OSAGE CITY, Kan. – Local fire crews were called to a structure fire at 1421 Laing St. Osage City, Kan., Wednesday, extinguishing a blaze in a bedroom.

At approximately 4:42 p.m., July 18, 2018, Osage County fire districts No. 2, Osage City, No. 5, Lyndon Vassar, and No. 6, Burlingame, were dispatched to the location. An Osage County Sheriff’s deputy and an OCFD No. 2 firefighter arrived on scene approximately five minutes later, and extinguished the electrical fire with a dry chemical fire extinguisher before apparatus arrived. The fire was contained to a bedroom in the residence.

Damage estimates are not available at the time of this release, but the Osage County Appraiser’s Office appraised the residential structure at $58,070. According to county land records, the property is owned by Ernest and Michelle Ehrhart Jr. and Sharon Kinsley.

Other agencies on scene or assisting included the Osage City Police Department and Osage County EMS. OCFD No. 2 members were at the scene for approximately 35 minutes, with no injuries reported.

OCFD No. 2 reminded everyone to have working smoke detectors in their home and check them frequently. Also have an escape plan, practice it, and be prepared to use it in the event of a fire.

SCRANTON, Kan. – A single-car rollover accident near Scranton, Kan., sent two people to the hospital with injuries Sunday.

According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, Brian Kenneth Penn, 36, Emporia, Kan., was driving a 2000 Toyota Tundra eastbound on U.S. Highway 56 south of Scranton at 12 p.m. July 8, 2018, when the vehicle hit debris in the roadway. Penn lost control and the vehicle went off the roadway to the left, rolling one and a half times.

Penn and a passenger in the vehicle, Jennifer Lea Lindsey, 26, Emporia, were both disabled in the accident and transported by ambulance to Stormont Vail Hospital, Topeka, Kan. Another passenger, James Lee McBroom, 24, Emporia, was not injured in the crash.

QUENEMO, Kan. – A 54-year-old Topeka woman was killed in a train-pickup accident Saturday afternoon about a mile east of Quenemo, Kan.

According to the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office daily report, Linda Henderson, 54, Topeka, was driving a 1999 Chevrolet 1500 pickup at about 12:10 p.m. July 7, 2018, when she failed to yield to a flashing railroad crossing at 2800 Alabama Terrace, Quenemo, and was struck by a westbound BNSF train. Henderson was pronounced dead at the scene.

The case is under investigation by the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office. 

MELVERN, Kan. – Two people were killed in a rollover accident on Interstate 35 in Osage County Saturday evening, following a pursuit by a Lyon County sheriff’s officer.

According to a Lyon County Sheriff’s Office press release, about 8 p.m. July 7, 2018, a deputy attempted to stop a vehicle at mile marker 142 on I-35. The driver of the 2007 Chrysler PT Cruiser, later identified as Sharnicca D. Cannon, 23, of Tucson, Ariz., refused to stop and a pursuit ensued, heading northbound on the interstate. During the pursuit, it was learned the vehicle had recently been reported stolen during a robbery in Emporia, Kan.

The sheriff’s office reported the driver attempted to exit at a high rate of speed at the Melvern, Kan., exit, at mile marker 160, when the driver lost control, and the vehicle left the roadway and rolled several times.

Coffey County EMS, Osage County EMS, and a Life Team helicopter responded to the scene, but lifesaving measures were unsuccessful. Cannon and the passenger in the car, Anthony E. Krawczyk, 20, Mesa, Ariz., were pronounced dead at the scene. Both victims were wearing seatbelts at the time of the accident.

The crash is under investigation by the Kansas Highway Patrol.

Update: At approximately 5:15 pm., July 6, 2018, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension located Amber Lynn Rewerts-Schavoni, 13, and detained Deshon D. White, 23, in St. Paul, Minn. The Kansas Amber Alert has been cancelled.

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The Kansas Bureau of Investigation has issued an Amber Alert for a 13-year-old girl from Lenexa, Kan.

Lenexa police are looking for Amber Lynn Rewerts-Schavoni, 13, who is described as 5 feet 5 inches tall, 140 pounds, with dyed black hair and blue eyes. She was last seen around 1 p.m. July 4, 2018, wearing black T-shirt with “Sons of Anarchy” logo, black jeans, and carrying a shiny blue billfold, at the Greyhound bus station in Kansas City, Mo. It is thought she may have left on a bus to the greater Minneapolis area or may still be in the Kansas City metro area.

Amber is thought to be with Deshon D. White, 23, 5 feet 9 inches tall, 200 pounds, with black hair.

According to Lenexa police, at approximately 2 p.m. July 4, Rewerts-Schiavoni was seen leaving her residence in Lenexa, near 77th and Quivira, with White. Rewerts-Schiavoni told a parent that she was walking to Oak Park Mall at 95th and Quivira, in Overland Park.

At approximatley 7:50 p.m. that evening, White and Rewerts-Schiavoni were seen on video at the Greyhound bus station in Kansas City, Mo. The pair may have headed to the greater Minneapolis area or may still be in the Kansas City metro area.

The Lenexa Police Department believes that Rewerts-Schiavoni, who was 12 years old at the time of her disappearance, had been coerced by White.  Law enforcement is in fear for her safety and considers her to be in imminent danger.

Anyone who sees Rewerts-Schiavoni or White is asked to call 911. Anyone with other information about Rewerts-Schiavoni’s disappearance or her whereabouts is asked to call the Lenexa Police Department at 913-477-7301 or the KC CrimeStoppers hotline at 816-474-TIPS.