Missing person: Public’s help sought in finding 48-year-old

Law enforcement agencies are asking the public’s help in finding a missing Osage City man.

Kerry Lynn Thompson, 48, was last seen early Monday driving a 1996 green Ford Ranger extended cab pick-up truck, according the Osage City Police Department.

Thompson is a white man with hazel eyes, mustache and glasses. He stands 5-feet-8 and weighs 160 pounds.

He may have been wearing a gray or silver short-sleeve button-up shirt, black shoes with silver buckles and a zip-up coat, authorities said.

The truck’s Kansas license tag is RAF 910 and has a red and white bumper sticker with “Osage Indians” on it.

Anyone with information about Thompson’s whereabouts is asked to call the Kansas Bureau of Investigation at 1 (800) KS-CRIME or Osage City Police at (785) 528-3131.

Health insurance: City personnel manager named to advisory board

Lori Carnahan, personnel manager for the city of Lawrence, has been named to the State Advisory Committee of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas.

The committee advises Blue Cross of Kansas on coverage options and benefits. Graham Bailey, a spokesman for Blue Cross of Kansas, said the committee gives the state’s largest health insurer “invaluable” suggestions and feedback.

Carnahan also is president of the board of trustees for the Heartland Regional Drug and Alcohol Center.

Area: Helicopter takes driver to Olathe after accident

A 28-year-old Overland Park man was taken by air ambulance to Olathe Medical Center at 11 a.m. Tuesday morning after losing control of his vehicle on U.S. Highway 56 in southern Douglas County.

James R. Moore was traveling east, about four miles east of the Osage County line, when he swerved to miss an animal in the road, according to a Kansas Highway Patrol report.

The vehicle, a 2002 International truck owned by Pepsi-Cola, overturned before stopping in a ditch facing west on its passenger side.

Officials at Olathe Medical Center had no information regarding the driver’s condition.