WICHITA, Kan. (AP) An attorney serving on a commission that screens applicants for the Kansas Supreme Court is helping raise funds for a campaign to retain justices in next week’s election. Topeka attorney Natalie Haag said Wednesday that she believes passionately that Kansas has a selection system that gives the court strong justices. Haag said she’s sent hundreds of fundraising emails to fellow attorneys and acquaintances for Kansans For Fair Courts. It is backing the justices. Five of the seven justices are on the ballot. Four were appointed by predecessors of conservative Republican Gov. Sam Brownback and are targeted for…
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas health officials are investigating an outbreak of E. coli among people who attended the Louisburg Cider Mill Ciderfest. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment announced Wednesday that seven cases have been confirmed so far but the investigation is continuing. The festival was held Sept. 24-25 and Oct. 1-2 in Louisburg. The Kansas Department of Agriculture, the state health department and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration conducted an on-site assessment Oct. 27. Anyone who became ill within one to 10 days after attending the Ciderfest is asked to call the state health department’s Epidemiology Hotline…
KMAN’s Cathy Dawes speaks with USD 383 School Board President Marcia Rozell and Supt. Marvin Wade: Manhattan Building Official Brad Claussen: Rod Harms with Green Apple Bikes:
The Wamego City Commission approved two ordinances amending the utility payment code. At Tuesday’s meeting, City Manager Merl Page reviewed the ordinances related to deadline of payments, defining and restoration of services in the event of disconnection for non-payment. The ordinance states the billing for utility services is due on the 1st day of each month and must be paid by 4:30 p.m. on the 16th day of that month at the City offices, or on-line by 7:30 p.m. on the 16th day of each month. The other related ordinance deals with disconnection and the fees applicable before services can…
Manhattan City Commissioners approved an ordinance on first reading prohibiting the use of electronic cigarettes in public places and places of employment. It also heard some backlash from local E-cigarette and Vapor businesses including vape shop owner Crayton Caswell, of Manhattan Vapors. Caswell expressed his concern that vaping provides an alternative to tobacco use and this ordinance undermines the distinction between the two products. Caswell shared a statistic of a two percent drop in the smoking rate in the United States in 2015, which was the first period of time e-cigarettes were widely available on the market, adding it is…
A Herington man died in a Tuesday afternoon accident in Morris County. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, Eugene Ecklund, 79, was a passenger in a vehicle driven by Jean Ecklund, 77, also of Herington. The 2003 Dodge Grand Caravan the two were in was eastbound on highway 56 when it crossed the center line going across the westbound lane and striking a culvert. The vehicle rolled one time and came to rest in the north ditch. Eugene Ecklund who had a seat belt on died in the accident, with Jean Eklund who did not have a seat belt on taken…
Monday’s Pottawatomie County Commission meeting included reports from Public Works Director Peter Clark and the K-State Research and Extension office of Pottawatomie County. Clark proposed hiring a consultant to perform a 20 year life-cycle cost analysis on the current County Appraiser’s Office to determine the best course of action moving forward. The analysis is set to cost approximately $8,000 and will provide county commissioners with a variety of options in either renovating the existing building or starting construction on a new one. Clark stated the County Commission and himself share the same value of saving taxpayers the most money while…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas says its tax collections fell nearly $13 million short of expectations in October for the state’s sixth consecutive monthly shortfall. The state Department of Revenue’s report Tuesday came a week before the election with allies of Republican Gov. Sam Brownback facing a backlash in legislative races over the state’s budget problems. The state collected $447 million in taxes last month when its official projection was nearly $460 million. The shortfall was 2.8 percent. Since the current budget year began in July, total tax collections of $1.8 billion have fallen more than $80 million short of expectations…
MANHATTAN, Kan. (Ryan Lackey) – Kansas State junior punter Nick Walsh is one of 52 candidates nationally, including four from the Big 12, to be named a candidate for the 2016 Burlsworth Trophy, the Springdale Rotary Club announced Tuesday. The Burlsworth Trophy is presented to the most outstanding football player in America who began his career as a walk-on and has shown outstanding performance on the field. Walsh is the Wildcats’ fifth candidate since the award’s inception in 2010, joining William Powell (2010), B.J. Finney (2011-12), Ryan Mueller (2013) and Jonathan Truman (2014). Finney and Truman both advanced to become…
The 2016 presidential election has reached unprecedented levels of incivility, according to an ongoing collaborative research project that involves Kansas State University researchers and students. The project — a partnership between Kansas State University’s Institute for Civic Discourse and Democracy and the National Institute for Civil Discourse — focuses on civility in the presidential and vice presidential debates. Results based on student surveys after the first three debates have shown that 2016 candidates are engaging in behavior that violates civil behavior and the traditional rules of engagement. The Kansas State University student participants will fill out the final presidential debate…