Teen charged with killing grandfather
PARSONS — A rural Cherryvale teenager has been charged with first-degree murder for shooting and killing his grandfather on July 5.
Trenton Scott Anderson, 14, had a detention hearing on Monday, the Parsons Sun reported. He’s charged as a juvenile in Labette County District Court with first-degree murder in the death of Thaine Anderson, 74.
Labette County sheriff’s deputies were called to a report of a shooting the afternoon of July 7, where they found the elder Anderson’s body at his residence about seven miles northeast of Cherryvale, near Big Hill Lake, the newspaper reported.
Sheriff Darren Eichinger said a family friend had been called to check on Thaine Anderson and found his body in a pond at the residence, the newspaper reported. Eichinger said the shooting had occurred two days earlier.
A deputy found Trenton Anderson walking along a rural Labette County road about seven miles away, the newspaper reported. He was arrested and taken to the Southeast Kansas Regional Juvenile Center in Girard.
Parsons to offer free school meals
PARSONS — Parsons-USD 503 students will eat school meals for free for the upcoming year.
The Parsons Sun reported the school district is taking advantage of the federal Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) to pay for breakfast and lunch for every student.
Elementary school students will potentially save around $881, middle school students can save $943 and high school students would save around $979, figuring the cost of a student eating both breakfast and lunch daily, the newspaper reported.
Barring changes, the district is eligible to participate in the program for three additional years after the coming school year.
Eudora man headed to jail for 7th DUI
LAWRENCE — A Eudora man who now has seven drunken-driving convictions was sentenced to just over three years of incarceration on Wednesday in Douglas County District Court — after his wife asked for a higher sentence and said he’d put their young children’s lives at risk.
In June, Dustin Rhodes Crowe, 40, pleaded no contest to three felony DUIs and one felony count of endangerment of a child as part of a plea agreement, the Lawrence Journal-World reported.
With the addition of the three DUI incidents — stemming from incidents on Nov. 28, 2022, and on March 15 and March 28 of this year — Crowe now has a total of seven DUI convictions on his record, the newspaper noted.
