Area residents will get the chance to fight prescription drug abuse as the Riley County Police Department partners with the Drug Enforcement Administration for a drug take back event Saturday. According to RCPD, the initiative addresses a vital public safety and public health issue. Medicines that languish in home cabinets are highly susceptible to diversion, misuse, and abuse. Rates of prescription drug abuse in the U.S. are alarmingly high, as are the number of accidental poisonings and overdoses due to these drugs. Saturday’s collection effort allows residents to turn their medications completely anonymously. “This service is all free, it’s all…
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Thursday’s guests included Ascension Via Christi Hospital President Bob Copple in the first half of the program discussing current activities and recruitment efforts at the hospital. Pawnee Mental Health Executive Director Robbin Cole also joined us to provide the latest updates with the organization and its new Crisis Stabilization Center, which held a ribbon cutting last Friday.
ANTHONY — A 3.7 magnitude earthquake centered near the Kansas-Oklahoma border was felt as far as 75 miles away, but no injuries have been reported. The Kansas City Star reports that the temblor happened just after 4 p.m. Tuesday and was centered in northern Oklahoma, about 15 miles south of Anthony, Kansas. The town of about 2,200 residents is 10 miles from the Oklahoma state line. Light to moderate shaking was measured near the epicenter. People as far away as Wichita, 75 miles away, reported feeling the earthquake. Dozens of small earthquakes have rattled the same area in recent days,…
LAWRENCE — Police in Lawrence are investigating after three fossils were stolen from a display case at the University of Kansas Natural History Museum. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that the fossils were reported missing Monday but were believed to have been stolen Friday or Saturday. The university police crime log says someone pried hooks from a display case to open it and take the fossils. It’s not clear what kind of fossils were taken or how much they’re worth.
Officers filed a report for theft in the 300 block of Poyntz Ave. in Manhattan on October 23, 2019, at approximately 12:15 AM. Officers listed a 36-year-old male as the victim when he reported a known male suspect took his iPhone. The estimated total loss associated with this case is approximately $500.00. The phone was later recovered.
Digital Signs Manhattan is exploring whether to allow new forms of digital signs with alternating messages and whether to permit them in more districts zoned for commercial, industrial or manufacturing uses. Thomas Outdoor Advertising, the owners of the vast majority of off-site advertisements in Manhattan, requested an amendment to the Unified Development Ordinance currently being developed by city administrative staff. Digital billboards are large off-premise advertisements that rotate different advertisements over time. The technology was specifically prohibited in 2014 over concerns regarding vehicle accidents and how it would alter the community’s appearance, but current provisions in the working Unified Development…
Wednesday’s guests included USD 378 Riley County Superintendent Cliff Williams and USD 384 Blue Valley/Randolph Superintendent Brady Burton. Kansas State University Vice President for Student Life and Dean of Students Dr. Thomas Lane also joined the program to highlight some of his goals and objectives as he continues his first year with the university.
Knowledge about fire prevention and safety can save lives and property. On the other side, lack of knowledge about fire prevention and safety can cost lives and property. In the wake of multiple days of burn bans, brushing up on how to safely and legally burn material, preparing one’s property for possible wildfires and having a plan for what to do when a fire is near by can all be smart and even life-saving steps taken. Doing so can be especially important when fire crews aren’t able to put a fire out quickly. “With the humidity really low and the…
On Tuesday’s edition of In Focus, we spoke with Pottawatomie County Commissioner Dee McKee and Pottawatomie County Fire Supervisor Jared Barnes. We also spoke with T. Russell Reitz Animal Shelter Director Deb Watkins.
WICHITA, Kan. — Prosecutors say a computer software engineer has admitted threatening cyberattacks against websites that criticized a Wichita attorney’s work. VIRAL Artificial Intelligence co-founder David Dorsett pleaded guilty Monday to two counts of making extortionate threats via the internet. The 37-year-old Wichita man admitted in his plea he contacted lawyer Brad Pistotnik in 2014 offering “reputation management services.” The U.S. attorney’s office said in a news release that Pistotnik wanted negative postings removed, including a Kansas Supreme Court disciplinary opinion. Dorsett sent an email barrage to Leagle.com and Ripoffreport.com demanding they remove the information and threatening to target advertisers.…