CHASE COUNTY – A Kansas man died in an accident just after 1:30p.m. on Wednesday in Chase County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2015 Dodge Ram driven by William T. Lamey, 72, Elmdale, was westbound on U.S. 50 one mile west of U Road.

The pickup went left of center and struck a semi head-on.

Lamey was pronounced dead at the scene and transported to First Coroner Kansas City.

The semi driver Gilberto Antonio Cisneros, 38, Emporia, was taken to Newman Memorial Hospital in Emporia, then flown to Wesley Medical Center in Wichita.

The drivers were not wearing seat belts, according to the KHP.

HUTCHINSON– Two people arrested at the dorms at Hutchinson Community College Tuesday on drug charges made first appearances in court Wednesday.

Rheim D. Guerrero, 22, and Savannah Smith, 23, both of Salina were arrested at 1501 North Ford for possession of marijuana with intent to distribute within a thousand feet of Graber School and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Officers indicated they found a backpack in room 220 that contained a jar with the suspected marijuana inside the residence as well as a small scale. The amount of marijuana was allegedly around 22-grams.

The suspects allegedly admitted that they had smoked marijuana earlier in the day, that according statements made in court.

Both requested a reduction of their $5,500 bonds stating that they had children in Salina that they needed to take care.

Magistrate Judge Cheryl Allen denied the request and they are expected back in court next week.

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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt is withdrawing a court brief that cites the slavery-era Dred Scott decision to support the state’s position that the Kansas Constitution does not guarantee a right to an abortion.

Schmidt said Wednesday in a statement that the filing submitted to the Kansas Supreme Court a day earlier does not accurately reflect the state’s position and should not have been made.

The state used the 1857 Dred Scott case to bolster its argument that the Declaration of Independence had no legally binding effect.

Schmidt says the reference was “obviously inappropriate,” and he ordered it withdrawn once he became aware of it.

In the infamous decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled a black person whose ancestors were sold as slaves could not be a U.S. citizen.

Dickinson County- In April, the Dickinson County Sheriff’s Department was notified by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) of a possible match between unidentified remains found near Upland in Dickinson County in 1974 and a person reported missing from Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1974, according to a media release.

This match was the result of communication between databases maintained by the Doe Network (www.doenetwork.org) and the National Missing and Unidentified Persons system (NamUS) (namus.gov).

Investigation conducted by the Sheriff’s Department determined it was necessary to exhume the remains of the unidentified victim to attempt to determine if the remains were in fact the missing person.

On Wednesday morning, the Sheriff’s Department and the KBI exhumed the remains.

Forensic Anthropologist Dr. Michael Finnegan of Forensic Anthropological Consultants, LLC; employees of the Abilene Cemetery and employees of the Martin-Becker-Carlson Funeral Home assisted officials.

The remains will be sent to a laboratory for comparison with information provided in the Tulsa, Oklahoma case.

Investigation conducted in 1974 by the KBI indentified a serial killer, Cecil Henry Floyd, as the suspect in the Dickinson county case. Investigative reports indicate that Floyd admitted to killing 11 individuals, four killings in Florida, one killing in Kansas, and one killing in Nebraska and the remainder of the killings in Indiana.

NEW YORK (AP) — Infections from three sexually spread diseases have hit another record high.

Chlamydia was the most common. More than 1.5 million cases were reported in the U.S. last year, up 6 percent from the year before.

Nearly 400,000 gonorrhea cases were reported, up 13 percent. And there were about 24,000 cases of the most contagious forms of syphilis, up 19 percent.

The three infections are treatable with antibiotics.

Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say part of the growth may be due to better testing and diagnosis, but much of it is a real increase. They’re not sure why.

The CDC released the new numbers Wednesday. See the full report here.

An estimated 20 million cases of sexually transmitted infections occur each year in the U.S.

FINNEY COUNTY- A Kansas man was injured in an accident just before 2:30p.m. on Wednesday in Finney County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2003 Chevy Silverado driven by Felipe Reyes-Meza, 59, Lakin, was eastbound on Spruce in Garden City.

The driver failed to yield at the red light while making a left turn to go northbound on U.S. 83.

The Silverado collided with semi driven by Rafael Martinez, 56, Dodge City, that was southbound on U.S. 83.

Reyes-Meza was transported to St. Catherine’s Hospital. Martinez was not injured.

Both drivers were properly restrained at the time of the accident, according to the KHP.

LEAWOOD, Kan. (AP) — A Leawood businesswoman has been sentenced to more than four years in prison for tax evasion.

U.S. Justice Department officials announced Wednesday that 58-year-old Kathleen Stegman diverted hundreds of thousands of dollars from her company, Midwest Medical Aesthetics, for her personal use.

She was sentenced Tuesday to four years and three months in federal prison, fined $100,000 and ordered to pay $68,000 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service.

The Kansas City Star reports that at her trial earlier this year, prosecutors said Stegman gave IRS investigators false information and had an employee destroy company records.

They said Stegman used company money to buy condominiums in Las Vegas, real estate in North Carolina, a 54-foot yacht and $300,000 in gold coins.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The Lawrence school district says a middle school teacher has been suspended with pay after allegedly making racist comments during class.

The district announced the suspension Wednesday but did not provide the name of the South Middle School teacher or the content of the alleged remarks.

The Lawrence Journal-World reports the district said in a news release that it received a complaint against the teacher on Monday from the family of a South student.

South administrators investigated and then contacted the district’s human resources department, which conducted its own investigation.

The release says Superintendent Kyle Hayden suspended the employee, with pay, in accordance with Lawrence Board of Education Policy and to ensure a fair investigation.

TOPEKA – A federal grand jury returned an indictment here Wednesday charging three southwest Kansas men with conspiring to detonate a bomb at an apartment complex in Garden City where Muslim immigrants from Somalia live and worship, according to acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall.

The indictment was based on the same facts presented in an Oct. 14 criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Wichita alleging the men conducted surveillance to size up potential targets, stockpiled firearms, ammunition and explosive components, and prepared a manifesto to be published after the bombing.

Charged with one count of conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction were:

Curtis Wayne Allen, 49, Liberal
Gavin Wayne Wright, 49, Liberal
Patrick Eugene Stein, 51, Wright

If convicted, the defendants face up to life in federal prison.

Investigating agencies included the FBI, the Liberal Police Department, the Seward County Sheriff’s Office, the Ford County Sheriff’s Office, the Garden City Police Department, the Dodge City Police Department, the Finney County Sheriff’s Office, and Kansas Highway Patrol, and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Tony Mattivi and Trial Attorney David Cora of the Justice Department’s Counterterrorism Section are prosecuting.