Kansas City, Kan.
Resident finds swastika painted on his car
David Coleman Jr. had a jolting start to his new year when he discovered a swastika painted on a car in his driveway.
"It is a symbol that reinforces that racism is still alive in this country," said Coleman, who is black. "As a minority in this country, I was insulted."
Coleman found the Nazi symbol about 7 a.m. Tuesday as he was moving another car out of his driveway. The symbol was spray-painted in black, backward, on the back window of Coleman's Mercury Tracer.
The vehicles of another black family on the block were not vandalized, and no suspects had been identified by Thursday morning, police said.
Newton
Murder charges filed in beating death
Two people have been charged with killing a Newton man who died during a fistfight, police said.
Keith Rains, 25, of Newton, and Joshua Whitehurst, 24, of Peabody, are both charged with second-degree reckless murder. They were jailed Wednesday at the Harvey County Detention Center on $500,000 bond. A third man arrested in the crime may be charged later with aiding a felon, said Harvey County Attorney Matt Treaster.
The victim, Richard Dole, 29, was pronounced dead about 1 a.m. Monday at Newton Medical Center.
Police had found Dole's body a half hour earlier in an alley, said Police Chief Jim Daily.
Washington, D.C.
Veterans secretary will visit Kansas
President Bush's secretary of veterans affairs will visit Kansas next week, GOP lawmakers said Thursday.
Monday, Veterans Affairs Secretary Anthony Principi is to tour the Community-Based Outpatient Clinic in Salina and then meet with veterans at the Eisenhower Library in Abilene, said Rep. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., member of the Veterans Affairs Subcommittee on Health.
Sen. Sam Brownback and Rep. Jim Ryun said Principi is examining the budgets for veterans hospitals in Topeka and Leavenworth.
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