Emporia

Law enforcement found him in Kansas, where he had laid down on an interstate in the Emporia area, telling officers he wanted to be “ran over by a semi,” the Sarpy County incident report said.

He previously spent eight years as defensive coordinator at Emporia State.

By high school, johnson was ready to go to school for design, thinking he could get into the world of crafting commercials by going into a marketing program at Emporia State University in Kansas.

In Kansas, Emporia State University this fall cut 33 faculty — most of them tenured — using an emergency pandemic measure that allowed universities to bypass policies on staff terminations to balance budgets.

Max McCoy, Emporia State’s sole journalism professor, penned a column that began, “I may be fired for writing this” — before learning this would be his last year teaching at the school.