TOPEKA, Kan. — Gov. Laura Kelly says she supports new federal guidelines detailing how nursing homes can begin allowing visits to patients. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services last week said nursing homes should continue to follow COVID-19 related protocols, such as social distancing and temperature screening. But it said indoor visitations can be allowed at facilities that take Medicare and Medicaid if they have not had any new COVID-19 cases for 14 days and are not conducting active outbreak testing. State officials said Tuesday that it will take some time to implement the new guidance because each facility…
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BELLE PLAINE, Kan. — A lawsuit says a Kansas woman who was shot and killed by a sheriff’s deputy after refusing to pull over was unarmed and posed no danger to him or the public. The court filing Tuesday paints a different picture to that recounted by authorities following the fatal shooting in Wichita of 51-year-old Debra Arbuckle by Sedgwick County Deputy Kaleb Dailey on Dec. 30, 2019. An attorney representing Arbuckle’s family says multiple law enforcement videos show the deputy and his colleagues were not in any danger when he killed her. The lawsuit, filed by Arbuckle’s son, seeks…
WICHITA, Kan. — Wichita police are looking for a man suspected of posing as a police officer to pull over a driver. The Wichita Eagle reports that a police impersonator, driving a dark-colored car with red and blue emergency lights in the windshield, pulled over a driver Monday night. Police say the man was wearing a blue or black uniform and was armed with a handgun. Police say the impostor asked the driver for license and insurance, looked at the documents, gave them back, and left. Police spokesman Charley Davidson says anyone questioning the legitimacy of an officer should call…
WICHITA, Kan. — A Kansas woman has been sentenced to life in prison for decapitating her ex-boyfriend’s mother with a pair of kitchen knives. The Wichita Eagle reports that 38-year-old Rachael Hilyard of Wichita was sentenced Tuesday in the 2017 death of 63-year-old Micki Davis. Hilyard apologized at the hearing. Authorities say Davis was attacked after going to Hilyard’s home to pick up some of her son’s property on April 9, 2017. Prosecutors said Hilyard had planned the killing. Hilyard claimed that Davis fell during a struggle over a painting and that she carried out the decapitation because she thought…
WASHINGTON (AP) President Donald Trump unleashed a torrent of fabrications and fear-mongering in a belligerent debate with Joe Biden, at one point claiming the U.S. death toll would have been 10 times higher under the Democrat because he wanted open borders in the pandemic. Biden preached no such thing. Trump barreled into the debate Tuesday night as unconstrained by the facts as at his rallies, but this time having his campaign opponent and frequently the Fox News moderator, Chris Wallace, calling him out in real time, or trying. Biden stumbled on the record at times as the angry words flew…
A Pottawatomie County official is expecting an increased voter turnout for the 2020 general election, which will take place on Tuesday, Nov. 3. According to Nancy McCarter, Pottawatomie County clerk, they are already seeing increased mail-in ballot requests. “It’s going to be a good turnout,” McCarter said. “I’m projecting at least 80 to 85 percent. Our last presidential (election) was 78 percent.” McCarter also expects to see more in-person voters in 2020 than she did in the last presidential election, which saw about 1,300 Pottawatomie County residents show up to vote in person. The Pottawatomie County Clerk’s Office will mail…
Information courtesy K-State Research & Extension’s Agriculture Today MANHATTAN, Kan. – If you’ve stared one cow in the face, you’ve seen them all … right? New technology being developed at Kansas State University is likely to debunk that thought, capitalizing on the power of artificial intelligence to build a database of facial recognition technology for the cattle industry. In other words, just like humans, each cow in the herd has a set of unique facial features that modern technology can scan and later use to track the animal throughout its life. “We’re talking about a system here that has an…
COVID-19 vaccine timeline According to Leslie Campbell, Pottawatomie County Health Department officer, a COVID-19 vaccine will be available locally by January 2021. “There will be limited doses available,” Campbell said. “They’ll be sending out priority groups and we’ll have those priority groups listed, but they are saying that there will be widespread vaccine available and it’ll be a two-dose series.” She says that when COVID-19 vaccines do become available, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention likely will not make a recommendation for which one people should receive. “That’s just the way the CDC does it,” Campbell said. “They’ll just…
On Tuesday’s edition of In Focus we spoke with Pottawatomie County Commission Chair Dee McKee and County Clerk Nancy McCarter.
GARDEN CITY, Kan. — Garden City police are investigating the death of a 23-year-old man at a motel as a homicide. Officers were called to the Sunflower Inn Sunday morning and found Alec Cantu dead on the floor of a motel room. Police said in a news release that Cantu’s body showed signs of trauma and it was apparent an altercation had occurred in the room. Before Cantu’s body was found, officers responded to a call about an abandoned vehicle in the Arkansas River. Police say the car was registered to Cantu and had been vandalized. The investigation is continuing.