Bush to nominate KU grad
President George W. Bush has announced his intention to nominate a 1954 Kansas University graduate to be deputy secretary of Treasury.
Kenneth Dam earned a bachelor's of science degree in business from KU. He currently is a professor of American and foreign law at the University of Chicago Law School, where he earned his law degree.
Dam served as corporate vice president for law and external affairs at IBM Corporation and was deputy secretary of state from 1982 to 1985. He also was president and chief executive officer of the United Way of America as a full-time volunteer.
The KU business school gave Dam one of its first honorary distinguished alumni awards in 1998.
Garage assault reported
A Douglas County woman who was inside a garage on Tuesday reported she was assaulted when someone tried to tear the garage down, authorities said.
The woman called Douglas County sheriff's deputies to report she had been inside her garage in western Douglas County when a man driving a tractor tried to demolish the garage, Sheriff's Lt. Kathy Tate said Wednesday.
The woman wasn't injured, and it wasn't clear whether the man driving the tractor knew that the woman was inside, Tate said.
No arrests were made.
Arson determined to be stolen vehicle
A vehicle that had been stolen from Topeka was found burned in Lawrence, authorities said Wednesday.
The silver 1985 Toyota Camry was found shortly after midnight Tuesday near the intersection of Fourth and Wisconsin streets after police responded to a call of a vehicle fire. Officers arrived to find the passenger compartment fully engulfed in flames and fire coming from the engine, Lawrence Police Sgt. Mike Pattrick said.
The fire was determined to be arson, Pattrick said. No suspects had been identified Wednesday, but Pattrick said it appeared that some sort of accelerant had been used in the fire.
Lawrence-Douglas County Fire & Medical crews extinguished the fire. Authorities later learned that the vehicle had been stolen on March 14 from a Topeka woman and had been parked near the intersection for a few days, Pattrick said.
The vehicle had been valued at $1,000.
Officers make arrest in indecent liberties case
A 66-year-old Eudora man was arrested in connection with committing aggravated indecent liberties against a child, authorities said Wednesday.
The man was charged Wednesday with one count of aggravated indecent liberties against a 6-year-old girl. He was arrested Tuesday afternoon after Douglas County sheriff's authorities interviewed him about the incident, which allegedly occurred and was reported on Monday, Sheriff's Lt. Kathy Tate said.
The suspect made his first appearance Wednesday in Douglas County District Court by a video hook-up at the Douglas County Jail. He was ordered held on a $20,000 bond and ordered to have no contact with the victim or anyone else under 18 years of age.
Mother and boyfriend charged with scalding toddler
Overland Park Prosecutors have filed charges against an Overland Park woman and her boyfriend in the scalding of her 2-year-old daughter.
Kimberly L. Gibson, 20, and Joseph Czechan, 22, were arrested Tuesday and appeared in Johnson County District Court. Czechan allegedly soaked a hand puppet in scalding water in February and held it to the toddler's forehead. The girl was burned on her forehead and her hands. Authorities believe her hands were injured while trying to fend off the assault.
Alternative charges were filed against Czechan of either child abuse or aggravated battery. Alternative charges allow prosecutors to ask a judge or jury which legal definition best fits the case.
Gibson was charged with child abuse for allegedly allowing her injured daughter to go without medical treatment for two days. A relative took the girl to the hospital for treatment.
Salina drug bust leads to arrests
Salina A traffic stop in Salina led to the largest drug seizure in the city's history and arrests in two other states, police said.
Police seized 440 pounds of cocaine, worth an estimated $40 million, after stopping a stock trailer in Salina last Thursday.
Salina police chief Jim Hill said the drugs were being taken from Texas to Pennsylvania. The traffic stop in Salina led to five arrests in San Antonio and Philadelphia.
Hill said the drug seizure was the largest in the history of the department.
KCK resident charged in three deaths
Kansas City, Kan. A Kansas City, Kan. man was charged with capital murder Wednesday in the shooting deaths of his girlfriend and her two teen-agers inside their home.
Brian Lee Trober, 38, was charged with one count of capital murder for killing Danny Dyche, 18, and Rose Dyche, 14, and with one count of first-degree murder for the death of Pamela Dyche, 38, said Wyandotte County Assistant Dist. Atty. Chris Schneider.
Trober was charged with one count of capital murder because there was more than one victim, Schneider said.
Trober was Pamela Dyche's boyfriend and neighbors said he lived with the Dyche family in their Kansas City, Kan. home.
According to court documents, the three were killed Monday.
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