LENEXA: Fall kills window-washer
A window-washer was fatally injured when he fell from the roof of a four-story office building in suburban Kansas City. Lenexa police said the victim was Michael J. Beck, 34, of Warrensburg, Mo.
Police said witnesses told them Beck was setting up equipment when he fell Monday morning. They said he was not secured to the roof and that winds were gusting to about 31 miles per hour at the time.
Beck died during surgery at Overland Park Regional Medical Center.
YATES CENTER: Pioneering lawman dies at age 100
Carl Harder, a former sheriff who was a pioneering member of the Kansas Highway Patrol, is dead at the age of 100.
Harder died Saturday at a nursing home in Eldon, Mo.
Born July 18, 1901, Harder became undersheriff of Woodson County in 1929, and when he was elected sheriff in 1932, he was the youngest person in Kansas to have that job.
In 1937, he was one of 32 members of the first class of state highway troopers. Except for time with the military before and during World War II, Harder was with the patrol until he retired as a captain in 1956.
Services were Tuesday in Yates Center.
WICHITA: Suspect admits to embezzlement
A Wichita man has pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $400,000 from three military veterans for whom he served as guardian and conservator.
Robert R. Arnold, 71, entered the plea Monday in U.S. District Court.
U.S. Atty. Jim Flory said Arnold admitted embezzling the money from Department of Veterans Affairs pension checks of the three veterans over an undetermined period of time ending in December 1999.
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