Angela Hudgins, who was reported missing on Friday morning was located and is safe. The family and the Wamego Police Department appreciate the assistance provided from the public, assisting law enforcement agencies, and the media.
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Friday’s edition of “The Game” previews the KSU and West Virginia Big 12 men’s basketball match-up Saturday, and includes an interview with Mountaineers’ Head Coach Bob Huggins. The guys also discuss the Royals’ recent off-season moves, the latest NFL News and much more. Make sure to tune-in to Matt, John and Brandon on the “The Game” every week-day from 2-4 p.m. on 1350 KMAN. https://1350kman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/The-Game-Hr.-1-011714-Seg.-1.mp3 Top Stories https://1350kman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/The-Game-Hr.-1-011714-Seg.-2.mp3 KSU/West Virginia Preview https://1350kman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/The-Game-Hr.-1-011714-Seg.-3.mp3 Royals/MLB Moves https://1350kman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/The-Game-Hr.-1-011714-Seg.-4.mp3 NFL News/High School Hoops https://1350kman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/The-Game-Hr.-2-011714-Seg.-1.mp3 Bob Huggins https://1350kman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/The-Game-Hr.-2-011714-Seg.-2.mp3 Big 12 Hoops Weekend Preview https://1350kman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/The-Game-Hr.-2-011714-Seg.-4.mp3 You Can’t Be Serious
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) Leaders of the University of Kansas are vowing not to give up on a plan to build a new health education center for the university’s medical center, even though Gov. Sam Brownback’s proposed budget does not include funding for the effort. Brownback’s budget proposals released Thursday did include additional money for higher education. But the Republican governor didn’t add money for a new building at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan. Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little and Kansas Board of Regents Chairman Fred Logan tell the Lawrence Journal-World that they will continue to seek state…
GARDEN CITY, Kan. (AP) Kansas counties that sued the state over payments from a trust fund might be getting more money. Gov. Sam Brownback’s announced earlier this week that he is proposing an increase in payments from the Oil and Gas Depletion Fund to many counties. The Garden City Telegram reports nearly half of the state’s 105 counties, and all the counties in southwest Kansas, sued last fall, saying they should have received twice as much money as the total sent to counties in October. Brownback said in a news release Tuesday that a “misunderstanding” between counties and legislators led…
230 Manhattan/Junction City/Pottawatomie county leaders were in attendance for this year’s Flint Hills Regional Leader’s Retreat in Overland Park. Manhattan Area Chamber of Commerce President, Lyle Butler began the retreat with a welcome speech. Butler listed off the sponsors and introduced some of the individuals that helped to plan the event. After last year’s retreat, attendees filled out surveys and outlined topics they wanted to focus on for the 2014 event. Some of the topics they felt were important to discuss included-K-99 Highway, the Fieldhouse project, a regional economic development district and target industries for recruitment. Executive Director of the…
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) A man scheduled to go on trial next week for a Hutchinson shooting death pleaded guilty in the case. Isaac Beltran (21) pleaded guilty Thursday to reckless killing Dustin Brooks (26) of Hutchinson as the two men argued. Police say Beltran shot Brooks during a large party at a Hutchinson home. No one else was injured. The Hutchinson News reports Reno County District Attorney Keith Schroeder said the plea deal likely would result in a 10-year prison sentence for Beltran. Sentencing is scheduled for Feb. 21
Several casualties were reported after a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a restaurant popular with Afghan officials, foreigners and business people.
President Barack Obama speaks about National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance, Friday, Jan. 17, 2014, at the Justice Department in Washington. Seeking to calm a furor over U.S. surveillance, President Barack Obama on Friday called for ending the government’s control of phone data from hundreds of millions of Americans and immediately ordered intelligence agencies to get a secretive court’s permission before accessing such records.
A Wabaunsee County woman was sentenced Friday to 60 days in federal prison for embezzling from the Bio-Security Research Institute at Kansas State University, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said in a press release. In addition, she was ordered to pay $14,000 in restitution. Linda Kay Miller, 51, Alma, Kan., pleaded guilty to three counts of interstate transportation of fraudulently altered securities. In her plea, she admitted the crimes took place while she worked as an office manager for the institute from August 2007 to January 2013. The institute receives grant money from the federal government to provide infectious disease research…
REXFORD, Kan. (AP) The Kansas Highway Patrol says blowing dust caused an 11-vehicle pileup that left three people dead in northwest Kansas. The crash happened Thursday afternoon on Highway 83 near Rexford, in Thomas County. The patrol says seven tractor-trailer trucks and four passenger vehicles collided. The patrol says high winds and blowing dust reduced visibility to almost zero at the time of the crash. The victims were identified as Leonard Scott Breeden (51) of Colby; James Ocie Perrott (57) of Perryton, Texas; and Jerold L. Lamb (66) of Florissant, Colo. The patrol did not release more details on the…