OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) An Overland Park woman was forced out of her apartment after as much of 10 pounds of mercury spilled from an antique clock. Fire department spokesman Jason Rhodes says the liquid apparently spilled weeks ago on a back porch of the woman’s apartment but she wasn’t aware it was dangerous mercury until a relative saw the spill Monday. Overland Park Fire Department spokesman Jason Rhodes says in a news release that the mercury spilled out of tubes that were counterweights for an old grandfather’s clock. The Environmental Protection Agency is advising on cleanup. The woman’s apartment…
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PRATT, Kan. (AP) For the first time ever, Pratt County is sending inmates to other counties because of overcrowding at its jail. Sheriff Vernon Chinn says he sent four inmates to Ford County recently because the jail was over its capacity of 30 beds. Chinn says the jail has seen a big increase in population this year, ranging from a low of 22 to a high of 38. Chinn attributes the increase to cases taking longer to go to trial and inmates serving their sentences in the county jail, rather than being sent to prisons. KAKE-TV reports the county plans…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) An industry report shows that sales of farm tractors and combines fell in October from the same month a year ago. But Monday’s report from the Association of Equipment Manufacturers also says that U.S. sales of the items in the first 10 months of the year still remain ahead of last year’s pace. Sales of farm tractors totaled about 19,600 in October, down 3.4 percent from October 2012. Farmers bought 1,153 combines in October, a drop of nearly 35 percent from the same month last year. During the first 10 months of this year, farmers bought nearly…
On today’s InFocus, Cathy checks in on Riley County as Commission Chair Dave Lewis and County Counselor Clancy Holeman stop by.
French President Francois Hollande, right, greets German chancellor Angela Merkel prior to their meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Tuesday Nov. 12, 2013. European leaders are meeting Tuesday in Paris to talk about youth unemployment. They are tackling the subject for at least the fourth time in six months, but the jobless rate has only continued a slow rise.(AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)
Survivors walk in typhoon ravaged Tacloban city, Leyte province, central Philippines on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013. The Philippines emerged as a rising economic star in Asia but the trail of death and destruction left by Typhoon Haiyan has highlighted a key weakness: fragile infrastructure resulting from decades of neglect and corruption. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
Tuesday’s edition of “The Game” gets you geared up for what lies ahead on Saturday with TCU rolling into Bill Snyder Family Stadium. Hear from Bill Snyder and players on how they feel about TCU. Kevin Haskin from the Topeka Capital Journal joins the show to talk K-State and KU basketball as well as football around the Big 12. Sean Deveney from Sporting News drops in to give his perspective on the young NBA season. Plus, Troy Morell, Butler County head football coach talks about their stellar season. “Get Fit” plus “You can’t be serious” on a jam packed version of “The Game”.
Tuesday’s edition of “The Game” gets you geared up for what lies ahead on Saturday with TCU rolling into Bill Snyder Family Stadium. Hear from Bill Snyder and players on how they feel about TCU. Kevin Haskin from the Topeka Capital Journal joins the show to talk K-State and KU basketball as well as football around the Big 12. Sean Deveney from Sporting News drops in to give his perspective on the young NBA season. Plus, Troy Morell, Butler County head football coach talks about their stellar season. “Get Fit” plus “You can’t be serious” on a jam packed version of “The Game”.
A Fort Riley Soldier charged with second degree murder was sentenced in Geary County Court Tuesday to 117 months, or 9 years and 9 months with the Kansas Department Corrections. Gary Nelson (22) of Junction City, entered a no contest plea in September to charges of second-degree murder and reckless driving. Nelson reportedly told state troopers he intended to commit suicide by running into a semi truck on Interstate 70 in April, but lost his nerve. Jake Black (53) of Manhattan was a passenger in a GMC utility vehicle that swerved out of Nelson’s way. The car rolled down an…
MANHATTAN — A Kansas State University team recently received a nearly $1.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s Major Research Institute for a biomedical instrument that is anticipated to help with breakthroughs in animal and human health as well as cancer treatment. The instrument is a modified wide-bore 600-megahertz magnetic resonance imaging spectrometer that will be equipped with a custom imaging probe. It can heat specific cells in the body using a process called thermal cell therapy that mimics how the body uses fever to fight infections while simultaneously producing real-time, high-resolution images of the heat’s effects on tumors…