Month: April 2014

Country classics music concert planned April 27

Local musician Fred Uzell, along with fellow musicians Jim Winters, Donna Hensley and Kevin Blom will perform a Country Classics concert from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, April 27, at the George Meyn Community Center, inside Wyandotte County Park, Bonner Springs.

Tickets are available for $15 prior to the show and $20 on the day of the show.

The concert will pay tribute to country music greats Hank Williams Sr., Merle Haggard and George Jones.

Proceeds will benefit PACES, Wyandotte County’s mental health services for young people who face behavioral and emotional challenges.

Doors to George Meyn Center, at 126th and State Avenue, will open at 1 p.m. Concessions will be available for sale at the event. For more information, or to purchase tickets, contact Melissa Bynum at 913-638-8589 or email, [email protected].

Injuries reported in accident on I-635

An injury-accident was reported about 2:31 p.m. Sunday, April 13, on northbound I-635 near Gibbs Road.

A Ford Taurus slowed when it was struck from behind by a Chevy Sonic, according to a Kansas Highway Patrol trooper’s report.

A 16-year-old driver of the Chevy Sonic from DeSoto, Kan., was injured and taken to the hospital, according to the report.

An 18-year-old passenger in the Sonic, a homeless man from Kansas, had a possible injury and was taken to the hospital, according to the report.

A third person in the Sonic, an 18-year-old Kansas City, Mo., man, also had a possible injury and was taken to the hospital.

The driver of the Ford Taurus, a 23-year-old Wichita woman, was taken to the hospital with a possible injury, the report stated.

Shooting near Jewish Community Center to be treated as hate crime

The shooting deaths of three persons Sunday near the Jewish Community Center and Village Shalom in Overland Park will be treated as a hate crime, federal and Johnson County officials said today.

The three victims of the shootings were identified as Reat Griffin Underwood, 14, Stilwell, Kan.; his grandfather, Dr. William Corporon, 69, Overland Park, Kan., both of whom were in the parking lot near the Jewish Community Center; and Terri (Hastings) LaManno, 53, Kansas City, Mo., who was visiting her mother at Village Shalom.

President Obama expressed his condolences to the victims and the people of Overland Park today and Sunday.

The man in custody, Frazier Glenn Cross, also known as Frazier Glenn Miller, 73, of Aurora, Mo., has connections to white supremacist groups.

On Sunday, a human rights activist from Kansas City, Kan., Alvin Sykes, called for a federal criminal civil rights investigation into the shooting deaths.

On Monday, Leonard Zeskind of the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights, stated that the suspect in the past had created a heavily armed paramilitary organization in North Carolina, and that IREHR seeks “complete justice” in this case.