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A 19-year-old Kansas City, Kan., man was arrested on charges of possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia on Thursday, Dec. 3, in Daviess County, Mo., by the Missouri Highway Patrol.
According to the arrest report, the man was being held in the Daviess-DeKalb Regional Jail.
Other than a slight chance for light rain on Sunday, expect mild and dry conditions through the middle of next week, according to the National Weather Service.
Today’s high will be near 53, with a south wind of 5 to 10 mph, the weather service said. Tonight, the low will be around 36, with a south wind of 10 mph.
Saturday’s weather will be sunny with a high near 53, and a south wind from 10 to 14 mph, gusting as high as 18 mph.
Saturday night, expect increasing clouds, with a low around 41, the weather service said. A south southeast wind from 6 to 9 mph will become west after midnight.
Sunday, it will be cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with a high near 60, according to the weather service. The wind will be from the northwest at 6 to 8 mph. Sunday night, the low will be 33.
Monday, the high will be near 53, according to the weather service. Monday night’s low will be 37.
Tuesday, expect sunny skies with a high near 54, the weather service said. Tuesday night’s low will be around 38.
Wednesday, skies will be mostly sunny with a high near 53, according to the weather service. Wednesday night, the low will be around 39.
Thursday, it will be mostly sunny with a high near 55, the weather service said.
A Wyandotte County District Court jury this afternoon found Jason Lanell Rucker, 35, of Kansas City, Kan., guilty in the Oct. 22, 1997, death of Vicky Ernst.
Ernst died from blunt force trauma and slashing of her throat at a residence in the 900 block of Shawnee in Kansas City, Kan.
Rucker, who was 16 at the time of the murder, was charged as a juvenile in April 2015. He was subsequently waived to stand trial as an adult for the crime.
At the time of the original police call, the crime scene investigation, autopsy and interviews by police detectives did not identify the person or persons responsible for Ernst’s death, a spokesman for the district attorney’s office stated.
While the Kansas City, Kan., Police Department never closed the investigation, there were periods where no new leads meant the investigation was not active, the spokesman said. Over the course of years, forensic reports of the physical evidence were issued by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation laboratory, and more recently, the district attorney’s staff and detectives from the major case unit at the Kansas City, Kan., Police Department undertook a comprehensive review of the case.
Police followed up on newly developed leads, and the district attorney charged two men in April 2015 with Ernst’s murder.
Rucker’s sentencing is set for Jan. 22, 2016, in division 15 of the district court.
Torry Mashone Johnson, 35, was also charged with the death of Ernst. He pleaded guilty to first-degree murder on Sept. 3, 2015. His sentencing is set for Dec. 8, 2015, at 9 a.m. in division 15.
