Bo Rader

2 weeks ago | kentucky.com | Bo Rader

Largely under the cover of darkness, an annual, natural phenomenon will fill the skies above Kentucky and other parts of the U.S. this spring: the mass migration of birds headed north for the summer. Only for the next week or so, favorable wind and weather conditions could bring more birds soaring on the northward path than normal — to the tune of 4 to 5 million crossing over and into Ohio Thursday night, according to one projection.

3 weeks ago | kansas.com | Bo Rader

Hot pots are now banned for inmates at the Sedgwick County Jail after an inmate threw scalding water at a detention deputy last week. “Inmates have traditionally had access to hot water for preparing coffee, tea, and food items like ramen noodles,” Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Branden Stitt previously said. That will no longer be the case. After reviewing policy, the sheriff’s office decided to remove hot pots from the jail. The decision took effect Monday.

3 weeks ago | kansas.com | Bo Rader

Sedgwick County commissioners are going to be asked on Wednesday to pay $375,000 to two women a then-jail deputy had sex with while working, records show. The payments would be $200,000 to one woman and $175,000 to another, according to the commission agenda. The incidents happened on July 17, 2022. Dustin Troy Burnett, who worked at the Sedgwick County Jail from January 2022 until his firing in July 2022, was sentenced in March 2023 to prison.

4 weeks ago | kansas.com | Bo Rader

A 30-year-old Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office jail deputy remains hospitalized after an inmate threw a pot of boiling water on him, sheriff’s office spokesperson Branden Stitt said in a news release Tuesday that provided more details about the Monday evening attack. The deputy has second- and third-degree burns on the back of his body and is expected to make a full recovery. He has been with the sheriff’s office two years.

Jan 29, 2024 | auburnpub.com | Bo Rader

Suppose that when you did something bad, you could split off another you to deal with it, basically by dying and taking the punishment with it. You can't. But you could if you were a corporation, and would if you were a corporation owned by Charles Koch and you wanted to avoid possibly paying lots of money to people your corporation had harmed. The Texas two-step Koch Industries owns Georgia ...