SALINE COUNTY – A Kansas woman died in an accident just before 7p.m. on Friday in Saline County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2004 Chevy Venture Van driven by Misty Marie Miller, 35, Salina, was westbound on Interstate 70 two miles west of Solomon Road.

The van left the roadway, traveled across the median and struck an eastbound semi.

Miller was pronounced dead at the scene and transported to Carson Geisendorf Funeral Home.

The semi driver Matthew Edward Palmer, 42, Glenn Heights, TX., and a passenger were not injured.

Miller was not wearing a seat belt, according to the KHP.
 

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A judge has determined that a Wichita man will stand trial on a charge stemming from a toddler found with a dead octopus lodged in his throat.

KSN-TV reports Matthew Gallagher waived his right to a preliminary hearing Thursday. He was charged with aggravated endangerment of a child after the 2-year-old was found with the small octopus in his throat.

The trial’s scheduled for October 3.

The criminal complaint alleges that Gallagher “unlawfully and recklessly” caused or allowed the 2-year-old boy “to be placed in a situation in which the child’s life, body or health” is at risk.

Police have said the boy’s mother told investigators she returned home from work April 5 and found Gallagher performing CPR on her son. The boy was later released from the hospital.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Officials have denied parole for a man convicted in the 1989 death of a Kansas City, Kansas, police officer.

The Kansas Prisoner Review Board has ruled that 47-year-old Darryl L. Lewis will have to wait three years before he can seek parole again.

Lewis was found guilty of second-degree murder in the death of Officer Jeff Young, and was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison. Lewis was driving a stolen car and trying to elude arrest when he struck and critically injured Young in November 1988.

Young was in coma until he died on August 1, 1989.

The Kansas City Star reports that the parole board said in its decision that Lewis needs to avoid any disciplinary reports.

NEW YORK (AP) — Cable and telecom industry groups want a federal appeals court to reconsider its ruling on net neutrality.

The Wireless Association, an industry trade group also known as CTIA, and other groups are petitioning for the case to be reheard by all of the court’s judges.

Last month, a three-judge panel from the court upheld the government’s “net neutrality” rules, preserving regulations that force internet providers to treat all online traffic equally.

The 2-1 ruling was a huge victory for the Obama administration and the consumer groups and internet companies that have pushed net neutrality for years.

The Federal Communications Commission’s rules block internet service providers from favoring their own services and disadvantaging others; blocking other sites and apps; and creating “fast lanes” for services that pay for the privilege.

PITTSBURG, Kan. (AP) — A man has been ordered to stand trial in the 2014 shooting death of a Pittsburg State University student.

The Pittsburg Morning Sun reports (https://j.mp/2aAWsCZ ) that Bryan Bridges was ordered Thursday to stand trial for the murder of Taylor Thomas, a 20-year-old junior when he was killed in October 2014. Authorities say he was killed during a robbery.

District Court Judge Kurtis I. Loy bound Bridges over for trial on several charges, including first-degree murder and aggravated kidnapping. The trial has been scheduled to begin Nov. 28.

Three other men have entered pleas in the case.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Latest on a judge’s ruling on Kansas’ two-tiered voting system (all times local):

4:30 p.m. A county judge has ruled that Kansas must count potentially thousands of votes in state and local races from people who’ve registered without providing citizenship documents.

Shawnee County District Judge Larry Hendricks issued a temporary order Friday to block a rule from Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach. The order came four days before Tuesday’s primary election.

The rule applies to people registering to vote at state motor vehicle offices without documenting their U.S. citizenship as required by a 2013 state law.

A federal judge ruled in May that federal law allowed them to vote in federal races, but Kobach’s rule said their votes in state and local contests would not be counted.

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A Kansas judge will consider whether to allow election officials to toss out potentially thousands of votes in state and local races from people who’ve registered without meeting a requirement to document their U.S. citizenship.

Shawnee County District Judge Larry Hendricks was having a hearing Friday on a request from the American Civil Liberties Union to block an administrative rule from Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach. The hearing comes only four days before Tuesday’s primary election.

The ACLU filed a lawsuit on behalf of three prospective voters earlier this month, a week after a state board allowed Kobach to impose the rule temporarily — through the November election — without a public hearing. It applies to people who register to vote at state motor vehicle offices without providing proof of their U.S. citizenship as required by a 2013 state law.

The affected voters are to receive provisional ballots to be reviewed later, and county election officials are directed to count only their votes for federal offices, not state and local ones. Ahead of the primary, about 17,600 people registered at motor vehicle offices without providing citizenship papers, and the rule could apply to 50,000 people in November.

RENO COUNTY— A Kansas man who waived his preliminary hearing in the fatal stabbing of a Hutchinson man was sentenced Friday to 7-years and six months in prison.

Kevin Wayne Ginn Jr., 34, was convicted in the stabbing death of 24-year-old Deshamus Diron Luckey during a large disturbance just after 2 a.m. New Years Day in the area of 8th and Madison Street in Hutchinson.

He was originally charged with voluntary manslaughter, but in March, the state amended the complaint to second-degree murder and added counts of voluntary manslaughter and aggravated battery.

Ginn entered a plea to one count of involuntary manslaughter with the other charges dropped as part of the agreement.