TOPEKA — The Kansas Senate’s top leader says one of its committees is likely to reconsider a dress code for women imposed by its chairman. Senate President Susan Wagle said the Ethics and Elections Committee will probably discuss the issue when it meets again next week. The Wichita Republican serves on the panel but wasn’t present when Chairman and St. John Republican Mitch Holmes outlined rules for the panel. The Topeka Capital-Journal reported that Holmes’ rules included a dress code prohibiting women testifying on bills from wearing low-cut necklines and miniskirts. The rules have no dress code for men. A…
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TOPEKA — Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt says he’ll ask the state Supreme Court to review a ruling from a lower court that blocks the state from enforcing its first-in-the-nation ban on a common second-trimester abortion procedure. The Republican attorney general said in a statement that Friday’s ruling from the Kansas Court of Appeals provides little legal clarity. The Court of Appeals split 7-7, allowing a trial-court judge’s decision against the 2015 law to stand. The split means the Court of Appeals upheld the trial-court judge’s finding that the state constitution protects abortion rights independently of the U.S. Constitution. Schmidt…
A Topeka woman was arrested Friday on the 1000 block of Seth Child Road for drug offenses. Petra Amaro, 37, was arrested for possession of opiates, narcotics, unlawful possession of hallucinogen among other offenses. She remains confined in the Riley County Jail with a $15,000 bond. Also, a Manhattan man was arrested Friday afternoon in the Riley County Courthouse. Edward Williams, 29, was arrested for a probation violation and at the time of this report is confined in the Riley County Jail with a $8,000 bond
The state’s December seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 3.9 percent, unchanged from November and decreased from 4.2 percent in December 2014. Manhattan’s unemployment rate was 2.5 percent, up from 2.3 percent in November. Junction City also saw a slight increase, up to 5 percent from 4.9 percent in November. Pottawatomie County also saw an increase, up 3.1 percent from 2.8 percent in the previous month. Seasonally adjusted figures show Kansas gained 9,400 private sector jobs since last year, or 0.8 percent. Kansas nonfarm jobs increased by 6,900, or 0.5 percent, since December 2014. Since last month, Kansas gained 1,800 seasonally…
The Manhattan High boys basketball team dropped their first game of the season in the semi finals of the Dodge City Tournament of Champions with a 57-53 OT loss to the defending 6A state champs in Wichita East. The Indians drop to 10-1 overall while the Aces move onto the championship game on Saturday to face Wichita Heights. Manhattan will play Maize for 3rd place. Manhattan had multiple eight point leads early on but couldn’t pull away any more. Elijah Kelly for the Aces drained a three with under ten seconds left in the fourth quarter to tie the game.…
Team Scores 1. Manhattan Indians 127.0 2. Blue Valley Tigers 97.5 3. BV Northwest Huskies 88.5 4. Andover Trojans 79.0 5. Olathe Northwest Ravens 78.0 6. Marion Indians 69.5 7. Hutchinson Salthawks 68.0 8. Turner Bears 62.0 9. Raytown South Cardinals 58.0 10. Bonner Springs Braves 49.5 10. Olathe South Falcons 49.5 12. Osawatomie Trojans, KS 38.0 13. Lawrence Lions 36.0 13. SM West Vikings 36.0 15. Topeka High Trojans 33.0 16. BV West Jaguars 32.0 16. Olathe East Hawks 32.0 18. BV North Mustangs 30.5 19. SM Northwest Cougars 28.0 20. Jayhawk Linn Jayhawis 22.0 Varsity Results: BVNW Husky…
By Josh Brunner, K-State Athletics Communications (Photo Courtesy Kansas State Athletics) Senior Akela Jones broke school and Ahearn Field House records in the pentathlon as she won the first-ever DeLoss Dodds Invitational pentathlon with a total score of 4,643 points on Friday. Eyeing the NCAA pentathlon record during the meet, Jones fought until the last event before ultimately coming up just 35 points short of the record of 4,678 points, set by Georgia’s Kendell Williams at last year’s NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships. Jones started the event off strong, recording a first-place finish in the 60 meter hurdles with…
Marines remember those who died when two helicopters crashed during a training mission off Hawaii. The ceremony comes after the Coast Guard announced earlier in the week they were halting their search without having found any of those on board
Before a massive blizzard began dumping snow on the nation’s capital Friday, many flights were already delayed or canceled. Meanwhile, commuters were working around the Metro rail shut down that went into effect Friday evening.
TOPEKA — The Kansas Court of Appeals has refused to allow the state’s first-in-the-nation ban on a common second-trimester abortion method to take effect. The court released the ruling Friday, the anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision. A lower court put the law on hold last year. The state’s second-highest court upheld that decision Friday, though an appeal to the Kansas Supreme Court is expected. The case comes in a lawsuit filed by two abortion providers who say the 2015 law unconstitutionally burdens women seeking abortions. The law prohibits doctors from using forceps or similar instruments on a…