Nelson Mandela’s daughter and ex-wife visited the hospital Tuesday, two days after his condition had deteriorated to ‘critical.’ The former president has been in the hospital for 18 days receiving treatment for a recurring lung infection.
Author: KMAN Staff
Yes, he’s at the Moscow airport, and no, you can’t have him. Russian President Vladimir Putin gives the first official acknowledgement of the whereabouts of National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden but rejects U.S. pleas to extradite him.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Federal prosecutors have charged a former Kansas insurance agent with stealing nearly $2 million from policyholders. The U.S. attorney’s office says a 51-count indictment unsealed Tuesday alleges Jason Matthew Pennington, 41, of Bel Aire, defrauded customers and lied to beneficiaries to cover up the thefts. He’s charged with wire fraud, attempted wire fraud, money laundering, attempted bank fraud and making false statements to a financial institution. His 65-year-old father, James L. Pennington, of Wichita, is charged with four counts of filing false tax returns. Neither had an attorney listed in court records, and their home phones were…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) A western Missouri woman has been sentenced to slightly more than three years in prison for sex trafficking in Kansas. The U.S. Attorney’s office says Danyelle Putman, 21, of Independence, was sentenced Tuesday in federal court in Kansas City, Kan. Putman and a co-defendant, Tony A. Rogers, of Kansas City, Mo., both pleaded guilty in December to transporting a person over state lines to engage in prostitution. Rogers and Putman were arrested in August 2012 by police conducting a prostitution sting in the Johnson County town of Prairie Village. An investigator called a number on a…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Top Kansas officials have approved a $100,000 settlement in a lawsuit on behalf of a former state hospital patient who was assaulted and contracted a sexually transmitted disease. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Gov. Sam Brownback and legislative leaders agreed Tuesday that the state will pay the former patient $96,000; an additional $4,000 would go to the Disability Rights Center of Kansas, which represented the disabled woman. The woman’s guardian sued in Shawnee County in 2009 after the woman left the Kansas Neurological Institute in Topeka. The lawsuit said she’d been repeatedly assaulted. The state had argued…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas expects to rely less heavily on internal borrowing to pay its bills on time during the fiscal year starting in July. Gov. Sam Brownback and legislative leaders on Tuesday unanimously approved $300 million in loans to the state’s general fund from other accounts. By law, the loan must be paid by the end of June 2014. The general fund is the state’s main bank account. It is used to finance general government programs and provide aid to public school districts. Because revenues don’t flow in consistently, the state has resorted annually to internal borrowing to temporarily…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A nonprofit group from Illinois is asking the Kansas Corporation Commission to support its efforts to seek a surcharge on natural gas utilities. The Gas Technology Institute, based in Des Plaines, Ill., says the surcharge would raise money to support safety and research. A representative from the institute told the KCC last week that the proposed surcharge would be about 90 cents per customer per year, and raise an estimated $845,000. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the institute argues customers would benefit from research on how to make appliances and homes more efficient and pipelines safer. A spokeswoman…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A realtors association says home sales in Kansas in May were the highest in the state since 2007. The Kansas Association of Realtors says sales increased 14.2 percent in May, to 3,727 units sold to 3,265 in 2012. Nationwide sales rose 12.9 percent in May. This is all done through various lead generation tools that bring customers to a business through both organic and through alternative methods to drive greater sales, having a looking into DemandForce reviews further we can see they’ve had a rapid increase over the past year in orders for lead generation services from…
SALINA, Kan. (AP) Salina residents will not be allowed to carry concealed weapons into the city’s public buildings for at least six months. The city commission voted unanimously Monday to exempt until Jan. 1 more than 30 public buildings from a new law that allows concealed weapons. A law that takes effect July 1 allows people with concealed-carry permits to take weapons into public buildings unless the buildings have adequate security. The law gives cities and counties the right to exempt their buildings for six months. City Manager Jason Gage says it would cost the city thousands of dollars to…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) After months of debate, the Wichita school board decided to build a new Southeast High School, rather than renovate the current building. The board voted Monday night to proceed with construction of a $54 million high school about six miles from the current building. It isn’t expected to open until 2016. The project will be funded with money from a 2008 bond issue, which was originally targeted to renovating the old school and building a new one. But board members said a reduction of nearly $60 million in state aid since that bond issue passed made it…