Three state representatives are scheduled to meet with the public on Saturday, April 8, for a legislative coffee.
The Wyandotte County legislative coffee is scheduled from 10:30 a.m. to noon Saturday, April 8, at the West Wyandotte Library, 1737 N. 82nd St., Kansas City, Kansas.
State Reps. Stan Frownfelter, D-37th Dist, Louis Ruiz, D-31st Dist., and Kathy Wolfe Moore, D-36th Dist., are scheduled to attend the legislative coffee and discuss legislative issues. The format allows written questions from the audience.
The coffee is sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Johnson County, NAACP of Kansas City, Kansas, NAACP of Bonner Springs and the Libraries of Kansas City, Kansas. It is open to the public.
For more information, visit http://www.lwvjoco.org/new/.
A crash on Tuesday morning on southbound 18th Street at I-35 resulted in an injury, according to the Kansas Highway Patrol trooper’s report.
The driver of a Kia passenger car was southbound on 18th Street and failed to stop at a stoplight around 10:25 a.m., according to the trooper’s report. The driver of a Nissan made a left onto southbound I-35 and was struck by the Kia, according to the trooper’s report.
The driver of the Kia, a 74-year-old man from Duluth, Kansas, had a possible injury and was taken to the hospital, the trooper’s report stated.
A passenger in the Kia, a 71-year-old woman, had an injury and was taken to a hospital, according to the report.
A 52-year-old man and a 58-year-old woman, both from Manhattan, Kansas, who were passengers in the Kia were not injured, the report stated.
The driver of the Nissan car, a 45-year-old woman from Kansas City, Kansas, was injured and taken to the hospital, according to the trooper’s report.
A 46-year-old Kansas City, Kansas, woman who was a passenger in the Nissan was taken to the hospital with a possible injury, the report stated.
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A grandmother of Adrian Jones, a 7-year-old boy who died at a rural residence on North 99th in Kansas City, Kansas, stated she is glad that Mike A. Jones pleaded guilty and there will not be a trial.
Jones, father of Adrian Jones, pleaded guilty last week to first-degree murder in the case, in which Adrian’s body was found in a barn or shed on the property in November 2015. He is expected to be sentenced in May in Wyandotte County District Court. Adrian’s stepmother, Heather Jones, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the case in October 2016.
“We as a family are just glad that Mike decided to plea, which saves us from having to endure the agony of a trial,” stated Judy Conway, grandmother. “I’m okay with the life in prison with a hard 25, but of course I wish that it would have been life in prison with a minimum a hard 50.
“As we move forward we will continue to seek answers as how the system failed Adrian,” Conway stated.
In a letter about a month ago, Conway, of Emporia, wrote that she was seeking answers to questions about her grandson’s death.
“One thing I know is that Mike and Heather used homeschooling as a way to keep Adrian and his two sisters isolated, and there was little if any motivation to actually educate,” Conway wrote. She added that in Kansas, there is virtually no checking on these children, after parents file registration information with the state.
“Without protection for at-risk homeschooled children, we will continue to see a tragic pattern of severe abuse and child fatalities in homeschool settings,” Conway stated in her letter a month ago. “While the majority of homeschooling parents are not abusive and provide a wonderful learning experience for their children, the consequences to those who do experience abuse are catastrophic.”
