WICHITA — Contracts with landowners are forcing a small number of companies to drill for oil and natural gas regardless of unfavorable market conditions. The Wichita Eagle reports that producers are required by contract to drill in a newly acquired lease within a few years in order to maintain the land lease. Kansas Independent Oil & Gas Association President Ed Cross says forcing producers to be picky about their leases keeps them thinking about the long-term success of their companies. But other producers are taking advantage of lows costs in hopes for future profit. Some, like Rod Andersen of Kansas Petroleum Resources…
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LAWRENCE — Lawrence is considering allowing people to pay parking tickets with canned goods or monetary donations to food pantries. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that city commissioners are considering the issue Tuesday. Currently, the fines cost $3. The city had projected bringing in $545,202 to the parking fund from overtime parking violations in 2016. Staff projects that the city would receive $30,000 less annually in parking fines, assuming about 6 percent of parking violators participated in the alternative payment option. The money pays for three police officers and several other staff members. Options the council will consider include a pilot program. Alternatively,…
Riley County Emergency Management Director Pat Collins received applause and congratulatory handshakes from county commissioners and supporters during Monday morning’s meeting in Manhattan. Collins was recognized as the 2015 Kansas Emergency Management Association Owen U. Turrentine EM Professional of the Year. “Congratulations, Pat,” commissioner Robert Boyd said. “You have a wonderful reputation.” Collins was presented with a plaque from Garry Berges, the emergency management director for Geary County. “I couldn’t do it without the support of the community and the people I work for and the people I work with,” Collins said. Berges said Collins’ work has been a model…
GEARY COUNTY, Kan. – A two-month long investigation into Junction City drug distribution, concluded with two arrests. The Junction City/Geary County Drug Operations Group – along with the Riley County Police Department Special Investigations Unit, executed search warrants that led to the arrests last week. 29-year-old Michael Anthony Washington was was charged with one count of sale of methamphetamine within 1000 feet of a school, six counts of sale of methamphetamine, conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, no Kansas drug tax stamp, and possession of drug paraphernalia. 29-year-old Latasha Nicole Clayton…
Officers with the Riley County Police Department filed a report for the offenses of burglary and criminal damage to property in the 2500 block of Farm Bureau Road in Manhattan on February 26, 2016 at approximately 10:50 PM. These crimes are said to have occurred on the 26th of this month and involved the theft of a bicycle and US currency as well as damage to a window (total estimated loss is approximately $600.00). Police listed Grace Oey, 43, and Alfonso Flores Collesa, 29, both of Manhattan as the victims in this investigation after an unknown subject(s) entered a residence…
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HUTCHINSON — Fire officials say seven Hutchinson school buses were damaged in a fire that apparently was started by a discarded cigarette. The fire was reported Saturday night just south of the Durham School Services in Hutchinson. A nearby tree row was on fire when emergency responders arrived. Battalion Chief Rex Albright says the buses, a storage trailer and a building’s interior were damaged. Damage is estimated at $47,000. Firefighters doused the blaze within 15 minutes. No one was injured.
For Manhattan’s first-ever large scale comic book convention, event co-organizer and former Fort Riley soldier Joshua Smith hoped for somewhere around 500 attendees when he and his wife, Ali, thought it would be a good idea to get one started a couple months ago. Saturday at the Manhattan Conference Center inside the Hilton Garden Inn, the inaugural Little Apple Comic Con saw anywhere from 1,500 to 2,000 people. In other words, a pretty solid first year for an event that many attendees simply referred to as “the con.” “Oh man, it has been mind-boggling,” Smith said during a short break…
The Manhattan High boys basketball team rallied in the second half to knock off the Seaman Vikings 66-56 on Friday night. They finish the regular season at 17-3, they earn the Centennial League title outright with the win and they clinched the #1 seed in next week’s Sub State playoffs. Manhattan trailed by six at the half but rallied to take a one point lead into the fourth quarter. Defense and free throws a big key for MHS to hold on for the win. Three in double figures led by 14 points from Trevor Hudgins, 11 from Grant Munsen and…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas Supreme Court has struck down a state law that punished suspected drunken drivers who refuse to submit to sobriety testing even if police have not obtained a search warrant. In a 6-1 ruling, the court declared the state law a violation of constitutional protections against unreasonable search and seizure, and by extension due process. The U.S. Supreme Court is poised to decide the issue on a national scale.