Today’s guests on In Focus were USD 383 School Board member Curt Herrman and Assistant Superintendent Eric Reid, as well as Manhattan Christian College Athletic Director Shawn Condra. Herrman and Reid: Condra:
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The Wamego City Commission heard updates on the Flint Hills Regional Council at Tuesday’s meeting. Council Director Gary Stith reminded the Commission that Commissioner Vic Enns has been the City’s representative to the FHRC board and Enns is retiring, so the City needs to come up with a replacement for him. Stith gave an overview of FHRC and what their mission is since being organized six years ago. The Commission did not make a replacement decision, but will be doing so by year end. In other business, the Commission was updated from the Ad Hoc Pool Committee representative Jeff Wick on…
Kansas State is slowly but surely proving to be an improved offensive team in 2016. The trio of Wesley Iwundu, Barry Brown and D.J. Johnson led the Wildcats on a 21-0 run in the middle of the first half Tuesday night, guiding the way for K-State in a 81-68 victory over Omaha at Bramlage Coliseum. For a second-straight game, K-State was cold offensively in the early-going, falling behind 13-4 on 1-of-5 shooting. The Wildcats also turned the ball over five times in that stretch. “I got after them, especially with how we were playing defense,” Weber said. “They were doing…
WICHITA — Authorities say a man accused in a bomb plot targeting Somali immigrants in Kansas tried to use another inmate to sneak out of jail a letter that identified a confidential informant. That detail emerged in a hearing Tuesday for Patrick Stein. Authorities say he’s an escape risk. Law enforcement officials testified that they searched Stein’s cell at the Butler County jail and found papers with references to “a small man team” overtaking the jail and cutting power to it. The hearing came amid defense concerns that the searches scooped up confidential attorney-client communications. Stein is one of three men…
One of the drivers in Tuesday’s fatal accident near Grandview Plaza has been arrested on involuntary manslaughter charges, while driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. The Geary County Sherriff’s department arrest report Wednesday morning indicates Steven Johnson was taken into custody shortly before three p.m. Tuesday on the charges, which also include inproper driving on a laned roadway. The accident on I-70 near Grandview Plaza claimed the lives of two people and left another injured Tuesday morning shortly before 11 o’clock. Steven Johnson, 42, of Houston, Tex., was driving a 2011 International truck eastbound when his vehicle entered the…
DODGE CITY — Microsoft has announced that it will purchase 178 megawatts of production from a wind farm under construction near Dodge City. The Wichita Eagle reports that the purchase from Bloom Wind will be a portion of the 237 megawatts of alternative energy Microsoft is buying to supply through the grid to its Cheyenne, Wyoming, data center. The wind farm will consist of 54 towers across 15,000 acres of privately-owned land about 20 miles south of Dodge City in Ford and Clark counties. Capital Power will operate the wind farm and has contracted the facility’s output to a subsidiary of…
A Manhattan businessman, former Riley County assistant boys’ basketball coach and substitute teacher was sentenced to 32 months in prison for unlawful sexual relations with a student. Zachary Burton,38, entered a guilty plea to unlawful sexual relations with a female high school student in late September. Following emotional testimony from both the victim and Burton himself, Riley County District Court Judge Meryl Wilson took five minutes before beginning to explain his reasoning for the nearly three year sentence, with audible sighs at times. Judge Wilson told the packed courtroom about rehabilitation, deterrence, and punishment. And while he saw no evident…
Today’s guests were Manhattan Mayor Usha Reddi and City Manager Ron Fehr.
WICHITA — A jury has found two Kansas men guilty of federal firearms violations in a case that repudiates a Kansas law that purports to prevent federal prosecution of anyone owning firearms made, sold and kept in the state. A jury Monday evening convicted Shane Cox in eight counts for illegally making and marketing firearms. They found Cox not guilty in two other counts involving possession of a destructive device. Jeremy Kettler was found guilty on one count for the purchase of a gun silencer from him. Cox is the owner of Tough Guys gun store in Chanute. U.S. District Judge J. Thomas…
TOPEKA — A federal judge has dismissed a former Kansas attorney general’s lawsuit against the state Supreme Court over its indefinite suspension of his state law license. The ruling was issued Monday by U.S. District Judge Greg Kays, of Kansas City, Missouri, against former Attorney General Phill Kline. The anti-abortion Republican was disciplined over allegations of misconduct arising from investigations of abortion providers as attorney general from 2003 through 2007 and Johnson County district attorney in 2007 and 2008. Kline has strongly denied wrongdoing. Kays ruled that issues in Kline’s case can’t be reviewed by lower federal courts because it challenges…