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Suspect charged with 4 counts of murder, 1 rape
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HASKELL INDIAN NATIONS UNIVERSITY student Tyler Levier, the HINU College Fund Student of the Year, speaks during the 2013 spring commencement Friday at the school’s Coffin Sports Complex.
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OFFICERS ESCORT KYLE FLACK to the Franklin County Courthouse on Friday from the Franklin County Detention Center in Ottawa. Flack was charged Friday with four counts of first-degree murder in the killings of a toddler, her mother and two men whose bodies were found in rural Ottawa earlier this week. He could face the death penalty if convicted.
Bond set at $10M By Shaun Hittle
Haskell grads bask in the day
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Kyle T. Flack was charged with four counts of first-degree murder Friday in the killings of a toddler, her mother and two men whose b o d i e s were found in rural Ottawa ear- Authorities are lier this still searching week. He for Lana-Leigh could face Bailey’s body. the death penalty if convicted. Bond in the case was set Nick Krug/Journal-World Photo at $10 million. FRIENDS COREY SCHLOTZHAUER, right, Barbara Sells, center, and Tony Bass, second from left, comfort The 27-year-old Ottawa man made his first court Jackson Anderson, brother of homicide victim Andrew Adam Stout, during Friday’s vigil at Forest Park in appearance at the Frank- Ottawa. At left is Karon Anderson, Stout’s mother. More than 400 community members, friends and famPlease see SUSPECT, page 2A ily members attended the vigil in honor of the four victims See the photo gallery at LJWorld.com.
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When they practiced their commencement ceremony earlier this week, Tyler Levier recalled Friday morning, the 2013 graduates of Haskell Indian Nations University were told to move quickly across the stage, to keep things moving. But as Levier spoke from that stage Friday, he sent a different message, with apologies to the Haskell administration. “Walk slow,” Levier told his classmates, to loud applause. “They’re here for you. Today is your day. Live it up.” Levier and his classmates celebrated their graduation
RIDERS on horseback search culverts and drainage ditches Friday along Kansas Highway 68 west of Ottawa, looking for a missing 18-month-old girl, Lana-Leigh Bailey, now presumed dead.
A vigil of tears, disbelief By Ian Cummings icummings@ljworld.com
Many of those who gathered at Ottawa’s Forest Park Friday night were strangers to each other. They walked past each other in tears,
hugging old friends and keeping the ones close to them even closer. More than 400 people came to light candles together in memory of the homicide victims whose Please see VIGIL, page 2A
Please see HASKELL, page 4A
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All inmates recaptured after escape from Lansing prison Staff and Wire Reports
All three inmates who walked away from a northeast Kansas prison on Friday morning were back in custody Friday night, the Kansas Department of Corrections reported.
Two surrendered Friday afternoon at a northwest Missouri home where they had been holed up for hours, authorities said. Allen M. Hurst, 31, and Scott A. Gilbert, 49, surrendered in Edgerton, Mo., after several hours of negotiations with law enforcement,
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Platte County Sheriff’s Capt. Erik Holland said. About 10:30 p.m. Friday, inmate Randy Ridens Sr., 57, was apprehended as he was entering Topeka. Earlier Friday, Leavenworth County Sheriff’s officers conducted a search
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