BART trains will not be rolling on Friday. The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit system workers announced early Friday morning that they are going on strike.
Author: KMAN Staff
A suspect in the dry ice bottle blasts at Los Angeles International Airport has entered not guilty pleas to two charges of possessing a destructive device in a public place. Authorities say Dicarlo Bennett did it for his own amusement.
Journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner, David Finkel, visited the KSU Alumni Center Thursday to talk about his latest book, “Thank you for your service”. The book explores the lives of several Fort Riley Soldiers in the 2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, and the challenges they’ve faced since returning from active duty. “They came home I think expecting for everything to be okay, and it’s not okay; and so many of these lives I’ve seen and described, are lives that feel out of control,” said Finkel, “It’s bewildering and it’s angering to these people. They’re wounded, they’re trying to get better,…
GOODLAND, Kan. (AP) Residents of far northwest Kansas could find themselves coping with the first measureable snow of the season. Forecasters at the National Weather Service in Goodland issued a winter weather advisory Thursday evening for Cheyenne and Sherman counties, in effect from midnight to 9 a.m. Friday (Mountain Daylight Time). The precipitation was expected to start as a mix of snow and rain, turning to all snow around 3 a.m. Accumulations of 1 to 3 inches were expected overnight, with another inch possible before the snow ends at mid-morning Friday. But anything remaining on the ground is likely to…
HAYS, Kan. (AP) Authorities in northwest Kansas are looking for whoever took a sledgehammer to a race car at the RPM Speedway in Hays. The Hays Daily News reports that the damage apparently happened Saturday as driver Chadd Brown was watching the final three races with relatives. Brown had left his modified dirt-track racer on an open trailer in the overflow pit area northeast of the track. Brown says a track official heard someone beating and banging but thought it was a racer working on his car. Damage is estimated at about $9,000. Brown says he “can’t believe someone would…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A Wichita man who appears on the national sex offender registry is charged with raping a 13-year-old girl. The Wichita Eagle reports a complaint filed in Sedgwick County District Court charges 40-year-old Terrill L. Andrews with having unlawful sexual intercourse with the girl late last week. Police reported receiving a call Saturday from a woman saying the 13-year-old had been “forcibly raped” three times in two days. Sedgwick County Jail booking records showed Andrews being held Thursday on $350,000 bond. No information about the case was listed in online court records, and it was not clear if…
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) Kansas State Fair officials say a nearly 50-year-old barn and show ring is showing its age and needs to be replaced. The Hutchinson News reports the officials plan to ask the Legislature for money for the project. A contractor estimates that it would cost between $4.7 million and $5.5 million to demolish the building, known as the Expo Center, and replace it with one of similar size. Built in 1964, the Expo Center is one of the fair’s most-used buildings in the offseason. It’s often rented for horse shows, rodeos and other livestock events. Fair Board member…
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) Douglas County officials are considering changes to a new policy that was designed to promote tourism in agricultural areas. County commissioners voted Wednesday to ask the Lawrence-Douglas County Commission to draft changes to the “agritourism” zoning codes. The commission also imposed a moratorium on new agritourism permits until April 30, 2014. The Lawrence Journal-World reports the zoning codes were enacted less than a year ago. They were intended to promote certain kinds of tourism businesses in land zoned for agriculture use. But the effort came under fire last month, when residents in southeast Douglas County objected to…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Wichita police say a 7-year-old girl was left at school while her parents allegedly were trying to buy drugs. The Wichita Eagle reports the girl was left at a south Wichita elementary school Tuesday while waiting to be picked up. When the parents didn’t show up, the child’s grandmother asked police to go to the girl’s home to check on the mother. Lt. Jeff Weible says investigators found indications the parents were out trying to buy drugs. The girl and her 4-year-old sister were placed in protective custody.
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) Former Kansas football player Jeremiah Edwards was sentenced to three years of probation for his part in a home invasion robbery in Lawrence. Edwards, of Garland, Texas, was sentenced Wednesday. He was arrested in May along with former Kansas football players Chris Martin and Chris Omigie, and his brother, Joshua Edwards. Jeremiah Edwards never played for Kansas after being red-shirted for a heart condition in 2010. He kept his scholarship and will graduate in May. If Edwards violates probation, he would face up to 32 months in prison. He was also ordered to stay away from Martin…