Priest Pleads Guilty to Three Counts in Child Case
Rev. Ron S. Gilardi, 53, admitted guilt to three counts of indecent liberties with a child related to a former student at Thomas More Prep-Marian High School. The plea stems from incidents in 1993-94 when the student was 14. Gilardi taught there 1988-1996. He faces 32 months in a clerics treatment facility, with potential prison after completion or up to a 96 month program.
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Glenn Braun
Texas
Gilardi
Ellis County
Tom Drees
Ed Booker
Drees
Booker
Body of missing man found in river
Saline County officials recovered the body of Gary Keller 29 of New Cambria who disappeared Wednesday night after fishing with a friend on the Solomon River. The sheriff said one man fell asleep, woke to Keller missing, and his body was found Friday afternoon. An autopsy will determine the cause of death.
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Salina
Saline County
Gary Kochanowski
Gary Keller
New Cambria
Solomon River
Keller
Man convicted in double killing outside Kansas City club
A Kansas City man Gordon Martis, 25, was found guilty of first degree murder in Alfonso Moore’s death and second degree murder in Jerry Seals’s death after shootings outside a Kansas City club. He also was convicted of attempted first degree and second degree murder for wounding two women. No capital murder verdict. sentencing date pending.
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Kansas City, Kan
Kansas City
Kan
Gordon Martis
Alfonso D. Moore
Jerry C. Seals
Martis
Moore
Fredonia girl dies in two vehicle crash in Kansas
In Cherryvale Kansas a 16 year old Fredonia girl died when her car collided with a southbound semitrailer on U S 160 near U S 169 with the car bursting into flames on impact. A third vehicle swerved to avoid the collision. its occupants were uninjured. The truck driver and passenger received on scene treatment.
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Cherryvale
Fredonia
Kansas
Jessica Grandstaff
U.S. 160
U.S. 169
Grandstaff
Lincoln Names Joyce Quinn as New Affirmative Action Director
Nebraska native Joyce Quinn seeks to become Lincoln's affirmative action director following in the footsteps of her father Roger Welsch, the creator of Postcards from Nebraska and CBS Sunday Morning contributor. Quinn aims to establish her own mark in city administration while connected to Nebraska folklore roots.
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Lincoln, Neb
Nebraska
Joyce Quinn
Lincoln
Quinn
Roger Welsch
Liars Hall of Fame
CBS
GCCC grads prepare for 81st commencement ceremony
About 400 graduates at Garden City Community College will receive diplomas at 10 a.m. in the west gymnasium completing the 81st commencement. Dighton native Anthony Waltz has earned an associates degree and will speak at the ceremony on the theme Success Encouraged at GCCC.
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Garden City
Waltz
Dighton
GCCC
Ana Medrano
Murder conviction overturned for prosecutorial lies
Kansas Court of Appeals ordered a new trial for Trennie Campbell, mother unjustly convicted of killing her 2-year-old Savannah in 1996. The ruling faulted prosecutor Mary McDonald for withholding time-of-death evidence and pursuing a “winning at all costs” strategy, deeming the trial unfair and tainted by misconduct.
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Topeka
Court of Appeals
Trennie Campbell
Harvey County
Campbell
Savannah
Mary McDonald
McDonald
Robert Lewis
Criminal
Lewis
Wichita City
Flint Campbell
Arnold
Newton
Brandelaise
Richard Blackwell
Roberts
Pastures struggle as Kansas drought bites cattle herd
Kansas live stock producers face scarce cool season grass and weak alfalfa yields with roughly 21 percent of pastures in poor condition. First alfalfa cuttings are two thirds normal while hay stocks have plunged. Farmers worry about forage carryover and heavier culling as rainfall remains uncertain.
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Wichita
Kansas
Gary Kilmore
Kansas State University
Chanute
Kilmore
Kansas Agricultural Statistics Service
Kass
Flint Hills
Becki Rhoades
Kansas Livestock Association
Kansas Court Rules Single Disk Counts Child Pornography
The Kansas Court of Appeals ruled that a disk containing multiple child pornography images constitutes a single act. In reversing 1999 convictions for 90 counts, the panel ordered a new trial for Scotty Donham and rejected charging separate counts for each image found on 18 disks.
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Topeka
Kansas Court of Appeals
Butler
Scotty Donham
Butler County
Donham
Jan Satterfield
Henry Green
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State of Kansas
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