WICHITA — Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt is withdrawing a court brief that cites the slavery-era Dred Scott decision to support the state’s position that the Kansas Constitution does not guarantee a right to an abortion. Schmidt said Wednesday in a statement that the filing submitted to the Kansas Supreme Court a day earlier does not accurately reflect the state’s position and should not have been made. The state used the 1857 Dred Scott case to bolster its argument that the Declaration of Independence had no legally binding effect. Schmidt says the reference was “obviously inappropriate,” and he ordered it withdrawn once…
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TOPEKA- A federal grand jury has indicted three Kansas men who are suspected of plotting to attack Somali immigrants in Garden City. Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall says the grand jury indictment returned Wednesday is based on the same facts presented Friday in U.S. District Court in Wichita. Forty-nine-year-old Curtis Allen and 51-year-old Gavin Wright, both of Liberal, and 47-year-old Patrick Eugene Stein of Wright, are each charged with one count of conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction. Gavin Wright lived in Manhattan several years ago. Prosecutors say the men were part of a small militia group called…
The USD 383 board of education held their second October meeting on Wednesday night at the Robinson Education Center. Vice President Pat Hudgins presided over the board in the absence of president Marcia Rozell. Board members approved multiple purchases including 100 new iPads and two iPad carts for Northview and Lee elementary schools, and the purchase of a SMART board projector for College Hill Preschool. There was also a unanimous vote to increase the rate it will cost to utilize district facilities and athletic venues. Assistant superintendent Eric Reid led a continued discussion of the school funding finance formula, as…
Kansas ACLU Executive Director Dr. Micah Kubic visits with K-MAN’s Cathy Dawes–he is speaking in the Leadership studies Town Hall Room at 7 p.m. Wednesday.
Video Courtesy of Wichita Eagle OAKLEY (AP) – Visitors will someday be able to walk through a natural wonder in western Kansas that has been privately owned for decades. The Nature Conservancy of Kansas last week bought a 330-acre tract that holds 250 acres of rising rock formations, some that reach up to 100 feet high. The formations between Scott City and Oakley are known as Little Jerusalem. The Wichita Eagle reports it’s unclear why it got that name. Jim McGuire, whose family has owned the land for at least five generations, says he wanted it to be opened so…
A 61-year-old Kansas Department of Corrections inmate serving time on Geary County aggravated robbery and aggravated burglary convictions will spend at least one more year in jail. Archie Watkins Jr. had been up for a public comment session in August, with a September parole hearing. According to a current status update from the Department of Corrections, Watkins’ earliest possible release date now is October first of 2017. Watkins was convicted in 1986 aggravated robbery and burglary cases in Geary County. He was also passed over for parole three years ago. He is currently being held at El Dorado.
Police told the community about an aggravated robbery and aggravated battery investigation in the 1100 block of Garden Way in Manhattan yesterday (the incident took place on October 17, 2016, at approximately 11:30 PM). Officers listed the victim as a 24-year-old male and an arrest was made. Police arrested Davis Broadwater, 22, of Manhattan on the offenses of aggravated robbery, aggravated battery, and theft. He was given a bond of $11,000.00. The Riley County Police Department filed a report for and made 2 arrests for aggravated robbery in the 1100 block of N. 9th Street in Manhattan. Police took Derrick Smith,…
Today’s guests on In Focus were Manhattan-Ogden USD 383 Assistant Superintendent Eric Reid and Manhattan Area Technical College President Jim Genandt. Reid: Genandt:
The Heritage Square North rezoning request ordinance was approved at Manhattan’s City Commission meeting Tuesday. The rezoning site is generally located north of the intersection of U.S. Highway 24 and South Port Drive, which is vacant ground currently being used for row crop agriculture. Manhattan City Commissioner Michael Dodson wanted to know about the flood elevation affects on the Heritage Square North location. Questions included what happens to the surrounding areas and what happens if the water was filled to the east. City Assistant Director for Planning Eric Cattell explained how the engineers calculate the process, saying those calculations do…
OLATHE — Election officials in Kansas’ most populous county didn’t offer the easiest option for registering to vote until the day before voter registration ended. The American Civil Liberties Union told The Associated Press it’s trying to determine whether other counties were doing the same thing. The Kansas City Star reports Johnson County election officials until Monday only offered a form that requires documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote. After the newspaper questioned whether doing so violated the National Voter Registration Act, the office began providing a federal form that simply requires people to attest they are citizens. Recent…