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late-night house fire in Olathe has taken the life of one man and critically injured another. Firefighters say they tried unsuccessfully to rescue the man inside the burning home late last night. Two firefighters suffered minor smoke inhalation. The cause of the blaze is undetermined.
Fire officials believe a Hutchinson woman killed in a fire yesterday afternoon was smoking a cigarette while on oxygen. The name of the 64-year-old victim has not been released. She died in the fire in the low-income apartment where she lived. An autopsy is expected to be performed today.
Fire jumps an eastside Topeka alleyway--destroying two garages overnight. Topeka firefighters got the call in the 15-hundred block of SE 6th near Lafayette at about 11:30 last night. Dispatchers say fire from that garage in the back of a house spready to a tree , and then jumped across the alley to another garage--burning it down as well. Firefighters spent nearly three an a half hours battling the twin fires.. no one was injured, but both garages are said to be total losses.
Wichita police have arrested two men in a brutal murder on a downtown street yesterday. Deputy police chief Tom Stolz says two men went into an auto dealership, stole a Hummer, and kidnapped a man. The victim --got into a confrontation with the two, and was forced out of the vehicle on the street, was shot and then run over by the Hummer.
The announcment that the president of Kansas State University Jon Wefald is retiring is prompting reaction from alums and leaders from around the state, including Senator Pat Roberts who called Wefald the driving force behin two decades worth of improvements st K-State.
Wefald announced yesterday that he'll retire at the end of the next academic year. He's been President at KSU since 1986. The Kansas Board of Regents is expected to discuss the process of replacing him at its meeting tomorrow and Thursday.
An expensive communications device that helps those who cannot speak gererate synthezied speech is stolen during an aggraveted robbery in Topeka last week.
Police are hoping the public can help them retrieve whats called a "Dynavox" communications device, which is valued at approximatly 23 thousand dollars. It looks similiar to a laptop computer and is dark blue in color. The Machine was stolen from a 31 year old woman's car when she was beaten by two suspects Wednesday night in the parking lot of a liqour store at 225 NE Gordon street in North Topeka. The two suspects, described as white men --one around 40, 6 feet three inches tall with a long goatee, the other, in his 30's, 5-9 heavy set with a shaved head ..ambushed the woman as she was getting something from the car, beat her to the point she needed to go to the hospital, then stole the Dynavox, her purse and several other items. Police say one of the woman;s family members needs the device in order to communicate.
If you can help recover the Dynavox or know anything about this crime call Topeka Police Detectives at 368-9400 or Crime Stoppers at 234--0007.
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