…
LAWRENCE, Kan. — Evergy officials say the utility plans to close two coal-fired plants in the next nine years as part of its effort to reduce its use of fossil fuels. The company said in a report to regulators filed Friday that it will close its coal-fired plant near Lawrence by the end of 2023. The plant is the utility’s oldest, with some units dating back to the 1960s. Evergy also will close Unit 3 of the Jeffrey Energy Center near St. Marys, Kansas, in 2030, rather than 2039 as originally expected. Evergy’s plan is to reduce its carbon emissions…
PAULINE, Kan. — Authorities say a woman was abducted by her former boyfriend before she was killed earlier this week. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that 61-year-old Jon Ewing, of Scranton, is charged with premeditated first-degree murder, first-degree felony murder, aggravated kidnapping, aggravated burglary, making a criminal threat and interfering with law enforcement. He is jailed on a $1 million bond. The investigation began Tuesday after the body of 58-year-old Deborah Ann Stephens was found by law enforcement officers at a mobile home park in the unincorporated community of Pauline, south of Topeka. Authorities said she had trauma wounds to her…