JUNCTION CITY- A 6-year-old Kansas boy has died from injuries sustained in a suspected drunken-driving crash that killed his mother and younger sister. The Kansas Highway Patrol identified the boy as Jaydon Allan Thompson, of Junction City, who died at a hospital. Kansas Highway Trooper Ben Gardner says 26-year-old Jessica Michelle Thompson had taken Jaydon […]

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SILVER LAKE — The Kansas Highway Patrol says a Junction City man has died after being struck while trying to change a tire on Interstate 70. The patrol says 29-year-old Anthony Espinosa died after he was hit late Friday on the interstate. The patrol says Espinosa was working on the disabled vehicle on the inside shoulder of […]

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – The Kansas Supreme Court won’t consider the case of a couple whose children were taken into state custody in Riley County. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the court Friday declined to hear the case of Raymond and Amelia Schwab, who claimed their children were placed in state custody because of Raymond Schwab’s […]

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WICHITA — A Kansas man will stay behind bars until trial for his role in an alleged conspiracy by a militia group to detonate truck bombs at an apartment complex where 120 Somali immigrants live. Curtis Allen waived his detention hearing Monday and entered a not guilty plea, the only plea a federal magistrate judge can accept […]

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WICHITA — Prosecutors say an anti-Muslim terror group in Kansas first came to the government’s attention when one member contacted FBI agents and became a confidential source. One of the men, 51-year-old Gavin Wright, is a former Manhattan resident. The new details came in a government court filing in the case of three men accused of conspiring to […]

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TOPEKA- A federal grand jury has indicted three Kansas men who are suspected of plotting to attack Somali immigrants in Garden City. Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall says the grand jury indictment returned Wednesday is based on the same facts presented Friday in U.S. District Court in Wichita. Forty-nine-year-old Curtis Allen and 51-year-old Gavin Wright, […]

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A former Manhattan man is one of those charged in a Garden city case involving the targeting of Somalis. Gavin Wayne Wright, who is one of the three charged, lived in Manhattan several years ago. GARDEN CITY, Kan. (AP) – Law enforcement sought to reassure Somalis and other immigrants in Garden City of their safety […]

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JUNCTION CITY — Authorities say a man from Mexico who has been deported several times faces charges accusing him of raping a child in Kansas. Tomas Martinez-Maldonado is jailed in Geary County on $100,000 bond on a charge of raping a child under the age of 14 last month. Public defender Cole Hawver declined to comment Friday. […]

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army says it has fired the commander of Fort Riley and is continuing an investigation opened last week at the Kansas base. No details have been provided. Army spokesman Col. Patrick R. Seiber says that Maj. Gen. Wayne Grigsby was relieved of command of the 1st Infantry Division due to loss of confidence […]

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TOPEKA — U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) has introduced federal legislation that would require schools to provide fuller disclosure of their campus gun laws. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that the proposed law would require federally-funded universities to publish their gun policies on their websites and in other promotional materials. Presently, Kansas law allows concealed carry […]

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