WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A new Wichita ordinance bans all sex activity in massage parlors and requires formal training for would-be masseurs and masseuses. The Wichita Eagle reports that the Wichita City Council approved the measure Tuesday. It’s designed to fight sex trafficking and prostitution. Under the ordinance, massage parlor owners, operators and employees must undergo an extensive licensing procedure. The measure also bans nudity while performing massages, requiring “fully opaque” coverage of breasts, buttocks and genitalia. Kansas is one of a handful of states that doesn’t regulate massage therapy. The push for regulations came from police after they started seeing…
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KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) Three men have been charged in a Kansas City, Kansas, bank robbery that a federal prosecutor witnessed. The Kansas City Star reports that 33-year-old Jonathan Dehaven, 29-year-old Brandon Wright and 37-year-old Darus Mebane are accused in the Saturday morning robbery at a UMB branch. Court documents say two robbers tied an employee’s wrists with a zip tie before fleeing in a sport utility vehicle that a third person drove. After witnessing the robbery from outside the bank, an assistant U.S. attorney in Kansas called 911 and chased the robbers. Police pursued the SUV until it wrecked.…
The Riley County Police Department arrested Timothy Anderson, 64, of Manhattan on April 19, 2016 at approximately 11:05 AM while in the 1800 block of College Ave. Anderson was arrested on the offense of aggravated assault of Law Enforcement Officers which occurred over the weekend in Riley County. This incident involved shots being fired in the direction of law enforcement. He was given a bond of $50,000.00 and at the time of this report was confined at the Riley County Jail. This arrest stems from a warrant issued in Riley County, Kansas. RCPD is investigating a burglary which occurred in…
The wildcat family has welcomed their interim leader. Faculty, staff, and students at Kansas State University welcomed Gen. Richard B. Myers to campus Wednesday morning. Myers appointment to the position of interim president was announced late last week. The K-State alum and air force veteran told the campus community, “I’m really proud to be here, I’m privileged to be here.” “I look forward to working with you and to continue on what Kirk and Noel (Schulz) have built and take K-State to even greater heights,” the general continued. A Kansas Board of Regents search for a permanent successor to outgoing…
Riley County Police released new information regarding the investigation of a Sunday standoff, Wednesday morning. Timothy James Anderson was named as the person taken into custody by police after the nearly 12 hour standoff at 4400 River Road. Anderson was recently released from the hospital. He’s being held on a 50-thousand-dollar bond.
If you live in Manhattan you won’t just be electing a president come November 8. City Commissioners accepted the ballot language for a tax increase question Tuesday night, as presented by public works director Robert Ott. The question asks for approval of the imposition of a new retailer’s sales tax in the amount of 0.20% to fund street maintenance and the city’s safe routes to school program. According to documents published by city administration, the question limits the use of the funds generated by the sales tax, as follows: the costs of repairing, rebuilding, rehabilitating, upgrading and improving existing streets…
TOPEKA — After he became Kansas governor in 2011, Sam Brownback slashed taxes on the promise that the cuts would trigger a furious wave of business expansion. But the “shot of adrenaline” hasn’t worked as envisioned, and the state budget remains in crisis. Now many of the same Republicans who helped pass Brownback’s plan are in revolt, refusing to help the governor cut spending after tax collections missed projections. If Brownback won’t reconsider any of the cuts, lawmakers say, he will have to figure out for himself how to balance the budget in the face of disappointing revenue. Many legislators want to…
TOPEKA — A top Kansas social services official has outlined proposals for nearly $17 million in additional spending at the state’s two mental hospitals. Department for Aging and Disability Services Interim Secretary Tim Keck discussed the proposals Monday during a meeting of a legislative oversight committee on social services. Keck said he’s asking Gov. Sam Brownback’s budget staff to include the spending in his proposals for legislators to consider. Lawmakers return April 27 from their annual spring break to wrap up their business for the year. Most of the money would be spent at Osawatomie State Hospitals in eastern Kansas. It would…
Officers with the Riley County Police Department arrested Rodney Roberts, 48, of Manhattan for the offense of violation of a protection order (X2) and criminal trespass. He was given no bond at the time of his arrest which took place in the 700 block of Tuttle Street in Manhattan. Due to the nature of this arrest and crime further information has not been released. At the time of this report Roberts was confined at the Riley County Jail. Danielle Hutchison, was arrested on March 16, 2016 while in Shawnee County, Kansas and was served with a warrant from Riley County…
Five Kansas State University professors have been honored with national recognition. The educators and their students were filmed for an online professional development program for college faculty, launched by The Association of College and University Educators (ACUE). “Academic success for our students begins in the classroom, and Kansas State University’s exceptional faculty form the foundation of a successful college career,” said Dr. April Mason, K-State’s Provost and Senior Vice President. Those included in the feature are; Michael Wesch, Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology; Gregory Eiselein, Professor of English; Ashley Rhodes, Teaching Associate Professor; Donald Saucier, University Distinguished Teaching Scholar.