KANSAS CITY(AP) — An 18-year-old was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the stabbing death of a woman.
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Trevon Henry was sentenced Friday to two life sentences plus 50 years in prison for the death of Tanya Chamberlain in Lee’s Summit.
Henry was 14 when Chamberlain was stabbed or cut 49 times after he and another juvenile approached her at a car wash.
The teens got into Chamberlain’s car with her and drove away before she was stabbed. She was found dead in the car after the teens fled when an officer stopped the vehicle.
The other teenager, Joshua Tagg, pleaded guilty in November to second-degree murder and is awaiting sentencing.
TOPEKA – The Women and Minority Business Development office of the Kansas Department of Commerce announces the start of the Minority and Women Business Spotlight program.
The purpose for the program is to highlight Kansas small, minority and women-owned businesses. To be eligible, applicants must be small, minority and/or woman owned businesses headquartered in Kansas.
Every month, one business will be selected for the Spotlight. That business will be featured on Kansas Commerce social media and KansasCommerce.gov. The selected company will be featured in an article on KansasCentral.com.
“It is our goal to feature Kansas minority and/or women-owned businesses through our spotlight to assist in their growth and development,” said Rhonda Harris, Director of the Office of Minority and Women Business Development for the Kansas Department of Commerce. “By bringing awareness to these companies and the services and products they provide, we hope to promote a broader outreach to potential customers that may be able to utilize the services offered.”
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Montana State University’s play-by-play broadcaster for football and men’s basketball has resigned after the university investigated a reporter’s complaint that he sexually harassed her, an allegation that he denies.
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Jay Sanderson told The Billings Gazette that he left his position as “the voice of the Bobcats” last month and was moving to help an ill family member in his hometown of Wichita.
He denies former Missoulian reporter Amie Just’s allegations that he touched her inappropriately and sent her sexually suggestive text messages.
Just granted permission to use her name to The Associated Press, which normally does not name alleged sexual harassment victims.
Internal university documents provided to the Gazette and the AP show the university’s Office of Institutional Equality investigated Sanderson after Just filed a complaint in September.
A draft report written at the end of November concluded that Sanderson more likely than not “engaged in unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature” by sending multiple sexually harassing text messages to Just, making sexually explicit statements and by making unwanted sexual contact.
The schools interim Title IX coordinator, Emily Stark, also issued a “no contact” order in October barring Sanderson and Just from any communication with each other.
A final report is expected this month.
The investigation included interviews with witnesses who said Just appeared shaken at a Big Sky football event in July and told them that Sanderson had touched her inappropriately, according to the report. Just also provided the investigator with suggestive text messages Sanderson sent her in February.
Just, who now covers Louisiana State University sports for the Times-Picayune, said Sanderson created a hostile environment and hurt her ability to do her job, the report said.
Montana State University vice president of communications Tracy Ellig said the university does not comment on individual cases and that the investigatory report is not a public document, though he acknowledged that the document exists.
Sanderson had been in his position since 2014 as a part-time employee of the university and a full-time employee of Learfield Sports. The university has jurisdiction to investigate Sanderson because of his employment and because he was “the public face for MSU Athletics,” the report said.
He resigned at the end of December and said in a tweet that he was moving to Wichita because “members of my family have been befallen by devastating health issues.” He told the Gazette that the allegations are untrue, he considered Just a friend and that the investigation had nothing to do with his resignation.
“Not one bit. I would’ve resigned if there had not been any of this going on,” Sanderson said.
Just reported on the University of Montana’s football team for 1½ seasons.
“I wouldn’t wish this on anyone,” she told the Gazette. “I want to move forward with my life. I hope everyone involved can do the same.”
TOPEKA – The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) and the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism (KDWPT) are issuing fish consumption advisories for 2019. The advisories identify types of fish or other aquatic animals that should be eaten in limited quantities or, in some cases, avoided altogether because of contamination. General advice and Internet resources are also provided to aid the public in making informed decisions regarding the benefits as well as the risks associated with eating locally caught fish from Kansas waters.
Definitions:
Bottom-feeding fish: buffalos, carp, carpsuckers, catfishes (except blue and flathead catfish), sturgeons, and suckers.
Predatory fish: black basses, blue catfish, crappies, drum, flathead catfish, perches, sunfish, white bass, wiper, striper, walleye, saugeye, and sauger.
Shellfish: mussels, clams, and crayfish.
General Population: Men and women 18 years of age or older.
Sensitive Populations: Women who are pregnant, may become pregnant, or are nursing and children age 17 or younger.
Meal size (skinless fish fillets before cooking):
Adults and Children age 13 and older = 8 ounces
Children age 6 to 12 = 4 ounces
Children younger than 6 = 2 ounces
Statewide Advisories
Kansas recommends the following consumption restrictions because of mercury in fish:
Sensitive Populations should restrict consumption of all types of locally caught fish, from waters or species of fish not specifically covered by an advisory to one meal per week because of mercury.
Largemouth, smallmouth, and spotted bass (black basses):
Sensitive Populations should restrict consumption of these species to one meal per month because of mercury.
General Public should restrict consumption of these species to one meal per week because of mercury.
Waterbody specific advisories for all consumers
Kansas recommends restricting consumption of bottom-feeding fish to one meal per week from the following location because of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs):
Cow Creek in Hutchinson and downstream to the confluence with the Arkansas River (Reno County);
The Kansas River from Lawrence (below Bowersock Dam) downstream to Eudora at the confluence of the Wakarusa River (Douglas and Leavenworth counties);
The Little Arkansas River from the Main Street Bridge immediately west of Valley Center to the confluence with the Arkansas River in Wichita (Sedgwick County).
Kansas recommends restricting consumption of bottom-feeding fish to one meal per month from the following location because of PCBs:
K-96 Lake in Wichita (Sedgwick County).
Kansas recommends not eating specified fish or aquatic life from the following locations:
The Arkansas River from the Lincoln Street dam in Wichita downstream to the confluence with Cowskin Creek near Belle Plaine (Sedgwick and Sumner counties); bottom-feeding fish because of PCBs.
Shoal Creek from the Missouri/Kansas border to Empire Lake (Cherokee County); shellfish because of lead and cadmium.
The Spring River from the confluence of Center Creek to the Kansas/Oklahoma border (Cherokee County); shellfish because of lead and cadmium.
Antioch Park Lake South in Antioch Park, Overland Park (Johnson County); all fish because of the pesticides dieldrin, heptachlor epoxide, chlordane, and dichlorophenyltrichloroethanes (DDTs).
Arkalon Park Lakes in Liberal (Seward County) – Kansas recommends not eating fish or other aquatic life because the lakes are sustained solely by treated municipal wastewater.
General advice for eating locally caught fish in Kansas
Sensitive populations should consider restricting their total mercury intake for both supermarket fish and locally caught species. Concerned parents and other persons may wish to consult with a physician about eating fish and mercury exposure.
Mercury exposure can be reduced by limiting the consumption of large predatory fish. Larger/older fish of all types are more likely to have higher concentrations of mercury.
Avoid the consumption of fish parts other than fillets, especially when eating bottom-feeding fish. Fatty internal organs tend to accumulate higher levels of fat-soluble contaminants such as chlordane and PCBs than fillets.
Consumers can reduce their ingestion of fat-soluble contaminants such as chlordane and PCBs by trimming fat from fillets, and cooking in a manner in which fat drips away from the fillet.
Avoid subsistence level (relying on wild-caught fish for daily nutritional needs) fishing activities in large rivers within or immediately downstream of large urban/industrial areas and wastewater outfalls. Fish in these areas are more likely to contain traces of chemical contaminants.
Kansas recommends not eating fish or aquatic life from surface waters sustained solely by municipal or industrial wastewater because of unknown, yet potentially present pathogens, metals, organic chemicals or other emerging contaminants. This advisory includes consumption of any aquatic life present in wastewater outfalls, waste treatment lagoons or stormwater detention ponds.
In waterbodies where watches or warnings related to harmful algae blooms have been applied, fish should be consumed in moderation and care taken to only consume skinless fillets. Avoid cutting into internal organs and rinse fillets with clean water prior to cooking or freezing.
Internet resources from KDHE, KDWPT, EPA, FDA, and the American Heart Association
For information about fishing in Kansas including licensing, regulations, fishing reports and fishing forecasts please visit the KDWPT fishing website: https://ksoutdoors.com/Fishing
For technical information regarding the EPA risk assessment methods used to determine advisory consumption limits please visit: https://www2.epa.gov/fish-tech
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A 37-year-old man who fatally shot one man and tried to kill two others outside a bar has been sentenced to nearly 19 years in prison.
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Danny Queen, of Eudora, was sentenced Friday for the June 2017 death of 32-year-old Bo Hopson outside D-Dubs Bar and Grill in Eudora. He also was sentenced for attempted second-degree murder and attempted voluntary manslaughter for trying to kill two other bar patrons.
Prosecutors say his gun jammed when he tried to shoot the two other men.
Queen was kicked out of the bar after making offensive comments to women. When Hopson offered to find Queen a ride home, Hopson instead pulled a gun and shot Hopson, who was the bar’s security guard.
COWLEY COUNTY Law enforcement authorities are investigating a suspect on shoplifting charges and an outside warrant.
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Officers were dispatched about 3:30 p.m. Monday to Orscheln Farm & Home, 2715 N. Summit Street in Arkansas City for a report of an individual possibly trying to steal something inside the store, according to a media release.
Police contacted several people in a white Ford Taurus in the Orscheln parking lot. One of them identified as Charity Dawn Davisson, 43, Independence, was found to have an outstanding warrant for her arrest from Montgomery County.
After she was arrested on that warrant, a search of the vehicle found evidence of shoplifting from both Orscheln and Walmart, 2701 N. Summit Street. Theft charges were added to her booking.
Davisson remains in custody on suspicion of two misdemeanor counts of theft with a $2,000 bond through Cowley County District Court in Arkansas City.
FRANKLIN COUNTY — One person died in an accident just after 5a.m. Saturday in Franklin County.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2009 Freightliner Box truck was disabled in the southbound lanes of Interstate 35 at U.S. 59 on the south edge of Ottawa.
The truck was laying on the passenger side facing southeast, with the driver identified as Alfred Thomas Williams, 30, Jonesboro, GA., climbing on top of the cab.
A southbound 2009 Freightliner Semi driven by Sukhdarshan S. Sidhu, 63, Grand Island, NY., rear-ended the Box Truck, and forced it to rotate back into the guardrail it had previously struck.
Williams was ejected off the top of the cab.
The semi continued southbound on I35 with a damaged front end and axle. After crossing the I-35 bridge over U.S. 59 Highway, it traveled to the east and into the center grass median, struck a guardrail located near the northbound inside shoulder, jackknifed and came to rest partially in the grass median blocking the Northbound lanes.
Sidhu was pronounced dead at the scene. Williams was transported to Ransom Memorial Hospital.
DETROIT (AP) — Ford is recalling more than 953,000 vehicles worldwide to replace Takata passenger air bag inflators that can explode and hurl shrapnel.
The move includes over 782,000 vehicles in the U.S. and is part of the largest series of recalls in U.S. history.
Included are the 2010 Ford Edge and Lincoln MKX, the 2010 and 2011 Ford Ranger, the 2010 to 2012 Ford Fusion and Lincoln MKZ, the 2010 and 2011 Mercury Milan, and the 2010 to 2014 Ford Mustang.
Some of the recalls may be limited to specific geographic areas of the U.S.
Takata used the chemical ammonium nitrate to create an explosion to inflate air bags. But it can deteriorate over time due to heat and humidity and explode with too much force, blowing apart a metal canister designed to contain the explosion. At least 23 people have been killed worldwide and hundreds injured by the inflators.
Ford says it doesn’t know of any injuries in vehicles included in this recall. Dealers will replace the inflators.
Ford will notify owners about the recall starting on Feb. 18, and the company has replacement parts available for dealers to order, said spokeswoman Monique Brentley. In previous Takata recalls, parts availability had been an issue.
More than three years after the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration took over management of recalls involving Takata inflators, one third of the recalled inflators still have not been replaced, according to an annual report from the government and a court-appointed monitor.
The report says 16.7 million faulty inflators out of 50 million under recall have yet to be replaced. And 10 million more inflators are scheduled to be recalled this month, including the Ford vehicles. Also, Honda recalled 1.4 million vehicles in September, months ahead of schedule.
Safety advocates said the completion rate should be far higher given the danger associated with the inflators.
The recalls forced Takata of Japan to seek bankruptcy protection and sell most of its assets to pay for the fixes.
The inflators grow more dangerous as they get older because ammonium nitrate deteriorates due to high humidity and cycles from hot temperatures to cold. The most dangerous inflators are in areas of the South along the Gulf of Mexico that have high humidity.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ incoming Democratic governor is keeping her Republican predecessor’s budget director, saying he’s proven he can work with legislators of all political stripes.
Campbell
Gov.-elect Laura Kelly announced Friday that former state Rep. Larry Campbell will remain a key adviser on fiscal policy. Departing GOP Gov. Jeff Colyer appointed Campbell to the post in February 2018.
Campbell is a 63-year-old former banker who served 13 years in the House as a Republican before becoming budget director. He is a former Olathe mayor and a current member of its City Council.
Kelly called Campbell “a team player who wants to find solutions.” The new governor served 14 years in the Senate and was a key player in budget debates for almost a decade.
The new governor takes office Jan. 14.
DOUGLAS COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities are investigating a shooting that sent a man to the hospital.
Just after 12:30 a.m. Saturday police in the area of the 800 block of Vermont Street in Lawrence observed a group of individuals running through a nearby parking lot, according to Sergeant Amy Rhoads.
The officer then heard what appeared to be the sound of a single gunshot coming from inside 200 West 9th Street, The Carnegie Building.
Several more individuals were seen running away from the area.
Officers arrived on scene and secured the building. Officers did not locate any injured individuals in the area. A short time later, officers responded to a local hospital and where a 19-year-old man from Topeka was being examined for what appears to be a non-life threatening injury resulting from a single gunshot wound.
Investigators believe the man was wounded in the the incident near Vermont Street.
Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga attend ‘A Star Is Born’ photocall during the 75th Venice Film Festival at Sala Casino on Aug. 31 in Venice, Italy. Shutterstock.comBy JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer
NEW YORK — Dramatic period pieces will vie for the top comedy-musical awards and song-stuffed movies are poised to dominate the dramatic categories. Welcome to the 71st annual Golden Globes.
Category confusion often reigns at the Globes. Remember when laughers like “The Martian” and “Get Out” competed as comedies? But the Globes, reliably the frothiest, quirkiest and most entertaining stop in the awards-season march to the Academy Awards, might feel especially upside down this year.
The night, to be broadcast live Sunday on NBC, may ultimately belong to Bradley Cooper’s “A Star Is Born” revival. It’s the favorite for best picture (drama), best actress (Lady Gaga), best song (“Shallow”) and best actor (Bradley Cooper). The film’s stiffest competition may come from another music movie: the Freddie Mercury biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody,” whose star, Rami Malek, some believe could pull off the acting upset over Cooper.
Despite their copious tuneage, the campaigns of both “A Star Is Born” and “Bohemian Rhapsody” elected for the more serious dramatic category. For “A Star Is Born,” it’s a kind of power move to firmly establish itself as the Oscar front runner many believe it is.
Oscar voting, as it turns out this year, commences Monday, the morning after the Golden Globes. If “A Star Is Born” runs away with the Globes, it will enter the nominations period of the Academy Awards as the favorite by a wide margin.
With “A Star Is Born” (along with “Black Panther,” ”If Beale Street Could Talk” and “BlacKkKlansman”) up for best picture as a drama, that’s left a few humor-tinged movies many would peg as dramas — “The Favourite,” ”Green Book” and “Vice” — to give the comedy/musical side of the Globes a bit more heft than usual.
Of those, “Vice” comes in with the most nominations of any film (six), but the chances of “The Favourite” are probably the best on Sunday. “The Favourite,” Yorgos Lanthimos’ triangular power struggle in Queen Anne’s court, is the most decorated film of the bunch in an awards season that, despite any other fluctuations, has been rigid in its acclaim for the powerhouse trio of Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone.
Emily Blunt, nominated twice this year by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (best actress for “Mary Poppins Returns” and best supporting actress for “A Quiet Place”) could give Colman — named the lead of “The Favourite” — a run for her money. But Colman’s tragicomic performance as Queen Anne has made her the definite front-runner and potentially Lady Gaga’s stiffest competition come the Oscars when the two best-actress contenders will presumably go head to head.
The awards season of “Green Book” has been marred by backlash, so Peter Farrelly’s 1960s road trip tale probably has the most to gain from a strong showing at the Globes. The film’s best actor (comedy) contender, Viggo Mortensen, may not be able to challenge Christian Bale’s Dick Cheney, but the HFPA — which overlooked Mahershala Ali for “Moonlight” — may right that wrong with an award for his supporting performance in “Green Book.”
But if the lines of comedy, musical and drama are particularly blurred at this year’s Globes, they are even more so between film and television.
There are as many movie stars nominated in the TV categories as there are in the film ones. Among them: Julia Roberts (“Homecoming”), Jim Carrey (“Kidding”), Amy Adams (up for both “Vice” and “Sharp Objects”) Michael Douglas (“The Kominsky Method”), Benedict Cumberbatch (“Patrick Melrose”), Penelope Cruz (“The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story”), Patricia Arquette (“Escape at Dannemora”), Hugh Grant (“A Very English Scandal”) and Laura Dern (“The Tale”).
Their shows and others (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” ”Barry,” ”Bodyguard,” ”Killing Eve”) will be in the mix, and the victors may well muddy another awards show boundary: that between host and winner. Sandra Oh, the star of “Killing Eve,” is favored to win best actress in a drama series, potentially giving her a welcome respite from hosting duties alongside Andy Samberg.
Oh and Samberg will have the challenge of marshalling a broadcast that last year fell 11 percent in viewership for NBC. That ceremony, when women attendees wore black, was atypically solemn for the Globes, and rife with protest, coming as the first major awards show of the post-Harvey Weinstein #MeToo era.
But for a Globes full of head-scratchers, Samberg and Oh — each hailing from different realms of comedy and drama — are a fittingly, charmingly incongruous pair.
Just after 10:30p.m. December 29, police responded to a shooting at 4811 South Jackson Avenue in Tulsa, according to a media release from police.
Upon arrival, officers found the victim, Louis Poole, dead from gunshot wounds.
On January 3, 2019 an arrest warrant for 1st Degree Murder was issued for 42-year-old Kenneth Williams AHA “Jazzie” and 33-year-old La’shae Terrell.
Authorities located and arrested them at an apartment complex in the 5000 Block of North Maize Road in Wichita late Thursday, according to the Sedgwick County arrest report.
BOONE COUNTY — A child died in an accident just before 4p.m. Friday in Boone County.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported marked 2015 Chevy Tahoe patrol vehicle driven by Columbia police officer Andria E. Heese, 27, was eastbound in a roundabout at the west entrance to the parking lot of Battle High School 7575 East St. Charles Road.
Our sincere condolences to all affected by the tragedy at Battle High School.
The vehicle exited the road with the intention of parking on the sidewalk so the driver could observe students loading onto school buses.
The vehicle struck Gabriella Curry, 4, Columbia, who was walking on the sidewalk.
Officer Heese, another CPD officer at the school and other school personnel began providing immediate medical care to the child, according to a media release from the city of Columbia. The officer requested further medical aid via radio. Columbia Fire and University Ambulance EMS arrived and provided advanced life support. The child was transported to the University Hospital Level One Trauma with CPD escort.
Despite life saving attempts by emergency personnel both on the scene and at the hospital, the child died due to injuries sustained during the incident.
Officer Heese has been with the Columbia Police Department for five years and is assigned to the Community Outreach Unit, according to the release. Officer Heese is on Administrative Leave as per department protocol. MSHP continues to investigate the incident.
