KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) The Kansas City Chiefs have waived tight end Kevin Brock and elevated offensive lineman Rokevious Watkins from the practice squad to the 53-man roster. The Chiefs also signed tight end Dominique Jones to the practice squad Wednesday. Brock had three catches for 36 yards in four games for the Chiefs this season. He’d become expendable with the return of Anthony Fasano from an ankle sprain a couple of weeks ago. Watkins has been on the practice squad since Sept. 1. He played in one game for the St. Louis Rams as a rookie a year…
Author: KMAN Staff
Anytime Fitness in Manhattan has been closed down by the Kansas Department of Revenue. That’s the word from Topeka, with an announcement that both the Manhattan and Newton locations were shut down due to more than 19-thousand dollars in unpaid sales and individual income taxes. On-site cash, bank accounts, and business and personal assets belonging to the owner were seized. The owner has been identified as Joshua Gunderson. According to revenue department authorities, the assets will be sold at a public auction. The Manhattan location is in the 300 block of North Third Street.
LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) Authorities in northeast Kansas are blaming a lightning strike for an explosion and fires at an oil tank farm. The Leavenworth Times reports no injuries were reported when three 8,500-gallon crude oil tanks were struck around 4:30 a.m. Wednesday in northern Leavenworth County. Emergency management officials say two of the tanks exploded. One went airborne and landed about 200 yards away. The top of a third tank was blown off, and most of the oil inside burned. Flames were visible from five miles away. Firefighters allowed the oil in the tanks to burn itself out, along with…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) A federal judge has declined to dismiss a northeast Kansas lawsuit challenging the state’s cap on how much money residents in a school district can raise through taxes. U.S. District Judge John Lungstrum ruled Tuesday the plaintiffs can continue pursuing claims that the cap violated their constitutional rights of equal protection. The plaintiffs are parents in Johnson County’s Shawnee Mission School District. They allege the Legislature acted without a rational basis in the way it altered the state’s funding formula. As part of the formula, districts are restricted in how much money they can raise beyond…
NESS CITY, Kan. (AP) A western Kansas man has died after trying to free his pickup truck from a muddy ditch. The Kansas Highway Patrol says the accident happened shortly before midnight Tuesday on a Ness County road southwest of Ness City. The patrol says 46-year-old Ness City resident Darren Eugene Mcvicker was driving south when his pickup repeatedly entered the ditches on both sides of the road. The truck became stuck in one ditch, and Mcvicker was trying to get the vehicle out when he fell under the rear tire and was run over.
PITTSBURG, Kan. (AP) Talks to change and improve an existing partnership between Fort Scott Community College and Pittsburg State University have stalled. The community college’s Board of Trustees on Monday voted to discontinue the discussions. The Joplin Globe reports the two schools have had a partnership since 1985, with some Fort Scott operations in Crawford County. Community college students also can take courses and live in Pittsburg State dorms. Senior officials at both schools were discussing a more formal partnership, with a goal of being more efficient. Fort Scott president Clayton Tatro says he was surprised by the board’s decision.…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Police say a man who died after a rollover crash in southeast Wichita was shot before the wreck. Investigators are trying to determine if the man who died after the accident early Tuesday was killed by the gunshot or the car crash. The car came to rest in the yard of a private residence. No one else was injured. Emergency crews freed the 47-year-old man from the car but he died at a Wichita hospital. His name has not been released. Police discovered the victim had been shot in the torso, and also found a bullet hole…
OLATHE, Kan. (AP) The lawyer for the family of a missing northeast Kansas man says a body found Tuesday matches the description of the man, who has been missing since Sunday. Attorney Henry Cox says Johnson County sheriff’s deputies contacted the family of Brad Cook, 22, of Olathe on Tuesday to confirm what clothing Cook was wearing when he disappeared. Cox says the clothes on the body found in De Soto match what Cook was wearing. Cox told The Kansas City Star that deputies would not say anything about the cause of death. A medical examination will be conducted Wednesday. Cook…
KINGMAN, Kan. (AP) Kingman County voters have rejected a tax increase that would have been used to build a new law enforcement center. Unofficial returns from Tuesday’s voting showed the measure lost 802 to 749. The proposal was for a new one-quarter percent retailers’ sales tax for 20 years and to extend a current three-quarters percent sales tax, also for 20 years. KAKE reports the county planned to use the sales tax revenue and payments from a commercial wind farm to build an $11.8 million law enforcement center. It would have housed the county sheriff’s office and Kingman police. The…
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) Kansas legislators say a two-week tour of the state’s public colleges and universities has provided a good exchange of information ahead of their 2014 session. Members of the House Appropriations and Senate Ways and Means committees finished the tour Wednesday at two campuses of the University of Kansas. Lawmakers submitted dozens of detailed questions to higher education officials about universities’ budgeting ahead of the tour, and they’ve received more than 200 pages of answers. But in the past, tours of campuses, prisons and state hospitals have allowed legislators to judge conditions for themselves and talk to workers,…