U.S. Congressman Tim Huelskamp appeared in a town hall meeting in Wamego Wednesday afternoon held in the Wamego Public Library. According to KMAN’s partner, the Wamego Smoke Signal, Huelskamp showed different graphs and then discussed a variety of topics including: minimum wage, social security, the age of kids working on farms, and more. The session lasted more than an hour and included questions from constiuents.
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A September 2015 jury trial has been set for two scientists from China accused of taking seeds from a private Junction City research facility and passing them off to a visiting delegation from China. A scheduling conference was held Tuesday before a federal judge in Kansas City for Weiqiang Zhang, who had been living in Manhattan, and Wengui Yan. A federal grand jury indicted the two in December on conspiracy to steal trade secrets and theft of trade secrets in a case involving rice seeds taken from Ventria Bioscience in Junction City. Pretrial motions are due by November 28th of this…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) The University of Kansas Hospital has received $3.5 million in private donations toward construction of a new facility. The Lawrence Journal-World reports the donations were announced Monday at a news conference at the hospital’s campus in Kansas City, Kan. The hospital bought 14 acres of land near the campus in 2005 with the expectation of needing to accommodate more patients and surgery space. There’s no timetable yet for construction of what’s planned as a 92-bed facility. Hospital spokesman Dennis McCulloch says the donations announced Monday are the first funds raised so far for the $250 million…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas Senate President Susan Wagle has created a special committee to review issues surrounding the state Public Employees Retirement System. Wagle named nine senators to the panel Monday. Its chairman is Independence Republican and Senate Vice President Jeff King, and its vice chairman is Emporia Republican Jeff Longbine. The Senate doesn’t have a standing committee on pensions, as the House does. The House committee is reviewing multiple pension issues, including a proposal to start a 401(k)-style plan for new public employees. The other Republicans on the Senate panel are Elaine Bowers of Concordia, Jim Denning of Overland…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas residents are being urged to act cautiously with outdoor burning as the state marks a week of awareness of the dangers of wildfires. Gov. Sam Brownback has signed a proclamation declaring this Wildfire Awareness Week. The state fire marshal’s office said in a news release Monday that Kansas had more than 3,200 vegetation fires last year, resulting in more than $4 million in property damage and losses and six injuries. The fire marshal also says those fires burned more than 125,000 acres of land. Brownback’s proclamation says preventing wildfires is a public safety issue affecting all…
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) A proposal to start the Kansas State Fair on Labor Day weekend wasn’t popular with people who responded to a survey. Nearly 75 percent of 2,500 people responding to a survey conducted by University of Kansas Jayhawk Consulting either disagreed or strongly disagreed with Gov. Sam Brownback’s proposal to move the fair’s starting date. Only 11 percent agreed with the idea, with the rest neither agreed nor disagreed. The Hutchinson News reports more than half of the respondents said they probably would not attend the 10-day fair if the dates changed. Brownback had suggested that moving the…
Ukraine’s president is blaming opposition leaders for the latest deadly violence in Kiev that’s killed at least 25 people and injured more than 240.
Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez was arrested Tuesday after emerging from days of hiding and making an impassioned speech to thousands of supporters.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A Wichita man has been released from the Sedgwick County Jail after spending 4.5 years waiting for a trial in a sexual predator case. Todd Ellison, 45, was supposed to go to trial next week to determine whether he should be held for life as a sexual predator. Instead, District Judge Ben Burgess released Ellison Friday, saying his right to a speedy trial had been violated. The Wichita Eagle reports Ellison completed a sentence for sexual crimes involving children from cases in 1996 and 1997. When he was about to be released in 2009, prosecutors filed a…
The Manhattan High girl’s basketball team locked up the #1 seed in Sub State with a 71-21 win over Junction City on Tuesday night. The executed on both ends of the floor hitting 54% of their shots from the floor in the ball game and also forced Junction City into 21 turnovers. Darby Price led the way for MHS (16-1, 10-0) with 15 points while Caroline Ballard added 14 points for the Indians who have now won 14 straight games since losing their lone game of the season back in December. The Manhattan High boys basketball team put together their…