Eudora: Boards set joint session

City, county and school officials will have a joint meeting Wednesday night at Eudora City Hall.

Members of the Douglas County Commission, Eudora City Council and Eudora school board will meet at 6:35 p.m. to discuss various issues.

Wichita: Suspect convicted for bar-fight death

A woman was convicted of second-degree murder Friday in the fatal beating of a man outside a bar earlier this year.

Latrina Green, 21, and three others have been charged in the June 29 beating death of O.T. Ruffin. Ruffin, 25, was beaten and kicked to death in a fight outside Harry and Ollie’s after he bumped into Green on the dance floor inside the bar, according to testimony.

Green had only a minor role in the beating, but he admitted that she threw a bottle at Ruffin. Prosecutors said Green incited others to take part and should be punished.

Sentencing is set for Dec. 12.

Green’s attorney, Michael Whalen, contended it was not murder because there was no intent to kill Ruffin.

Kansas City, Kan.: No juror misconduct found in libel case

A jury foreman who did not disclose that he was dating an intern in the Wyandotte County District Attorney’s Office did not commit misconduct, according to a judge’s ruling.

The ruling came in the unusual criminal libel trial against the free-distribution newspaper, The New Observer, its publisher, David Carson, and its editor, Edward H. Powers Jr.

In July, a jury found the defendants each guilty of seven counts of misdemeanor libel for reporting that Mayor Carol Marinovich lived in Johnson County.

Carson and Powers sought a new trial on grounds that juror Ronald D. Myers II biased the jury toward the prosecution.

But District Judge Tracy Klinginsmith of Jackson County ruled Thursday that the defense failed, in part, to ask sufficiently specific questions during jury selection.