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A leader in the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation was killed in an overnight traffic accident on the tribal grounds near Mayetta, authorities said.
Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation leaders identified the fatality victim as James M. Potter, who served as tribal council secretary.
The Kansas Highway Patrol confirmed Thursday morning that troopers were on the scene and were investigating the fatality accident.
Additional information, including the time and location of the crash, wasn’t immediately available.
The Kansas Highway Patrol, local authorities and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating a plane crash that left two people dead near Great Bend.
The accident happened around 11:30 a.m. Sunday west of the Great Bend Municipal Airport, according to Martin Miller, the airport’s manager.
It marks the third plane crash in four months that has affected the Barton County community.
Officials of a Topeka school district say a teenager who died in a traffic accident had received his diploma just hours earlier.
The Topeka Capital-Journal reports Ronnie Graham was alone in his pickup truck when it struck a tree on a residential street around 3:30 a.m. Monday. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Graham had just finished his senior year at Seaman High School in Topeka. The school held its graduation ceremony on Sunday afternoon at the Kansas Expocentre.
The Kansas Highway Patrol says a doctor died in the crash of a small plane in western Kansas.
The patrol says the plane went down Saturday evening in a field in Greeley County, about 11 miles west of Tribune.
The pilot, 63-year-old Dr. Randall Fahrenholtz of Tribune, died at a hospital. No one else was on board the plane. He worked for Greeley County Health Systems.
The cause of the crash is still under investigation.