OLATHE: Investigators find scanner overcharges
A pet supplies retailer from Overland Park has agreed to pay the state $5,000 because its checkout scanners rang up prices different from those displayed in the store. The pricing errors were discovered by investigators for the Kansas Department of Agriculture.
The investigators went to the Petco store six times between January of 1998 and last August. They checked 450 items and found 23 discrepancies between the stated price and the ones recorded at checkout. Twenty-one of them were overcharges.
Petco will pay the state $2,500 in penalties and a like amount to cover investigative and court costs.
A company spokesman said Petco bought the store from another chain during the period when the price checks were made. He said the discrepancies generally occurred when new prices were downloaded into the computer system but someone neglected to change a showroom sign.
KANSAS CITY, Mo.: Jewelry store heists draw prison time, fine
A man sentenced to 42 1/2 years in prison for two jewelry store robberies has also been ordered to pay more than $1.3 million in restitution.
At Thursday's sentencing, U.S. District Judge Ortrie D. Smith told Michael Hatcher, 45, of Grandview, that federal guidelines mandated the long sentence.
In March, a federal jury convicted Hatcher of conspiracy, two counts of robbery and two counts of use of a firearm in a violent crime.
Jurors convicted Hatcher, who has previous convictions for bank robbery and armed robbery, in the 1996 robbery of Facets Jewelry Store and the 1997 robbery of Meierotto's Midwest Jewelry.
Hatcher was among four men convicted in March on charges related to conspiracies to commit a series of armed robberies since 1996.
TOPEKA: Forecasters predict temperatures to warm
Snow is possible today in parts of Kansas, the National Weather Service said, but temperatures across the state could reach the 50s next week.
Today could see a chance for light snow south and east in the morning, with decreasing clouds from the west and highs mostly 35 to 40.
Tonight is expected to be mostly clear west, partly cloudy east, with lows in the low to mid-20s, except upper teens northwest.
The extended forecast calls for partly cloudy skies Sunday through Tuesday.
Lows are expected to be in the 20s on Monday, the mid-20s northwest to mid-30s southeast on Tuesday. Predicted highs are from the mid-30s northeast to the upper 40s west on Sunday, 50s west and north to the mid-40s southeast on Tuesday, and the 50s on Wednesday.
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