SEDGWICK COUNTY —Former Dallas Cowboy and Wichita native is back in jail accused of rape. Joseph Randle is being held on a $500.000.00 Bond, according to Sedgwick County jail records.

Just after 3:30 a.m. Friday, Randle was booked into Sedgwick County Jail.

In February 2015, Randle was involved in domestic disturbance that included the mother of his child at a hotel in Wichita. The Sedgwick County District Attorney said there was not sufficient evidence to bring felony charges against him in the case.

In July 2015, Randle was put on six months of probation for stealing $123 worth of cologne and underwear from a Texas mall.

Randle was arrested in November of 2015 after an altercation at a Kansas casino. In June of 2016 he was charged with threatening a jail deputy.

Randle was sentenced in June to probation for charges involving burglary, battery, criminal threat and marijuana possession, according to a media release from the Sedgwick County Attorney’s office.

He was waiting for sentencing on charges involving the altercation at the jail.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Troubled former Dallas Cowboys running back Joseph Randle has been arrested in Kansas on a suspicion of rape charge.

Records show that Randle was booked into Sedgwick County Jail at around 3:40 a.m. Friday. Spokesmen for the police and prosecutor’s office and Randle’s attorney in previous cases didn’t immediately reply to phone messages seeking details about his latest arrest.

Randle was released on probation in June under a plea deal that allows prosecutors to seek to have him put in prison if he gets into trouble again. He spent most of the past two years in jail, with occasional stints in a state mental hospital, on an array of charges. Several of them were related to Randle hitting three people with a car after an argument at a housewarming party.

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By TOM SHINE

Top-level minor league baseball likely will return to Wichita in 2020.

Mayor Jeff Longwell said Thursday that the New Orleans Baby Cakes of the Pacific Coast League have filed an application to relocate to Wichita. The application must be approved by Minor League Baseball and the Pacific Coast League. It also must be reviewed by Major League Baseball.

City officials expect a decision later this year. The Baby Cakes are the Triple-A affiliate of the Miami Marlins.

Wichita has been without an affiliated baseball team since 2007 when the Wichita Wranglers — the Double-A affiliate of the Kansas City Royals at the time — left for a new stadium built for them in Springdale, Arkansas.

It has not had a Triple-A team since 1984, when the Wichita Aeros left for Buffalo, New York. Triple-A is the highest level of minor league baseball.

“Triple-A baseball is coming to Wichita because of who we are today and because of who we aspire to be tomorrow,” Longwell said Thursday during a news conference at Lawrence-Dumont Stadium. Gov. Jeff Colyer was among those attending the event.

“We’ve worked tirelessly on this deal,” Longwell said. “It’s not just about another great quality of life amenity, or baseball. This is about investing in our city and continuing to make Wichita a regional destination.”

Lawrence-Dumont Stadium, built in 1934, will be torn down later this year. The new stadium complex is expected to cost between $60 million and $73 million. It will have 7,000 fixed seats and a total capacity of about 10,000.

City officials have said they hope it can be used for concerts, festivals and other events.

Longwell said the stadium will be paid for through state-approved STAR bonds and a local Tax Increment Finance district; both funding sources will capture added tax revenue brought in by development in the area. City officials hope it will revitalize the Arkansas River corridor and connect the stadium to the Delano neighborhood.

Longwell identified affiliated baseball as a critical component to improve the quality of life in Wichita. It is part of the city’s effort to retain existing employees and attract new ones, he said.

The Pacific Coast League has 16 teams. Other teams in the region include Oklahoma City, Omaha and Des Moines. New Orleans currently plays in a division with Memphis, Nashville and Round Rock, Texas.

City officials said they expect the Baby Cakes to get a new nickname when the team arrives in Wichita.

The NBC World Series, played in Wichita since 1935, will move to Wichita State University’s Eck Stadium next summer.

The Wichita Wingnuts, an unaffiliated team that began play in 2008 at Lawrence-Dumont, has not announced its future plans.

Tom Shine is director of news and public affairs at KMUW in conjunction with the Kansas News Service. Follow him in Twitter@thomaspshine.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Authorities are investigating a report that a University of Kansas student sexually assaulted four female dormmates during the first few weeks of classes.

The 18-year-old man was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of aggravated criminal sodomy and sexual battery, but was released from jail later that day without being charged. The Douglas County District Attorney’s Office sent the case back to police with a request for additional investigation. Police say the women reported being touched inappropriately from Aug. 23 to Aug. 30.

University spokeswoman Erinn Barcomb-Peterson says the man is enrolled as a student but isn’t currently a resident of Oliver Hall, which houses both male and female students. She didn’t say whether he had been disciplined, citing federal privacy law.