SALINE COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities are investigating a suspect on child sex allegations.

On Aug. 12, a concerned mother reported to Salina Regional Health Center personnel that she believed her three-year-old and four-year-old daughters had been sexually abused by a man who lived with the family,, according to Salina Police Captain Paul Forrester.

The man, Sebastian Ames, 23, babysat the girls while their father was at work and the mother was out of town, Forrester explained. Ames lived with the family from June to August, Forrester said.

On Tuesday, Salina Police completed their investigation and arrested Ames on requested charges that includ Rape and Aggravated indecent liberties with a child, according to Forrester.

GLADSTONE (AP) — Authorities say a 2-year-old boy has been fatally shot in a Kansas City area apartment.

Gladstone police says the boy was suffering from a gunshot wound when officers responded Tuesday night. He was rushed to a hospital, where he died.

Investigators are talking to adults who were at the apartment at the time. Police say officers are not looking for any suspects. No other details were immediately released, including the name of the boy.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump and the House impeachment inquiry (all times local):

President Trump released the full, unredacted transcript of his call with the Ukrainian President.

Read it here.

 

The memo summarizing President Donald Trump’s call with the Ukraine leader shows the president’s lingering fixation on special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.

Trump flippantly refers to the ex-FBI director as a “man named Robert Mueller” and says he turned in “a very poor performance.”

The memo also shows that the president made reference to the private cybersecurity firm that investigated Russia’s hack of the Democratic National Committee servers during the 2016 election.

Trump suggests that Ukraine may be in the possession of the email server, though it’s unclear what he’s referring to.

Trump also says he’d like to have his attorney general “call you or your people and I would like you to get to the bottom of it.”

The White House released the memo Wednesday.

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10:05 a.m.

The intelligence community’s inspector general told the acting director of national intelligence that a call between President Donald Trump and Ukraine’s leader could have been a federal campaign finance violation.

But the Justice Department determined the president did not commit a crime after prosecutors reviewed a rough transcript of the July 25 call.

A Justice Department official says the inspector general suspected that the call could have been a violation of federal law if the president was soliciting a campaign contribution from a foreign government by asking the Ukraine leader to investigate a political opponent.

The official says that was based on the whistleblower’s complaint and the inspector general didn’t have access to a rough transcript of the call.

Prosecutors from the Justice Department reviewed a rough transcript of the call and determined the president did not violate campaign finance law.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity in order to discuss internal investigative deliberations.

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President Donald Trump repeatedly prodded Ukraine’s new leader to work with Rudy Giuliani and the U.S. attorney general to investigate Democratic political rival Joe Biden. That’s according to a five-page memo summarizing the July 25 call.

The White House released the memo Wednesday.

The conversation between Trump and Ukraine’s president is just one piece of a whistleblower’s complaint made in mid-August.

The complaint is central to the impeachment inquiry announced Tuesday by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Trump told the Ukrainian president “If you can look into it … it sounds horrible to me.” Trump was talking about unsubstantiated allegations that Biden sought to interfere with a Ukrainian prosecutor’s investigation of his son, Hunter.

Trump also confirmed that he ordered his staff to freeze nearly $400 million in aid to Ukraine a few days before the call.

The president says he did nothing wrong.

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The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee is demanding that Attorney General William Barr produce the legal basis for withholding a whistleblower’s complaint against President Donald Trump.

Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff of California said Wednesday in a letter to Barr that the refusal to turn over the complaint risks raising “the specter that the department has participated in a dangerous cover-up to protect the president.”

Schiff says the statute “makes no provision” for withholding the information from Congress. He wants the Office of Legal Counsel’s reasoning.

The administration is considering whether to release the complaint, which is based in part on Trump’s conversation to the Ukraine president that reportedly involved digging up dirt on rival Joe Biden.

But Schiff told reporters the administration has communicated “nothing” about its intentions.

Trump has denied doing anything wrong.

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FINNEY COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities and officials with USD 457 are investigating another alleged school threat.

Just after 3:30 Tuesday, a parent informed police of a possible threat towards Horace Good Middle School in Garden City, according to Sergeant Lana Urteaga.

Upon investigation, officers determined the threat was made by a 13-year-old student two weeks ago after he and another student were involved in a verbal altercation at the school.

The threat was not reported until Tuesday when another altercation occurred between the same two students.

The GCPD will file an affidavit with the Finney County Attorney’s Office requesting charges of Criminal Threat.

 

SHAWNEE COUNTY— Law enforcement authorities are investigating a stabbing and have a suspect in custody.

On Tuesday, police were called 401 SW Jackson, the regional American Medical Response headquarters, where a 27-year-old woman had arrived seeking treatment for what appeared to be serious stab wounds to her back, according to Lt. Andrew Beightel.

AMR staff attended to the victim and she was quickly transported to an area hospital and is expected to survive. Based on information gleaned from the investigation, offices established that the suspect of this crime was a Joshua Keeling, 26, of Topeka.

Officers and investigators followed numerous leads that ultimately led them to Keeling’s location and he was apprehended near 7th and SW Topeka Blvd without further incident.

Keeling was then booked into the Shawnee Co Department of Corrections on requested charges of Attempted 2nd degree murder.  Keeling has two previous convictions for aggravated battery and aggravated assault, according to the Kansas Department of Corrections.

 

WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Tuesday launched a formal impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump, yielding to mounting pressure from fellow Democrats and plunging a deeply divided nation into an election year clash between Congress and the commander in chief.

Members of the Kansas congressional delegation have released statements on Pelosi’s move.

Democrats will stop at nothing to impeach our President. If only they devoted the last three years and energy to helping make American’s lives’ better…

— Dr. Roger Marshall (@RogerMarshallMD) September 24, 2019

I have long said that I trust my colleagues on the relevant House Committees as they conduct oversight and continue their investigations into the President, and I support this process continuing unimpeded. We must proceed down a path of finding the truth, regardless of politics.

— Rep. Sharice Davids (@RepDavids) September 24, 2019

Since the day after the 2016 election, Democrats have vowed to impeach President Trump and have spent more than two years searching for a reason to do it. Instead of impeachment, Congress should focus on priorities like the USMCA and accomplishing results for the American people.

— Rep. Ron Estes (@RepRonEstes) September 24, 2019

The speaker put the matter in stark terms: “The actions of the Trump presidency revealed dishonorable facts of the president’s betrayal of his oath of office, betrayal of his national security and betrayal of the integrity of our elections.”

The sculpture missing from downtown Salina has been located, according a facebook post from SculptureTour Salina. Authorities released no additional details.

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SALINA—A sculpture is missing from downtown Salina and SculptureTour Salina wants to know what happened.

According to a news release, Child’s Play, a bronze sculpture, went missing sometime between Sept. 13-16. It was last seen leaning against the building on the northwest corner of Iron Avenue and Santa Fe Avenue.

SculptureTour Salina was made aware that the sculpture was missing on Monday afternoon.

Child’s Play had been on exhibit in front of Wells Fargo since early May and was installed on a large concrete pedestal. The sculpture is 35 inches tall and weighs approximately 90 pounds. It is valued at $10,500.

SculptureTour Salina is offering a monetary reward for information that leads to the arrest of the person or persons who took the sculpture and to the recovery of the sculpture. Persons with information about this crime are urged to call the Salina Police Department at 785-826-7210.

 MONTGOMERY COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities are investigating a suspect on felony charges after an arrest.

On September 19, deputies observed a suspect identified as Delwood Sales, 34, Coffeyville, driving a silver SUV in the 600 Block of South Maple Street in Coffeyville. Sales was wanted in connection with felony arrest warrants, according to the sheriff’s department.

When deputies attempted to stop the vehicle, Sales fled on foot and crawled under a house in the 500 Book of South Maple.  After a brief period of time, Sales surrendered to deputies.

He was taken to the Montgomery County Department of Corrections and booked in connection with the warrants and on requested charges of felony obstruction and flee or attempt to elude, according to online booking records.

SEDGWICK COUNTY — A Kansas man was sentenced Tuesday for a DUI crash that critically injured a woman on a bicycle in May of 2018 in Sedgwick County.

Larry Gaines, 35, will spend 23 months in prison, the most under Kansas sentencing guidelines, according to the Sedgwick County District Attorney’s office. He is also required to spend 12 months post release probation.

In August, a jury found Gaines guilty of aggravated battery while driving under the influence.

He has three previous DUI convictions, according to the Kansas Department of Corrections.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump and a whistleblower complaint (all times local):

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has made it official, telling fellow Democrats she supports a formal impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump.

Her remarks at a closed-door meeting was described by two people familiar with the remarks who were not authorized to discuss them publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. Pelosi is set to make a formal announcement at 5 p.m.

A third person familiar with Pelosi’s remarks but unauthorized to speak publicly says she told Democrats they have reached “a moment of truth” with the president.

She called reports indicating that Trump pressured Ukraine’s leader to investigate Joe Biden’s family “a betrayal of our national security” and a “betrayal of our election.”

Trump insists he did nothing wrong when it comes to Ukraine and announced he’ll release a transcript of a phone call with the Ukrainian president.

–Lisa Mascaro and Mary Clare Jalonick

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4:40 p.m.

The GOP-controlled Senate has approved a nonbinding but symbolically important resolution calling on the Trump administration to immediately provide the House and Senate intelligence committees a copy of a whistleblower complaint involving President Donald Trump.

The measure put forward by Minority Leader Chuck Schumer passed by voice vote after Majority Leader Mitch McConnell endorsed the idea and noted that the bipartisan leadership of the Senate Intelligence Committee was working behind the scenes to obtain the complaint.

Trump is alleged to have pressured the government of Ukraine to look into former Vice President Joe Biden, one of the front-runners for the Democratic nomination.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Tuesday that the House would vote on a similar resolution on Wednesday.

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