TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The National Park Service is offering free bus tours of Topeka sites tied to the Bleeding Kansas era and the civil rights movement. The Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site says the first tours will be Saturday, with tickets available starting around 9 a.m. The first 90-minute tour begins at 10:30 a.m., the second at 12:30 p.m. and the final one at 2:30 p.m. The featured stops tell a messy racial story that begins in 1854, when Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act that allowed settlers to decide for themselves whether to permit slavery. Fighting ensued…
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SHAWNEE, Kan. (AP) A northeast Kansas elementary school has been named a Green Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education for its environmental activities. The Shawnee Mission District’s Bluejacket-Flint Elementary in Shawnee was among 64 schools nationwide receiving the honor Monday. The designation recognizes efforts by individual schools to reduce the impact on the environment, lower energy costs and promote better health. Bluejacket-Flint used federal energy standards to reduce utility use by 52 percent, resulting in a 29 percent cut in energy costs in one year. A parent-teacher group also spent $50,000 on an outdoor classroom to teach students…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A judge has agreed to delay sentencing for a Canadian man who was found in Michigan with a 12-year-old Kansas girl he met on the Internet. Stewart Kenneth Cody McGill, of Bewdley, Ontario, had been scheduled to appear Wednesday in federal court in Wichita on a charge of traveling with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct. But U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten granted on Monday a delay because of a scheduling conflict. The sentencing is now set for May 8. The 21-year-old man pleaded guilty in February under a deal with that will lock him…
We check in with Pottawatomie County on today’s InFocus. Cathy sits down with Commission Chair Pat Weixelman, Anne Smith, ATA Director, Dustin Trego, County’s Management Assistant Operations, and Tricia Brooke Fruendt with SMH Consultants for a Justice Center update. [mp3-jplayer]
The mother of the suspected Boston bombers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has asked the media to leave her alone as she grieves for her sons. She says she is trying to understand how they are implicated in the deadly blasts.
Communities Missouri fought Tuesday to hold back surging rivers swollen by days of drenching rain, even as an approaching storm system threatened new downpours.
The college basketball world and K-State fans were caught completely off guard when sophomore guard Angel Rodriguez announced on Monday night that he would be transferring from the Wildcat program. Rodriguez said in a statement from K-State, he would like to transfer to a school that would allow him to be closer to his mother and two brothers, who live in his native San Juan, Puerto Rico. The big question is where Rodriguez will continue his college career after sitting out a year due to NCAA transfer rules. Alex Kline of The Recruit Scoop at Rivals.com speculates the most likely…
Update: April 25– WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A Manhattan doctor linked to drug overdoses by active-duty Fort Riley soldiers remains jailed for now as a possible flight risk. Federal prosecutors told a magistrate judge Wednesday that Michael P. Schuster, of Manhattan, has more than $1 million outside the U.S., a home in Paraguay and two passports. A hearing to determine whether he should remain in custody pending trial has been set for Tuesday in Topeka. Schuster is charged in a criminal complaint with conspiracy to distribute drugs. His first hearing left unanswered whether any soldiers or family members died from overdoses,…
Update at 11:30 a.m. The Emergency Accident Reporting Phase in Riley County has ended. 23 April 08:30 am: Riley County Police have enacted the emergency accident reporting phase. Due to weather conditions if accidents do occur, and no injuries are involved, people have extended time to report the accident to the authorities. If you do have an accident exchange insurance and contact information, and report the incident to police at a later time. If there are injuries, or traffic blockage, immediately report the accident to the Riley County Police Department.
A new Riley County police technique called “laser pointing” is refining a highly effective program called operation impact. The operation impact initiative began in 2010, and studies have shown it has curbed criminal activity by up to 18 percent in what police have dubbed local “hot spots”. Hot spots are locations which have historically high crime rates. Previously the hot spots were just tracked by location. RCPD Captain Kurt Moldrup says police are now using another data set to fine tune the process… time. Crime analysts are now tracking the location, and time, of criminal activity on a weekly basis.…