KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Authorities have arrested a second suspect in a Kansas City, Kansas, homicide and continue looking for a third.
Police said in a news release that 20-year-old D’Adrian Jones turned himself in Thursday. It wasn’t immediately known if he had an attorney. Police continue looking for his 19-year-old brother, Kavon Jones.
Homicide suspect from 43rd & State surrendered w/ his attorney present to detectives.
They have been charged in Wyandotte County with first-degree murder in the death of 21-year-old Clarence Buford, of Kansas City, Kansas. Buford was killed Sept. 26 in a strip mall parking lot, and police arrested the first suspect the next day.
Police said Kavon Jones should be considered armed and dangerous. Anyone with information is urged to call police or a tips hotline.
SHAWNEE COUNTY -Law enforcement authorities in Shawnee County are investigating a Friday morning shooting.
Just before 3:30 a.m., a 20-year-old man arrived at a Topeka hospital suffering from gunshot wounds that appear to be non-life threatening, according to a media release.
Police set up a crime scene in the 1300 Block of SW Western Avenue.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Prosecutors say an anti-Muslim militia group in Kansas first came to the government’s attention when one member contacted FBI agents and became a confidential source.
The new details came in a government court filing in the case of three men accused of conspiring to detonate truck bombs at an apartment complex where 120 Somali immigrants live in the western Kansas meatpacking town of Garden City.
Prosecutors say the men pose a “substantial danger” to the community and should stay jailed until trial.
Two are due in court Friday and the third on Monday.
Patrick Stein, Gavin Wright and Curtis Allen are charged with conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction. They were arrested in what the government calls a foiled plot to attack the apartment complex on Nov. 9.
HUTCHINSON— A Kansas man charged in three cases with a total of 17 counts against him entered a plea this week to all of the charges after waiving his preliminary hearing.
For a n arrest in October of 2015, Kristopher Lee Richards, 27, Hutchinson, entered pleas as charged to possession of methamphetamine and Hydrocodone with intent to sell within a thousand feet of a school, possession of drug paraphernalia with intent to distribute and possession of marijuana.
Then he was arrested on Nov. 3, 2015, on several charges once again involving the distribution of drugs including possession of methamphetamine, possession of prescription drugs with intent to distribute, possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.
The charges in the third case occurred on Dec. 7, 2015. In this case, Richards entered pleas to possession of methamphetamine and other prescription drugs with intent to sell, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.
In each case he was in possession of at least 3.5 grams, but less than 100 grams of meth, between 10 and 100 dosage units of the prescription drugs and marijuana.
As part of the plea agreement, he also waived his right to appeal any sentence that might be handed down by District Judge Joe McCarville.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The government is appealing a federal judge’s decision to temporarily block an Obama administration directive on bathroom rights for transgender students in public schools nationwide.
A one-page filing Thursday asks the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to review a preliminary injunction issued in August by U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor in Fort Worth.
Kansas, Texas and 11 other states asked O’Connor to halt the directive after the federal government told public schools in May that transgender students must be allowed to use bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with the gender they identify with.
O’Connor’s injunction froze the directive, but more on procedural than policy grounds.
Still, It’s since been cheered by top Republicans in Texas and elsewhere, who argue that the Obama administration was seeking to undermine school privacy safeguards.
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — A former pastor is accused of trying to choke a 4-month-old baby he didn’t know at a Kansas City-area Wal-Mart.
The Kansas City Star reports prosecutors in Kansas’ Johnson County charged 54-year-old Oleh Zhownirovych of Clinton, New Jersey, with felony aggravated battery and misdemeanor battery. It was not immediately clear if Zhownirovych has an attorney.
Overland Park police say a man walked up to a woman who was in a checkout lane early Wednesday and began choking her baby. The woman screamed, and the man stopped.
Police say people in the store helped the woman and held the man until officers arrived. The baby was not injured.
Investigators say the man possibly was under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Latest on Kansas officials’ reactions to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s claims that fraud could cost him the election. (all times local):
4:15 p.m.
Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran is saying that he’ll accept this year’s election results and will encourage all candidates for office to do the same.
The Kansas Republican issued a statement Thursday in response to GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s unsubstantiated claims that election fraud could cost him the White House.
Trump wouldn’t agree during the final presidential debate Wednesday night to accept the results.
Moran said American democracy depends on the country’s ability to elect leaders in a fair and open process. He said for more than 200 years, people have respected the outcome of elections.
Moran added: “I will accept the will of Kansans and Americans, and encourage all candidates running for public office to do the same.”
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The top elections official Kansas is defending Donald Trump as the Republican presidential nominee claims that election fraud could cost him the election.
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is a Trump supporter and a vocal advocate of tough voter ID and proof-of-citizenship requirements for voters.
But the Kansas Republican Party’s executive director said Thursday that the party will accept the results after the Electoral College meets in December to formally choose the president.
Kobach said if the vote is close in a swing state like Florida, there is what he called a “legitimate question” about the results.
Kansas GOP Executive Director Clay Barker said there might be some election problems but no “massive election conspiracy.”
A Loyola University law professor’s recent study concluded that voter-impersonation cases are extremely rare.
National Weather Service image Seasonal Precipitation Outlook
SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal forecasters say this winter will likely be warmer and drier than normal down south, and colder and wetter up north. See the map report here.
As for the nation’s middle belt, the winter should be typical, but one or two nasty storms or cold snaps could appear.
The forecast reflects the arrival of the global weather pattern known as La Nina.
California probably won’t get relief from its drought. National Weather Service drought expert David Miskus said California’s winter will likely stay dry and it will probably be “many, many years” before the drought is busted.
Private weather forecasters agreed the California wet season will come up short. But they see a harsher winter for the nation overall, including a return of the dreaded polar vortex, which funnels cold Arctic air into the U.S.
Brandon Brown in court for a preliminary hearing in May -Photo by Jeff Guy courtesy Kiowa Co. Signal
GREENSBURG, Kan. (AP) — A mentally ill Kansas man has pleaded no contest to killing a man three days after he was released from a state psychiatric hospital in a case that prompted a state inquiry.
The Kansas City Star reports that Brandon Brown, of Haviland, pleaded no contest Tuesday in Kiowa County to second-degree murder. Prosecutors said he beat 61-year-old Jerry Martinez so severely in May 2015 at a residential care facility that Martinez died a few weeks later.
Brown spent a week at the state-run psychiatric hospital in Osawatomie after he scuffled with two other residents at the Haviland Care Center west of Wichita. The beating happened after he returned to Haviland.
Brown’s father, James Brown, has argued his son was released too quickly because of state budget problems.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A woman has been charged in the death of a 19-year-old woman whose body was found nearly 30 years ago in Kansas City, Kansas.
The Wyandotte County District Attorney’s office said in a release Thursday that 48-year-old Carolyn J. Heckert is charged with first-degree murder in the December 1989 death of Sarah DeLeon, who was found stabbed to death along some railroad tracks.
Heckert is being held on $1 million bond following her arrest Wednesday in Smithville, Missouri, which is about 20 miles north of Kansas City, Kansas.
Police have said new DNA collection and testing technology prompted investigators to reopen the DeLeon case in July 2014.
A lawyer for Heckert didn’t immediately return calls seeking comment Thursday.
Gail Elieson, DeLeon’s mother, says she “quite pleased” charges were filed.
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KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A woman has been arrested in the 26-year-old unsolved killing of another woman in Kansas City, Kansas.
Kansas City, Kansas, police said in a news release that the U.S. Marshals Service took 48-year-old Carolyn J. Heckert into custody Wednesday in Clay County, Missouri.
She is being held on a $1 million bond in the killing of Sarah DeLeon. The body of the stabbed 19-year-old was found by railroad tracks in 1989.
Police investigators said in May that they believe there is a link between DeLeon’s killing, the unsolved 1994 slaying of Diana Marie Ault in Independence, Missouri, and an abduction in 1987. Investigators didn’t say then why they believe the cases are connected.
New DNA collection and testing technology prompted police to reopen the DeLeon case in July 2014.
SALINE COUNTY -One person was injured in an accident just after 3a.m. on Thursday in Saline County.
A 2004 Mazda SUV driven by Marshall Bohlander, 22, Cincinnati, OH., was westbound on Interstate 70 just west of Solomon, according to Saline County Under Sheriff Roger Soldan.
The driver lost control of the SUV after it hit a deer. The vehicle traveled into the ditch rolled.
The driver’s long hair got caught in the driver’s side window as SUV rolled . It partially tore his scalp, according to Soldan.
He was transported to Salina Regional Health Center for treatment.
Gavin Wright, Curtis Allen and Patrick Stein were arrested on Friday and charged with domestic terrorism
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Prosecutors say the three Kansas men accused of conspiring to attack Somali immigrants in Garden City pose a “substantial danger” to the community and should not be released pending trial.
A filing Thursday makes public new details about the plot and the arsenal they had amassed. The government also cited the men’s backgrounds, arguing they pose a flight risk.
Detention hearings for Patrick Stein and Gavin Wright are set for Friday, and one for Curtis Allen is set for Monday.
The three are charged with conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction.
Prosecutors say the men were part of a small militia group called the Crusaders. They allege the three planned to detonate truck bombs around a small Garden City apartment complex where about 120 Somali immigrants live.
RILEY COUNTY –Investigators are working to determine the cause of a Friday morning house fire in Manhattan.
