TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The dad of a Washburn University football player who was killed in an end of the week shooting in which a New York Giants draft pick was injured says the wrongdoing "broke many individuals." The Kansas City Star reports that Navarro Simmons depicted the passing of his child, Dwane Simmons, as "silly." The 23-year-old protective over from Lee's Summit, Missouri, was killed early Sunday at an off-grounds party in Topeka, Kansas, where the school is found. Navarro Simmons says the family gained from criminologists that his child and his child's companion and partner, cornerback Corey Ballentine, were going to leave the gathering when a vehicle pulled up. He says the general population inside posed an inquiry and after that began shooting. The college says Ballentine is relied upon to make a full recuperation. The Giants drafted him in the 6th round on Saturday.
Ex-Topeka Correctional Employee Charged with Abusing Inmates TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Prosecutors state a previous Topeka Correctional dental educator has been accused of improper direct with female detainees. Wichita tree care company The Kansas Department of Corrections said Friday that Shawnee County authorities accused Tomas Co of seven checks of unlawful sexual relations. Co directed prisoner preparing in a program that instructed detainees to make dentures. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports each charge against Co includes an alternate prisoner in episodes that purportedly happened somewhere in the range of 2014 and 2018. The paper said archives it acquired demonstrate the rectifications division was made mindful of the supposed sexual wrongdoing over two years prior. State and government inspectors suggested Co be terminated however he kept on working until he was set on authoritative leave in November 2018. Co was captured in Oklahoma and set up for prison there April 8 as an outlaw from equity.
Kansas Took more than 22 Struggling Nursing Homes in 2018 TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas administrators have fixed the budgetary necessities for a permit to work nursing homes after state controllers were compelled to assume control more than 22 battling offices a year ago. Authorities with the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services disclosed to The Kansas City Star they had no real option except to venture in light of the fact that nursing home chiefs had fallen behind on bills for nuts and bolts like sustenance and utilities, putting the wellbeing and security of occupants in danger. The Republican-controlled Legislature passed a bundle of social insurance enactment this month mentioned by Democratic Governor Laura Kelly's organization that will require substantially more budgetary data from individuals who apply for nursing home licenses. "It gives us a superior chance to possibly know ahead of time in the event that someone coming in is perhaps in money related troubles," said Rep. Brenda Landwehr, a Wichita Republican who seats the House Health and Human Services Committee.