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…
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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…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A former south-central Kansas doctor already serving time on supervised release for a drug conviction faces mounting legal problems after his latest conviction on gun and drug charges. U.S. District Judge Monti Belot on Thursday set a hearing for Feb. 10 on revocation of supervised release for Lawrence M. Simons. Simons will also be sentenced that day for his November conviction on charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm and unlawful possession of controlled substances. His latest troubles began when he gave a bail bondsman a pistol as partial payment in an unrelated domestic…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A group of international military officers will visit Topeka next month to learn about Kansas history and see state government in operation. The 47 officers come from 40 countries. They’re taking advanced military courses at the Army’s Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth. The Kansas National Guard will play host to the officers on Feb. 6. Their schedule in Topeka includes a presentation by state Court of Appeals Chief Judge Thomas Malone at the Kansas Judicial Center. They’ll also visit the Statehouse to meet Gov. Sam Brownback and tour the House and Senate chambers.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A convicted killer who was one of four inmates who overpowered guards and escaped from a Kansas county jail in 2012 has been found guilty of aggravated escape and battery on a corrections officer. The Wichita Eagle reports an Ottawa County jury convicted Santos Carrera-Morales Thursday. The 24-year-old was serving time for two counts of first-degree murder in a 2007 Wichita gang shooting but had been transferred to the Ottawa County jail to ease prison overcrowding. Two of his accomplices were arrested April 18, 2012, the day of the escape, while Carrera-Morales was arrested a day later.…