TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A Topeka high school art teacher has won a prestigious teaching award. Washburn Rural High School fine arts teacher Brad LeDuc was named a recipient of the Milken Educator Award for Kansas. The Kansas State Department of Education said in a news release that LeDuc was told about the award Thursday in a surprise ceremony at the school. The Milken award also comes with a $25,000 prize. LeDuc has been an educator for about 12 years. Gov. Sam Brownback and state education commissioner Diane DeBacker were among those attending the ceremony Thursday at the high school.
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On today’s InFocus, Cathy talks with Jennifer Wison, Riley county Extension Director, Susan Peterson, Assistant Director with the Riley County Senior Services Center, Loren Pepperd and Terri Robbins with Flint Hills Home Builders Association, and ending with Laura Prater, with Energy Center.
Early Friday morning, an accident leading to fatality occurred in the 700 block of Northfield Road. According to preliminary reports from the Riley County Police Department, Brett Mock, 19, of Manhattan, was driving his 2003 Toyota Tundra pickup eastbound on Northfield Road when his vehicle left the roadway and struck multiple vehicles parked in a driveway. As a result of the collisions Mock was ejected from his vehicle and sustained significant injuries. Mock was transported to Mercy Regional Health Center where he was later pronounced deceased. No further details are being released at this time as the investigation is still ongoing.
For the second time in his career, K-State baseball head coach Brad Hill was named American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) Midwest Region Coach of the Year. Hill also claimed the honor during K-State’s run to its first ever NCAA regional berth in 2009. In addition, Hill received the 2013 Big 12 Coach of the Year award in May after the Wildcats won the Big 12 title after going 45-19 overall and 16-8 in conference play. K-State was #14 in the final ABCA/USA Today Top 25 Poll of the 2013 season. Stay connected to all things KSU on the go just…
BART trains will not be rolling on Friday. The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit system workers announced early Friday morning that they are going on strike.
A suspect in the dry ice bottle blasts at Los Angeles International Airport has entered not guilty pleas to two charges of possessing a destructive device in a public place. Authorities say Dicarlo Bennett did it for his own amusement.
Journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner, David Finkel, visited the KSU Alumni Center Thursday to talk about his latest book, “Thank you for your service”. The book explores the lives of several Fort Riley Soldiers in the 2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, and the challenges they’ve faced since returning from active duty. “They came home I think expecting for everything to be okay, and it’s not okay; and so many of these lives I’ve seen and described, are lives that feel out of control,” said Finkel, “It’s bewildering and it’s angering to these people. They’re wounded, they’re trying to get better,…
GOODLAND, Kan. (AP) Residents of far northwest Kansas could find themselves coping with the first measureable snow of the season. Forecasters at the National Weather Service in Goodland issued a winter weather advisory Thursday evening for Cheyenne and Sherman counties, in effect from midnight to 9 a.m. Friday (Mountain Daylight Time). The precipitation was expected to start as a mix of snow and rain, turning to all snow around 3 a.m. Accumulations of 1 to 3 inches were expected overnight, with another inch possible before the snow ends at mid-morning Friday. But anything remaining on the ground is likely to…
HAYS, Kan. (AP) Authorities in northwest Kansas are looking for whoever took a sledgehammer to a race car at the RPM Speedway in Hays. The Hays Daily News reports that the damage apparently happened Saturday as driver Chadd Brown was watching the final three races with relatives. Brown had left his modified dirt-track racer on an open trailer in the overflow pit area northeast of the track. Brown says a track official heard someone beating and banging but thought it was a racer working on his car. Damage is estimated at about $9,000. Brown says he “can’t believe someone would…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A Wichita man who appears on the national sex offender registry is charged with raping a 13-year-old girl. The Wichita Eagle reports a complaint filed in Sedgwick County District Court charges 40-year-old Terrill L. Andrews with having unlawful sexual intercourse with the girl late last week. Police reported receiving a call Saturday from a woman saying the 13-year-old had been “forcibly raped” three times in two days. Sedgwick County Jail booking records showed Andrews being held Thursday on $350,000 bond. No information about the case was listed in online court records, and it was not clear if…