HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The USD 308 Board of Education will look at a grant request through the Safe &amp; Secure Schools Grant from the Kansas State Department of Education at its meeting Monday.

The district is requesting $225,000 through this grant. The funds will be used for intruder resistant glass in the nine buildings that don’t currently have it in place. 

They are also requesting additional security cameras and door access controls. The grant funds have a $1 to $1 local match requirement.

Also on the agenda, the Board will adopt its English and Language Arts curriculum and World Language curriculum, make an amendment to the school year calendar for the upcoming year, sign the memorandums of understanding with the various groups connected with Reno County Head Start, approve the purchase of a rooftop HVAC unit for the Technology Support Center at a cost of $24,392 and renew its worker's compensation insurance.

The USD 308 Board of Education will meet at 6 p.m. Monday at the school district offices at 1520 North Plum.

USD 308 Board of Education meets Monday

HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Reno County Deputy Elections Clerk Jenna Fager said she's still working on getting all the different potential ballots ready for the August 2 primary.

"We'll have a ballot style for the Republican, a ballot style for the Democrat and then a non-partisan, I guess we'll call it, ballot style with just the amendment question," Fager said. 

That's 255 potential different ballot styles depending on party and precinct. With the abortion-related constitutional amendment on the ballot in Kansas after Roe v. Wade was overturned Friday, it's possible turnout could be remarkably strong for a primary election, but Fager usually looks at the last similar election when deciding how many ballots to print.

"Typically, I'll look at the last election, so like the last gubernatorial's turnout. I also do take into consideration how many voted like, in the presidential," Fager said. "I'll shoot a little bit higher than the turnout for the previous election, so like the previous gubernatorial and that's how I do my quantities."

She doesn't have to get it dead on, though.

"For our advance voting now, we have a ballot on demand printer," Fager said. "That does help. I don't actually have to account for that, as long as we've got the ballot stock. It will print it when they come in."

Voter registration must be in by July 12.

Fager: Work continues on ballots for August primary

SOUTH HUTCHINSON,
Kan. — 
ONEOK has expanded its support of the July 2 fireworks and events in South Hutchinson. 

"Originally, they committed to providing food to the first 500 people, said City Manager Joseph Turner. "This week they announced they would cover 1,000 people."

Turner said their participation was completely organic and self-initiated.

According to an email from Nathan Alexander to Turner provided to Hutch Post, they are now planning to prepare 1,000 hot dogs and hand out individual bags of chips with the hot dogs. 

They also plan to bring 1,000 squinchers (think Gatorade and freeze pop combined) as well as 2000 bottles of water.

On top of the food they are providing, they have also donated $2,000 to the city to help offset their other expenses.

Also on July 2, there will be free inflatable bounce houses and a rock-climbing wall for the kids along with an obstacle course provided by the South Hutch Fire Department.

Free hot dogs, chips, and drinks will be available for the first 500 people thanks to ONEOK.

The Los Mariachis Food Truck and Salt City Chiller Shaved Ice Truck will also be there.

The Hutchinson Home Plate Club also is hoping to hold a cornhole tournament in the afternoon and baseball and softball games.

The fireworks show to start at 9:30 p.m. will last about 20 minutes in the large open field west of the baseball diamonds. The fireworks are sponsored by Market South Hutch.

ONEOK expanding help with South Hutch July 2 celebration


HUTCHINSON,
Kan. — 
The regularly scheduled Hutchinson Planning Commission meeting for Tuesday, June 28, 2022, has been cancelled due to a lack of agenda items.

The next scheduled meeting will be held Tuesday, July 12, 2022, at 5:30 p.m.

If you have any questions, you may contact the Planning Department at&nbsp;620-694-2639.

City Planning Commission canceled for Tuesday

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HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Law enforcement made two arrests Friday afternoon after they say two armed subjects entered a Hutchinson business.

Hutchinson police say a call came in at 3:21 p.m. Friday about two armed subjects at the Adams Street Auto Repair at 528 N. Adams.

The police identified the men as 48-year-old Kevin D. Shipman and 19-year-old Jesse D. Shipman.

Law enforcement closed off the area streets as they took both men in for one suspected count of Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon. They are both still in the Reno County Correctional Facility. No one was hurt. 

The investigation continues. If you have additional details, please contact Sgt. Garrett Leslie at (620) 694-2822 or Reno County Crimestoppers at (620) 694-2666. Refer to HPD Case 2022-17170 when providing any information.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — First District Congressman Tracey Mann released the following statement in response to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which overturned the 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade that federally legalized abortion services across the country.

“50 years ago, the Supreme Court legislated from the bench with Roe v. Wade and declared abortion a Constitutional right grounded in a woman’s right to privacy – a legal move that was shaky, biased, and wrong. Since the ruling, 62 million American children were robbed of their right to life."

“The U.S. Supreme Court does not have constitutional grounds to legalize abortion services nationwide, and the ruling in 1973 stripped away the states' rights to decide. It took away the American people's right to decide whether our country values the lives of every citizen, born or unborn. Today's decision gives the power back to the American people as designed in our Constitution."

“We have witnessed a monumental win for the pro-life movement. Brave American advocates from all walks of life called for this ruling and tirelessly pushed back on the evil of abortion and the radical left, but we still have an uphill battle ahead."

“On Aug. 2, Kansans will be the first citizens to go to the voting booth and decide whether our state will allow abortion services — the very thing that the U.S. Supreme Court has stated we have the right to do as outlined in the Constitution. Kansans are trailblazers by nature, and I encourage everyone to educate themselves on this issue before taking to the polls later this summer."

“Today is a day to celebrate. Today is a day of answered prayers. Today, the Supreme Court rectified a wrong that has plagued our country and resulted in the deaths of millions. May America’s heart and soul be transformed by this ruling."

Rep. Mann believes life begins at conception and said he will fight to protect the life of all Americans, born and unborn. Since taking office, Mann’s office says he has supported more than 20 pro-life pieces of legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives.&nbsp;

Mann also introduced legislation requiring the executive branch to notify Congress and the American public before issuing any new executive order pertaining to pro-life provisions and the right to life guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. 



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RENO COUNTY —A Kansas man was injured in an accident just after 9:30p.m. Friday in Reno County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2007 Yamaha motorcycle driven by Brannon C. Smith, 33, Burrton was westbound on U.S. 50 ten miles east of Hutchinson. The motorcycle struck a deer in the road.

EMS transported Smith to Hutchinson Regional Medical Center. He was not wearing a helmet, according to the KHP.

Man from Burrton hospitalized after motorcycle strikes a deer

SOUTH HUTCHINSON,
Kan. — 
Reno County Public Works Director Don Brittain let Hutch Post know Friday evening that Maple Grove Road between High Point and Centennial Road&nbsp; southwest of Pretty Prairie is closed due to over weight load bridge damage.&nbsp;

Brittain did not give specifics on how the bridge was damaged, how long the closure will be, or what repairs may be needed as of Friday.

If you have questions about any Reno County Public Works project, call (620) 694-2976.

Bridge damage closes rural Reno County road Friday


HUTCHINSON,
Kan. — 
Hutch in Harmony holds its third annual March for Unity tomorrow, June 25, at 8 a.m. Marchers will gather at W Ave. B to march up Main Street in Hutchinson to 12th Ave. 

The Hutchinson Police Department is providing security for the event, and the Boys &amp; Girls Club of Hutchinson is volunteering to provide a bus following the march for those who want to participate but prefer not to walk, as well as providing shuttle service back to the starting point. 

Leaders from all sectors of local efforts for equality will lead the march, in recognition of their work and in community solidarity with each other's causes. 

Janelle Voth, LGBTQIA equality advocate, HCC GSA

Anthony Frischenmeyer, Disability rights advocate, PILR

Calvin Wright, civil rights advocate, President of Hutchinson NAACP

Esmeralda Tovar-Mora, immigration rights advocate, Hutch in Harmony

Seth Dewey, substance misuse and recovery advocate, Rise Up Reno 

Natasha Russell-Iverson, civil rights advocate, Hutch in Harmony 

Lara Crow, LGBTQIA equality advocate, Hutch in Harmony &amp; H&amp;M Consulting

Miriam Khan-Kitson, civil rights advocate, Hutch in Harmony 

Sara Crow, LGBTQIA equality advocate, H&amp;M Consulting &amp; Crow &amp; Co Books

Cindy Flores, immigration rights advocate &amp; SW Bricktown Community leader

Rev. Charles Crumble, pastoral advocate against all discrimination, New Resurrection Church

Cecilia Piña, SW Bricktown advocate and community leader

Chucc Crumble, civil rights advocate &amp; mental health advocate, NAACP Youth 

March for Unity Saturday in Hutchinson


HUTCHINSON,
Kan. — 
Road access is being affected as part of ongoing construction of the new K-14 realignment between Hutchinson and Sterling. Here is an update of recent and upcoming changes in Rice and Reno counties:

--Avenue X between 19th Road and 21st&nbsp;Road in Rice County has reopened.

--Avenue V is tentatively scheduled to reopen in Rice County next Wednesday, June 29.

--Also on Wednesday, June 29, Nickerson Road will be closed between West 108th&nbsp;Avenue and West 95th&nbsp;Avenue in Reno County.&nbsp;This closing will allow for construction of a bridge and interchange as part of the K-14 realignment project. The closure will remain until sometime in the spring or summer of 2023.

--Throughout the week of Monday, June 27, through Friday, July 1,&nbsp;West Avenue T, in Rice County, could be closed intermittently for asphalt paving for a temporary road at the site. The contractor will try keep the road open as much as possible by flagging traffic through the work zone. Still, motorists should be prepared to slow down and face some delay.

This Kansas Department of Transportation realignment project started in the spring of 2021. This a 15-mile, $81.7 million realignment of K-14. The work stretches from Hutchinson, to Nickerson, to Sterling. The project is expected to be completed by June 16, 2023. Bob Bergkamp Construction Co. Inc., of Wichita, is the primary contractor.

During the work, traffic will continue to use the existing K-14/96 alignment in Reno and Rice counties.

The Reno County portion of the realignment will be from about 4.5 miles southeast of Nickerson northwest to the Reno/Rice county line. The length is a little over 7 miles.

The Rice County portion of the realignment will be from the Reno/Rice county line to just north of the K-96/Avenue T junction. The length is about 8 miles.

KDOT gives update on K-14 realignment project

SEATTLE (AP) — Will Bruin staked Seattle to an early lead, Jordan Morris and Cristian Roldan added second-half goals and the Sounders breezed to a 3-0 victory over Sporting Kansas City. 

Bruin took a pass from Roldan and scored on a header in the 8th minute to give the Sounders (8-6-2) a 1-0 lead. Jordan Morris headed in a pass from Nouhou Tolo in the 71st minute to stretch the Sounders’ lead to 2-0. Roldan capped the scoring in the 76th minute with an assist from Morris.

Sporting KC loses in Seattle Saturday

GREAT BEND, Kan. — The Great Bend Bat Cats scored pairs of runs in the 4th and 5th innnings to stake them to a 4-0 lead and the Hutchinson Monarchs rallying to get the game within one run by the 7th ultimately came up short in a 4-3 Great Bend win at Al Burns Field Saturday.

The Monarchs were held to just four hits, with Joey Baran the only Hutchinson player with more than one hit as he went two for three with an RBI.

Clay Wesbrooks took the loss for Hutchinson.

The Monarchs, now 12-5, are off Sunday before returning to Al Burns for another game Monday in Great Bend.

Monarchs lose Saturday to Great Bend

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Tony Kemp hit a two-run homer, Seth Brown and Sean Murphy combined for four RBIs, and the Oakland Athletics beat the Kansas City Royals 9-7. 

Kemp hit his second home run of the season in the eighth inning to wrap up a 3-for-5 afternoon. Brown hit a single in the first and a fielder’s choice in the third. Murphy had an RBI single in the seventh. Nick Allen and Jonah Bride collected RBIs during a two-run fourth inning. The A’s tied a season high with 14 hits. 

Oakland had the leadoff man reach base in six innings. Four of the six were leadoff doubles, and all came around to score.

Oakland wins over Kansas City Saturday

Wichita, KS – The San Antonio Missions ripped 19 hits and defeated the Wichita Wind Surge 11-2 Friday to even the series at two games a piece. The win clinched the first half South division title for the Missions.

The Missions powered through the top of the second with five-runs sending nine batters to the plate. Korry Howell hammered a three run home run, his sixth of the season.

Casey Legumina pitched five innings and allowed five runs, on eight hits with and five strikeouts.

The Missions added four more runs in the seventh as Chandler Seagle nailed a two-run RBI double to right field to extend their lead to 10-1.

In the bottom of the eighth, Matt Wallner crushed his 16th home run of the season which traveled 387 feet. Wallner is second in the league in home runs and third in RBI.

The Wind Surge will resume play against the Missions Saturday night at 6:05 p.m.

Missions win over Wind Surge Friday

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Mississippi and Oklahoma are set to meet for the national championship in the College World Series. The best-of-three finals open Saturday in Omaha, Nebraska. 

Ole Miss is playing for the title after it was the last team to receive an at-large bid for the NCAA baseball tournament. Oklahoma got off to a slow start this season and didn't get hot until the second half. 

An unseeded team will leave Omaha with the championship for the first time since Coastal Carolina in 2016.

CWS final pits two unseeded teams

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Royals catcher Salvador Perez had surgery on his left thumb and was placed on the 10-day injured list. The operation repaired the ulnar collateral ligament in his thumb, and he’s expected to need eight weeks to recover, manager Mike Matheny said. 

The 32-year-old Perez missed nine games with a left thumb sprain earlier this season, then left a victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Tuesday with the UCL issue. 

A seven-time All-Star, Perez is hitting a career-worst .211 with 11 home runs a year after leading the majors with 48 homers and 121 RBIs.

Perez has thumb surgery

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Zack Greinke tossed six innings of one-run ball, Edward Olivares hit two solo homers and the Kansas City Royals beat the Oakland Athletics 3-1. 

Both Grienke (1-4) and Olivares were activated from rehab assignments Friday. Olivares belted homers to left field in his first at-bats — in the third and fifth innings — for his first career multi-homer game. 

Greinke allowed one run on three hits with four strikeouts for his first win in his second stint with Kansas City. Seth Brown collected the lone RBI for Oakland. Scott Barlow earned his ninth save of the season.

Royals win behind Grienke Friday

DERBY — The Hutchinson Monarchs and the Derby Twins split a doubleheader in Derby Friday night.

Derby scored in the bottom of the eighth of game one when Derek Winn drove in the game winner for the Twins. 

Carson Cornelius took the loss for the Monarchs. The righty went two-thirds of an inning, allowing two runs on three hits, striking out one and walking one.

In game two, the Monarchs were dominant as they had five runs in the third inning en route to a 9-0 win.  Will Stark, Lane Brewster, Sawyer Thornhill, and Karson Coffee all moved runners across the plate with RBIs in the inning.

Brett Herrmann earned the victory on the mound. He was helped by Noah Kelley and Peter Newton. The trio gave up just five Twins hits total.

The Monarchs, now 12-4, are back on the diamond tonight against the Great Bend Bat Cats at Al Burns Memorial Field. First pitch is scheduled for 6 p.m.

Monarchs split with Twins Friday

HUTCHINSON, Kan.—Hutchpost.com will be the on-line site for the 2022 Hutchinson Monarchs Baseball home games this season. Hutchpost.com will video stream with live play-by-play all 18 home games throughout the Monarchs season.&nbsp; Most road games will be provided by the opposing teams either on YouTube.com or Facebook.&nbsp; Hutchpost.com will try to post those links as they become available.

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DENVER (AP) — The Denver Nuggets selected Kansas guard Christian Braun with the 21st pick of the NBA draft. The 6-foot-6 Braun averaged 14.1 points and 6.5 rebounds for the Jayhawks last season. His 12 points and 12 rebounds helped Kansas beat North Carolina in the national championship game on April 4. He played the entire game. 

This is the first draft with general manager Calvin Booth as the primary decisionmaker for Denver. The Nuggets also acquired the rights to the 30th pick and final pick of the first round, UCLA freshman Peyton Watson from Oklahoma City.

Braun drafted by Nuggets

By SHERMAN SMITH <a href="https://kansasreflector.com/2022/06/23/kansas-republican-ready-to-pull-out-all-the-stops-as-she-takes-on-jerry-moran-and-the-deep-state/">Kansas Reflector</a>

TOPEKA — Joan Farr’s campaign flyer is designed to get attention.

The 67-year-old appears armed with an assault rifle, wearing a yellow
 bikini beneath a black jean jacket, curls of reddish-brown hair under a
 straw cowboy hat. The flyer says she is “GUNNING for the U.S. Senate” 
in both Kansas and Oklahoma. On her website, she says the Deep State is 
her TRIGGER, and her AIM is to give them the boot.

This is the fifth time Farr has run for office. Most notably, she 
received 18% of the vote in the 2010 Kansas GOP primary race against Sam
 Brownback. Her new look is a departure from the long dress and shotgun 
she presented two years ago during her independent run for U.S. Senate 
in Oklahoma. That image was too “frumpy,” Farr said in an interview.

“I thought, ‘I gotta pull out all the stops,'” Farr said. “I’ll hold 
my son’s gun, I’ll be in a bikini, and I’ll run in two states.’ I was 
just stepping it up from last time because I can’t get publicity.”

In Kansas, Farr is challenging incumbent U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran in the
 GOP primary. Career politicians, she says, are destroying the country. A
 spokesman for Moran’s campaign declined to answer questions or comment 
for this story.

Farr’s top priority is reforming the legal system in Kansas — 
starting with keeping innocent people out of jail in the first place — 
but that message is surrounded by a sea of conspiracy-minded positions 
driven by her disdain for the Deep State.

She wants to ban the United Nations’ plan to control the world 
population, a hoax known as Agenda 21/2030. Mass shootings are staged, 
she said, to justify changing gun laws. Government operatives use 
satellites to insert microchips into people’s brains without their 
knowledge. “They,” by which she means the Deep State, or the 
good-old-boy network, used 5G to give her family COVID-19. “They” also 
rig the elections in Kansas.

But what most people want to know about, she said, is how she can run in two states.

Farr isn’t the first person to take advantage of language in the U.S.
 Constitution that says you can run for the House or Senate in any state
 where you have a residence, without limiting your options to a single 
state. If she happens to win both races, she would have to choose 
whether to represent Oklahoma or Kansas. Farr said she spends most of 
her time in Kansas, taking care of a family member at her Derby home.

In addition to taking on the legal system, Farr wants to remove 
innocent people like herself from the “terrorist watchlist,” and she 
proposed a plan to help people get out of debt.

The way Farr sees it, the biggest complaint Republicans have with 
Democrats is “they don’t want to work, blah, blah, blah.” So she tried 
to come up with a new idea for debt relief, based in part on 
conversations she had with students on college campuses.

“I put it on social media,” Farr said, “and I just got hammered: 
‘You’re socialist. You’re communist.’ ‘What?’ I said. ‘For wanting to 
help people get out of debt because of COVID?’ That’s just crazy.”

Her plan is a social compact: If you give up drugs, alcohol and 
social media for one year, a wealthy person will pay off up to $50,000 
of your debt. If elected, she promises to use her congressional salary 
to pay down people’s debt in this way.

Farr said she landed on the terrorist watchlist about 20 years ago 
after becoming involved in a legal fight over a real estate project. She
 said she previously worked as a police officer, and also worked in 
security and purchasing at Boeing.

The Deep State took an interest in Farr, she believes, “because I 
speak out against them, and I don’t think they want Christian women in 
office. Pretty much, it appears to be good versus evil. I mean, look at 
what they did to Trump.”

Being on the terrorist watchlist, she said, means they hack her 
phone, get into her computer and bank accounts, intercept her mail, and 
sabotage her campaigns.

“They actually have CIA operatives posing as medical personnel in the
 hospital, to discreetly kill people,” Farr said. “And this went on way 
before COVID. I know, because it happened to me. So if you print 
anything, I would just ask that you not make me look like I’m crazy.”

Farr said she printed her campaign flyers last August, long before 
the recent high-profile massacres at a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school 
and a Buffalo, New York, supermarket.

“Back then, it was a positive thing,” Farr said of the initial 
reception to her flyer. “Now, you know, my campaign card is out there, 
but of course we’ve had these shootings, which, I’m sorry, but a lot of 
these shootings, in my opinion, are staged. I mean, I could go into it, 
but these mass shootings are what is allowing the government to take 
away our guns or to revise gun laws. You understand what I’m saying?”

The “common denominator” in mass shootings, Farr said, is that the 
shooter heard voices. That’s because “they” can implant a microchip from
 a satellite, allowing government operatives to talk to people.

Farr said the operatives “get them involved in video games, violence,
 so that they’ll go shoot up: ‘Oh, you can do this. You can do just like
 this video game. Go shoot up the school. Go shoot up the theater.’ 
That’s what’s going on. A lot of people don’t want to believe that. 
‘They wouldn’t do that.’ Yes they would.”

Farr shared her theory about mass shootings on her personal Facebook 
page in a May 26 post, two days after the Uvalde shooting. It was poorly
 received.

Suzie Hartford-Bell responded:&nbsp;“Did you eat lead paint chips as a kid?”

“Oh blame the deep state,” Hartford-Bell wrote. “Microchips from 
space? Omg it’s no wonder you think god is real. Mental Instability 
much! Holy cow I thought Jerry Moran and Roger Marshall were bad. You 
have crashed the crazy wagon and caught it on fire! What a loon!”

“Wake up and smell the coffee gf,” Farr replied. “I’ll be praying for you.”

Farr said she is challenging Moran in part because his office 
wouldn’t help her in an attempt to get a Medal of Honor for her father, 
who died while serving in Vietnam.

She thinks she has a chance of competing with Moran, who has served 
in the U.S. Senate since 2011, after 14 years in the U.S. House.

“If you notice, there’s no polls out there,” Farr said. “When they’re
 not showing any poll, that means they have internal polls but not 
publishing them. And so they must not look very good. And I’ve heard a 
lot of people say, in the Republican party, they want him out. So yeah, I
 think I have a chance to win.”

Opponent ready to ‘pull out all the stops’ in race against Moran

BOULDER COUNTY, CO —The FBI and their evidence response team have joined Longmont Public Safety in the investigation of vandalism and fire at a Christian pregnancy center following Friday's Supreme Court ruling on abortion.

Just before 3:30a.m. Saturday Longmont Public Safety responded to a reported fire at Life Choices, 20 Mountain View Avenue in Longmont, according to a media release.

 The building sustained fire and heavy smoke damage. At the arrival of police and fire staff, the front of the property had been vandalized with black paint. This fire is being investigated as arson.&nbsp;

Investigators requested that those living between Collyer and Lashley (West and East) and 15th Avenue and 11th Avenue (North and South) check their surveillance video for any activity in the area between 2:45 am and 3:30 am. 

Public Safety also requests that anyone who can assist in identifying the individual(s) responsible please call (303)774-3700 and reference Longmont Police Report #22-5219.

Vandalism, fire at Christian pregnancy center following Roe ruling

JEFFERSON COUNTY—A Kansas man died in an accident just after 9:30p.m. Saturday in Jefferson County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2022 Harley Davidson Fat Boy driven by Michael Arthur Greene, 57, Kansas City, Kansas, was eastbound on Kansas 16 just west of Wellman Road.

The driver failed to negotiate the curve to the south. The driver was thrown from the motorcycle and came to rest in the ditch. The motorcycle came to rest on the right side of the road.

Greene was pronounced dead at the scene and was transported to Barnett Family Mortuary in Oskaloosa. He was not wearing a helmet, according to the KHP.

Kansas man dies after thrown from motorcycle

KANSAS CITY —A&nbsp; Kansas City man was sentenced Tuesday for the shooting in July 2020 of Sharon Heifer-Douglas who was riding an ATV in the area of East Red Bridge and Bennington, according to Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker.

A Jackson County judge sentenced 39-year-old Glenn Darren Rucker to 20-years in prison on his conviction of Murder 2nd Degree and 20 years on his conviction of Armed Criminal Action. The sentences were set to run concurrently.

According to court records, Police found the victim in the roadway on Red Bridge Road in the evening of July 1, 2020. She had been shot multiple times. 

Witnesses told police that the woman was traveling on Red Bridge on an ATV, with her dog walking along side her in the grass. An SUV pulled along side and fired shots at her. 

A few days later, Kansas City police officers saw the vehicle and contacted Rucker. He was taken into custody. A handgun was found in the vehicle. An examination of the gun found that shell casings from the homicide scene were fired by that handgun. Detectives also discovered that the defendant called 911 the night of the shooting and stated he had shot a woman on her four-wheeler.

Kansas City man called 911 to report he killed woman riding an ATV

NEMAHA COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating a Kansas felon for alleged child sex crimes.

According to online jail records, 28-year-old Joseph Keehn of Havensville was booked into the Nemaha County Jail this week on a Nemaha County Warrant for Sexual Exploitation Of A Child.

He has previous convictions for theft, aggravated assault, marijuana possession and for obstruction, according to the Kansas Dept. of Corrections

Keehn remains in custody on a $50,000 bond, according to online records.

Sheriff: Kansas felon accused of child sex crimes

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision allowing states to ban abortion stirred alarm Friday among LGBTQ advocates, who feared that the ruling could someday allow a rollback of legal protections for gay relationships, including the right for same-sex couples to marry.

In the court’s majority opinion&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/abortion-supreme-court-decision-854f60302f21c2c35129e58cf8d8a7b0">overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision,</a>&nbsp;Justice Samuel Alito said the decision applied only to abortion. But critics of the court’s conservative majority gave the statement no credence.

“I don’t buy that at all,” said Lawrence Gostin, a professor of medicine at Georgetown University and faculty director of its Institute for National and Global Health Law. “It really is much more extreme than the justices are making it out to be.”

He added: “It means that you can’t look to the Supreme Court as an impartial arbiter of constitutional rights because they’re acting more as culture warriors.”

Gostin and others pointed to a separate concurring opinion in which Justice Clarence Thomas said the court should review other precedents, including its 2015 decision legalizing same-sex marriage, a 2003 decision striking down laws criminalizing gay sex and a 1965 decision declaring that married couples have a right to use contraception.

“Today is about this horrifying invasion of privacy that this court is now allowing, and when we lose one right that we have relied on and enjoyed, other rights are at risk,” said Jim Obergefell, the plaintiff in the landmark ruling legalizing same-sex marriage, who is now running as a Democrat for the Ohio House.

Abortion opponents celebrated the potential for states to ban abortion after nearly 50 years of being prevented from doing so. Some argued that the case did not have implications beyond that, noting Alito’s words.

“And to ensure that our decision is not misunderstood or mischaracterized, we emphasize that our decision concerns the constitutional right to abortion and no other right,” Alito wrote. “Nothing in this opinion should be understood to cast doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion.”

Kristen Waggoner, legal director for the Alliance Defending Freedom, which helped defend the Mississippi abortion law at issue in the ruling, said the high court’s decision makes it clear that “the taking of human life is unlike any other issue.” She said raising other issues shows the weakness of critics’ arguments about abortion.

Still, said Paul Dupont, a spokesman for the conservative anti-abortion American Principles Project, conservatives are optimistic about the potential for future victories on cultural issues, though getting more states to ban abortion is “a huge enough battle.”

“If there is a thought that this could apply elsewhere, you know, they’re not going to say it here, and we’re just going to have to see,” Dupont said.

Other factors could protect those rulings on birth control and LGBTQ rights, too. The Obergefell decision that legalized same-sex marriage was based on equal protection, and hundreds of thousands of couples have relied on it to wed, a precedent that many courts would be loath to disturb.

Still, a sharp increase in anti-LGBTQ rhetoric in the U.S. and opposition to specific kinds of birth control on the right have advocates concerned that those rights are vulnerable.

The possibility worried some of the scores of people at a Friday evening abortion-rights rally outside the Kansas Statehouse in Topeka. including Rija Nazir, a 21-year-old community organizer from Wichita for a voting-rights group.

She wore a pink cowboy hat festooned with a button featuring a “cowboy uterus” drawing for a “Vote Neigh” campaign against&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/business-legislature-constitutions-kansas-topeka-2b65563a5637dda6d6707822154dece5">an anti-abortion measure</a>&nbsp;on the statewide ballot Aug. 2.

“They’re going to go for LGBTQ rights first and then same-sex marriage next. Who knows? Maybe interracial marriage, birth control,” Nazir said. “They’re not going to stop at abortion.”

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