Officials in Central Wisconsin say snow helped cause a 20-car pile-up. Much of the state is under a winter storm warning, and snow accumulations could reach 10 inches in some places.
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A judge has ordered a 71-year-old retired police officer be held without bond for shooting a man dead in a Florida movie theater. Investigators say they want a conviction regardless of the suspects close ties in his community.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas Chamber of Commerce is expanding its legislative agenda this year to include support for repealing the state’s renewable energy standard for utilities. Chamber executives said Tuesday they’re getting into the renewable energy issue because businesses are concerned about energy costs. The standard requires Kansas utilities to see that renewable sources such as wind provide 20 percent of their electric generating capacity by 2020. Chamber President and CEO Mike O’Neal also said the group will lobby on education issues. O’Neal said the chamber’s position on energy isn’t anti-wind, but driven by a belief that the marketplace…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Wichita police say they don’t suspect foul play in the death of an 88-year-old woman whose semi-mummified body was discovered while authorities were investigating her son’s suicide. Lt. Doug Nolte said Tuesday police forced their way into the home Friday after a neighbor reported not seeing the male occupant for several days. Officers found the 69-year-old man dead, apparently of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. His mother’s body was also in the home, wrapped in plastic tarps. Nolte says the woman apparently had been dead for several months. Determining the cause of death is expected to take time…
ARKANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) The former director of a south-central Kansas senior center has pleaded no contest to theft, misuse of public funds and giving false information. The Arkansas City Traveler reports Edward G. Greene, 47, entered the pleas Tuesday in Cowley County District Court. Greene resigned in September 2012 after four years as director of the Arkansas City Senior Citizens Center. He was charged last February with six felony counts, three of which were dropped under a plea agreement. The agreement requires Greene to pay restitution of $25,000 to the senior center, $25,000 to Ark City Senior Friends and…
The Manhattan High girls basketball team once again found a way to scrap and claw back into a game where Hayden controlled the pace most of the ball game. The Indians and Wildcats were tight through the first three quarters of play, but MHS found themselves down six with two and a half minutes to go in the game. Key defensive stops and big baskets down the stretch by Amara Ehie and Darby Price gave MHS an opportunity to win the ball game. With the game tied at 49 with under 30 seconds left, Hayden had the basketball but the…
WICHTA, Kan. (AP) An embattled Kansas military boarding school will have to go to trial over a lawsuit filed by 11 ex-cadets alleging a culture of abuse. U.S. District Judge John Lungstrum ruled Monday that former students at St. John’s Military School in Salina cited enough evidence that a reasonable jury would find the school’s conduct “exceeded the bounds of decency and is intolerable in a modern society.” The judge dismissed only 10 of the 44 claims brought by the students. The lawsuit is scheduled to go to trial in March. Lungstrum wrote the cadets presented evidence the school had…
PITTSBURG, Kan. (AP) The only major recycling center in southeast Kansas is facing a dire future if it doesn’t find a permanent funding source. The Southeast Kansas Recycling Center in Pittsburg takes in recycling from several southeast Kansas towns and take trailers to collection points in Cherokee County. But Jim Triplett, president of the center’s board, says the recycling center lost nearly $69,000 last year. He blames the loss on falling commodity prices, building loans and more competition for clothing which provides money for the center. He also says the center is the only recycling center in Kansas that isn’t…
Marcus Foster scored 18 points and Nino Williams hit four crucial free throws in the final 20 seconds to help Kansas State rally to defeat Oklahoma 72-66 in Big 12 Conference action Tuesday night at Bramlage Coliseum. A little more than 72 hours removed from seeing their 10-game winning streak come to an abrupt halt on Saturday at Kansas, the Wildcats were able to bounce back in a hard-fought game against the Sooners coached by former K-State standout and head coach Lon Kruger. After K-State scored the game’s first four points, Oklahoma went on a 14-4 run to grab a…
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) The Lawrence school district plans to take over management of Lawrence Virtual High School, at least through the end of the school year. District Superintendent Rick Doll announced Monday that the company currently managing the school, K12 Inc., will be paid through the end of its contract on June 30. But the district began operating the school at the start of the second semester, after it reported a graduation rate last year of just 26.3 percent. Doll says the school board will have to decide later this year whether to continue operating the virtual school. The Lawrence…