Kansas Klips

COWLEY COUNTY—The City of Arkansas encountered a cyber security issue early Sunday, September 22nd, involving the city water treatment facility, according to a media release from the city.

HAYS—It was with heavy hearts that the announcement was made on September 13th by the Sternberg Museum that their beloved Alligator Snapping Turtle, Levi, passed away. Levi came to the Sternberg in 2010 from an illegal commercial turtle farm in Arkansas.

RENO COUNTY—On Saturday night, September 7th, a trooper working the State Fair checked the speed of a Camaro on Kansas 96 in Reno County at 151 mph, according to a social media report from Trooper Chad Crittenden. A pursuit ensued, and the driver was eventually taken into custody.

TOPEKA—The American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas sent a letter on Monday, August 19th, to East Elementary School Principal Katie Struebing in the roughly 2,000-person city of Belleville, asserting that the school violated the First Amendment.

WICHITA—A Kansas man, Shan Hanes, 53, of Elkhart, pleaded guilty to one count of embezzlement by a bank office, according to court documents, and was recently sentenced to 293 months in prison for using his former position as chief executive officer (CEO) to embezzle tens of millions of dollars in...

SEDGWICK COUNTY—A Kansas man who admitted stealing and destroying a Jackie Robinson statue from a Wichita Park was sentenced on Friday, August 2nd, after pleading guilty to the theft of the statue from League 42, according to the district attorney’s office in May.

SEDGWICK COUNTY—A Kansas man who admitted stealing and destroying a Jackie Robinson statue from a Wichita Park was sentenced on Friday, August 2nd, after pleading guilty to the theft of the statue from League 42, according to the district attorney’s office in May.

DOUGLAS COUNTY—A driverless semi rolled about 300 feet from 11th and Maine, through a four-foot retaining wall, over a patio between two houses and came to rest against a home’s foundation just after 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 25th, in Lawrence.

BUTLER COUNTY—El Dorado Correctional Facility (EDCF) inmate Blade A. Floyd, 24, died Thursday, July 18th, according to a media release from the Kansas Department of Corrections.

GOVE COUNTY—The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2011 Ford Expedition driven by Tod A. Huddleston, 62, St.