Northeast Kansas likely to be iced-over today

Lawrence and area residents could find the going slippery today, if an expected ice storm develops early this morning.

The National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning Saturday for much of northeast Kansas, including the Lawrence area, with ice accumulations of a quarter to a half an inch possible today.

6News meteorologist Ross Janssen and his weather staff have monitored the situation overnight. They’ll present live weather updates beginning at 7:30 a.m. today on Sunflower Broadband Channel 6.

Music

Lawrence bluesmen to reunite for benefit

Blues guitarist and former Lawrence resident Bill Lynch will join his former musical partner Lee McBee in a fund-raising concert this evening at B.B.’s Lawnside Bar-B-Q, 1205 E. 85th St., Kansas City, Mo.

McBee, a blues singer, harmonica player and songwriter, lives in Lawrence. He and Lynch toured the Midwest in the early 1980s. A studio musician, Lynch now lives in Los Angeles.

A share of the concert’s proceeds will go to offset the medical expenses for Kansas City harmonica player Jimmie Meade, who is recovering from injuries suffered in a recent auto accident.

Wichita

Shootings leave 2 dead

Two men died from unrelated shootings that followed arguments in Wichita.

Police identified the victims as Jacob L. Williams, 27, and Tellus Colvin, 24.

Williams died about 10 a.m. Friday, several hours after he was shot in the stomach at an apartment where he had been visiting. Three young men were arrested shortly after the shooting and booked into jail on suspicion of first-degree murder and criminally discharging a weapon into an occupied building.

The previous evening, Colvin was killed while inside a duplex with about five people. Some people were outside when a gunman fired through a glass door, wounding Colvin in his torso and leg as he sat inside, Lt. Ken Landwehr said.

The suspect in the shooting remained at large.

Topeka

Jury deadlocks in case involving slaying at bar

Jurors failed to reach a verdict in the case of a man charged with killing another patron at a bar when a fight broke out during a pool match.

The jurors deliberated more than five hours Thursday and Friday before they notified Shawnee County District Judge Richard Anderson by note that they were unable to reach a verdict in the case against Daniel J. Brown, 31, of Topeka.

He was tried on charges of involuntary manslaughter, a felony, and misdemeanor battery in the August 2002 death of Dale Scheidt, 52, of Topeka.

During the trial, Brown said he acted in self-defense when he punched Scheidt with his left hand.

Some witnesses said Scheidt’s hands were in his lap or on his knees when Brown punched him. But other witnesses said Scheidt had used his left hand to grab Brown’s right wrist and twist it, perhaps in an attempt to force Brown to the floor.

Shawnee County Dist. Atty. Robert Hecht said Friday that his office was “leaning” toward trying the case against Brown a second time.