Officials tell the AP that surviving Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev admitted his role in the bombing to the FBI, and stopped talking when he was read his Miranda rights.
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A series of huge explosions on board two natural gas barges shook Mobile, Alabama Wednesday night. Some of the blasts were caught on camera. At least three people were hospitalized in critical condition.
Eight story building containing four clothing factories collapses in Bangladesh. Death foll rises.
A series of huge explosions on board two natural gas barges shook Mobile, Alabama Wednesday night. Some of the blasts were caught on camera. At least three people were hospitalized.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas agriculture officials say a new law taking effect in July will help a growing number of farmers’ markets across the state. The measure approved by legislators and signed by Gov. Sam Brownback earlier this month sets up a central registry for farmers’ markets in the state Department of Agriculture. Registering with the state will limit the legal liability of farmers’ markets if accidents occur. Agriculture Secretary Dale Rodman said Wednesday that registering also will give farmers’ markets access to promotional help from the state. The department said that from 1987 to 2012, the number of farmers’…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Relatives of two women kill by the same man 12 years apart are asking Kansas parole officials to keep him behind bars. Danny Williams was convicted in Idaho of second-degree murder in the 1970 beating death of Melba Gray, a mother of six. Idaho officials paroled him after eight years and he moved to Wichita, where he was convicted of stabbing Francis Ellifson to death at her home in April 1982. KFDI-AM reports about 40 friends and relatives of both victims attended a hearing of the Kansas Prisoner Review Board on Wednesday. Many read emotional statements arguing…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Emerson Lynn Jr., the former publisher of the Iola Register and one of the state’s best-known editorial writers, has died. The newspaper says Lynn died Wednesday morning at a hospice in Topeka, where he’d received care after being diagnosed with cancer earlier this year. He was 88. Lynn’s journalism career spanned more than 60 years. He led the Register from 1965 to 2000, when he sold it to his daughter, Susan. He continued writing editorials until this year. He is a member of the Kansas Newspaper Hall of Fame and received a lifetime achievement award last year…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The number of people working for Kansas state government increased last year but most of the growth was in temporary jobs with no benefits. The Kansas Department of Administration says the state employed 69,974 people in fiscal year 2013. That includes both regular and temporary employees. That’s an increase of 143 from the previous fiscal year. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the state cut 937 regular positions but added 1,080 temporary positions last fiscal year. Of the temporary jobs, 103 included benefits and 977 didn’t. The report shows the state shifted toward unclassified employees, who are not protected…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A former cheer coach from Wichita has been convicted of sex crimes involving four of his minor students. Timothy Wells-Lee, 29, was convicted Tuesday of 10 of 11 charges he faced. He’ll be sentenced June 14. Wells-Lee was accused of having sexual relationships with girls ranging from 12 to 14 years old while he was coaching them at Wichita cheer academies between 2006 and 2008. He was acquitted of one charge of fondling one of the girls. Wells-Lee denied having any sexual contact with three of the girls. He admitted having a sexual relationship with the fourth…
PRATT, Kan. (AP) Kansas officials will hold an online meeting on the possibility of the lesser prairie chicken being granted federal protection. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will decide by September whether to add the lesser prairie chicken to the nation’s list of threatened species. The Kansas Department of Wildlife, Park and Tourism and the Kansas State Research and Extension office will host the online information session for anyone interested in the listing process. The department says the online session is scheduled for April 30 at 7 p.m. Speakers from the department, the Farm Services Agency and the Natural…