by Randy Picking ~ Salina Post

An attempted stop of a vehicle on I-70 Thursday morning for a registration issue, led to a chase that wound up in the north side of Chapman.

Trooper Ben Gardner with the Kansas Highway Patrol says the chase began around 10:00am when the vehicle did not stop and went east on I-70, exiting at the Chapman Exit.

The vehicle stopped and the driver got out and began running southbound, but a passenger remained and was handcuffed.

Seventeen Kansas Highway Patrol Troopers arrived on the scene and formed a perimeter and a plane was also called in from Salina to help in the search for the white male that ran.

Due to the fact that a elementary school was in the area, the school was placed on lock down.

Just before 11:00 am the male who ran was apprehended near a tree line.

The driver will face charges of fleeing and eluding. The passenger is being detained until the investigation is concluded.

Trooper Gardner also said that the occupants of the car were throwing things out of the car while they were still on the interstate.

An investigation continues after a man in Osawatomie died after police used a Taser on him.

Osawatomie police said they responded to a domestic disturbance at 1:15 a.m.

A man came out and talked to police, but then tried to strangle the woman and ran off. Authorities say when the man resisted arrest a block away, police stunned him with a Taser.

Just after being placed in custody, police said Travis L. Maupin, 32, fell unconscious. Authorities say they administered first aid and rushed Maupin to the Miami County Medical Center where he later died.

The Kansas Bureau of Investigation is investigating.

A Lawrence artist is upset that print critical of Gov. Sam Brownback has been taken down at a Topeka cafe.

The stencil print by Dave Lowenstein shows Brownback with tears in his eyes, with flames behind him. The governor is saying “Kansans pleeease … stop me.”

The owner of the building that houses the Blue Planet Cafe, Greg Ready, says he removed the print out of respect for Brownback’s daughter, who works at a photo business above the cafe. Ready says his decision was not a political statement. He also says the Liz Brownback did not ask that the print come down.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Lowenstein is calling it censorship. He says Ready misinterpreted the print, which was to be part of an exhibit featured this Friday.

A Topeka activist says he’ll start circulating petitions later this month for an election to recall Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach.

Sonny Scroggins has been holding small protests against Kobach for several weeks.

Scroggins contends Kobach should be ousted over several issues. The concerns include Kobach’s work on immigration issues that regularly takes him out of state and his advocacy of a new state law requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls.

Fellow activist Frank Smith says Kobach is trying to suppress voter turnout.

Kobach argues the photo ID law will prevent election fraud and says the issues raised by Scroggins and Smith were aired during his successful 2010 campaign.

Under Kansas law, recall proponents must gather signatures from nearly 83,000 registered voters to force an election.

A 26-year-old Scott City man was sentenced to more than 5 years in prison Tuesday after pleading guilty to two charges of electronic solicitation.

Nicholas Anderson was sentenced to 61 months in prison on each of the two charges, to run concurrently. Anderson pleaded guilty to the charges in July. Judge William F. Lyle presided over the sentencing in Scott County District Court.

The charges stem from an investigation by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation and the Western Kansas Child Advocacy Center.

An animal-rights group has withdrawn its lawsuit against the Kansas State Fair.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said in the lawsuit that fair officials were restricting the group’s free speech rights by requiring it to shield people from seeing images of animal slaughter at its booth.

Just days before the fair opened last month, a federal judge ruled fair officials could reasonably impose the restrictions.

A dismissal entered Wednesday in federal court shows that PETA and the state will pay their own costs and attorneys’ fees from the complaint.

PETA said in an email that it is pleased with the outcome. It says the fair’s censorship and the lawsuit drove traffic to its fair booth to discuss its message about cruelty to animals on farms and during slaughter.

Via Little Apple Post

On Oct. 2, the Kansas State University Police Department, with assistance from the Riley County Police Department, executed search warrants at 618 Yuma and 1208 Ratone streets in Manhattan. The search was part of an ongoing investigation into burglaries of various campus offices.

Police arrested and detained Andre Levar Murphy, 33, a university custodial employee, on campus. Murphy was charged with felony theft and misdemeanor theft. Murphy was also arrested on several drug charges as a result of an additional search warrant served by the Riley County Police Department . Murphy remains confined at the Riley County Jail.

Several thousands of dollars worth of property believed to belong to Kansas State University was recovered, as were drugs, currency and a firearm. The investigation is ongoing, and additional charges are expected.

The investigation was a collaborative effort of the patrol and investigation divisions at the Kansas State University Police Department.

“I am very proud of our officers’ effort and dedication to investigating these ongoing crimes,” said Ronnie Grice, Kansas State University police chief.

The charges against Murphy include:

* Two felony counts of theft
* One misdemeanor count of theft

He was held in lieu of $3,000 bond.

* Possession with intent to distribute marijuana within 1,000 feet of a school
* Possession of marijuana
* Possession of drug paraphernalia
* No drug tax stamp
* Unlawful acquisition of drug proceeds
* Criminal possession of a firearm

He was held in lieu of $17,000 bond.

Preliminary hearings for two suspects in the death of a Tabor College football player have been rescheduled.

The hearings for Alton Franklin and DeQuinte Flournoy, both 19, were scheduled this week in McPherson County District Court. The hearings have been rescheduled for Monday.

Franklin and Flournoy are each charged with second-degree murder in the death last month of 26-year-old Brandon Brown. The redshirt defensive lineman for Tabor died Sept. 22 from injuries he suffered after a fight Sept. 16 in McPherson.

Franklin and Flournoy, former McPherson College football players, have been suspended from the college.

A University of Kansas chemistry professor has received a $1.38 million federal grant to help with research into HIV vaccines.

Heather Desaire will use the money from the National Institutes of Health to investigate several HIV vaccine candidates. The University of Kansas says she will conduct her work in collaboration with researchers from Duke University Medical Center and Harvard Medical Center.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 1.1 million people in the U.S. were infected with HIV at the end of 2009. About 50,000 people are newly infected each year.

Economic researchers at Wichita State University are preparing to release their 2013 employment forecast for Kansas.

The forecast being released Wednesday online is produced by the university’s Center for Economic Development and Business Research. The center’s analysts look at signs of economic stability and weakness, then use those indicators to predict employment by industry in the coming year.

The center’s annual Wichita Economic Outlook Conference will take place Oct. 11 at Century II. This year the center has added four more such conferences around the state. Those are set for later this month in Pittsburg, Hays, Emporia and Dodge City.

Several events are scheduled in Abilene this month to celebrate Dwight D. Eisenhower’s 122nd birthday.

Eisenhower was born Oct. 14, 1890, in Texas but moved to Abilene as a boy, where he graduated from high school and went on to accept an appointment to West Point. After leading the Allied forces in Europe in World War II, he was elected president in 1952 and 1956.

Seventh-graders from schools in Abilene and Chapman will visit the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum on Oct. 10-11 for special programs on Eisenhower’s life and 1950s culture.

Members of the Kansas Veterans of Foreign Wars will hold a vigil at Eisenhower’s grave on Oct. 12, the same day as the Eisenhower Legacy Dinner in the library.

A former northeast Kansas sheriff’s deputy has been charged with inappropriately touching a female inmate.

Thirty-nine-year-old Vernon Finkenbinder was charged Tuesday in Johnson County with unlawful sexual relations and posted bond. The sheriff’s office says the incident occurred Sept. 23 while the female inmate was in custody at a central booking location for those suspected of a crime in Johnson County.

A news release says the allegation was reported two days later, leading to a criminal investigation.

Finkenbinder was placed on administrative leave and since has resigned from the sheriff’s office. The news release says investigators have determined that what happened was “an isolated incident.”

The sheriff’s office says it wasn’t immediately known if Finkenbinder had an attorney. He is scheduled to make his first court appearance Oct. 11.