TOPEKA — Topeka’s government is considering alternatives to fix a low dam on Kansas River where three people have drowned since 2007. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports city officials intended to start work on the concrete weir last month. But the cost estimate of $4.4 million was nearly $2.5 million more than the city expected. Larry Wolgast, a member of the Topeka and Shawnee County Riverfront Authority, said the city’s government is considering options that might allow for the project to start next year, including finding additional bidders and/or ways to reduce the project’s costs. Two men drowned in 2007 when…
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KANSAS CITY — Police have ruled that a woman found dead inside a vehicle after a police chase died of injuries suffered in the head-on collision that ended the pursuit. The Kansas City Star reports that police on Monday disclosed the cause of death of 29-year-old Chrissy Saale. Her body was found early Thursday on Interstate 70 in Kansas City, Kansas. She was a passenger. The driver, a 24-year-old man, faces several charges. The chase began when police followed a car onto a dead end street before the driver struck a police car and drove off, crossing into Missouri before…
SALINA — The Kansas attorney general’s office has determined that the Salina City Commission violated the state’s open records law. The Salina Journal reports that the finding comes after former Salina City Commissioner John Blanchard made a request in November for copies of documents concerning a contract between the city and the Salina Area Chamber of Commerce for economic development services. Blanchard says he received some of the requested documents but one contained redacted information. The attorney general’s office declined to pursue formal enforcement action, but requested the city commission release the unredacted copy of the letter Blanchard requested. Blanchard…
Officers filed a report for burglary in the 300 block of Highland Pointe Dr. in Manhattan on September 20, 2018 at approximately 8:40 AM. Officers listed Zane Rains, 37, of Manhattan as the victim when he reported an unknown suspect took his Smith and Wesson M&P 9mm and money from his vehicle. The estimated total loss associated with this case is approximately $570.00. Police ask that anyone with information contact RCPD or the Manhattan Riley County Crime Stoppers. Using the Crime Stoppers service can allow you to remain anonymous and could qualify you for a cash reward of up to $1,000.00.…
Riley County Police arrested 21-year-old Gregoria Baez of Manhattan in suspicion of involuntary manslaughter Saturday night. RCPD received a call of an unresponsive person in the 1400 block of Vista Lane around 7:45 p.m. Saturday. There they found 21-year-old Felix Flores of Manhattan suffering from a life-threatening gun shot wound. Flores — who WIBW reports was a Geary County corrections officer — was transported to Via Christi, then flown to Stormont Vail in Topeka where he died of his injuries Sunday morning. Baez is held on a $20,000 bond in connection with the shooting and is being confined to the…
Morgantown, W. Va. – It was much of the same for Kansas State in their first conference matchup of the 2018 season, the defense constantly had their back against the wall due to an offense that was allergic to the endzone. Will Grier continued his Heisman hopes with a five-touchdown performance that saw 356 yards through the air. Only two blemishes on the day, where two of his ten incomplete passes found the hands of K-State defenders for interceptions. Early in the game Kansas State’s defense was holding West Virginia off, most of that can be attributed to the turnovers…
LAWRENCE –The president and CEO of the Kansas Board of Regents will be receiving a 15 percent pay raise The Lawrence Journal-World reports the board approved the salary increase Thursday for Blake Flanders, whose $200,000 salary will increase to $230,000. The raise comes at a time when Kansas universities are facing budget challenges. Board chairman Dennis Mullin says compensation studies showed Flanders’ current salary was below that of many other leaders of state university systems. In a recent survey by the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association found of the 28 CEO positions at governing board agencies, the 25th percentile…
TOPEKA — The Kansas Board of Regents has approved an $85 million funding increase for state universities during the next two years. The Lawrence Journal-World reports the request approved Thursday would restore funding cut by the Kansas Legislature in 2009. Lawmakers will have to approve the funding increase. The request includes $50 million for fiscal year 2020, which begins in July, and an additional $35 million for the fiscal year 2021. The board’s official budget document will be submitted to the governor and Legislature by Oct. 1. The state’s current funding of state universities is about $588 million out of…
KANSAS CITY — NASA is asking a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a woman over a vial of moon dust that is being kept in a secret location in Kansas. Laura Cicco, of Tennessee, filed a lawsuit in June in Kansas asking a federal court to affirm that she owns the lunar dust she says she was given by astronaut Neil Armstrong, who was a friend of her father’s. She argues NASA has seized similar moon-related artifacts because it contends the government owns all lunar material. The Kansas City Star reports NASA filed a motion in late…
TOPEKA — Republican Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is disputing a new television ad in which his Democratic rival in the governor’s race says he’s called the state’s school overfunded. The Kansas City Star reports that Kobach says Sen. Laura Kelly should change or take down the ad, which began airing Thursday. In the ad, Kelly says Kobach “actually says our schools are overfunded,” citing his comments at a Republican primary debate in April in Atchison. Kobach insists he never said “anything like that or use the word `overfunded.”’ But Kelly’s campaign says Kobach plans to repeat “the Brownback…