Activists wearing masks of former NSA analyst Edward Snowden, right, Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff, center, and President Barack Obama perform with an oversized passport outside the foreign ministry to demand Snowden be granted asylum in Brasilia, Brazil, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2014. Last year, Snowden revealed that the United States collected data on billions of telephone and email conversations in Latin America’s biggest country, including Rousseff’s communications with aides.
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From left, Alejandro Escobar, Courtney Fulton, and Trevor Albert, all from Arlington, Va., run in the snow past the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2014. After pummeling wide swaths of the South, a winter storm dumped nearly a foot of snow in Washington as it marched Northeast and threatened more power outages, traffic headaches and widespread closures for millions of residents.
The first of two interlocal agreements was brought before the Riley County Commission during their Thursday meeting. The agreement outlines the ability to share training opportunities with Fort Riley. The commission approved to sign the document, but hope to actually sign it in a public setting along with Fort Riley representatives. As far as the second agreement, County Counselor, Clancy Holeman explained that it shouldn’t take as long as the first. He mentioned it involves insurance, and Fort Riley is self-insured. —————— New motor graders were approved by the commission some time ago, and bids have already been opened. As…
Update 6:20 pm: A third person has been arrested in connection with this incident. At 4 p.m. Thursday, Junction City Detectives arrested Larry Lamathis Anderson, 25, of Manhattan, and charged him with 1stDegree Murder, Aggravated Kidnapping and Conspiracy. He was booked into the Geary County Jail and will have his first appearance in Geary County District Court on Friday. The body of a Junction City woman reported missing earlier this week has apparently been found in a remote location in rural Geary County. Amanda Clemons, 24, had been reported missing Monday, and had last been observed being placed…
Updated 11 a.m. Thursday– Wichita Police have made an arrest in the murder case involving former Kansas State student Daniel Flores. KWCH in Wichita has identified the suspect as Antwon Banks, 31. Wichita Police Lt. Todd Ojile says the arrest of the man suspected of killing Daniel Flores, 25, followed a Crime Stoppers tip and several interviews. He was arrested at about 10 Wednesday night in the 3900 block of North Woodlawn. The suspect stabbed himself one time in the stomach when approached by officers, and was taken to a Wichita hospital where he was admitted for observation. Upon…
Surveillance video shows a gaping sinkhole emerge beneath the National Corvette Museum in Kentucky swallowing prized cars like they were toys. Other video, including footage shot by a drone helicopter, shows the damage.
The U.S. has swept the podium in men’s slopestyle skiing. Joss Christensen soared to gold in the sport’s Olympic debut, posting a score of 95.80 on Thursday to beat teammates Gus Kenworthy and Nick Goepper.
Drivers got caught in monumental traffic jams and abandoned their cars Wednesday in North Carolina in a replay of what happened in Atlanta just two weeks ago.
A fatal accident has been reported in Marshall County Wednesday evening. Craig Moehlenbrink, 48, of Bremen died in the two vehicle accident that occurred two miles west of Marysville at 6:40 p.m. The Kansas Highway patrol reports Moehlenbrink was driving a 2012 Kia Optima westbound on highway 36 in the driving lane, when a northbound vehicle on Sixth Road failed to yield while attempting to cross highway 36. The 2011 Ford Taurus driven by Sherilyn Pacha, 48, of Herkimer struck Moehlenbrink’s vehicle in the driver’s door. Pacha was taken to Community Memorial Hospital. A passenger in Moehlinbrink’s vehicle, Reece Moehlinbrink, 12, also of Bremen…
AUGUSTA, Kan. (AP) The former director of a southeast Kansas Chamber of Commerce has been sentenced to a year’s probation for stealing more than $13,000 from the organization. The Butler County Times-Gazette reports that Kent Overaker must also pay full restitution and write a letter of apology under the sentence he received this week. Overaker was hired as director of the Augusta Chamber of Commerce in March 2012. He was arrested last August after chamber officials noticed discrepancies in the organization’s finances. He pleaded guilty in December to felony theft, admitting that he stole $13,400 in a four-month period by…