Gregory Edmund Saindon, age 64, of Ellis passed away Tuesday, January 12, 2016 in Ellis.
Funeral services will be 10 AM Saturday, January 16, 2016 at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Ellis.
Visitation will be 6 PM – 8 PM Friday with a combined Knights of Columbus Rosary and parish vigil service at 7 PM all at St. Mary’s Church.
A complete obituary is pending with Keithley Funeral Chapel 400 E 17th Ellis, KS 67637.
Crystal Bayliff, 28, Leslie Elam, 30, Michael Eubanks, 32, and Joshua Scott, 38, all from Wichita, have been charged with drug trafficking, according to U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom.
The crimes are alleged to have occurred Aug. 5, in Trego County.
In count one, Bayliff, Elam and Eubanks are charged with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. In count two, Bayliff and Elam are charged with possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. In count three, Scott is charged with using a phone in furtherance of drug trafficking.
Upon conviction, the crimes carry the following penalties:
Counts one and two: Not less than 10 years and a fine up to $4 million.
Count three: A maximum penalty of four years and a fine up to $250,000.
The Drug Enforcement Administration, the Kansas Highway Patrol and the WaKeeney Police Department investigated. Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Michelle Jacobs is prosecuting.
The Local Big Creek Longbeards will have their annual banquet on Jan. 23 at the Ellis County Fairgrounds.
The doors will open at 4 p.m. Smokin’ Co. BBQ will be the caterer. Money from the banquet, in part, is used to promote conservation, provide an annual free hunter’s safety course, a youth fun day at the Hays Sportsman’s Club, scholarship for a senior to continue higher education, and many other local events.
This is a family event with children’s table, ladies only table and lots of chances to win guns.
If interested in attending or if you would like to donate merchandise or be a sponsor, contact Bonnie Werth at (785) 259-1846.
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98.5 FM The Truth will showing on the big screens of Celebration Community Church the recently released movie “Woodlawn” on Friday, Jan. 22, at 7:05 p.m.
“Woodlawn” tells the story of a gifted high school football player who must learn to boldly embrace his talent and his faith as he battles racial tensions on and off the field. “Woodlawn” is a moving and inspirational film based on the true story of how love and unity overcame hate and division in early 1970s Birmingham, Alabama.
The movie stars Sean Astin and Jon Voight. Admission and refreshments are free.
Station Manager Cameron Shoemaker says “Woodlawn” is just the first of the monthly faith based films that will be shown this year as a part of the radio station’s Friday Family Flix For Free.
HUTCHINSON -Two Kansas teens suspected of several automobile burglaries in the city of Nickerson were in court Wednesday for the formal reading of charges.
Kyle Nisbeth, 19, is now charged with 20 felony and misdemeanor counts, including several counts of auto-burglary, burglary of a non-dwelling, several counts of theft, including the theft of two firearms, one a shotgun and the other a rifle. He remains in jail on a bond of $57,500.
Quentin Zumalt, 19, is charged with eight counts of auto burglary and eight counts of misdemeanor theft.
Zumalt, who is free on bond, appeared with his attorney Stan Juhnke and they waived the reading of the charges.
During the investigation of these burglaries by the Patrol Division of the Reno County Sheriff’s Office a possible suspect vehicle was found in the driveway of a residence in Nickerson.
After talking to the residents the vehicle was seized as evidence, because there were items visible in the vehicle that appeared to be from the recent burglaries and the vehicle was identified as one of interest in other recent crimes in Reno County.
Ultimately 8 burglary reports were taken over $7200 worth of property was reported as stolen and some of that property has been recovered.
The cases against the two suspects will now moved to a future waiver-status docket next month.
PAOLA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a former northeast Kansas dispatcher has been charged with felony possession of methamphetamine.
The Kansas City Star reports that Debbie Henson was a dispatch supervisor with the Miami County Sheriff’s Office until Kansas Bureau of Investigation agents arrested her this month. The sheriff’s office says she’s no longer employed by the agency. It wasn’t immediately known if she had an attorney.
Besides the drug charge, Henson faces one count each of possession of drug paraphernalia and official misconduct, both misdemeanors.
Henson was with the sheriff’s office for about 18 years.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Three Powerball tickets will be splitting the record $1.6 billion jackpot. A California lottery official says winning tickets in last night’s drawing were sold in Tennessee, Florida and Chino Hills, California, near Los Angeles.
We have a winner in California! A jackpot-winning ticket was sold in Chino Hills. We’re still awaiting results from other states.
— California Lottery (@calottery) January 14, 2016
The frenzy over the largest Powerball jackpot in history paid off for the state of Kansas.
Kansas Lottery officials say sales for the Wednesday’s Powerball drawing were a record $9.68 million. The previous record was $6.77 million, set just last Saturday.
Lottery spokeswoman Sally Lunsford says the state recorded $5.31 million in sales in Kansas on Wednesday alone.
Three winning tickets were sold for Wednesday’s Powerball but none were in Kansas. However, two $1 million Powerball winning tickets were sold in the state, one in the southwest and one in south central Kansas.
The winning numbers were 4-8-19-27-34 and the Powerball was 10.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Wichita man has been sentenced to nearly 16 years in prison after being convicted of killing his longtime girlfriend.
The Wichita Eagle reports that Sedgwick County District Court Judge Warren Wilbert sentenced Darnell D. Hall Jr. to 190 months in prison Wednesday after he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder last month. The judge also ordered the 23-year-old man to pay $5,000 in restitution.
Hall is convicted of shooting 23-year-old Sabryna Guerrero-Newman twice in the abdomen during an argument at a residence in January 2015. He then dragged her limp body to her car, which was later found several blocks north.
Several of Guerrero-Newman’s relatives said in court that they had forgiven Hall for the killing but thought he deserved the maximum prison sentence of 200 months.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) – Markis McDuffie scored 16 points on 8-of-9 shooting and collected nine rebounds as Wichita State broke open a close game and beat Missouri State 78-62 Wednesday night.
Wichita State (11-5, 5-0 Missouri Valley) led 37-36 at the half then used a 16-3 run out of the break to go up 53-39 on Rauno Nurger’s jumper with 12:38 to play.
Conner Frankamp hit consecutive 3s and Evan Wessel buried a 3 to make the score 62-44.
Missouri State (6-11, 2-3) sped to a 15-4 lead early when Dequon Miller hit a 3 with 13:58 to play before halftime. The Shockers battled back and Rarshard Kelly’s tip-in basket with 28 second before halftime gave Wichita State the lead for good.
Frankamp and Ron Baker each had 14 points for the Shockers as they shot 32 for 67 (47.8 percent) from the floor.
Miller scored 17 points for the Bears while Camyn Boone and Ryan Kreklow each had 10.
EDWARDS COUNTY – One person was injured in an accident just before 7p.m. on Wednesday in Edwards County.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2007 Peterbilt semi driven by James C. Gillming, Elm Creek, NE., was westbound on U.S.56 at the U.S. 50 Junction.
The driver failed to stop at the stop sign, attempted to make a left turn on U.S. 50 and the semi rolled semi onto its side.
Gillming was transported to the hospital in Kinsley. He was properly restrained at the time of the accident, according to the KHP.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — An audit of the Kansas Department for Children and Families won’t include an investigation into whether the agency discriminates against same-sex couple.
The Wichita Eagle reports that the Legislative Post Audit Committee deadlocked on the proposed anti-gay discrimination investigation and eventually decided to delay the issue until its April meeting. The audit the panel approved Wednesday will focus on safety and privatization.
Sen. Michael O’Donnell, a Wichita Republican, says the audit will be the “most comprehensive” of the foster care system in the state’s history.
But Rep. Jim Ward called the decision “simply unbelievable.” The Wichita Democrat had proposed an audit of discrimination claims after several couples came forward in recent months. He accused lawmakers of voting to “cover up evidence of discrimination in a major state agency.”
NEW YORK (AP) — Chipotle says it will start a marketing push in February to begin its road to recovery after a series of food scares, and that it’s confident it can win back customers over time.
The remarks from executives come after Chipotle’s sales plunged 30 percent in December. Its troubles began after an E. coli outbreak came to light at the end of October. Several weeks later, norovirus sickened dozens at a Chipotle in Boston.
Health regulators say one person who ate at a Chipotle restaurant in Kansas also became ill in a late November E. coli outbreak that sickened five people in three states.
Kansas Department of Health and Environment spokeswoman Sara Belfry said the person ate at Chiptole’s Shawnee Mission Parkway location the week of Nov. 23. No other details were released.
Last week, Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. said it was subpoenaed by federal authorities as part of a criminal investigation tied to a different norovirus outbreak in California over the summer.
At an investment conference in Florida, Chipotle executives said Wednesday the Denver company is taking measures to reduce the risk of another food scare to “near zero.”
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The University of Kansas has chosen a University of Iowa woman as the program director for its new Sexual Assault Prevention & Education Center.
The university announced Wednesday that Jennifer Brockman will start her new job Jan. 20. Brockman currently is executive director of the University of Iowa’s Rape Victim Advocacy Program, which serves 250,000 people in eight counties. She coordinated primary sexual assault prevention and education for four institutions of higher education and many secondary schools.
Kansas’ new center will coordinate the university’s sexual assault prevention and education programming. It also will assess those efforts and create new programming. Brockman is the center’s first employee.
The center is one of several changes recommended by the Chancellor’s Task Force on Sexual Assault, which submitted its final report in May 2015.
