TOPEKA — Kansas legislators tackled issued that included abortion and preventing cities and counties from regulating artery-clogging restaurant meals or sugary snacks as the worked on balancing the state’s next budget. Legislators passed and sent Gov. Sam Brownback multiple other measures Sunday before adjourning early Monday morning. ANTI-ABORTION MEASURES Two anti-abortion proposals won approval from legislators. They’re likely to become law: Brownback is a strong abortion opponent who has signed every piece of anti-abortion legislation sent to him since he took office in January 2011. One measure approved Sunday night explicitly prohibits midwives from performing abortions or administering abortion-inducing drugs. The proposal…
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TOPEKA — The Kansas Legislature is out of session until June 1, and its leaders hope lawmakers have finished their business for the year. The House adjourned shortly after 1 a.m. Monday, and the Senate followed at about 3:30 a.m. Their session June 1 is supposed to be only a brief adjournment ceremony. But the Kansas Supreme Court is reviewing changes lawmakers made in March to how the state distributes more than $4 billion a year in aid to its 286 school districts. The court said in February that Kansas was shorting poor districts on aid and ordered a…
On May 1, 2016 at approximately 2:05 PM officers with the Riley County Police Department arrested Dewuan Shorter, 21, of Manhattan on a warrant for the offenses of aggravated robbery (X2) and robbery. He was also arrested on the offenses of conspiracy to commit aggravated robbery as well as use of possession with intent to use drug paraphernalia. He was given a bond of $15,000.00 and at the time of this report was confined at the Riley County Jail. Shorter was arrested while in the 900 block of Colorado Street in Manhattan, Kansas for these offenses which occurred in March…
Today’s guests on In Focus were: William G. Smriga Executive Director, K-State Student Union 60th anniversary celebration happening May 4th Youth Fishing Clinic: Mischa Pickett, Tuttle Creek Lake Association president and Leo Schell Kathy Dzewaltowski and Eileen Meyer -The historic preservation community will be holding its biannual Historic Summit on Thursday, May 5.
The 4th Annual Wamego Honor Flight was welcomed home early Saturday morning. The Honor Flight bus was met at the I-70 and Hwy 99 intersection and escorted into Wamego by a contingent of American Legion Riders. Despite the early hour (3:30 a.m.) and the rain, a large group of family and friends welcomed the Veterans and Student Guardians with flags, signs and patriotic music. At this Honor Flight, Twenty-five (25) National Honor Society members were paired with 25 Veterans for the two-day trip to Washington, D.C. Veterans from all wars, with the exception of World War II, made this trip. …
Kansas State University has made national headlines over the past two weeks and not for the reasons it would like. On April 22 two female K-State students filed lawsuits against the university in U.S. District Court alleging it has ignored rapes that have happened at off-campus fraternity houses. The lawsuits accuse KSU of not following federal Title IX rules that include off-campus rapes within the perimeters of university investigation. The suits were noticed by the New York Times and ABC’s Good Morning America. In November 2015, CNN published a story about another female K-State student who expressed similar frustration with administration after…
Wamego police responded to an armed robbery Friday afternoon that put schools on a brief lockdown just after 2:45 p.m. Police dispatch responded to a 9-1-1 call reporting an armed robbery had just occurred at Red Raider Express convenience store, located at 403 Spruce Street in Wamego. The clerk on duty reported that a white male — between 5’08” and 6’00” in height wearing a hooded jacket with his face partially covered by a bandana — produced a semi-automatic handgun and demanded cash. The clerk complied and the suspect departed the store. Nobody was injured in the robbery and no…
Riley County Clerk Rich Vargo has filed for re-election for this November. Vargo, who was first elected in 1997, told KMAN Thursday he still enjoys the office. “Still ready to keep going,” Vargo said. “I enjoy working in Riley County with all the good people in the county and serving the public.” Vargo, a Republican, said it’s not an easy time for local government in the state. “Lot of challenges coming up, of course, with the state financing that has been a big challenge for several years now and will continue to be a large challenge, ” he said. “Election…
TOPEKA — A group of grocery and convenience stores in Kansas has proposed a new plan for expanding liquor sales, saying it would generate a $41 million cash infusion toward the state’s budget deficit. The Wichita Eagle reports that the Uncork Kansas coalition is proposing that large retailers would be able to buy full liquor licenses directly from the state. That would eliminate current laws that limit them to selling beer with an alcohol percentage less than 3.2 percent. The new plan abandons earlier efforts that would’ve required big-box stores to buy liquor licenses of small businesses. Those businesses are currently the…
HAYS — A man who voted illegally in both Kansas and Nebraska in 2012 has been fined $5,500. Michael L. Hannum now lives in Omaha, Nebraska, and pleaded guilty Thursday in Johnson County, Kansas, to three misdemeanors. The convictions are the third under a new state law that gives Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach the power to prosecute election fraud allegations. Kobach says in a news release that the fine will “deter others.” Hannum said earlier this year that he was traveling regularly at the time between a home in Johnson County, Kansas, and Omaha, Nebraska, to visit family following his…