An accident just west of Tuttle Creek Boulevard and Blue River Hills Road at about 7:30 Friday morning involved a non-life threatening injury. That’s according to Riley County Police Public Information Officer Mat Droge. The accident involved a car and a motorcycle. No names or further details are available at this time.
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Retired Air Force Gen. Richard Meyers visited K-State Thursday to speak about military families and how they are affected by the transition from active duty to civilian life. “Budgets are declining and a lot of the transition assistance programs are in danger of not being as well-funded as they should be. Just the fact that the military is a much smaller part of the overall population these days as a percentage so when they go to a community, the community may not understand their needs.” Gen. Meyers added the number of people affected by the transition is in the millions. “In some of…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A small bag of cremated remains labeled “Grandma” that a customer left at a Wichita liquor store has been claimed. KAKE-TV reports Kathy Leonard retrieved the bag Thursday after hearing about efforts by Charlie Nguyen to find the owner. Leonard says the ashes are those of her mother, Helen Dapron, who died in Arizona in 2010. She says she gave her three children small portions of the remains in plastic bags. She believes her son was carrying the bag in a pocket and put it on the counter at Charlie’s Liquor and Smoke Shop while pulling out…
ARKANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) The damage from last week’s fire at a south-central Kansas packing plant is estimated in the millions of dollars. Doug Mackay, director of human resources at Creekstone Farms Premium Beef, shared the estimate Thursday with members of the Arkansas City Area Chamber of Commerce. The Arkansas City Traveler reports Creekstone is insured for such massive damage and is working with insurance adjusters on a more precise estimate. The fire broke out the afternoon of Sept. 25 in the plant’s fabrication area. The cause is still being determined, but investigators have traced it to a conveyor belt.…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas residents hoping to find health insurance through a new online marketplace continue struggling to reach the point where they can buy coverage. Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger’s office Thursday urged consumers to wait several weeks before going to the federally run marketplace. On its third day of operations, long delays in completing the first steps persisted. The Topeka public library opened its computer training center Thursday to people who wanted to buy health coverage. But after an hour, Topeka resident Lover Chancler was still waiting to even start the process for setting up her identification for the…
EUREKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas Bureau of Investigation has joined the search for a 35-year-old man suspected of killing two people and wounding a third in the southeastern part of the state. KFDI-FM reports the Greenwood County sheriff’s office has identified those killed in Wednesday night’s shootings as a 54-year-old man and a 52-year-old woman. A 26-year-old woman who was also shot was in stable condition Thursday at a Wichita hospital. The shootings took place at a home in Eureka, about 60 miles east of Wichita. Authorities say the suspect, Kevin R. Walsh, left in a Ford Explorer belonging to…
On today’s InFocus, Cathy talks with John Armbrust, the Governor’s Military Council Executive Director, followed by Todd Lovin of Tuttle Creek State Park, and ending with open phones. [mp3-jplayer]
UPDATE: Westbound K-18 to Miller Parkway entrance/exit ramps and Miller Parkway at Arbor Drive will be CLOSED for bridge deck pour work on Monday, October 7 between 11:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. Due to the rain forecasted for today, the closures have been rescheduled from today, Friday, October 4 to Monday, October 7. — Westbound K-18 to Miller Parkway entrance/exit ramps and Miller Parkway at Arbor Drive will be CLOSED for bridge deck pour work on Friday between 11:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. Advance message boards will alert drivers to the closures, however no marked detour will be provided. Drivers…
The four-day K-State blood drive is complete. Volunteer blood donors gave 675 pints of blood this week. As the largest single supplier of blood and blood products in the United States, the American Red Cross collects and processes more than 40 percent of the blood supply. Red Cross authorities attribute that to colleges that host blood drives, which play an important role in helping to ensure an adequate blood supply for patients in need as almost 20 percent of the millions of donations made each year come from high school and college blood drives. The Red Cross depends on volunteers to…
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