LEAWOOD
Student dies from fall during spring break
An 18-year-old high school senior died when he fell from a hotel balcony during a spring break trip to Mexico.
Grant Gullion was a student at Blue valley North High School.
Gullion's parents think he forgot his room key Saturday and tried to get into his eighth-floor room from the balcony instead of going to the front desk for help. He went into an open room on the eighth floor and started climbing over waist-high walls that separated balconies.
Gullion apparently lost his footing before he reached his room and fell to the second floor. He was unconscious when an ambulance crew reached him, and doctors declared him dead at a hospital.
Weir
Kansan dies after being shot by officer
A Cherokee County man was fatally wounded early Monday in a pre-dawn scuffle with a sheriff's deputy who had stopped his car, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation said.
The man, Michael L. Darnaby, 21, of Weir, was flown to a Joplin hospital and pronounced dead shortly after 3 a.m. A woman in the car was uninjured in the shooting in Weir, just south of Pittsburg in Cherokee County.
Investigators gave this account of the shooting:
The deputy, whose name has not been released, had stopped the car for a traffic violation and discovered Darnaby was wanted on an outstanding warrant from the Kansas Department of Corrections for a parole violation.
As the officer tried to arrest the suspect, a fight occurred, with the man brandishing a weapon.
The deputy fired two shots from his weapon, wounding the man, who was then flown to the Joplin hospital. His weapon was found to be loaded and ready to fire, investigators said.
The deputy has been put on routine administrative leave.
Topeka
House endorses plan against cockfighting
Cockfighting would be a crime in Kansas under legislation passed by the House.
Monday's 68-53 vote sent the measure to the Senate.
The cockfighting measure was added as an amendment to a bill, debated last week, expanding current protections for police and fire dogs to include arson or search and rescue dogs. The bill makes it a misdemeanor to injure or kill such dogs.
As amended, the bill would make it a felony to facilitate, permit or train gamecocks for fighting and a misdemeanor to attend a cockfight.
Topeka
High court hears water-dispute case
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Monday on whether Kansas is entitled to receive money from Colorado for depletion of the Arkansas River.
Kansas sued its western neighbor in 1985, claiming Colorado had violated the Arkansas River Compact by taking more water from the river than it was authorized.
A special master appointed by the U.S. Supreme Court concluded in 1995 that Colorado was at fault. Last year, the special master said Kansas was entitled to $62 million in damages and interest dating back to 1969.
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