Surveillance video shows a gaping sinkhole emerge beneath the National Corvette Museum in Kentucky swallowing prized cars like they were toys. Other video, including footage shot by a drone helicopter, shows the damage.
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The U.S. has swept the podium in men’s slopestyle skiing. Joss Christensen soared to gold in the sport’s Olympic debut, posting a score of 95.80 on Thursday to beat teammates Gus Kenworthy and Nick Goepper.
Drivers got caught in monumental traffic jams and abandoned their cars Wednesday in North Carolina in a replay of what happened in Atlanta just two weeks ago.
A fatal accident has been reported in Marshall County Wednesday evening. Craig Moehlenbrink, 48, of Bremen died in the two vehicle accident that occurred two miles west of Marysville at 6:40 p.m. The Kansas Highway patrol reports Moehlenbrink was driving a 2012 Kia Optima westbound on highway 36 in the driving lane, when a northbound vehicle on Sixth Road failed to yield while attempting to cross highway 36. The 2011 Ford Taurus driven by Sherilyn Pacha, 48, of Herkimer struck Moehlenbrink’s vehicle in the driver’s door. Pacha was taken to Community Memorial Hospital. A passenger in Moehlinbrink’s vehicle, Reece Moehlinbrink, 12, also of Bremen…
AUGUSTA, Kan. (AP) The former director of a southeast Kansas Chamber of Commerce has been sentenced to a year’s probation for stealing more than $13,000 from the organization. The Butler County Times-Gazette reports that Kent Overaker must also pay full restitution and write a letter of apology under the sentence he received this week. Overaker was hired as director of the Augusta Chamber of Commerce in March 2012. He was arrested last August after chamber officials noticed discrepancies in the organization’s finances. He pleaded guilty in December to felony theft, admitting that he stole $13,400 in a four-month period by…
SALINA, Kan. (AP) Police say a man whose relative had taken him to a Salina hospital for a mental evaluation crashed into three vehicles when he fled in a pickup truck. The Salina Journal reports that the 29-year-old Ottawa County man was apprehended by police Tuesday after the truck became struck in snow. Lt. Sean Morton of the Salina Police Department says the man had been a passenger in the truck and was left alone in it while his relative went inside Salina Regional Health Center to seek help. Police were called at about 2:20 p.m. and told that a…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas senators have advanced a bill shortening the time limits for inmates sentenced to death to complete their appeals to the state Supreme Court. The measure received first-round approval Wednesday on a voice vote. A second vote that would send the bill to the House is set for Thursday. Senate Vice President Jeff King says the bill is necessary to expedite justice and get the required automatic appeals through the Kansas Supreme Court. The bill creates a 3.5-year time limit for the appeals to be heard and decided by the court. The measure would not affect any…
Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin leaves federal court with his wife Seletha, left, after his conviction in New Orleans, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014. Nagin was convicted Wednesday on charges that he accepted bribes, free trips and other gratuities from contractors in exchange for helping them secure millions of dollars in city work while he was in office, including right after Hurricane Katrina. The federal jury found Nagin guilty of 20 of 21 counts against him.
Vehicles travel north on I-85 on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014, in Greenville, S.C. Snow and icy conditions in the southeast were expected to continue through Wednesday and into Thursday morning.
GARDEN CITY, Kan. (AP) Longtime Garden City Telegram reporter and managing editor John Frazier has died at the age of 85. The Garden City Telegram reports that Frazier died of pneumonia Monday in Dodge City. Frazier started working for the Telegram in 1955 as a reporter and left for The Hutchinson News for a short time. He then returned to the Telegram in the early 1960s to be the managing editor, a position he held for about 30 years. Former Telegram reporter Tim Unruh, who is now a reporter at The Salina Journal, remembered Frazier as a teacher and a…