JUNCTION CITY — Geary County Sheriff Tony Wolf entered a plea of not guilty to a felony theft charge as well as a misdemeanor during an arraignment hearing Friday morning. According to the Dickinson County Attorney’s office, who is prosecuting Wolf in this matter, a jury trial date has been set for May 8-9 in Geary County District Court. A pretrial hearing is scheduled for March 29. Sheriff Wolf was arrested by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation in October for a misuse of public funds, a misdemeanor, and felony theft for gifting a department-owned firearm to a third party. The Junction…
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LARNED — Twenty inmates at the Larned Correctional Mental Health Facility face felony charges after a riot at the prison in November. Pawnee County Attorney Doug McNett charged the inmates after a state prison official completed an investigation of the Nov. 6 uprising. McNett said in a news release Wednesday the 20 inmates were primarily responsible for the riots. He says he saw no evidence that inmates breached individual housing units in the prison’s Central Unit, and his office is treating the case as four self-contained riots occurring at the same time. State prison officials say Kansas spent $113,000 to…
WICHITA — The family of conservative billionaire Charles Koch isn’t pushing for property damage charges against a man who’s accused of driving through the private gate of a home. The Wichita Eagle reports that 40-year-old Aron James White is charged with ramming an officer’s patrol car last month. The collision injured an officer and passenger. But court records show that the residents requested that no charges be filed for damage to their property. Police at the crime scene said White also rammed a private security vehicle before driving through a security gate. Authorities hadn’t publicly identified the Kochs as victims…
Kendall Brokenberry, 27, of Manhattan was arrested while at the Riley County Police Department on February 7, 2019, at approximately 4:35 PM. Brokenberry was arrested on a Riley County District Court Warrant for Failure to Appear. Brokenberry was issued a total bond of $5,000.00. Brokenberry was still confined at the time of this report. Anthony Moss, 51, of Manhattan was arrested in the 400 block of S Manhattan Ave in Manhattan on February 7, 2019, at approximately 3:40 PM. Moss was arrested on the offenses of giving a worthless check, theft by deception, mistreatment of dependent adult, two counts of…
Friday’s first segment of In Focus featured a conversation on legislative happenings in Topeka with 67th District House Rep. Tom Phillips (R-Manhattan). In the second segment of In Focus, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art Director Linda Duke and Friends of the Museum member Barbara Gatewood joined us for a discussion of the Pete Souza’s “Two Presidents, One Photographer” exhibit open now through April 27. The third and fourth segments of In Focus featured Shepherd’s Crossing Executive Director Beth Klug and Development Officer C. Clyde Jones discussing the organizations’s fundraising event, Sharing with the Shepherd Month.
TOPEKA — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s election victory suggested that Kansas repudiated past GOP fiscal policies. Yet voters also encouraged top Republicans to pursue income tax relief by giving conservatives more power in the Legislature. The contradiction is driving a political clash coming to a head quickly, with the state Senate debating a tax relief bill Wednesday. The proposal is designed to keep Kansas residents and businesses from paying higher income taxes to the state because of changes in federal tax laws at the end of 2017. Kelly argues she was elected because voters wanted her to fix state government…
TOPEKA — Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly is closing state offices in the Capitol’s Shawnee County after another round of winter weather. Kelly made the announcement after the National Weather Service issued a mixture of ice storm warnings and winter weather advisories Thursday for a large swath of the state. The Kansas Department of Transportation says many of the state’s roads are partially or completely snow-covered. Police in Topeka encouraged people be careful, tweeting a photo of a vehicle on its side. The tweet read: “A litle PSA for y’all. This is what happens when you drive too fast on the…
CLAY CENTER — Kansas authorities say a Nebraska man who was reported missing earlier this week was found dead in his car. Clay County Sheriff Chuck Dunn says the body of 66-year-old Rick Kubes, of Auburn, Nebraska, was discovered Wednesday evening about 3 miles (4.83 kilometers) north of Clay Center on Kansas 15. Dunn says an official cause of death hasn’t been determined but it appeared Kubes had a medical issue because his vehicle had drifted off the road. The sheriff says Kubes left a home in Clay Center early Sunday to drive to a hospital in Auburn because he…
A beauty store in the Manhattan Town Center was robbed in the early evening of Wednesday, Feb. 6, according to the Riley County police activity report. Ulta Beauty and a 24-year-old Ogden woman are listed as the victims in the RCPD report. Police were called just after 7 p.m. Wednesday when it was reported two unknown suspects took merchandise from the business. The loss is estimated at $2,000. RCPD Public Information Officer Rachel Pate says that the investigation is ongoing and that she cannot provide any further details at this time. Police ask that anyone with information on the crime…
Thursday’s show featured an update on outreach going on with the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility. Guests included Marty Vanier, Director of Partnership Development and Dr. Ken Burton, NBAF Coordinator for USDA APHIS. Perry Wiggins from the Governor’s Military Council joined In Focus to speak to deployments happening at Fort Riley and ways the region can improve how it reacts to the economic impacts of those deployments.