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LYONS, Kan. — Authorities in Rice County have identified the man killed in a house explosion last month in the town of Lyons. The victim on Thursday was identified as 65-year-old Terry Sawyers. Firefighters responded to the home on May 27. The fire chief says Sawyers was found dead in the home where he had lived for 10 to 12 years. The cause of the explosion has not been determined, but Lyons Police Sgt. Cory Ryan says there was no crime. Results of an autopsy of Sawyers are expected in July.

Victim identified in fatal house explosion in Rice County

A nighttime officer at the Yadkin County Detention Center has been arrested and charged along with 10 other people in connection with what the Yadkin County Sheriff’s Office called drug-smuggling operations that brought illegal narcotics into the county jail. Investigators said Wendy Kaye Nelson, the nighttime detention officer, developed what the news release about the arrests called an “inappropriate personal relationship” with inmate Christopher Cody Caudill. The sheriff’...

File photo A motel fire left one person injured early Monday near O’Hare International Airport as firefighters struggled with frozen hydrants and a partial building collapse. Firefighters responded to an alarm at 1:30 a.m. at the O’Hare Kitchentte Motel, at 2301 Mannheim Road, according to Leyden Township Fire Protection District Chief Cory Ryan Crews were there within a minute, being stationed a block away, and found a person on the second floor, where the fire started, Ryan said. The pers...