A St. Joseph man who stabbed a woman to death at a bar where she worked has been sentenced to life in prison.

Eliseo Hernandez-Sebastian was sentenced Thursday for first-degree murder of 38-year-old Terra M. Reents. As previously reported, on Feb. 3, 2018, police say Hernandez-Sebastian started a disturbance at Legend’s Sports Bar and Grill in St. Joseph and when asked to leave, he stabbed an employee, James B. Cleveland. Cleveland was treated and released at Mosaic Life Care. Reents also attempted to get Hernandez-Sebastian to leave the property. Hernandez-Sebastian stabbed Reents who later died from her injuries.

According to court documents, Hernandez-Sebastian was also sentenced to 50 years each for two convictions of armed criminal action and a life sentence for first-degree assault, all to be served consecutively.

ANDREW COUNTY — One person was injured in an accident just before 5:30p.m. Thursday in Andrew County.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported a 2002 GMC 2500 driven by Lewis K. Ruehter, 52, Barnard, was westbound on Route B two miles east of Bolkow.

The pickup rear ended a John Deere 6400 Tractor driven by Richard D. Erickson, 68, Bolkow.

Andrew County EMS transported Ruehter to Mosaic Life Care. He was not wearing a seat belt, according to the MSHP.  Ericsson was not injured.

Alexander Cox – Assistant Baseball Coach of Highland Community College joined KFEQ to talk about the upcoming baseball camp for youth coming up in January. Listen to it below.

Livingston County Sheriff Steve Cox received a resignation letter this week from Deputy/K-9 Handler Chris Mueller effective December 31, 2018.

According to a press release, Deputy Mueller recently married and has better financial and family opportunities with his next job.

According to Sheriff Cox, “Mueller was instrumental in helping raise funds for K-9 Zaki and has helped form Zaki into an outstanding dual purpose police K-9. We have gone through an internal process and the next K-9 handler will be announced in the near future.”

This transition will take Zaki out of service for some time to permit the new K-9 handler to become well trained and ensure the deputy and Zaki work well together. During this time period, Zaki will be housed in a safe and secure location.

TOPEKA — In a unanimous decision Thursday morning, the Kansas Corporation Commission (KCC) approved a settlement agreement that will cut electric rates for Kansas City Power & Light (KCP&L) customers by $10.7 million dollars annually as well as provide $36.9 million in bill credits.

The $10.7 million rate decrease will take effect on December 20, 2018. The average residential customer will save approximately $.40 per month or $4.80 per year. Included in that decrease are $7.5 million in savings realized from the company’s merger with Westar Energy earlier this year.

The bill credits, of approximately $100 per customer, will begin in March 2019. The bill credits are the result of tax savings from the Federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA).

Other components of today’s order include the establishment of a procedure for evaluating a possible rate class for schools, the implementation of a three-part rate plan for residential distributed generation (DG) customers, and two optional pilot programs: time of use and residential demand.

In issuing today’s decision, the Commission found the settlement agreement to be in the public interest and that it will result in non-discriminatory, just and reasonable rates that will enable KCP&L to continue to provide sufficient and efficient service.

Today’s order can be viewed on the Commission’s website.

KCP&L filed an application for rate review on May 1, 2018, requesting a 4.5 percent rate increase totaling $32.9 million, including property tax rebasing. As a result of the commission’s approval of the merger of KCP&L’s parent company, Great Plains Energy, with Westar Energy in May, the requested increase was reduced to $22.6 million. In October, the company reached a unanimous settlement agreement with KCC Staff, the Citizens Utility Ratepayer Board and other interveners in the case resulting in a 0.68 percent rate decrease.