KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — The Latest on the investigation in to the death of a boy killed while riding a waterslide in Kansas City, Kansas (all times local):

A document released by a state agency says all the rides at a Kansas City, Kansas, water park passed private inspections in June, including the waterslide on which a 10-year-old boy died.

The Kansas Department of Labor provided to The Associated Press on Wednesday a copy of an insurance company inspector’s June 7 letter saying inspections had been completed at Schlitterbahn Waterpark. The letter said all rides met guidelines for being insured with “no disqualifying conditions noted.”

Deputy Secretary and Chief Attorney Brad Burke said the department obtained the letter following Sunday’s death of Caleb Schwab on the “Verruckt” waterslide.

Kansas law requires permanent rides to be inspected annually by their parks, and the state randomly audits the records. The last records audit for Schlitterbahn was in June 2012.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Advocates of a transgender soldier imprisoned for sending classified information to an anti-secrecy website say they’ve collected more than 115,000 petition signatures protesting new charges she faces related to her recent suicide attempt.

Activist groups including Demand Progress presented the petitions Wednesday to Secretary of the Army Eric Fanning’s office on Chelsea Manning’s behalf.

Manning was convicted in 2013 in military court of Espionage Act violations and other offenses for giving secret military and State Department documents to WikiLeaks. Manning was an intelligence analyst in Iraq at the time.

Manning has been imprisoned at Kansas’ Fort Leavenworth and tried to kill herself July 5. The ACLU says she now faces administrative charges related to it, and possible punishment could include indefinite solitary confinement.

GEARY COUNTY – A Kansas man was injured in an accident just before 9a.m. on Wednesday in Geary County.

The 1994 Ford pickup driven by Charles Moore, 64, Junction City, backed into a 2003 Chevy dump truck driven by James Harrel, 51, Junction City, that was parked behind the Ford in 3600 Block of Union Road in rural Geary County.

The collision pinned Harrel’s leg in the drivers side door

Harrel was transported to Geary Community Hospital

Moore was not injured.

Harrel was not wearing a seat belt at the time of the accident, according to the KHP.

SALINE COUNTY – Law enforcement authorities in Saline County are investigating one suspect and searching for another in a case of domestic violence.

Just after 1:30 p.m. on June 6, police officers were sent to an east Salina residence after a report of a domestic battery, according to Police Captain Mike Sweeney

A female victim in her 30’s told police that 48-year-old Lisa Hinderliter and a male suspect forced open a door to the home, grabbed the victim by the back of her neck and pulled her to the ground, and stole her cellular telephone.

As the couple left the residence, they took a cinder block and damaged the hood and broke off the door handle of a 2003 Pontiac Grand Am. Damage to the vehicle was estimated at $250.

Sweeney said they couple also drove over and damaged a Mongoose bicycle as they left the area, causing $20 in damage.

Hinderliter was arrested Tuesday afternoon on a warrant in connection with the incident.

She was booked into the Saline County Jail on multiple requested charges including domestic battery, battery, aggravated burglary, robbery, and three counts of criminal damage to property.

Authorities continue to search for the male suspect.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — The Latest on the investigation in to the death of a boy killed while riding a waterslide in Kansas City, Kansas (all times local):

9:10 a.m.

A 10-year-old boy was decapitated as he rode a waterslide at a Kansas water park.

A person who is familiar with the investigation but is not authorized to speak about the boy’s death told The Associated Press Wednesday that Caleb Schwab was decapitated Sunday on the “Verruckt” ride at the Schlitterbahn WaterPark in Kansas City, Kansas.

Family and friends have established a GoFundMe page here

Caleb, the son of a Kansas lawmaker, was in a raft with two adults who were not related to him when he was killed on the 168-foot tall ride. The other two were treated for facial injuries.

A spokeswoman for the waterpark declined to discuss the circumstances of the boy’s death.

“Verruckt” is German for insane.

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At least two people who’ve ridden the waterslide on which a 10-year-old boy was killed over the weekend say shoulder straps snapped or popped off during the ride in Kansas City, Kansas.

Paul Oberhauser told local television station KCTV that the safety restraints on his raft on the Verruckt waterslide weren’t working properly when he rode it on July 26 at the Schlitterbahn Waterpark.

The Nebraska man says his shoulder strap “busted loose” during the ride and he “just held on.” A video shot by his wife shows it loose at the ride’s end. He says he told workers about the loose strap.

Kenneth Conrad told WDAF-TV that he rode the waterslide last year with a friend whose shoulder strap came “completely off.” Conrad’s wife snapped a photo at the end of the ride showing the strap missing. Conrad says he didn’t file a complaint with the park.

The park’s spokeswoman didn’t immediately return a message Tuesday from The Associated Press seeking comment on the claims.

HUTCHINSON — The second of two teens in a conspiracy to commit capital murder at Hutchinson High School was sentenced on Tuesday.

Carson Cabral, 15, will spend three years, nine months in juvenile custody and then three years aftercare.

He received basically the same sentence as 14-year-old Ayrton “Alex” Marroquin, according to Assistant District Attorney Daniel Gilligan.

They were both found guilty of making threats against officials at Hutchinson High.

The two teens were arrested after several students came forward to express concerns about a threat.

Several search warrants were issued, which turned up plans for making pipe bombs, as well as sketches and plans of where certain teachers and staff would be so they could be targeted.

Police also recovered items that could be used to build explosive devices.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Corporation Commission has expanded restrictions on the amount of oilfield wastewater that can be injected underground, a practice that has been linked to earthquakes in south central Kansas in recent years.

  View map of saltwater disposal wells in Kansas here

During a meeting Tuesday, the commission left in place an 8,000-barrel per day limit in five specific areas of Harper and Sumner counties. But it put a 16,000-barrel per day limit on the rest of those two counties and parts of Kingman, Sedgwick and Butler counties

The Wichita Eagle reports experts the KCC staff said reduced injection rates imposed earlier led to a drop in the magnitude and frequency of earthquakes on the Kansas side of the Oklahoma border.

 

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Board of Regents is being asked to consider establishing the state’s first school of dentistry.

The proposal was presented during a regents’ meeting on Tuesday. Proponents said the most feasible site for the proposed school would be the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kansas.

The Lawrence Journal-World reports Kansas Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little said the university is not pushing the idea and the regents also have not discussed the proposal.

Since 1964, Kansas has had a reciprocal agreement with Missouri to allow Kansas residents to pay in-state tuition to study optometry and dentistry at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Regent Daniel Thomas, who led a task force before he was appointed to the board, says Kansas isn’t getting what it needs from that agreement.