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The following animals have been brought to the Helping Hands Humane Society, 2625 N.W. Rochester Road. The telephone number is 233-7325.
Cats
Unknown, orange, 5 years old, 1735 N.W. Lyman.
Female, black with white, 8 weeks, 200 block of N.E. Chandler
Dogs
Male Chihuahua, black with white, 1 year old, 500 block of S.E. Burr
Male Border collie, tri-color, 7 years old, Intersection of S.W. 8th and Randolph
Female Yorkshire terrier, cream, 4 years old, Intersection of S.W. Clontarf and Westview.
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FORT RILEY — A member of the World War II Army unit memorialized in the book and HBO miniseries "Band of Brothers" has paid a visit to Fort Riley.
Eighty-nine-year-old retired Staff Sgt. Earl McClung stopped at the Kansas post Wednesday to meet wounded soldiers at the Warrior Transition Battalion complex.
McClung, who now lives in Colorado, served with E Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. Members of Easy Company parachuted into France on D-Day, fought through the Battle of the Bulge and reached Adolf Hitler's Eagle Nest retreat.
PRINCETON, Kan. — There's an art to stealing an ATM, and whoever made off with one of the cash machines outside an eastern Kansas bank apparently was no artist.
The Ottawa Herald reports that Franklin County sheriff's officers responded early Sunday to an alarm at Patriots Bank in the small town of Princeton, south of Ottawa.
Deputies arrived to see an ATM missing from its place outside the bank and being pushed slowly along a street by a pickup truck. The driver abandoned the cash machine and sped off, then crashed the truck and ran away.
The undead strolling along S. Kansas Avenue once again will liven up downtown as the Topeka Zombie Walk returns as part of the spring edition of the Slash and Bash Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival.
Although the bulk of the festival will take place Friday and Saturday with free movie screenings inside The Break Room, 911 S. Kansas Ave., activities will spill outdoors with the Topeka Zombie Walk at 6 p.m. Saturday and the showing of two movies after dusk on an outdoor screen in the 900 block of S. Kansas Avenue, which will be closed to vehicle traffic from 5:15 p.m. to midnight.
Gusts of wind and a large copper theft were to blame Wednesday evening for about 3,700 power outages across the capital city and Shawnee County.
Officials estimate the monetary damage to a Westar Energy substation struck by copper thieves at $300,000.
Pockets of the city and county, particularly to the west, were experiencing strong wind gusts that were battering power lines. Many traffic signals in the downtown area weren’t functioning, as well.
The trial date was moved back more than four months last week in a lawsuit filed by the father of one of two men who drowned when their canoe capsized in the Kansas River in 2007.
Shawnee County District Court records show Judge Larry Hendricks on May 17 rescheduled the jury trial in the suit against the city of Topeka and state of Kansas to begin Nov. 26. It previously had been set to start July 9.
Court records show a 10-day trial is expected in the suit filed in July 2009 by Jim Bryant, father of Joshua Bryant.
Westar Energy employees will band the two peregrine falcon chicks born atop its Topeka building May 30, officials said Tuesday.
The utility also announced Tuesday the launch of the naming contest for the offspring of Boreas and Nemaha, who have nested at the location for a second year.
Westar Energy’s General Office, 818 S. Kansas Ave., is an annual nesting grounds for peregrine falcons.
Employees also will draw blood from the chicks at the time of the banding to submit for analysis by the Midwest Peregrine Project in Minnesota.
Topeka lawyer Kevin Cook on Wednesday became the third Democrat to file to run for the 2nd District seat on the Shawnee County Commission.
Cook, 37, of 1512 S.W. 3rd, submitted a petition to file for the seat, said election commissioner Elizabeth Ensley Deiter.
Incumbent Mary M. Thomas, 56, of 3511 S.E. Tomahawk Court, and challenger Linda K. Armstrong, 52, of 3013 S.E. Downing Drive, had filed Tuesday to run as Democrats for the seat Thomas holds representing the 2nd District.
A pair of suspenders, a Bud Light beer can and tire tracks in a corn field in Pottawatomie County have authorities on the look out for the person or persons responsible for the more than $3,000 done in criminal damage to the property.
Sheriff Greg Riat said a Valley Center Pivot irrigation system was damaged in a corn field west of 7680 Junietta Road, which is near the intersection of Blue River and Junietta roads.
Riat in a news release Wednesday said that sometime between Friday and Sunday what appears to be a dually pickup truck entered the corn field.
Two Kansas Democrats want the state’s Republican attorney general to stay out of a federal court case over political redistricting.
The matter is in federal court because Kansas lawmakers ended their session Sunday without drawing new maps for the state House and Senate, Board of Education and the four U.S. House districts.
Attorney General Derek Schmidt says he wants to weigh in on attempts by lawyers to collect legal fees from the state.
Gator Queen Liz, from the History Channel television show "Swamp People," will sign autographs from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at The E Store, 4140 E. K-268 highway in Vassar. Information: (785) 828-4753.
A year ago, Alma lawyer Keen Umbehr was facing allegations of professional misconduct and being encouraged by state legal ethics official Stanton Hazlett to apologize and accept a lesser punishment.
On Wednesday, the shoe met the other foot. Umbehr, who was cleared of any wrongdoing, filed with the Kansas Supreme Court a detailed complaint accusing Hazlett of professional misconduct.
Federal authorities have charged a man who had been living at a Veterans Affairs hospital in the robbery Tuesday of an Overland Park bank.
If convicted, Thomas Crowl, 64, faces up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
The office of U.S. Attorney for Kansas Barry Grissom said in a news release Crowl was charged Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Kan., with one count of bank robbery. The release said Crowl had been living at the Leavenworth VA Medical Center.
Crowl is accused of robbing the Metcalf Bank at 10300 Metcalf Ave. in Overland Park.
Problems with a new computer system that delayed Kansas vehicle and title registrations have been resolved, Revenue Secretary Nick Jordan said Wednesday.
Kansas is implementing a new system that will merge vehicle registrations and titles and eventually link to driver’s license records. Jordan said the issues that caused the system to bog down Monday and Tuesday were related to routine maintenance performed Sunday night.
The Division of Vehicles worked with 3M, supplier of the new $40 million system, to fix the problems and restore service.
