A Riley County double murder case that had been filed with the U-S Supreme Court last September has been denied certiorari. Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt announced in September he had filed a 94 page petition with the national court regarding Kansas v. Luis Aguirre in the 2009 murders of Tanya and Juan Maldonado. For roughly every 100 petitions for cert received by the court, only about one petition is granted. With the court denying cert in this case, the State court’s decision stands. The Kansas Supreme Court had been sharply divided on the matter this past May, eventually holding…
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LARNED — Internal reports show that employees at one of Kansas’ state mental hospitals have racked up significant overtime hours. The Topeka Capital-Journal obtained four weeks of overtime data for the hospital’s nursing department covering much of December. The paper says its analysis shows that in recent weeks more than half of all employees in Larned State Hospital’s nursing department have worked overtime. Hundreds of workers have accumulated more than eight hours of overtime during a single week. And some have logged more than 40 hours of overtime in that span. The new leader of the Kansas Department of Aging and Disability…
SALINA — A Portland, Oregon-based airline has ended service to Great Bend and Salina, effective immediately. Seaport Airlines announced Friday that it would no longer fly to the two Kansas cities and five other cities in California. The company blamed a pilot shortage for ending its service. KAKE-TV reports Salina Airport Director Tim Rogers says Seaport’s poor service has led to a drop in passengers. Rogers says Great Lakes Airlines will return to Salina, beginning April 1. Rogers says Great Lakes will fly to Denver in 30 seat Embraer turboprops. Great Bend Airport Director Martin Miller says his city won’t know if…
Tuesday’s guests were Manhattan Mayor Karen McCulloh and Manhattan City Manager Ron Fehr.
A U.S. Navy salvage ship is supporting underwater search efforts near the last known position of two helicopters that crashed off the coast of Oahu while carrying 12 Marines. The Coast Guard says there still may be survivors.
Three U.S. Congressmen traveled Monday to the medical center in Germany where three Americans, released by Iran as part of a prisoner swap, are being treated.
A Manhattan woman was injured in a two vehicle accident on I-70 in Shawnee County Monday afternoon. Katie Joe Jarvis, 26, was taken to Stormont Vail in Topeka following the accident, on I-70 eastbound, one mile east of Valencia road. The Kansas Highway Patrol reports Jarvis was driving a 2005 Nissan Sentra eastbound and after changing lanes the vehicle struck the driver side door of a second vehicle. Jarvis’ Sentra then veered through the median across opposing traffic lanes, over the embankment, and came to a rest after damaging a fence on the access road below. Three people from Topeka were in…
Wildcat Insider breaks down the K-State basketball weekend with the women beating TCU while the men fell to Iowa State. They look at the week ahead and also how the Big 12 has shaped out through the first five games of conference play. Plenty of K-State coverage and its all right here with “Wildcat Insider” on KMAN. https://1350kman.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/1-MBB-loses-to-ISU.mp3 https://1350kman.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/2-BAY-up-next-for-MBB.mp3 https://1350kman.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/3-Big-12-MBB.mp3 https://1350kman.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/4-Big-12-FB-news.mp3 https://1350kman.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/5-More-MBB-recap.mp3 https://1350kman.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/6-Matt-Walters-on-WBB.mp3 https://1350kman.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/7-KSU-FB-news.mp3 https://1350kman.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/8-Closing-segment.mp3
Live music, speakers and art filled the Manhattan Town Center Monday for the 32nd Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration. Along with speeches and music, there were also booths representing various non-profit organizations offer volunteer opportunities. Lynda Bachelor, one of the coordinators of the celebration and a soon-to-be-retired administrator at the Staley School of Leadership Studies at K-State, said serving others was a big part of Dr. King’s message. “It was,” Bachelor said. “It’s about a beloved community coming together — all kinds of people coming together — to serve side by side.” Bachelor was also in the mall…
British lawmakers debated banning Donald Trump from entering the country after he called for a temporary ban on Muslims into the U.S. While more than 500,000 people signed a petition leading to the debate, it won’t result in a vote.