Two Die In Head On Collision On Highway 56
A Satanta woman and a Ness City man died in a head-on crash on east U S Highway 56 Wednesday morning. Juana Montoya 31 and Paul Wegele 76 died. Montoya’s passenger Raul Najera 45 is in serious condition at St Catherine Hospital. Wegele drove a 1995 Buick. Montoya a 1985 Chevrolet. Neither Montoya nor Najera wore seat belts. unknown if Wegele did.
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Satanta
Ness City
U.S
Juana Montoya
Paul Wegele
Montoya
Raul Najera
St. Catherine Hospital
Kansas Highway Patrol
Wegele
Najera
Iola teens in stabbing leaves one dead and one wounded
Iola police say a 16 year old girl Tegan Colvin was stabbed multiple times while fleeing an attacker and sought help at a nearby home. Kyle Day, 17, reportedly fatally shot himself after the attack. The two were Iola High School students and the exact circumstances remain unclear. Kansas Bureau of Investigation agents assisted.
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IOLA
Tegan Colvin
Wesley Medical Center
Wichita
Kyle Day
Allen County
Robbie Atkins
Day
Tegan
Iola High School
Atkins
Colvin
Kansas Bureau of Investigation
Truck driver jailed for fatal crash near Minneapolis
Larry D. Rose, 30, of Norfolk Nebraska, received a year in jail after pleading guilty to vehicular homicide in a crash on U S Highway 81 near Minneapolis. The conviction followed a presentencing report recommending probation, but the judge cited prior burglary and three driving with a suspended license convictions. A 3 month old girl Chandler Rose died days after the collision that also injured her family.
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Minneapolis
Kan
Larry D. Rose
Norfolk
Neb
Ottawa County District Court
Adrian Lapka
Rose
Charles Pulliam
Christina Thomas
K C man charged with statutory rape in Platte County case
Craig Trussell a 31 year old Kansas City man was charged in Platte County Circuit Court with two counts of statutory rape and two counts of statutory sodomy involving a 12 year old Kansas girl he met in an Internet chat room. The victim from Roeland Park Kan reported meeting him June 22 at an Roeland Park elementary school and driving with him to his Missouri home where the sexual activities occurred before he returned her to the school.
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Platte City
Kansas City
Kansas
Craig Trussell
Platte County
Roeland Park
Kan
Trussell
Missouri
Avrelative
State courts set plan to cover 2 million budget gap
Kansas Supreme Court outlines systemwide steps to trim a 2 million shortfall with a 60 day hiring freeze, staff reductions, and cuts to temporary workers. The 25th Judicial District including Finney and neighboring counties must save 26 thousand, with risks of four day work weeks for nonjudicial staff if funds aren’t found.
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25Th Judicial District
Finney
Greeley
Hamilton
Kearny
Scott
Wichita
Finney County
Court of Appeals
Topeka
Ror Keefover
Supreme Court
Keefover
Howard Schwartz
Finney County set to discuss stalled US 50 400 study funding
Finney County and Garden City resume talks on a four lane US 50 to Mullinville study with total cost about 1.5 million. KDOT will contribute up to 1.3 million but local match is fixed at 200 000 while other counties are asked to help fund. The Monday meeting at the Finney County Administrative Center will also review budget requests across EMS clerk health GIS and jail deputy staffing.
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Finney County
Kansas Department of Transportation
Garden City
KDOT
Garden City City Commission
Finney County Commission
Max Morgan
Kdot Engi
Neer Thomas Shafer
Mullinville
Hamilton
Kearny
Gray
Ford
Kiowa
Dodge City
TranSystems
Kansas City
Commission
County Health Department
WIC
CASA
Sheriff’s Office
Finney County Health Department
EMS
Finney County Sheriff's Office
Casas
Finney County Administrative Center
Ninth St
Regents boost pay for six Kansas university leaders
The Kansas Board of Regents approved a 5.75 percent salary increase for leaders of six state public universities for the coming fiscal year. Chiefs include KU Chancellor Robert Hemenway at 219,420 and KSU President Jon Wefald at 209,820, with other presidents listed. Wilcox also saw a raise to 136,814. The board cited leadership roles and noted faculty pay comparisons while acknowledging budget limits. A separate budget plan for nearly 900 million dollars also proposed a 4 to 5 percent faculty pay rise.
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Topeka
Board of Regents
Fred Kerr
University of Kansas
Robert Hemenway
Kansas State University
Jon Wefald
Wichita State University
Don
Kansas
Regent
Clay Blair
Kim Wilcox
Wilcox
Regents
Hemenway
Ember fires detonations probe implicates pit ember risk
A federal investigator cites an ember in a fireworks detonation pit as the likely cause of last year's Wichita blast that killed bomb tech Lt. Jack Galvin. The report, echoed by BATF and Detonator newsletter, notes unsafe practice and limited space to dig separate holes for each detonation.
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Wichita
Wichita Eagle
International Association For Bomb Technicians and Investigators
Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
North Hoover Road
Jack Galvin
Wichita Police Department
Galvin
Doug Manning
BATF
The
Eagle
Norman Williams
Kansas to pay county jails for parole violator housing
The Department of Corrections outlines a plan to cover about 830000 in bills from counties for housing inmates who were paroled but violated parole terms. The agency, facing a 1.3 million shortfall for the last half of fiscal 2001, will delay the rest until next year and redirects funds from inmate programs health care and food service.
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Topeka
Department of Corrections
Bill Miskell
Miskell
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