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Police are investigating the shooting of two persons in the 2700 block of North Early Street.
According to a police spokesman, officers responded at 11:49 a.m. April 5 to North Early on a report of a shooting.
They found two gunshot victims, a male in his 30s, and a male juvenile. Both were taken to hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries, the spokesman said.
The police are asking anyone with information to call the TIPS hotline at 816-474-TIPS.
While the Legislature returns to session on Saturday, April 5, to finish its work, including work on school finance, some progress was made on Friday night.
The House passed a bill Friday that was a compromise endorsed by Gov. Sam Brownback, a Republican, and House Minority Leader Paul Davis, a Democrat.
The bipartisan effort on Senate Bill 218 passed 91-31. Rep. Broderick Henderson and Rep. Valdenia Winn, Democrats from the Wyandotte County delegation, voted against it.
“The school finance bill that passed the Kansas House today (Friday) with bipartisan support increases funding to Kansas schools by $83 million and includes $74 million of property tax relief,” Gov Brownback said in a statement. “I am pleased with the broad bipartisan support for a plan that puts money into the classrooms where it best benefits students and teachers.
The bill as passed made cuts to programs that assist students older than 19 and students who are part-time. Rep. Jim Ward, a Democrat from the Wichita area, said that even though he voted for the bill he was disappointed in the elimination of the at-risk services for these students, and he hoped that the conference committee would restore these funds.
“Poor urban school districts spend a great many resources keeping at risk students in school. Many of these students have to work. These students take an untraditional route to graduation but they do graduate. The finance formula should not punish districts that help these kids,” he said in a statement in the House.
The House also changed its plan to dip into retirement funds from the schools to pay for school finance, and also restored proceeds from the sale of Rainbow Mental Health facility in Kansas City, Kan., to mental health services. Instead, funding for school finance is coming from the state’s general fund.
The Kansas National Education Associated stated that it had opposed a change to licensure that would “lower the standards for teacher licensure in Kansas” and had opposed the expansion of the “innovative district” program. Those provisions were left in the version the House passed.
The House and Senate will work on their differences in the bill in a conference committee.
March 13
Criminal damage, 1000 block of Reynolds, seven windows, $700 value.
Burglary, criminal damage, 4000 block of South Minnie, window and frame, laptop computers, camera, $1,550 value.
Burglary, criminal damage, 2600 block of Essex, window, video game console, $450 value.
Battery, 2400 block of North 38th.
March 12
Criminal damage, 100 block of North 13th, window, $50 value.
Burglary, criminal damage, 1100 block of North 18th, Christ Church of the Jesus Hour, lock, speakers, sound board, $450 value.
March 11
Theft, 3500 block of North 55th, Cadillac, $15,000 value.
Criminal damage, 5000 block of Freeman, drywall, vanity, ceiling fan, 9 doors and windows, $3,500 value.
March 9
Criminal damage, theft, 500 block of Minnesota, five Coke machines damaged, $700 value; currency, $181 value.
March 3
Burglary, criminal damage, 800 block of Reynolds, door, gas stove, door handle, $480 value.