KANSAS CITy (AP) — The Latest on charges filed in the 2016 death of a 10-year-old boy at a Kansas water park.

The co-owner of a water park who is charged in a 10-year-old boy’s decapitation death on a water slide arrived in Kansas on Tuesday night.

Schlitterbahn co-owner Jeff Henry was booked into the Wyandotte County jail.

Charges against him include

Murder in the 2nd degree; Intentional Aggravated battery; Intentional great bodily harm or disfigurement and Aggravated endangering a child; Reckless situation to child <18, according to the Wyandotte County booking report.

Henry has been jailed in Texas since March 26 when he was indicted on charges including second-degree murder in the 2016 death of Caleb Schwab on the Verruckt water slide at the Schlitterbahn water park in Kansas City, Kansas.

Henry’s is due in court Thursday in Wyandotte County (Kansas) District Court.

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4:20 p.m.

The co-owner of a water park who is charged in a 10-year-old boy’s decapitation death on a water slide is expected to arrive in Kansas on Tuesday night.

Schlitterbahn co-owner Jeff Henry was en route Tuesday from a Brownsville, Texas, jail to Kansas. His attorney, Carl Cornwell, told The Kansas City Star that Henry is expected to be booked into the Wyandotte County jail Tuesday night.

Henry has been jailed in Texas since March 26 when he was indicted on charges including second-degree murder in the 2016 death of Caleb Schwab on the Verruckt water slide at the Schlitterbahn water park in Kansas City, Kansas.

Henry’s is due in court Thursday in Wyandotte County (Kansas) District Court.

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2:30 p.m.

Authorities in Texas say the co-owner of a water park who has been charged in the decapitation death of a 10-year-old boy has been extradited to Kansas.

Cameron County sheriff’s Chief Deputy Gus Reyna Jr. says 62-year-old Jeffrey Henry was taken from a South Texas jail to Kansas on Tuesday to face charges including second-degree murder in the 2016 death of Caleb Schwab.

Henry is an owner of Texas-based Schlitterbahn Waterparks and Resorts. Attempts to reach a Texas attorney for him were not successful.

U.S. marshals on Monday arrested a co-defendant, 72-year-old John Timothy Schooley, at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport as he got off a flight from China. He also faces charges including second-degree murder and is being held without bond at the Dallas County jail.

Caleb died on the 17-story Verruckt waterslide when the raft he was in went airborne and hit an overhead loop.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Two top Republicans issued an ultimatum Tuesday that Kansas legislators act to curb the power of judges before they will allow them to vote on increasing public school funding to satisfy a demand from the state Supreme Court.

The declaration brought action on education funding to a halt after significant progress had been made.

The House had passed a bill, 71-53, that would phase in roughly a $520 million increase in education funding over five years. Meanwhile, a Senate committee on school finance approved a bill that would phase in a $274 million increase over five years. A debate by the full Senate on at least one of the bills was scheduled to be next

But Senate President Susan Wagle, of Wichita, and Majority Leader Jim Denning, of Overland Park, both GOP conservatives, said they won’t schedule any debate until lawmakers put a proposed constitutional amendment dealing with the courts on the ballot for a statewide vote. A House committee is reviewing such a measure, to strip state courts of the power to declare the state’s total spending on public schools insufficient.

Wagle and Denning said the state cannot afford the House’s school funding plan without a tax increase within two years. They questioned whether the Supreme Court would accept the Senate committee’s plan — undercutting GOP lawmakers who pushed it — and said the legal battles forcing lawmakers to consider higher spending must end.

“We have been put in a situation where we just have to stop the train,” Wagle told reporters. “We’ve been pushed into a corner.”

Denning said: “The madness has to stop.”

The Kansas Supreme Court ruled in October that the state’s current spending on public schools of more than $4 billion a year still isn’t sufficient under the state constitution, even with increases approved last year. The court says the constitution requires legislators to finance a suitable education for every child.

Kansas has been and out of education funding lawsuits for several decades, and the last one was filed in 2010 by four local school districts. The Supreme Court has issued multiple rulings forcing lawmakers to increase their spending, and GOP conservatives have sought regularly to amend the state constitution, without success. An effort by conservatives to oust four of the seven justices in the 2016 elections also failed.

Both houses must pass a constitutional amendment by two-thirds majorities to put it on the ballot. Republicans have the necessary supermajorities in both chambers, but GOP conservatives and moderates are split over an education funding amendment. Democrats strongly opposed such measures, seeing them as an attack on both the courts and public schools.

Top Democrats said it’s irresponsible for Wagle and Denning to block school funding legislation over a constitutional amendment that’s not likely to pass. The court gave the state until April 30 to report on how lawmakers fixed the problems it has identified with school funding.

Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley, a Topeka Democrat, said the two Republicans were having a “temper tantrum” and acting like “school-yard bullies.”

“That sounds child-like, you know, ‘I’m going to pick up my ball and go home,'” said House Minority Leader Jim Ward, a Wichita Democrat. “You don’t get to do that when you’re under a court order.”

The House Judiciary Committee had a hearing Tuesday on a proposed constitutional amendment and was expected to vote on it Wednesday.

A coalition of business groups is backing the measure. Supporters argued that checking the courts’ power over school funding will protect spending elsewhere in state government and lessen the pressure for tax increases.

And at least a few Republicans voted for the House’s education funding plan primarily because, as conservative GOP Rep. Kyle Hoffman, of Coldwater, said, “We have a coalition willing to look at a constitutional amendment.”

In the House, Majority Leader Don Hineman, a moderate Dighton Republican, shrugged off Senate GOP leaders’ ultimatum.

“We have to work this out,” Hineman said. “We have an April 30 deadline to answer the court, and my expectation is that we will.”

By NADYA FAULX

An FBI informant’s account of the investigation into an alleged bomb plot in western Kansas was called into question Tuesday.

Defense attorneys in the ongoing trial in Wichita’s federal courthouse had the chance to cross-examine Dan Day after two days of direct testimony. Day worked as an informant for the FBI for several months in 2016 as agents investigated Patrick Stein, Gavin Wright and Curtis Allen. The three men are accused of planning an attack on an apartment complex and mosque in Garden City.

As an informant, Day posed as a member of the Kansas Security Force militia. He recorded hundreds of hours of phone calls and meetings with the defendants at G&G Home Center, the business owned by Wright.

Day told prosecutors that by mid-September, a few weeks before their arrests, the men had all the materials they needed to make an explosive. The state is arguing the men were preparing to take action to carry out the attack.

But Allen’s attorney insists there was never a bomb.

“You said they had a bomb ready, put together and ready to set off?” Melody Brannon asked Day.

“They said they had everything they needed to do it,” Day responded.

“That’s different than having a bomb ready,” Brannon said.

Questioned further, Day said he never saw any equipment, except for the mortar and pestle he had provided.

Day was also unclear on what kind of bomb the men had planned to make and didn’t know what ingredients it would need. A sergeant with the Liberal Police Department testified a hotplate magnetic stirrer was found in Wright’s pickup as police executed a search warrant, but he couldn’t say with certainty whom the item belonged to, or who had put it in the truck.

Brannon acknowledged her client was “seriously worried” about the federal government, Islamic law and the upcoming election 2016 presidential election.

“In the end, though, Mr. Day, there was never any bomb at G&G, was there?” she said.

Attorneys for the three defendants have argued that Day is less a hero and more of a paid bounty hunter working for the FBI.

Day first came into contact with the FBI in July 2015, several months before he met the defendants. Shortly after, he joined a militia known as the Three Percenters. It was his choice to join, he said, but the FBI “asked me to follow them, and I agreed.”

James Pratt, an attorney for Stein, said Day had been providing the FBI information “for a while before they, for lack of a better word, ‘signed you up’ as an informant.”

Pratt provided as evidence a contract signed in October 2015, when Day formally became a paid informant while also serving as the militia group’s vetting officer. Day said he agreed to become an informant because he was concerned with extremists in the organization.

The defense will continue to cross-examine Day on Wednesday.

Nadya Faulx is a reporter for the Kansas News Service. Follow her on Twitter @NadyaFaulx. 

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Kansas State junior guard Amaad Wainright is suspended from the Wildcats basketball team after being charged when someone allegedly fired shots from his car in January.

The U.S. Marshals Service says Wainright was arrested Tuesday in Kansas City. He is charged with obstruction, and fleeing and eluding.

The charges stem from an incident Jan. 17 in Overland Park, Kansas. Police said a passenger in Wainright’s car fired a handgun into another car in a possible road rage incident. No one was injured and no one was arrested at the time.

Kansas State athletic director Gene Taylor says Wainright has been suspended indefinitely. His status will be re-evaluated after the investigation is complete.

Wainright a junior guard, didn’t respond to an email to his student account Tuesday.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — One of five people charged in the torture and killing of a Wichita man over a $185 meth deal has been convicted.

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Willie Morris, 57, was found guilty Tuesday of 10 counts, including first-degree murder, in the November 2016 death of 33-year-old Scottie Goodpaster Jr.

Goodpaster’s mutilated body was found Nov. 12 in a Harvey County field, about a week after the crime began in Valley Center.

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Investigators say Goodpaster was tortured and a woman was forced to watch, stemming from $185 lost in a methamphetamine deal.

Sentencing was scheduled for May 18.

The four other defendants remained in the Sedgwick County Jail on Tuesday.

SHAWNEE, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man has been sentenced to more than three years in prison for driving drunk and injuring a bicyclist.

40-year-old Kevin Eugene Hall was sentenced Monday after a jury found him guilty of aggravated battery and fleeing the scene of an injury accident.

Prosecutors say Hall had been drinking at a bar and purchased alcohol at a store in the hours before the September 2015 crash in Shawnee.

Hall’s attorneys had argued there’s no evidence of Hall’s intoxication level at the time of the wreck or that he was the driver of the vehicle when the bicyclist was hit.

Evidence included Hall’s phone in the vicinity around the time of the crash and blood on Hall’s car linking the victim.

SALINE COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating a reported computer scam.

A rural Saline County woman told deputies she turned on her computer February 19 to a black screen with an 800 number to call for help to get it working again, according to Sheriff Roger Soldan.

She called the number and talked to a man who said someone in Nigeria had accessed her computer for pornography. The 65-year-old woman was offered a 9-year protection plan for $399.99 which she paid through Pay-Pal.

The woman called the Sheriff’s Office on Monday after having family over at Easter who told her they believed she was a victim of a scam