JACKSON COUNTY—A burglary suspect that was arrested last week has been tied to a fourth alleged burglary in Jackson County, according to Sheriff Tim Morse.

On August 9, Saleena Rae Masquat, 33, of Mayetta, was arrested after a deputy stopped to help a disabled van that Masquat apparently had been driving.

The van was found to be stolen from the Sac and Fox Casino earlier in the day.  Masquat was subsequently arrested.

On the same day, deputies and detectives investigated three burglaries, two being in the rural Whiting area.  One of the burglaries was an occupied residence and the other was an unoccupied residence.

The third burglary was a shed in the area of 254th and P. Road. Much of the property that had been reported stolen has been recovered.

On August 13, a fourth report was made to the sheriff’s office in reference to a burglary to a shed located at 26028 P. Road in rural Holton.

The victim reported missing an assortment of tools and power tools.  The burglary is also believed to have occurred on August 9th.

Many of the items are believed to be recovered from the fourth burglary.  Masquat who is being held in the Jackson County Jail was booked for the new burglary charge and her  bond  was raised to $20,000.00, according to Morse.

The sheriff’s office has some unidentified property that doesn’t appear to be associated with these four cases.  If you have been a victim of burglary or theft in recent days and did not report the incident, please contact the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office at 785-364-2251.

ST. LOUIS (AP) – Advocates for the disabled say funding cuts to in-home care could force some Missouri residents into nursing homes.

About $8 million of the $50 million the state Legislature initially cut last year has been restored.

Republican State Rep. Scott Fitzpatrick of Shell Knob is chairman of the House Budget Committee. He says the cuts affected more than 7,800 disabled Missouri residents.

Advocates say the cuts have resulted in disabled residents receiving fewer hours with personal attendants who assist them with daily tasks they can’t otherwise perform.

St. Louis resident Steve Foelsch is paralyzed from the chest down. The 53-year-old has had to max out his credit card so his attendants can stay longer since the state no longer covers that care.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas woman facing a retrial in a double-homicide case will not be released on lower bond.

A Shawnee County judge this week rejected 58-year-old Dana Chandler’s request that her bond be lowered from $1 million to $100,000.

Chandler is charged with first-degree murder in the 2002 slayings of her ex-husband, Michael Sisco, and his fiancee, Karen Harkness in their Topeka home.

The Kansas Supreme Court in April vacated Chandler’s 2012 conviction in the deaths, citing prosecutorial misconduct in the first trial. District Attorney Mike Kagay announced in May that he would retry Chandler. A tentative trial date was set for Oct. 1.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – An ethics panel says there’s reason to believe that former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens broke the law over how his campaign reported a donor list it obtained from a charity he founded.

But the Missouri Ethics Commission director in a Friday letter wrote that the local prosecutor won’t press charges. Cole County Prosecutor Mark Richardson said he didn’t find evidence of “willful misrepresentation” over when The Mission Continues donor list was reported.

Greitens resigned in June amid scandals, including questions about the donor list. Greitens amended his finance reports to show the list as a donation from a campaign worker, who has said he was duped into taking the fall.

Greitens’ campaign attorney Catherine Hanaway noted that Greitens has left office and said it’s time to move on.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas election officials certified independent Greg Orman as a candidate for Kansas governor on Friday, and the businessman immediately tried to appeal to disaffected Republicans, who he said view GOP hopeful Kris Kobach as “incompetent and corrupt.”

Orman’s entry into the race presents a major obstacle to Democrats, who had hoped to lure the same moderate Republicans away from Kobach, a favorite of President Donald Trump because of his fervent support for tough immigration and voter ID laws.

The secretary of state’s office posted a short statementsaying Orman had presented enough valid signatures to qualify for the ballot in November.

Orman, 49, will face Democratic State Sen. Laura Kelly of Topeka and Kobach, whose nomination was only settled this week after Gov. Jeff Colyer conceded in a primary with a razor-thin margin of some 350 votes out of more than 316,000 cast.

“I think there are lots of Kansas Republicans who view Kris Kobach as not only extreme but incompetent and corrupt and I think those Republicans … will be very attracted to my background,” Orman told The Associated Press in an interview after the announcement.

Democrats were gearing up for a potential legal challenge to Orman’s certification. Many Democrats have worried that Orman will pull votes away from Kelly, 68, making it far easier for the 52-year-old Kobach to win with less than a majority of the vote.

The GOP began a clean sweep of statewide and congressional races in 2010. But the state also has a solid bloc of moderate GOP and independent voters and a history over the past 50 years of alternating between electing Republican and Democratic governors. Orman says he can build a coalition starting with voters upset with both parties, and he cites the value of having an independent governor who will lack “natural political enemies.”

The certification of Orman as a candidate was made by the same office Kobach heads as secretary of state. But officials said the 10,260 signatures submitted by Orman were reviewed by individual counties and Kobach did not participate.

Orman ran as an independent against U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts in 2014 and did so well in initial polling that the Democratic candidate dropped out to create a better chance of toppling the veteran Republican. Orman lost by 10.5 percentage points after Roberts got campaign help from several GOP stalwarts, including Sarah Palin, Sen. Ted Cruz and Sen. Rand Paul.

Orman made the ballot by submitting more than 10,000 signatures in early August. He needed 5,000 valid signatures to qualify.

On Orman’s website, he says he supports stronger background checks for gun buyers, ending the sale of bump stocks and high-capacity magazines, setting a minimum age of 21 to buy an AR-15 or other semi-automatic weapon and requiring training and licensing for a concealed-carry permit. Orman said he supports the Second Amendment but would like to revisit which types of arms Americans have a right to own,

During the 2014 Senate race, Orman described himself as “pro-choice” and said abortion policy was a matter of settled law and the nation should move on.

Orman’s running mate John Doll is from Garden City and left the Republican Party to run for lieutenant governor.

An independent candidate for governor last came close to winning in 1932.

Orman graduated from Princeton in 1991 and founded Environmental Light Concepts, a firm that designed and installed energy-efficient lighting systems for commercial and industrial use. The company had more than 120 employees when a majority of it was sold to Kansas City Power and Light in 1996.

After a stint with KCP&L, Orman co-founded Denali Partners, a private equity firm, and later became managing member of Exemplar Holdings LLC, which oversees several innovation companies.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – A man who was under the influence of drugs when his car and hit and killed a 32-year-old Kansas City bicyclist was sentenced to at least 120 days in prison.

32-year-old Joseph Lasala was sentenced Thursday for involuntary manslaughter in the April 2016 death of Anthony Saluto.

Prosecutors say a vehicle driven by Lasala was driving east in central Kansas City when it veered into the westbound lanes and hit Saluto on his bicycle.

Investigators determined Lasala was speeding and was under the influence of cocaine, marijuana and opiates.

If Lasala successfully completes the 120-day sentence he will be on probation for five years. If he violates his probation, he would serve up to seven years in prison.

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — Rain, snow, sleet, even barking dogs are fine, but a Kansas postal worker had to draw the line when he found a red tail boa constrictor draped over a mailbox.

The letter carrier was delivering mail Friday in Overland Park, a Kansas City suburb. The huge snake was on the mailbox on the front porch.

A Ball Python was found my a mailman and called Animal Control. The poor resident did not receive their mail today (obviously). The @OPPD_PIO is trying to talk the Animal Control Officers to put the snake under the @OPPD_Chief desk, but they won’t. pic.twitter.com/YqahoO2pVn

— Overland Park Police (@OverlandPark_PD) August 17, 2018

The letter carrier called animal control. It took three officers to wrangle the reptile, which was taken to an animal rescue center.

Police spokesman John Lacy says the snake probably escaped from a nearby home. He was hopeful the owner would report it missing.

As for the letter carrier, he didn’t stick around. The police department posted on Twitter, “The poor resident did not receive their mail today (obviously).”

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – Prosecutors say a man already charged with trying to shoot a sheriff’s deputy in southwest Missouri is now charged in a Columbia homicide.

The Columbia Missourian reports Jason Roy Anderson is charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the June shooting death of 34-year-old Elise’ise McNeal.

Investigators found McNeal dead in a Columbia home when they were following up on a report of stolen guns and ammunition.

The day before McNeal was found, Christian County deputies reported finding 53 guns and about 5,000 rounds of ammunition in Anderson’s car after he was pulled over for speeding.

Anderson is facing six felony charges in Christian County after authorities say he tried to shoot a deputy during that traffic stop. The officer wasn’t injured after Anderson’s gun apparently jammed.