Education: Board of Regents to meet in Topeka

The Kansas Board of Regents will have a new president and CEO when it gathers today and Thursday in Topeka.

Reggie Robinson, formerly chief of staff for Kansas University Chancellor Robert Hemenway, started at his new post Monday.

This morning, regents will meet with gubernatorial candidates Tim Shallenburger and Kathleen Sebelius to discuss higher education issues. This afternoon, they’ll hear from Bill Hall, president of the Hall Family Foundation in Kansas City, Mo., about a proposed lobbying effort for higher education.

Police: Wyandotte deputy charged with assault

Kansas City, Mo. A Wyandotte County sheriff’s deputy has been accused of shooting one man and pointing a gun at another in a dispute over a woman.

Oswaldo Ojeda, 31, of Kansas City, Kan., was charged Monday with first-degree assault, second-degree assault, armed criminal action and pointing a weapon. He was jailed in the Jackson County Jail on $75,000 bond.

The man who was shot, Christopher Dawood, 34, of Kansas City, has been released from a hospital.

Police said Ojeda pulled a gun on a man at party Friday and asked him about Ojeda’s girlfriend. The man said Ojeda hit and kicked him.

When Dawood intervened, he was shot in the buttocks, police said.

Courts: Suspect accused in rape of toddler in Shawnee

Olathe A suburban Kansas City man was charged in Johnson County District Court with raping and abusing a 16-month-old girl he was baby-sitting.

The 21-year-old Shawnee man was charged on Friday with rape and felony child abuse.

The girl was hospitalized Friday, after police responding to a 911 hang-up call went to a duplex where a woman reported that the toddler was injured.

The girl has returned home; the suspect is jailed on $250,000 bond.

Lecture: White-collar criminal discusses his crime

A former financial officer for a Kansas City-based investment company told Kansas University business students Tuesday that the federal government has a difficult time prosecuting violators of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

The act prohibits U.S. and foreign corporations from bribing foreign officials to gain business.

Richard Halford, formerly of Owl Securities and Investment Ltd., said because of the difficulty documenting a bribery case, the federal government had only successfully prosecuted 40 cases in the act’s 35-year existence.

Halford’s case became the 41st when he pleaded guilty last year to conspiring to bribe Costa Rican officials in a $1.5 million scheme to secure land for development of a resort.

Halford, 67, was invited to speak to the business students by Chris Anderson, a KU business professor.

“I think it’s important for young people to learn about the kinds of mistakes they could make, so they don’t make them themselves,” Anderson said.

Halford’s speech qualifies as part a community service component of his sentence.

‘River City Weekly’: Visit with local artists

This week, “River City Weekly” goes outside for Plein Aire painting with artist Robert Sudlow and then back indoors for a walk through the studio of local artist Colleen Gregoire.

Sudlow shares his philosophy of painting with host Greg Hurd after which Gregoire uses her paintings as a tool to guide viewers through her creative process.

“River City Weekly” premieres at 6:30 p.m. today with encore presentations at 7:30 weeknights and 9 a.m. Saturday.