PHILLIPS COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities are investigating a suspect on multiple drug allegations after a toddler was exposed to drugs. Just after midnight Friday morning, sheriff’s deputies executed a search warrant at a home in rural Phillips County. This warrant was the result of an earlier call to the Phillips County Hospital emergency room in which it was reported that a 20-month-old toddler had been exposed to a possible illicit drug. Deputies took 27-year-old Victoria M.
WAMEGO — The Kansas Highway Patrol confirmed that 7-year-old Korbin Tinkel died Saturday, Aug. 13, just days after the crash that killed his father. Randy L. Tinkel, 37, died Wednesday, Aug. 10, when his 2013 Ford F250 was hit from the rear while trying to make a left turn on Highway 24 less than a mile west of Airport Road. A 2-year-old and 7-year-old boy, Korbin Tinkel, were both passengers in Tinkel’s truck.