LAWRENCE — Kansas students will have to undergo CPR training to graduate high school starting next fall. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that the state Board of Education approved the new requirement earlier this month. Kansas will be the 38th state to require CPR training for graduation. It’s estimated that nearly 33,000 students will be trained in CPR across Kansas after the requirement goes into effect.
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Updated Thursday: While no name is being released in connection with Tuesday morning’s fatal fire in Pottawatomie County, the cause of death is listed as toxic gases due to the fire following an autopsy completed Wednesday. A name reportedly will be released after a positive identification is made. The cause of the fire is still undetermined, although the blaze reportedly started in the basement of the house and may have been due to a malfunction of electric components. Foul play is not considered to be a factor. Estimated damage to the house on Stewart Farm Road, which is described as…
A Manhattan man faces a $10,000 bond and failure to appear charge following his arrest Christmas night. Zachary Tilton, 29, was taken into custody shortly before 7:30 p.m. in the 2000 block of Judson Street. Tilton was arrested in late October in the 2100 block of Northview in Manhattan on charges of possession of opiates and operating a vehicle without an ignition interlock device. Tilton’s total bond and that time was set at $5,000.
An Ogden man arrested on drug distribution charges in August was arrested again Friday night for escaping custody and probation violation. Billy Joe Womack, 32, was taken back into custody at the Westwood Motel in Manhattan just after 9 p.m. Friday. Womack was one of several arrested for drug charges in August that involved opiates, meth and distribution. Womack is in the Riley County Jail on a bond of $103,000.
TOPEKA — The U.S. Senate is not carrying over a Kansas City-area attorney’s nomination for a federal judgeship in Kansas into next year. Senators didn’t vote on Holly Lou Teeter of Lenexa before wrapping up business for the year Thursday. Her nomination then appeared Friday on a list of those not being carried into next year. Senate rules require a nominee who hasn’t received a vote by year’s end to be nominated again unless senators unanimously agree to carry the nomination forward. The Judiciary Committee endorsed the 38-year-old Teeter’s nomination in November on a 19-1 vote. She is an assistant…
A former Kansas State worker says in a federal lawsuit that the university didn’t adequately respond to her complaints of sexual harassment by a co-worker. In a lawsuit filed this week, Paulette Arnold says she was harassed for nearly three years while working in the Information Systems Office. She says the systems coordinator, Kevin Yaussi, sent sexually explicit emails, inappropriately touched her and left her inappropriate gifts. Arnold says she and another worker reported Yaussi’s behavior to their supervisor. The Kansas City Star reports the university determined Yaussi had harassed Arnold but only ordered him not to interact with her…
Manhattan High School football coach Joe Schartz will not be facing any charges for child endangerment, according to a press release from Riley County Attorney Barry Wilkerson sent to KMAN Friday afternoon. The matter stems from investigations into hazing and the football program that first came to light in October. Wilkerson also said his office has two employees who have a child or relative who are members of the football team. Because of that conflict of interest, Lyon County Attorney Marc Goodman has agreed to have either himself or another attorney in his office serve as a special prosecutor concerning…
TOPEKA — A spokesman for U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback’s nomination for an ambassador’s post is set to return to the White House. McConnell communications director David Popp said in an email Friday that Brownback’s nomination is not on a list of those to be carried into next year. The Senate finished its business for the year Thursday night without voting on Brownback’s nomination by President Donald Trump to serve as U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom. Brownback was nominated in July. Under the Senate’s rules, an appointee whose has not received a confirmation…
Unemployment numbers for the Manhattan metro area including Riley and Pottawatomie counties went up just a little in November–but Manhattan is still the lowest for metro areas in the state at 2.6 percent. October numbers were 2.3 percent. Even Manhattan combined with Junction City shows a low rate of three percent for November. Junction City and Geary County by itself was 4.6 percent. Area county numbers for November released by the Kansas Department of Labor were 2.5 percent in Pottawatomie, 2.7 in Riley, 3.4 in Clay County and Geary County, which tends to be higher, had a 4.6 percent rate.
Manhattan High School Principal Greg Hoyt released a statement Thursday concerning investigations into hazing and the football program that first came to light in October. The investigations done by the school district and the Riley County Police Department have been completed, according to officials. The RCPD has sent its findings to the county attorney’s office. The matter has clouded the future of football coach Joe Schartz. During Wednesday night’s USD 383 School Board meeting, no action was taken on Schartz. Instead, the board put Schartz’s fate in the hands of superintendent Marvin Wade. “Our desire to be thorough and to hold…