HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) Authorities have identified the woman found dead after an unreported fire in her Hutchinson home. Hutchinson Fire Deputy Chief Mike Miller says authorities have determined that 72-year-old Dorothy Cobb died of smoke inhalation. The Hutchinson News reported that Cobb was found Thursday afternoon by a family member. Miller says careless smoking sparked the fire either Tuesday or Wednesday. The blaze burned itself out, and the exterior of the home had no damage. Most of the interior damage was in the living room where Cobb was in a chair.
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A newly announced candidate in the 2014 Kansas GOP primary for the U-S Senate will be visited the Flint Hills Tea Party’s monthly meeting Saturday morning at the Manhattan Public Library. Dr. Milton Wolf announced his intentions to run against incumbent Senator Pat Roberts Tuesday. “I can give you 17 trillion reasons why we need to replace the current career politicians in Washington. Our National Debt is crushing our economy and it threatens our future. I’ll give you 600 billion reasons why we need to replace our Senator, Pat Roberts. That’s the size of the tax increase he voted for…
The Manhattan High School Indians are now 5-0 in league play after a 41-24 win over Shawnee Heights Friday night.
A 3-car accident at the intersection of 24 Highway and Salzer Road occurred at about 7 p.m. Friday. According to a Pottawatomie County Sheriff’s Deputy, there were numerous individuals transported by ambulance to the Wamego Health Center with non-life threatening injuries. Eastbound 24 Highway was reduced to one-lane traffic for over an hour. No other details are available at this time.
On a finally Friday edition of “The Game” Brandon Tadtman and Erik Stone get you set up for the showdown in the Little Apple between Kansas State and Baylor. What are the realistic expectations for the Wildcats and how many points could Baylor score? Week 6 of high school football and also a preview of the Chiefs and Raiders on Sunday from Joel Thorman from Arrowhead Pride. Jaime Mendez and Kevin Lockett also chiming in on the show this afternoon plus “You can’t be serious”.
House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. laughs as he walks to his office on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Oct. 11, 2013. Republicans from the House of Representatives were offering to pass legislation to avert a potentially catastrophic default and end the 11-day partial government shutdown as part of a framework that would include cuts in benefit programs, officials said Friday. But the impasse was not yet over. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)
Malala Yousafzai, the 16-year-old girl from Pakistan who was shot in the head by the Taliban last October for advocating education for girls, waves as she leaves the stage after speaking about her fight for girls’ education on the International Day of the Girl, Friday, Oct. 11, 2013, at the World Bank in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Eleven days after the launch of the Affordable Care Act exchanges, U.S. Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) Friday called on the Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius to resign for gross incompetence leading to the complete failure of the exchange to enroll millions of Americans in health care plans as promised. “How long do we let this failed exchange continue to operate? From the very beginning of the bill’s passage, I have said this cannot work. Just over 90 days ago in the GOP weekly radio address to the nation, I warned the American people that the exchanges were not going to…
Demolition of the former Pottawatomie County Jail occurred earlier in the week. This follows the opening of the new Pottawatomie County Justice Center, with an open house in August, and move-ins and tweaks to the new facility into September.
Two men convicted several years ago in separate area cases have apparently been passed over for parole following public comment sessions in August. Clifford Burt’s, 42, next earliest possible release date is April of 2038. Burt has been serving time for Geary county convictions in 1991 of arson and attempted first degree murder. He faces similar convictions in Reno County, as well as attempting to influence a judicial officer in Ellsworth county Also denied parole was Shawn McDiffett, 44, who was convicted in 1989 on drug manufacture and possession charges in Riley County. McDiffett also faces other types of charges in…