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Man drowns at NE Kan. apartment pool where he regularly swims

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a man has drowned at a suburban Kansas City apartment complex pool where he regularly swims and snorkels.

First responders were called to the Quivira Falls apartment complex in Overland Park, Kansas, about 2:40 p.m. Tuesday after the 69-year-old man was spotted at the bottom of the pool. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police Officer John Lacy says the man regularly snorkeled around midday in the pool of the complex where he lived. The pool is 8 feet deep.

Lacy says officers don’t suspect foul play but an autopsy will be conducted to confirm the man’s cause of death. The man’s name wasn’t immediately released.

2 Nebraska murder suspects captured in Missouri

TROY, Missouri — Two suspects in a Nebraska murder case are in custody in Missouri after being arrested at a Walmart store in Missouri.

Davis-photo Troy PD

The Troy Missouri Police Department was contacted by the Bellevue Nebraska Police Department requesting assistance in locating a homicide suspect, Raymond Davis, 29, Des Moines IA, who they believed to be in the area of the Troy Walmart, according to a media release from police.

Detectives with the Bellevue NE Police Department had been tracking Davis’s movements and his last coordinates came back to the area of Walmart. Troy Officers responded to the area and began a search for Davis. He was seen exiting the store and was arrested without incident.

Davis had active warrants through Nebraska for First-Degree Murder, Conspiracy to commit a felony, and Use deadly weapon to commit a felony.

Davis was in the company of Krystal Martin, 20, Hawk Point. Martin has also been charged through Nebraska for First-Degre Murder.

Martin-photo Troy PD

Both have been held at the Lincoln County Jail without bond awaiting extradition back to Nebraska since June 30. Investigators did not report the arrest until July 17.

Kobach says he wants to do for Kan. what Trump done for US

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has told Donald Trump Jr. at a fundraising event that he wants to do for Kansas what the president has done for the country’s blue-collar workers.

The president’s son arrived nearly two hours late for a Wichita fundraiser for Kobach’s campaign for governor after weather delayed his flight. The two sat down for friendly public chat before more than 250 supporters.

Kobach used the occasion to claim the American Civil Liberties Union had sent mailers supporting Gov. Jeff Colyer in the race — something both the ACLU and Colyer’s campaign vehemently denied.

The ACLU does not endorse candidates and says its mission is to educate voters on candidate positions on civil liberties issues.

Colyer’s campaign has called Kobach’s claim “dirty tricks.”

Missouri man shot by son pleads guilty to burglary

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) – A Springfield man has pleaded guilty to burglary and property damage in an incident that resulted in him being shot by his child.

Hopkins -photo Greene Co.

38-year-old Wendell Hopkins pleaded guilty to first-degree burglary and misdemeanor property damage on Monday. He’ll be sentenced in September.

Hopkins was shot twice in his abdomen by his teenage son in 2016 after trying to break into his ex-wife’s home. Greene County court records allege Hopkins had a history of domestic violence against his ex-wife, Mandi Hopkins.

Mandi Hopkins has called her son’s actions courageous. She says she feared Hopkins would assault her when he attempted to enter her home two years ago.

Police have no plans to charge the teen with a crime.

Missouri court gives jolt of life to long Midwest power line

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A proposal for a high-voltage power line carrying wind energy across the Midwest has received a jolt of new life after the Missouri Supreme Court ruled that regulators wrongly rejected it.

The overview map on this page depicts the route of the Grain Belt Express Clean Line in Kansas- Image Clean Line Energy Partners.- click to expand

The court ruling Tuesday means that Missouri must re-evaluate whether Clean Line Energy Partners deserve approval for a $2.3 billion project that would build one of the longest electric transmission lines in the U.S.

Plans call for the line to run from wind farms in western Kansas across Missouri and Illinois before hooking into a power grid in Indiana that serves the eastern U.S.

Clean Line has been working on the so-called Grain Belt Express power line since 2010 but hasn’t been able to start construction because of regulatory hurdles.

Missouri teen dead, 1 hospitalized after car hit a tree

TANEY COUNTY­ — One person died in an accident just before 11p.m. Monday in Taney County.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported a 2002 Mini Cooper driven by Paola M. Morales, 18, Cedar Creek, was northbound on Highway M fifteen miles southeast of Kissee Mills. The vehicle ran off the road, overturned and struck a tree.

Morales was pronounced dead at the scene and transported to Welch’s Funeral Home.  A passenger Carson L. Wells, 16, Cedar Creek, was transported to Cox South. Both were properly restrained at the time of the accident, according to the MSHP.

Ex-Director of Emporia St. early child center gets diversion

EMPORIA, Kan. (AP) — The former director of the Emporia State University’s early childhood center has been granted diversion for failing to report suspected child abuse or neglect at the center.

Keely Persinger -photo ESU

Keely Persinger’s record will be cleared if she successfully completes the plea agreement.

A pretrial conference for Kimberly Schneider, a former teacher at the center, was continued to Aug. 20. She is charged with five counts of child endangerment.

Teacher’s aides and parents have said they reported their concerns to the state that a teacher was not treating the children correctly. Persinger was charged with not investigating the complaints or filing necessary documentation.

Four families have sued Emporia State and the center, claiming Schneider physically and emotionally abused four children.

Kansas to give out $5M in security funds to schools

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is distributing $5 million in state grants for security features to improve the safety of children and staff in school buildings operated by more than 150 districts.

The state Department of Education began distributing the grants Monday for new doors, windows, security cameras, intercoms and other safety features at schools. The appropriations authorized by lawmakers must be matched by districts submitting requests to the state Board of Education.

A total of 153 public school districts have sought $13 million in grants, with a formula devised to bring grant awards within budget.

Two districts originally proposed part of their funding be used to buy firearms, but an Education Department spokeswoman says those requests were removed after representatives from partnering agencies rejected the idea.

Missouri Supreme Court declines death row inmate’s appeal

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Missouri Supreme Court has turned away a death row inmate’s appeal that raised questions about jury selection and the effectiveness of his trial counsel.

McFadden -photo Mo. Dept. of Corrections

Vincent McFadden was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death for killing Leslie Addison in St. Louis County in 2003. McFadden claimed his trial lawyer was ineffective on several grounds.

McFadden also claimed that he should have been allowed to interview all jurors to determine if one had failed to disclose familiarity with him from an earlier case.

A circuit court ruled against McFadden, and the Supreme Court ruling on Tuesday agreed with the lower court ruling.

It wasn’t clear if McFadden would appeal. A phone message left with his attorney was not immediately returned.

Keep Missouri Farming Tractor Cruise takes place Saturday

Tractors will be cruising through Buchanan County Saturday as part of a fundraiser for agricultural education programs and more.

The 5th Annual Keep Missouri Farming Tractor Cruise is a 38-mile route that begins Saturday morning.

Meredith Lange is the Northwest Regional Coordinator for the Missouri Farm Bureau. Lange said the money raised from the tractor cruise each year goes toward different projects funded by the Agriculture Foundation to enhance ag education and provide ag leadership development opportunities.  

“Those include scholarships for ag students at Missouri colleges and universities, it also includes vocational scholarships if a student is obtaining a technical degree that’s related to agriculture,” Lange said. “There are also grants for teachers, kindergarten through 12th grade, at public schools, they can purchase agriculture curriculum and supplies. They really want to promote agriculture education and community involvement that has to do with agriculture.”

The 5th annual Keep Missouri Farming 2018 Tractor Cruise begins with check in at 8 a.m. on Saturday. It starts and ends at the Ag Power John Deere dealership at the intersection of U.S. Hwy. 36 and SE State Hwy. Z.

The cruise will stop in Gower around 11:30 a.m. and the public is invited to a pork lunch at that time at the FFA building. 

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