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A southwest Kansas sex offender has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison after pleading guilty in a child porn case. Forty-eight-year-old Wade Dewey of Syracuse was sentenced Wednesday in Wichita. He previously pleaded guilty to one count of possessing child pornography. Dewey says he downloaded images and videos from the Internet in August 2013 while ...

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A man is charged with taking refunds due to Nigerian graduate students who were recruited to attend Pittsburg State University. Federal prosecutors said Wednesday that 61-year-old Michael Muoghalu of Pittsuburg faces one count of wire fraud and one count of money laundering. Muoghalu is accused of taking more than $148,000 in refunds due to the Nigerian students ...

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A Kansas City woman has been charged with felony animal abuse and animal neglect after her dog was abused so severely that his eyes had to be surgically removed. Jackson County prosecutors charged 36-year-old Kimberly Anderson on Wednesday in the Nov. 9 attack on the Tibetan spaniel named Roadrunner. A witness says Anderson threw the small ...

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Gov. Sam Brownback says he's working on proposals for changing how Kansas distributes aid to public schools and for bolstering the pension system for teachers and government workers. But the Republican governor provided no details during an interview Wednesday with The Associated Press. He said only that his administration is researching options on school funding and ...

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Hutchinson police have charged a man who they say shot at officers. Thirty-one-year-old Jason Mendoza was arrested Tuesday afternoon and taken to the Reno County jail. Police say three officers were working an unrelated case on Monday when Mendoza shot at them with a handgun and ran away. No officers were injured. Mendoza is charged with three counts ...

11 years ago
Saline County Sheriff's Office is investigating after someone entered a rural outbuilding sometime between Saturday night and Monday evening and removed some Coleman camping gear. According to Undersheriff Dave Dunstan, someone stole four Coleman gas lanterns and a Coleman gas stove from a storage shed on a property located in the 4100 block of S. Woodward, ...

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Salina Police are investigating after a vehicle is stolen. Karen Washburn contacted police on Tuesday to report that her 2003 Isuzu Rodeo was stolen sometime between November 28th and 29th. The SUV which is valued at $5,000 was parked in the lot of the Heather Ridge Apartments at 2130 E. Crawford. The vehicle is tagged ...

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A Hays couple accused of growing marijuana in their home are facing federal charges. According to U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom's Office, 29-year-old Joseph Anthony Ransom of Ellis and 21-year-old Carly Marie Dreiling of Hays are charged with one count of growing 181 marijuana plants in the basement of their residence, one count of possessing 181 marijuana ...

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Four people are facing federal charges in connection with a case involving counterfeit money. According to US. Attorney Barry Grissom's Office, John P. Stark, 47, Great Bend, Deona L. McNutt, 24, Great Bend, Alyssa Dannebohm, 30, Hutchinson, and Keith M. Dannebohm, 22, Hutchinson are all charged with counterfeiting $100 bills. In the same case, Justin E. ...

11 years ago
A California man is facing federal charges in connection with an alleged Dickinson County, Kansas, crime. According to U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom's Office, 68-year-old Andris Cukurs of Glendale, California, is charged with one count of attempted money laundering. The government is seeking forfeiture of more than $314,800 seized Nov. 14, 2014. The crime is alleged to ...

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Federal prosecutors say two former Bel Aire police officers have been indicted for their roles in a scheme to buy and sell discounted firearms by falsely claiming they would be used for law enforcement purposes. The U.S. attorney's office says in a news release that 26-year-old Nathan A. Mavia of Wichita falsely certified that the guns ...