TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Topeka police are investigating after two people were found shot to death.
A man and woman were found dead from multiple gunshots early Sunday. Police identified the victims as 23-year-old Dominique Ray and 20-year-old Camrah Trotter. Both were from Topeka.
Lt. John Sturgeon told The Topeka Capital-Journal that the two were pronounced dead at the scene.
The incident is under investigation as a possible double homicide.
BIG PINEY, Mo. (AP) — Authorities are investigating the shooting death of a man who lived near Fort Leonard Wood.
Pulaski County authorities say 61-year-old Keith Bridwell was found shot to death Saturday in his home near Big Piney, on the south side of the fort.
Pulaski County Sheriff Lt. Jimmy Bench says Bridwell was dead less than 24 hours when his body was found.
KYTV-TV reports Bench says a man and woman found the body and called 911. The woman was later charged with burglary and tampering with evidence inside the home.
Bench says the death was an isolated incident and the public is not in danger.
CARUTHERSVILLE, Mo. (AP) — A small earthquake has reportedly hit southeast Missouri.
The U.S. Geological Survey says the 2.3 magnitude earthquake hit near Caruthersville late Saturday night. The USGS says the earthquake had a reported depth of about 5 miles.
KFVS reports there have been no immediate reports of any damage.
Small earthquakes are fairly common in southeast Missouri because of the New Madrid fault, which produced massive earthquakes in 1811 and 1812 that could be felt as far away as New England.
Lamonte McIntyre was 17 in 1994 when he was accused of fatally shooting two men who were sitting in a car in a drug-infested Kansas City, Kansas, neighborhood. He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
A retired Kansas City police captain who reviewed McIntyre’s case calls the murder investigation “grossly deficient.” A former drug dealer signed an affidavit swearing a different person was paid to kill the men.
McIntyre’s attorney, Cheryl Pilate, says the case has so many flaws no reasonable juror would have convicted her client if all evidence had been presented.
FALLS CITY, Neb. (AP) — Dozens of friends and family members of the 42 people killed in a plane crash 50 years ago in southeast Nebraska gathered over the weekend for a memorial service.
The service was held Saturday morning at the site near Falls City where Braniff Airways Flight 250 crashed the night of Aug. 6, 1966, amid stormy weather.
All passengers and crew members aboard the plane died, and the crash remains Nebraska’s worst commercial airline disaster.
The National Transportation Safety Board blamed the weather for the crash but found the crew could have avoided a storm if it had been alerted about its intensity. The investigation found that the wind ripped the plane apart, causing its fin and one of the tail wings to break loose.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Officials are investigating the death of a young Kansas boy on a water slide that is billed as the world’s largest.
Authorities and family members say 10-year-old Caleb Thomas Schwab died Sunday at Schlitterbahn Waterpark in Kansas City, Kansas. Schwab was the son of state Rep. Scott Schwab.
Schlitterbahn spokeswoman Winter Prosapio said the boy died on one of the park’s main attractions, Verruckt, a 168-foot-tall water slide that has 264 stairs leading to the top.
No details specific details about what led to Caleb’s death have been provided.
The park will be closed Monday, and the ride will be closed pending the investigation.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A 12-year-old boy has died at a water park in Kansas City, Kansas.
Police spokesman Officer Cameron Morgan says the boy died Sunday at the Schlitterbahn Water Park. Morgan says he does not yet know the circumstances of the death.
Among the park’s attractions is the Verruckt water slide, which is promoted as the world’s tallest water slide.
A park official did not immediately respond to a call seeking comment Sunday.
KCTV-5 is reporting that KCK police have confirmed the child died while riding the Verruckt slide.
There was no additional information released about the fatality.
DETROIT (AP) — Automotive parts supplier ZF North America is recalling 505,000 control sensors in the U.S. because they can make some nine-speed transmissions shift into neutral without warning.
The company says in government documents that the transmissions were sold to several automakers that will issue recalls. But the only one identified was Fiat Chrysler.
ZF says a star-shaped connector on a wiring harness wasn’t crimped properly. That can increase electrical resistance that can shift the transmission into neutral.
The problem came to light in July when Fiat Chrysler recalled more than 323,000 U.S. vehicles to fix the problem.
ZF says a software update will fix the problem.
It was unclear whether the glitch had caused any crashes or injuries. Fiat Chrysler said in July that there were none.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A federal judge who quashed Missouri’s push to revoke a Planned Parenthood clinic’s abortion license has ordered state taxpayers to pay more than $156,000 to cover the organization’s legal bills tied to the dispute.
U.S. District Judge Nanette Laughrey this week ruled that the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services must pay $156,631 in attorneys’ fees and expenses incurred by what now is Planned Parenthood Great Plains.
Laughrey in May sided with the Columbia, Missouri, Planned Parenthood clinic after the state last year tried to revoke its abortion license. The judge concluded that move likely was due in part to “political pressure,” and that the license couldn’t be revoked before its expiration in June.
A spokeswoman for Missouri’s attorney general says that office is reviewing Laughrey’s latest ruling.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — More than 20 percent of Kansas’ school districts, including some of the larger districts will have new superintendents this fall.
Dale Dennis, deputy education commissioner of Kansas, said 61 Kansas school districts, including Topeka, Olathe, Lawrence and Manhattan, have new leaders this year. Some veteran superintendents in rural districts are also going elsewhere.
The departures follow at least two straight years of record-breaking turnover, which Dennis and others said has taken a toll on districts and the state.
The average tenure for a superintendent in Kansas is about five years.
The Kansas Association of School Superintendents recently stepped up its efforts to mentor superintendents, pairing veteran or retired leaders with new ones and hosting a monthly “Phone a Friend” video conference to share strategies.
