The Associated Press ATCHISON, Kan. — The fractured board of directors of MGP Ingredients in Atchison can hold a long-delayed stockholders meeting, which had been put off by a fight over the company’s future, the Kansas Court of Appeals ruled. The appeals court this week lifted a stay it had placed on the stockholders meeting in August. The meeting will be allowed as of Tuesday, although no meeting has been scheduled, The Atchison Globe reported. The court did not set a deadline for scheduling the meeting. Six MGP board members and the company’s President and CEO, Tim Newkirk, are trying…
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On September 3rd, police were contacted by the family of David Welch and were informed that he had not returned home after leaving on the evening of September 2nd. State and other local law enforcement agencies were notified and a missing persons report was filed on September 6th. The Riley County Police Department was contacted Friday (10/18) by the Utah Highway Patrol in reference to a single vehicle, fatality accident involving a maroon Pontiac Montana van Welch was last seen driving. Utah Highway Patrol positively identify the deceased driver as missing Manhattan resident David Welch. The accident occurred on I-70,…
President Barack Obama on Friday nominated the Pentagon’s former top lawyer to run the Department of Homeland Security.
Jonathan Corpina, left, talks with fellow trader Dan Ryan on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Friday, Oct. 18, 2013. Stronger economic growth in China and a pickup in U.S. corporate earnings helped the stock market finish 28 points higher in Friday trading. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline has had his law license indefinitely suspended by the Kansas Supreme Court over allegations of ethical misconduct during his investigation of abortion providers. Friday’s decision comes after repeated disputes between Kline and his critics over his tactics over alleged violations of state law. Kline was Kansas attorney general from 2003 to 2007 and Johnson County district attorney in 2007 and 2008. He is now a visiting professor at Liberty University in Virginia. A state disciplinary panel contends Kline repeatedly misled or allowed subordinates to mislead others including a grand jury to…
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) Reno County officials say a second county resident has died after contracting the West Nile virus and they are investigating other cases. The Hutchinson News reports the wife of Jim Hendrickson, 75, says he died Tuesday after more than four weeks in the hospital. The other known victim, Jim Geesling, 67, of Turon, died Oct. 3 at a Wichita hospital. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment said this week Reno County had three confirmed West Nile cases as of Tuesday. The number of confirmed cases statewide is up to 45, with two confirmed deaths. The Reno County Health…
OTTAWA, Kan. (AP) State prosecutors are seeking mental health and prison records of an Ottawa man charged with killing four people on an eastern Kansas farm in May. The subpoenas were mentioned at a brief hearing Thursday in Franklin County District Court for Kyle T. Flack, 28, who is charged in the deaths of Andrew Adam Stout, Steven Eugene White, Kaylie Kathleen Bailey and Bailey’s 18-month-old daughter, Lana-Leigh in rural Franklin County. Flack is charged with capital murder, first-degree murder, rape and criminal possession of a firearm. Prosecutors filed subpoenas under seal for undisclosed business records. The Lawrence Journal-World reports defense attorney…
DODGE CITY, Kan. (AP) Two Dodge City men have been convicted of several gang-related crimes, including murder. A federal jury on Thursday convicted Pedro Garcia, 27, and Gonzalo Ramirez, 28, for crimes committed in 2008 and 2009. The men are both members of the Norteno street gang. U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom’s office says each man faces sentencing Jan. 6 on nine counts, ranging from racketeering to murder. Ramirez also will be sentenced on four other counts, including attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder. They were convicted of the fatal shooting of Israel Peralta at a Dodge City trailer park, a home…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The State Board of Education is asking Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt to defend it in a lawsuit over its decision to adopt new science standards. Board members met with their attorney in executive session this week about the federal lawsuit filed last month by an anti-evolution group called Citizens for Objective Public Education. The Lawrence Journal-World reports individual board members asked for the attorney general to represent them in court. The lawsuit names the board and individual members as defendants. It contends the new science standards promote atheism and violate the religious rights of students and…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas Board of Regents Chairman Fred Logan says the state’s higher education system may face a legislative attack on tenure for professors. The Topeka Capital Journal reports that Logan raised the issue during a board meeting Thursday and suggested issuing a statement supporting tenure. The board didn’t act. Logan said he’s heard talk of legislators trying to change tenure rules, though no proposal has become public. Conservative Republican legislators have demanded that the University of Kansas fire journalism professor David Guth over a tweet following September’s shootings at the Navy Yard in Washington that left 13 dead.…