MUSKOGEE, Okla. | A man who turned in his grandson for the killing of the 3-year-old girl known as “Precious Doe” has died.

Thurman Harrell McIntosh died Saturday. He was 86.

Wednesday’s winning numbers:

•Missouri Pick 3

The smile will never creep across Melinda Riddell’s face the same way anymore.

“He made me smile every day,” Riddell said Wednesday of her 17-year-old son, Andrew. “I don’t know how I’m going to live without that. It’s going to be so different without him.”

TOPEKA | Kansas has too few dollars and Kansans have too many pounds. State lawmakers pushing a proposed tax on sugary soda thought they’d found a solution for both problems.

But that was before hundreds of soft-drink bottlers and distributors, convenience store owners and restaurant owners flooded the Statehouse Wednesday to make sure the idea fizzles. Indeed, so many soft drink workers attended the Senate Tax Committee that some bottling plants shut down for the day.

I blew it this week.

I fell into the trap that far too many of us — journalists and non-journalists alike — fall into when we go searching for information these days.

TOPEKA | Kansas House Speaker Mike O’Neal will be asked to testify next week before a legislative panel investigating a conflict of interest complaint filed against him.

The lawmaker who filed the complaint, House Minority Leader Paul Davis, a Lawrence Democrat, is set to testify before the panel today.

A rigorous high school curriculum and independent study over the summer paid off for Michael Erickson.

The Olathe South High School senior had perfect scores on the ACT (36) and SAT (1,600) college exams in October.

The Majestic Auction House in Independence has its regular auction scheduled for Monday.

That’s despite the Sunday night assault of Faron Rosendale, an assistant at the business, whom police found Monday morning unconscious inside its front door.