A farm machinery accident has claimed the life of a former Kansas State High School Activities Association official. Rick Bowden died Thursday on his farm near Waverly, Nebraska Bowden spent 18 years as an assistant director for the KSHSAA before retiring in May 2011. Bowden, who also served in the Kansas Legislature from 1985 to 1993, oversaw a number of high school sports including football, wrestling, baseball, softball, and track and field. He’s survived by his wife Sue, two daughters and four grandchildren. Funeral services are pending.
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A Junction City man has been arrested on rape and criminal sodomy charges. Hugo Rosales-Leonor was taken into custody by Geary county Sheriff’s Deputies shortly after eight Thursday morning on Franklin Street. No further details were provided, as the investigation continues.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Washburn University is celebrating the 215th birthday of its namesake and mascot Saturday on the Memorial Union lawn. The Topeka school started in 1865 as Lincoln College but changed its name three years later after receiving $25,000 from Ichabod Washburn. He developed a machine and technique that made wire stronger and easier to produce. The company he and his son-in-law ran was the primary domestic producer of piano wire and the crinoline wire used in hoop skirts. As an abolitionist, Washburn liked what the fledging Kansas school was doing. The school included men, women and an African-American…
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) A married couple in their 80s has died in a two-vehicle crash in Overland Park. The Kansas City Star reports that the 86-year-old man and his 80-year-old wife died Thursday when their vehicle collided with another car that ran a stop sign. Overland Park police said the victims’ names haven’t been released. Police say the driver of the other car was not injured, but a passenger in his car had minor injuries.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Wichita State says it’s working to improve the university’s online learning, with a goal of increasing the number of online students. The university announced in a news release Thursday that it had established the Office of Online Learning and named an interim director. The university’s new vice president for academic affairs, Tony Vizzini, says for many degree programs, no adequate online substitute is available for students working with instructors at a research university. He says improved online learning could help students and the university. The Wichita Eagle reports president John Bardo has said he intends to establish…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) The University of Kansas Medical Center is planning a $3 million project to study the role of exercise in preventing Alzheimer’s disease. The study will be funded by the National Institutes of Health. The medical center is looking for 100 healthy people 65 or older to participate in the trial. Participants who are at a higher risk for Alzheimer’s disease will walk on a treadmill regularly for one year. They will then undergo brain scans to determine if the exercise is reducing the risk of getting Alzheimer’s.
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) Hutchinson police say a 14-year-old boy is in custody after a fire at his home killed his mother and sister. Police say the boy is suspected of deliberately setting the fire on Thursday. The teenager has not been charged. District Attorney Keith Schroeder says investigators determined an accelerant was poured in several rooms on the first floor of the house and intentionally ignited. Fire officials say the mother and daughter were found dead together in a bedroom. The girl died shortly after the fire and her mother died later Thursday. The boy and his father were unharmed.
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) Two pioneering researchers in the field of autism are scheduled to speak next month at a two-day conference on the disorder at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park. Robert Koegel and Lynn Kern Koegel will make their presentation at noon Oct. 18 during the conference, titled “Beyond the Diagnosis: Autism Across the Lifespan.” The college says the Koegels developed a treatment at the University of California, Santa Barbara, that targets core features of autism to produce rapid and widespread gains in social, communicative and behavioral areas. The conference takes place Oct. 18 and 19, co-sponsored…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger is planning five more town hall meetings in October to discuss the federal health care overhaul. Praeger has had nine sessions this month. She plans two more in Topeka on Monday, one day before the opening of an online health insurance marketplace for Kansas. The marketplace is being run by the federal government under its 2010 health care law. Praeger’s additional meetings are set for Oct. 2 in Independence; Oct. 3 in Emporia; Oct. 16 in Garden City; Oct. 17 in Liberal; and Oct. 22 in Kansas City, Kan. Enrollment in plans…
KASNAS CITY, Kan. (AP) The General Motors Foundation has given eight Kansas City area community organizations a total of $100,000 in grants. The Kansas City Star reports management and union leaders announced the grants during an event at GM’s Fairfax assembly plant in Kansas City, Kan. The recipients are located in Kansas and Missouri. The donations will go to the American Cancer Society; Blue River Watershed; Communities in Schools, Kansas; Harvesters Community Food Bank; Kansas City, Kansas School Foundation for Excellence; Heart of America Stand Down; Make-A-Wish Foundation, Kansas; and United Way. The foundation says it’s providing about $1.6 million…