The Flint Hills Metropolitan Planning Organization has opened the public review and comment period for the 2014-2017 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP). The TIP outlines all federally funded and/or regionally significant transportation projects expected to be completed in the region during the next four years. The TIP will be open for public review and comment until Monday, August 12th. You may access the TIP by visiting www.flinthillsmpo.wix.com/fhmpo. Other public participation and outreach efforts will include: Making a draft of the TIP available at Manhattan City Hall, Junction City City Hall, and the Manhattan Public Library Posting the draft TIP on the…
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Two individuals who set a fire that claimed the life of a K-State Researcher in a Manhattan apartment have been sentenced for their roles in the killing. The complete release from U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom’s office is below: Two people have been sentenced to federal prison for setting a fire that killed a woman in an apartment complex in Manhattan, Kan., U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today. Patrick Martin Scahill, 20, Manhattan, Kan., was sentenced to 30 years. Virginia Amanda Griese, 20, Manhattan, Kan., was sentenced to 20 years. Both of them pleaded guilty to one count of arson resulting…
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) An SUV crashes through a glass storefront in Topeka, causing minor injuries to three people. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the accident was reported Monday morning at a Mattress City store. Police Cpl. Louis Cortez says the SUV driven by a woman in her late 60s failed to stop in the parking lot and crashed through the store’s front window before hitting mattresses. Cortez says the driver told police she couldn’t stop the car. Cortez says a two adults and a 7-year-old boy who were in the store were struck by flying debris, but refused treatment. The driver…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Nearly two years after most state funding of the arts was eliminated in Kansas, the state is starting to provide small grants to some arts groups. The Wichita Eagle reports the state’s commerce department is expected to announce $58,400 in grants to eight groups across the state this week. In 2011, Gov. Sam Brownback vetoed $700,000 of cultural arts funding, triggering the loss of about $1.2 million in national grants that depended on state investments in the arts. The money was restored last year but the new Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission put much of its money…
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) A University of Kansas student has received a NASA fellowship to design better tools for predicting how climate change will affect sea levels. Theresa Stumpf of Wentzville, Mo., is a doctoral student in electrical engineering at the university’s Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets. Her fellowship is worth $90,000 over three years. She’ll conduct research on a new type of ice-penetrating radar. The university says the new radar is designed to gather data from a wider area and provide a much clearer picture of the conditions where the ice meets bedrock. Whether there’s solid ice, melting…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Another Kansas farmer has filed suit against seed giant Monsanto over the discovery of an isolated field of genetically engineered wheat in Oregon. Harvey County wheat grower Bill Budde sued Monsanto on Friday in a lawsuit seeking class-action status. It’s at least the third such lawsuit filed in federal court in Kansas against St. Louis-based Monsanto since the discovery of the field in May. Similar lawsuits have also been filed in Idaho and Washington state. Monsanto has said none of the genetically modified wheat entered the commercial market. The company contends no legal liability exists given the…
ABILENE, Kan. (AP) The Eisenhower Presidential Library is continuing its Kansas Town Hall series with an upcoming discussion of climate change. A panel discussion will follow. Participants will include a Kansas legislator, an agricultural expert, a University of Kansas geography professor and an agronomist from Kansas State University. Admission is free. The program takes place Saturday from 2 to 4 p.m. at the library’s Visitors Center Auditorium in Abilene.
On today’s InFocus, Cathy talks with Dr. Robert Larson, professor in the Department of Clinical sciences with the Kansas State College of Veterinary medicine, followed by Keith Eyestone regarding upcoming events involving Manhattan High alums. [mp3-jplayer]
A myriad of topics were on the agenda for Monday’s Pottawatomie County Commission meeting. The first item up was a rezoning request for a property located on Highway 24. However, this piece of property has its entrance coming in from a residential area. The owner requested a rezoning from a residential property to a commercial as to be allowed to have storage units on the property. After hearing the planning committee did not think the plot should be rezoned and hearing the negative comments from neighbors, the commission opposed the request to rezone the property. “I’d like to honor the decision of the…