Beginning Monday, July 15, sidewalk on the east side of Triangle Park will be replaced and closed to pedestrian traffic for 4 to 6 weeks. Pedestrians will be detoured to the east side of N. Manhattan Avenue. Pedestrians should follow all posted detour signs and exercise caution in the project area. No street closures are anticipated, but motorists should drive slowly, obey all posted traffic control signs and use caution around the project area.
Author: KMAN Staff
NSA leaker Edward Snowden wants to stay in Russia, says a lawmaker who was among several to attend a meeting behind closed doors in the transit zone of Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport.
A University of Miami legal scholar says by adopting the framing of the defense case, prosecutors have made it likely the jury will look at major testimony in a light favorable to George Zimmerman.
The Junction City Police Department is seeking the Public’s assistance in locating and identifying any person that may be involved in the theft of water from the City of Junction. Currently, the City of Junction City cannot account for approximately 30% of their water usage and has been told by the State of Kansas that the City is exceeding its allotted usage of water and must bring this issue under control or suffer sanctions. Much of the missing water can be attributed to old inaccurate meters, and leakage but an element of the missing water is thought to be theft…
A Riley county jury decision in a 2011 aggravated robbery and battery case has been affirmed by the Kansas Court of Appeals. The jury’s convictions were appealed by the defendant, Naazir Muhammad Jackson, who was found guilty not only of one count each of aggravated robbery and aggravated battery , but also two counts of possession of drug paraphernalia. Jackson maintained prosecutor misconduct denied him a fair trial, and says there was insufficient evidence to support the charges. The 32 page Court of Appeals decision was released Friday, again affirming the jury’s conviction. Judge David Stutzman presided in the case,…
GARDEN CITY, Kan. (AP) The mystery of what happened to bonds purchased for the Finney County public library in 1984 has moved to court. Finney County is suing Bank of America to determine the whereabouts of bonds valued at $60,000. The Garden City Telegram reports the founder of Brookover Feed Yards in Garden City bequeathed the bond to the library in 1984, and it was placed at what was then the Garden National Bank. A copy of the bond was put in a time capsule, which was opened in 2008. Garden City Bank has changed owners four times since 1984…
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) The Kansas State Fair is reviving the carnival train and animal parade through Hutchinson to celebrate the fair’s 100th anniversary. The parade was once an annual tradition when the carnival train came to town each September, with carnival equipment and animals parading down Hutchinson’s Main Street to the fairgrounds. The Hutchinson News reports the tradition faded because the carnival now brings in most of its equipment on trucks and the use of circus animals declined. State Fair Manager Denny Stoecklein says the parade will be revived on Labor Day. Entries in the parade are limited and must…
BONNER SPRINGS, Kan. (AP) Police are awaiting autopsy results before determining how two people died in a hotel in a Kansas City suburb. A maid found the bodies of a man and woman inside one of the rooms Thursday at the Holiday Inn Express in Bonner Springs. KCTV5 reports police believe the deaths were a murder-suicide but will not make a final determination until autopsies are performed Friday. Police on scene said the two people were passing through town on their way from North Carolina to Seattle.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A 42-year-old Wichita man who kicked his girlfriend 20 to 30 times with steel-toed boots will be sentenced in August for first-degree murder in her death. A Sedgwick County jury on Thursday convicted Anson Bernhardt for the September death of Amber Kostner, 38, who was still breathing when Bernhardt left her on the side of a road in Wichita. The Wichita Eagle reports that during the trial, jurors watched Bernhardt admit the crime to sheriff’s deputies. Prosecutors said Bernhardt kicked Kostner after the two had quarreled in a bar about breaking up. Defense attorneys did not dispute…
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) A community celebration is scheduled for July 22 on the University of Kansas campus to mark the 90th birthday of former Kansas Sen. Bob Dole. The event will be held at the Dole Institute of Politics where the former Republican U.S. senator’s archives are housed. The institute opened in 2003. Dole is not expected to attend. Dole served in the U.S. Senate from 1969 until 1996, when he retired to run for president but lost to Democratic incumbent Bill Clinton. Dole is a World War II veteran who served in Europe, where he was severely wounded in…