A Kansas college football player who was drafted to the New York Giants on Saturday was reportedly wounded hours later in a shooting that killed his former teammate. According to ESPN, Washburn University defensive back Dwane Simmons, 23, was killed while his teammate, Corey Ballentine, 23, a cornerback drafted to the New York Giants in the …
A Kansas man learned his fate after his conviction in connection with the 2017 death of his father-in-law. According to Fox News, 35-year-old Justin Jones appeared in court on Friday where he was sentenced to four years behind bars. The victim, identified as 47-year-old Eric Everts, was reportedly enlisted to help his son-in-law evade detection …
Authorities in Kansas confirmed one of their own has been arrested on suspicion of raping a young victim. According to the New York Post, 52-year-old Michael Edward Mastel had been a deputy with the Wyandotte County Sheriff’s Office for more than a decade at the time of his arrest. In a statement on the matter …
When a bullet pierced through the home of 70-year-old Constance Effie, the Kansas woman did not know what happened. In the aftermath, however, she said she realized not only what happened but that it was stopped in what some see as a case of divine intervention. According to WDAF, Effie was with her husband at …
Authorities alleged the father bound the girl with rope and shocked the tops of her feet with a stun gun, leaving scars.
A Kansas judge has come under fire after reportedly suggesting that two underage girls were “more of an aggressor” than the 67-year-old man who paid to have sex with them. From The Kansas City Star, Judge Michael Gibbens reduced Raymond Soden’s prison sentence from 13 years to five years and 10 months, saying the two victims—ages 13 and …
A Kansas woman was convicted Friday of abusing a 4-month-old boy to the point he was left blind and with serious brain injuries. Paige Hatfield, 27, was found guilty of aggravated battery for abuse she inflicted on infant Kingston Gilbert in January 2017. Gilbert had been in Hatfield’s care for 11 days when the incident occurred, according to WDAF. On January …
A Kansas teen is suing the high school she previously attended, alleging repeated discrimination which entailed her being told that she couldn’t perform with her dance team because her skin was “too dark.” Per The Kansas City Star, Camille Sturdivant alleged she was one of two African-American students on the 14-member Dazzler’s dance team at Blue Valley Northwest …
A Missouri teen has reportedly gone blind after contracting an illness that has caused her to bleed from multiple orifices and suffer body pain, leaving doctors perplexed and without answers. A GoFundMe for Jordyn Walker revealed that an illness she suffered following a July 2017 cruise returned two weeks before Christmas 2018, robbing her of …
A Kansas man admitted to making the prank emergency call that resulted in police shooting an innocent man in front of his home last year. Per The Wichita Eagle, Tyler Barriss, 26, pleaded guilty to 51 federal charges not only related to the December 2017 death of Andrew Finch, 28, but for reporting fake bomb threats, …
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man has been found guilty of first-degree murder in the horrific abuse and slaying of a 3-year-old boy whose body was found encased in concrete in the laundry room of his home four months after his death. Stephen Bodine, 41, of Wichita, was convicted Wednesday in the May 2017 …
A Kansas mother was reportedly working to get away from her abusive husband before he allegedly shot her dead and turned the gun on himself this past weekend. According to People, Kristin Gile, 33, and her father had gone to her former home Saturday to pick up some belongings when her husband Randy Gile II, 33, arrived …
