GARDEN CITY, Kan. — Police say a fire at a Kansas community college apartment started by boiling a candle. The Wichita Eagle reports emergency responders were called at around 7 p.m. Sunday to an apartment fire on the campus of the Garden City Community College. Police say firefighters extinguished the flames in a kitchen area after college staff had been unable to put it out. The investigation found the resident had boiled a candle in a pot of water on the stove, which caught fire to the stove and surrounding area. The resident forgot the candle was on the stove…
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KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Federal prosecutors say a Kansas man has admitted swindling the buyer of an online pharmacy business. The U.S. attorney’s office said in a news release that 37-year-old Jeffrey P. Wilson of Olathe pleaded guilty Monday to one count of wire fraud. Wilson admitted in his plea that he placed an ad on Craigslist offering to sell an online pharmacy. He then made false statements and sent fabricated bank records for the business to a Texas man who responded to the ad. He falsely claimed the business was grossing $15,000 to $40,000 a month. The victim paid…
Fleet Maintenance Facility Although the final design and specifications for Pottawatomie County’s new Public Works Fleet Maintenance Facility have been completed, approval from the county commission will have to wait at least one more week. “Commissioner (Pat) Weixelman asked a question about one of the particular pieces of the design relative to the wall design,” Peter Clark, the director of the public works department, said. “It has a CMU wall sitting on a slab foundation with a trench footing underneath that and he wanted some more detail about how the vapor barrier would work, specifically in that wall system so…
History was made this fall when the Kansas State University horse judging team won two of the most prestigious contests offered for collegiate competitors. Not only did K-State win the American Paint Horse Association title in September, but also took home a victory in the American Quarter Horse Association contest, held in mid-November. It’s the first time any four-year school has accomplished this feat, winning both judging competitions. Like other livestock judging contests, horse judging requires team members to evaluate any of a dozen classes of horses, place them according to pre-determined criteria, and provide oral reasons for those placements to judges. The…
OLATHE, Kan. — Authorities say police shot and wounded a 16-year-old while investigating a robbery in suburban Kansas City. Police said in a Facebook post that the shooting happened just after midnight Monday in Olathe. Police say officers were conducting a follow up on a previous home burglary in which handguns were taken when they spotted two people who were armed. The post says the situation “escalated,” and officers fired their guns. The wounded teen was taken to a hospital for treatment. Police arrested the second person. The shooting is under investigation. No other details were immediately released, including the…
WICHITA, Kan. — Prosecutors have found that a Kansas deputy acted in self-defense when he fatally shot a man who brandished an airsoft gun that resembles an actual firearm but shoots only nonlethal plastic pellets. The Wichita Eagle reports that Sedgwick County District Attorney Marc Bennet said Friday in a 22-page report that the shooting happened in January after 55-year-old David Michael Bosiljevac threatened to hurt his ex-girlfriend’s roommate if she didn’t meet him at a storage unit. The woman instead tipped off a bondsman that Bosiljevac would be there because he had failed to appear in court on a…
WICHITA, Kan. — Police say a Wichita man stabbed his roommate to death because she wouldn’t move out. Wichita police Capt. Brent Allred says the 44-year-old man wanted Devin Cook to leave, but the 28-year-old woman refused to go. The Wichita Eagle reports that police went to the home twice early Saturday morning. Allred says officers who went to the home at 4:10 a.m. told the man that they couldn’t make Cook leave because she had “established residency there.” They told him he had to use legal avenues like eviction or petitioning the court for a protective order. Officers returned…
WICHITA, Kan. — Federal prosecutors are seeking to keep $173,000 that was seized from a driver in Kansas as he headed to Colorado to buy marijuana. The Wichita Eagle reports that it’s the largest of the civil asset forfeiture cases filed this month in federal court in Wichita involving suspected drug money. The seizure happened during a September traffic stop on Interstate 70 in eastern Kansas’ Wabaunsee County. An affidavit says the driver told investigators that he and a passenger were traveling from Asheville, North Carolina, to Denver, where they planned to buy the marijuana. Colorado legalized marijuana in 2012.…
Monday’s guests included Jim Franke with the Manhattan Breakfast Optimist talking about their annual Christmas tree fundraiser kicking off Thanksgiving Day at Optimist Park. We also heard from Sunset Zoo Marketing and Development Officer Melissa Kirkwood previewing Santa’s Luminary Trail Nov. 30 and Dec. 1. And Pawnee Mental Health Director Robbin Cole joined us for her monthly appearance on the program.
A two day blood drive will be able to help 765 patients in need of blood over the holiday season. The 10th annual Kevin Coffey Keep the Drive Alive Memorial Blood Drive was held last week collecting 254 pints of blood. The drive was started by Ray and Maxine Coffey in memory of their son Kevin, who was an advocate for blood donations. A drive is also held at Temple University where Kevin went to college. For every pint of blood donated, three people will receive it. This means this blood will help 756 people. As many people as this…