BUTLER COUNTY – Law enforcement authorities in Butler County are investigating an armed robbery.

Just before 4 a.m. on Tuesday, there was an armed robbery at the Kwik shop, 114 W. Highway 54 in Andover, according to a social media report.

Two subjects entered the front doors of the business.
One was armed with a semi-auto black and chrome colored handgun.

One was wearing an unmarked, black hooded sweatshirt, black sweatpants, a mask, and tan or brown slipper style shoes. The second subject was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt with Aero NYC 1987 on the front, black sweatpants, red athletic shoes with black stripes on the sides, a shiny red mask (possibly a devil or movie character), and armed with the handgun.

Police have no vehicle description, although it is believed that a dark colored sedan may have been involved.

The suspects fled the scene through a rear door, getting away with an undetermined amount of cash and cigarettes.

Individuals with any information regarding this incident or the identity of the subjects involved are asked to contact Detective Daimon Cundiff at 316-733-5177 ext 231.

WICHITA – A Kansas technical college is working to help students affected by the recent closure of ITT Technical College.

On Tuesday, Wichita Area Technical College held the first of two information sessions specifically to assist ITT Tech students on a possible transition of their education, according to a social media report.

The school is also waive its credit for prior learning cost for the students until the first day of the school’s spring 2017 semester.

A second information session is scheduled for Thursday Sept. 15 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at WATC’s main campus, the National Center for Aviation Training Campus (NCAT), in the Gateway Building located at 4004 N Webb Road.

Student Services staff members will be available to:
answer questions guide students on the admissions and enrollment process, help determine program options ,provide information about financial aid and provide information about transferring courses using credit for prior learning.

Last week, ITT Technical Institute campuses in Wichita, Overland Park and Kansas City, Missouri permanently closed.

ITT Educational Services blamed the closings on a federal ruling last month that banned the company from enrolling any students who relied on federal financial aid.

The action reflects concerns by the U.S. Department of Education about the company’s “administrative capacity, organizational integrity, financial ability and ability to serve students.”

MIAMI COUNTY – Law enforcement authorities in Linn County are investigating a car theft and burglary.

On Sunday, a Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks warden located an abandon car on LaCygne Wildlife Area in Miami County, according to a social media report.

A follow up investigation determined the vehicle was stolen in Linn County along with the personal property it contained.

The car’s owner was contacted and most of the items taken in the burglary were returned.

No names were released on Tuesday.

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — The Johnson County sheriff says federal immigration authorities have placed a detainer on the man charged in the death of sheriff’s deputy killed when a pickup slammed into his patrol car during a traffic stop.

Adrian Espinosa-Flores, of Kansas City, Kansas, is being held in Johnson County on $2 million bond after being charged Monday with involuntary manslaughter/DUI in the death Sunday of Master Deputy Brandon Collins. Collins was making a traffic stop at the time.

Sheriff Frank Denning said Tuesday that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement placed a detainer on Espinosa-Flores.

Denning says the detainer is a request to local law enforcement agencies to hold a person for possible deportation once they’ve gone through the court system. Denning says the detainer also means Espinosa-Flores won’t be released on bond.

SHAWNEE, Kan. (AP) — Authorities have arrested and charged a Kansas man in an attempted robbery and shooting at a suburban Kansas City store.

The Johnson County District Attorney’s office announced Tuesday that 27-year-old Arthur Fred Wyatt III, of Overland Park, is charged with attempted first-degree murder, attempted aggravated kidnapping and attempted aggravated robbery.

Police said a Kansas City, Kansas, woman was hit from behind by two suspects while putting her child in a car Sunday at a Wal-Mart in Shawnee. A Kansas City, Missouri, man who tried to help was shot several times.

Another good Samaritan from De Soto, Kansas, was released after fatally shooting 28-year-old John Simmons III, of Kansas City, Missouri.

Spokeswoman Kristi Bergeron declined to release more information about Wyatt’s arrest.

LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) — A transgender soldier imprisoned in Kansas for leaking classified information to WikiLeaks says she is ending a hunger strike because the Army has agreed to allow her to get medical treatment for her gender dysphoria.

Manning began a hunger strike Friday to protest her treatment at Fort Leavenworth. The American Civil Liberties Union said in a news release Tuesday that Manning’s treatment will begin with surgery that her psychologist recommended in April. Manning says in the release that she’s relieved the military approved the treatment but frustrated that it took so long.

Manning, who was arrested as Bradley Manning, was convicted in 2013 in military court of leaking more than 700,000 secret military and State Department documents.

Army spokesman Wayne Hall didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The largest teachers’ union in Kansas is asking the state Supreme Court to overturn a 2014 law that stripped public school teachers of guaranteed tenure.

The court heard arguments Tuesday on the Kansas National Education Association’s challenge to the law over how legislators included it in a larger education funding measure.

A national union attorney said adding the anti-tenure provision to what was essentially an appropriations bill violates the state constitution’s requirement that legislative bills have only a single subject.

State Solicitor General Stephen McAllister said all of the bill’s provisions fit under a single subject because lawmakers called it an act concerning education.

The anti-tenure provision repealed a law that gave teachers who faced dismissal after three years in the classroom the right to an independent review.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The Latest on the effort to restore federal protections for the lesser prairie chicken (all times local):

1:40 p.m.

Oil and gas groups along with Kansas officials are vowing to fight an effort to relist the lesser prairie chicken as a federally threatened species.

Found in pockets throughout the Great Plains, the grouse was removed from the threatened and endangered species list earlier this year following court rulings in Texas. Government lawyers decided not to pursue an appeal.

Environmentalists are now pushing for federal biologists to review the bird’s status and impose emergency protections.

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback said Tuesday that relisting the bird is unwarranted. He argued that drought caused a decline in the lesser prairie chicken’s numbers and that the birds have come back now that the rain has returned.

He says there’s habitat for the bird.

Oil and gas groups say a conservation partnership developed by states and private landowners has also helped to boost lesser prairie chicken numbers in recent years.

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1:20 p.m.

The fight over a grouse found in pockets across the Great Plains is far from over as industry officials worry that relisting the lesser prairie chicken as a federally protected species could mean hundreds of millions of dollars in added costs for oil and gas developers, renewable energy companies and farmers.

A coalition of environmental groups has filed a petition with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. They argue that key populations are in danger of extinction as climate change exacerbates problems caused by energy development, farming and other infrastructure such as roads and power lines.

The groups say emergency protections are needed for isolated populations along the Texas-New Mexico border, in Colorado and western Kansas.