MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Fort Riley officials say a 1st Infantry Division soldier has died after being found unresponsive at his on-post home.

The death of 36-year-old Sgt. 1st Class George Bible III, of Clarksville, Tennessee, is the ninth death of 1st Infantry soldiers connected to the base who have died in the last five months.

Fort officials say Bible was found Sunday. His cause of death is under investigation. He joined the Army in March 2002 and deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan several times. He was a platoon sergeant who repaired Black Hawk helicopters.

Since July, two other 1st Infantry soldiers died on the base and others died in Junction City, Geary County, Topeka, Milford Lake and Fort Hood, Texas.

The deaths are under investigation or were ruled suicides.

SALINE COUNTY —  Law enforcement authorities are investigating suspect in connection with an alleged rape.

On October 2, a woman reported the alleged mid-August sexual encounter at a Salina residence to Lindsborg Police, according to Police Sgt. James Feldman.

On Monday, following an investigating by the Salina Police Department they arrested 22-year-old Thomas Blair of Salina. He is being held for the rape of a mentally deficient person under the age of 18, according to the Saline County Jail booking report.

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a drag racer from Kansas has died following a crash at a California track.

The Kern County coroner’s office says Brett Henry struck a wall during a race Saturday at Auto Club Famoso Raceway north of Bakersfield. KBAK-TV reports the 50-year-old died the next day at a hospital.

The coroner’s office hasn’t yet determined the cause of death.

The National Hot Rod Association released a statement extending condolences to Henry’s family.

The racing media outlet Dragzine reports Henry, of Wichita, was driving as part of the NHRA California Hot Rod Reunion when the crash took place.

KANSAS CITY (AP) – A man has pleaded guilty to a series of four Kansas City area bank robberies that netted around $25,000 over five months.

The U.S. attorney’s office says 57-year-old Tam Henry Holmes entered the plea Monday. Prosecutors say he stole $450 from Kansas City bank last November. In April, he is accused of robbing a Liberty bank of around $8,300, an Independence credit union of around $12,205 and another Kansas City bank of around $4,050.

In all the robberies, he is accused of handing notes to the tellers. One note read, “give me all the money, hurry up, or I will hurt you.” Another robbery note read, “Don’t pull any dye packs, bail or alarms. I know where you live.”

He faces a sentence of up to 80 years in prison.

OXFORD, Neb. – Authorities say an armed man managed to get into an Amtrak locomotive and pull the train’s emergency brake in southwest Nebraska.

The incident happened on an eastbound California Zephyr train with about 175 people aboard passing near Oxford, Nebraska, about 3-hours north of Salina, Kansas.

The Furnas County sheriff’s office identified the suspect as Taylor M. Wilson, 25, of St. Charles, Missouri, according to a media release.

Wilson had a loaded .38-caliber revolver in his waist and a speed loader in his pocket. Deputies found three more speed loaders, a box of ammunition, a knife, tin snips and a ventilation mask.

He was travelling from Sacramento, California, to St. Louis.  Wilson remained in jail Tuesday. Court records say he’s been charged with use of a weapon to commit a felony and criminal mischief.

– The AP contributed to this report

RENO COUNTY— A Kansas woman convicted of numerous charges and sentenced Monday to nearly 10 years in prison was granted three years on community corrections.

Jacqueline Jurgens, 28, Hutchinson, was convicted of two counts of making false information for a case from June of 2016.

Other convictions included possession of drugs with intent to sell within a thousand feet of a school, a count of possession of drug paraphernalia with intent to manufacture or cultivate drugs, and additional misdemeanor charges that occurred in October of 2016.

She was also convicted with possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute, possession of drug paraphernalia with intent to manufacture or cultivate drugs from March of 2017.

Reno County Judge Tim Chambers handed down the sentence for the three cases. The state combined all three into one complaint for Monday’s sentencing hearing.

SHAWNEE COUNTY— A Kansas man was injured in an accident just after 9a.m. Monday in Jackson County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2011 New Holland Skid Loader driven by Marshall Dillon Persinger, 53, Mayetta, was eastbound on 118th Road.

The driver failed to yield right of way, entered the intersection at U.S. 75 and struck the left rear-axel of a Kenworth semi.

Persinger was transported to the hospital in Topeka.

The driver of the semi Douglas Donald Jacobson, 52, Havenville, was not injured properly restrained at the time of the accident, according to the KHP.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas City, Kansas, man has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and child abuse in the death of his 4-year-old daughter.

The Kansas City Star reports that 28-year-old Devondre Sanders was scheduled to go to trial Monday but instead entered the guilty pleas. Sentencing is set for Dec. 15.

The child, Honesty Sanders, died in May 2016. Officers tried to save her with CPR, but she never regained consciousness and died at a hospital.

Sanders’ 24-year-old girlfriend, Sierra Mitchell, is also charged in the case and is scheduled for trial in March.

JACKSON COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities are investigating four suspects on drug and charges.

On Saturday, the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office and the Holton Police Department served a search warrant on a Holton apartment house located at 511 New Jersey Street in the City of Holton.

The investigation originated from an initial report of battery that allegedly occurred at the residence.

Deputies arrested Danny Ross Adams, 28, of Holton at the scene on the follow charges:  Battery, Possession of Marijuana, Possession of Drug Paraphernalia, Possession of Methamphetamine, the use of a communication facility device in the commission of a felony drug violation. They arrested Stanley Morris Drinkard, 27, of Holton for Possession of Marijuana, Possession of Drug Paraphernalia, and Possession of Methamphetamine, the use of a communication facility device in the commission of a felony drug violation, Possession of Hydrocodone, Distribution of Methamphetamine within 1000′ of school, Possession of Marijuana within 1000′ of school.

Alexander Morris Mercer-Jones, 28, of Holton was arrested for Possession of Marijuana and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia.

Crystal Diane Bratcher 37, of Mayetta was arrested for Possession of Marijuana, Possession of Drug Paraphernalia and Possession of Methamphetamine.

On Monday, Bratcher, Drinkard and Mercer-Jones remain jailed.  Drinkard is being held on a $20,000 bond, according to the sheriff’s department.

ROXANA HEGEMAN, Associated Press

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The poor black community of Kansas City, Kansas, is outraged but not surprised by alleged wrongdoing that led to the conviction of a man who spent 23 years in prison for a double murder he didn’t commit.

Lamonte McIntyre was freed on Oct. 13 after a local district attorney said there had been “manifest injustice” in the case.

The white detective who investigated McIntyre for murder in 1994 had sexually harassed McIntyre’s mother earlier and she says she spurned his advances. Witnesses who told the prosecutor that McIntyre was not the killer say they were threatened or ignored. The judge at McIntyre’s trial had been romantically involved with the prosecutor.

None of those officials has been punished.