KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Two corrections officers are among four people charged with smuggling contraband cell phones and other items into the county jail in Kansas City after roughly 200 law enforcers searched the facility Monday.

The U.S. attorney’s office says the indictment naming Jackson County Detention Center corrections officers 26-year-old Andrew Lamonte Dickerson and 29-year-old Jalee Caprice Fuller was unsealed Monday after their arrest and the search. Also indicted last week in the bribery scheme are 32-year-old jail inmate Carlos Laron Hughley and a friend, 36-year-old Janikkia Lashay Carter.

The prosecutor’s office says they don’t immediately have attorneys who can speak on their behalf.

The early Monday search began after law enforcement from several agencies were bussed to the jail and lasted several hours. Previous searches have uncovered drugs, weapons and other contraband.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators have adjourned their annual session and are waiting for a state Supreme Court ruling on education funding later this summer.

The House and Senate met briefly Monday to formally end the session weeks after passing an income tax increase and a plan to boost spending on public schools.

The Supreme Court plans to hear arguments from attorneys July 18 on whether the new school funding law is adequate under the state constitution. It phases in a $293 million increase in education funding over two years.

Some lawmakers believe the court will rule that the funding increase isn’t large enough and force legislators to return for a special session.

But Kansas Association of School Boards officials praised the new school finance law Monday as a good start.

SHAWNEE COUNTY – Law enforcement authorities are investigating a second fatal shooting over a twelve-hour period in Topeka.

Just before 12:30 a.m. Monday, police responded to near the intersection of 10^th Street and SW Billard in Topeka for report of a shooting, according to a media release.

First responders found victim identified as Justin T. Mitchell, 18, with a life-threatening gunshot wound in a fast-food restaurant parking lot. He was transported to a local hospital where he died.

Just before 2:30p.m. Sunday, police responded to report of a shooting in the 700 Block of SW Taylor in Topeka, according to a media release.

Officers found a victim identified as 18-year-old Arden King suffering for a life-threatening gunshot wound.  He was transported to a local hospital where he died.

Police arrested Luqman Keys, 18, on requested charges of Aggravated Burglary and First-Degree Murder.

Police released no additional details late Sunday.

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SHAWNEE COUNTY – Law enforcement are investigating fatal Sunday afternoon shooting and have a suspect in custody.

Just before 2:30p.m., police responded to report of a shooting in the 700 Block of SW Taylor in Topeka, according to a media release.

Officers found a victim identified as 18-year-old Arden King suffering for a life-threatening gunshot wound. He was transported to a local hospital where he died.

Police arrested Luqman Keys, 18, on requested charges of Aggravated Burglary and First-Degree Murder.

Police released no additional details late Sunday.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is letting the Trump administration enforce its 90-day ban on travelers from six mostly Muslim countries, overturning lower court orders that blocked it.

The action Monday is a victory for President Donald Trump in the biggest legal controversy of his young presidency.

Trump said last week that the ban would take effect 72 hours being cleared by courts. It includes the countries of Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Yemen, Syria, and Iran.

The justices will hear arguments in the case in the fall.

ALLEN, Kan. (AP) — Authorities in east-central Kansas’ Lyon County are investigating a small bomb they say was found in a field.

The Lyon County Sheriff’s Department tells the Emporia Gazette that the improvised explosive device was found shortly after 11 a.m. Sunday near Allen by a person who was renting the field.

Sheriff’s officials contacted a Fort Riley bomb squad, which responded to the scene and disabled the device.

A message left with the sheriff’s department Monday was not immediately returned.

Topeka –Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has signed a state budget for the next two years that will use a $1.2 billion income tax increase to fund government and schools, but he complained about “excessive spending.”

Brownback signed the $15.6 billion budget bill on Sunday. It will provide raises of up to 5 percent to state workers who haven’t had any in recent years.

He vetoed two items that imposed some limits on programs for people with disabilities and mental health programs. Lawmakers will have a chance to override those vetoes Monday.

He issued the following statement in a media release Sunday afternoon.

“This budget, passed on the 113th day of the legislative session, unnecessarily increases government spending in several areas and fails to adopt common sense cost saving measures identified by the legislature’s own efficiency study.  However, I am signing the budget, despite my concerns about excessive spending, to avoid a break in core functions of government and to provide state workers with well-deserved pay increases.”

 

I signed the budget, despite my concerns about excessive spending, to avoid a break in core functions of govt #ksleg https://t.co/wLwpWyNaua

— Sam Brownback (@govsambrownback) June 25, 2017

Pursuant to Article 2, Section 14(b) of the Constitution of the State of Kansas, the Governor returned Senate Substitute for House Bill 2002 with the following line item vetoes:

• Limitation on the ability of KDADS to best serve vulnerable Kansans
  • Section 174 – Vetoed broad language limiting the ability of KDADS to implement changes, no matter how minor, to some programs and services.

• Redirection of funding for KDADS Clubhouse Model Program Fund
  • Section 99-(q) and Section 100-(o) – Vetoed language establishing a funding receptacle which was made unnecessary by the veto of HB 2313. Governor Brownback has directed KDADS to work with the Community Mental Health Centers to establish a pilot with Clubhouse Model Program providers in fiscal year 2018 in order to expand the scope of this program.

The Governor’s full message to the legislature can be found here.

Brownback already had signed a separate plan to increase school spending to meet a state Supreme Court mandate.

The Governor has now signed 102 bills into law this session, vetoed four, and allowed one to become law without his signature.

 

RENO COUNTY –Law enforcement authorities in are investigating a fatal shooting and have a suspect in custody

Just before 3:30 Saturday, officers of the Hutchinson Police Department were dispatched to the 100 block South Elm Street in reference to a shooting, according to a media release.

Officers located the victim Kenneth Thompson, 24, lying in the street with a gunshot wound.

Emergency crews transported him to the Hutchinson Regional Medical Center where he died.

Just after 5p.m. Sunday, police say 19-year-old Leo Lamont Wells, person of interest in the case, turned himself in at the Law Enforcement Center in Hutchinson.

Wells was arrested for Murder in the 2nd degree. Wells is in the custody of the Reno County Sheriff with a $350,000. bond.

HUTCHINSON. — The 4th annual Smallville ComicCon at the State Fairgrounds Hutchinson saw good crowds throughout Saturday and Sunday.

In fact, the line to get in Saturday stretched from the main entrance of the Meadowlark Building to the information booth near the train depot on the fairgrounds.

The event brought together another unique mix of celebrities, artists, writers, vendors, and fans eager to explore and share their love and devotion to all things evolving from comic books and popular culture.

One of this year’s highlights was the Munster vehicles that Butch Patrick brought for his ComicCon appearance.

Patrick played Eddie Munster, the son of Herman Munster, in the 60’s sitcom that continues to be shown in syndication.

Representatives of similar events were on hand over the weekend, including events in both Wichita and Manhattan.

SEDGWICK COUNTY – A pair of earthquakes shook portions of Kansas on Sunday morning.

The first, just before 8 a.m. measured a magnitude 2.5 and was centered approximately 3 miles southwest of Cheney, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The second at 10:42 a.m. measured 2.6 and was centered approximately 6 miles southwest of Cheney.

In addition to Friday afternoon’s 2.5 magnitude quake in Harper County, the USGS reported 5 Kansas earthquakes last week and 17 so far in June.

They reported 9 Kansas earthquakes in May, nearly a dozen in April, seven in March and six in February.
There are no reports of damage or injury from Sunday’s quakes.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas nun says she is surprised that her slain brother could become a saint, but that it “couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.”

Marita Rother says that Stanley Rother was tireless and that he taught her “how to live and how to die in dignity.”

Marita Rother belongs to the Wichita Center of the Adorers of the Blood of Christ, where a small statue of Stanley Rother stands.

He was killed in 1981 after three men broke in to his Guatemala rectory. He was declared a martyr last year and will be beatified in September — the final stage before canonization as a saint.

Rother is the first American-born martyr and would be the first U.S. priest to be beatified.