LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) A Lawrence High School graduate has created a nonprofit to funnel donations to Kansas schools while the state Legislature overhauls the school funding system. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that 2010 graduate Thomas Wheatley has named the charity OurKansas. Donors can pick from four plans, ranging from $4.49 to $12.69 per month. Fifty percent of donations go toward a local school program or activity of the donor’s choice, 30 percent go toward low-income districts and 20 percent go toward community outreach. In March, the Kansas Legislature repealed the school funding formula that had been in place since 1992.…
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BAXTER SPRINGS, Kan. (AP) Gov. Sam Brownback is seeking federal help for an area that flooded last month in southeast Kansas. Brownback’s office said in a news release Thursday that the governor signed a disaster declaration request that was submitted to the Small Business Administration. The request seeks helps for residents affected by last month’s flooding in Cherokee County. The flooding forced hundreds from their homes and closed several roads. The Small Business Administration provides low-interest disaster loans to businesses of all sizes, private non-profit organizations, homeowners and renters.
Today’s guests on In Focus were: State Legislators including Sen. Tom Hawk, Rep. Tom Phillips, Sydney Carlin, Susie Swanson Brian McNulty, Melissa Bean and Todd Lovin with Tuttle Creek Lake and Dam
Officers with the Riley County Police Department arrested Leron McElveen, 34, of Fordland, Missouri on January 7, 2016 at approximately 7:00 PM. McElveen was arrested while at the Riley County Police Department on the offense of probation violation listed on a warrant with an original offense of theft. At the time of this report he was confined at the Riley County Jail on “no bond.”
South Korea has resumed its border broadcasts of anti-Pyongyang propaganda. The country uses loudspeakers to broadcast messages and music into its neighbors’ territory.
The armed protesters occupying an Oregon wildlife refuge vowed that they want to have a peaceful protest on Thursday, the seventh day of the occupation.
A Junction City woman was taken to the hospital following a two vehicle accident in Shawnee county Thursday afternoon. The Kansas Highway Patrol reports Ashley Wright, 22, was taken to Stormont Vail in Topeka for a possible injury, following the accident on I-70 eastbound at Carlson Road. KHP indicates Wright was driving a 2001 Honda in the right lane and for an unknown reason struck the rear of a 2014 Freightliner Semi driven by 45 year old Jody Juhl of Missouri, who was not injured. Both vehicles came to rest on the right shoulder. The accident was reported shortly after…
Stocks and oil prices plunged again on more worries about a slowdown in China, giving the market its worst drop in three months.
The mother of Ethan Couch, the fugitive teen who used a defense of ‘affluenza’ after killing four people in a drunken car wreck arrived in Dallas Thursday after being deported from Mexico last week.
The Riley County Appraiser’s Office has begun the annual 2016 Final Review process for property values. County appraiser Greg McHenry told county commissioners Thursday morning he hopes to complete those values by Feburary. During the Final Review process, values are chosen for all the approximately 24,000 real estate parcels in the county. McHenry said appraisers will be choosing 2016 values based on each property’s Jan. 1 status and that his office is scheduled to mail the Change of Value Notices on Feb. 12. “March 1 is the mandated deadline to mail those and as you all know, we try to mail those…