What the commission seemed to believe would be a quick refresher, turned into a rather heated discussion, during Thursday’s Riley County Commission meeting. Commission Chair, Dave Lewis asked that the shared leave policy for the county be put on the agenda, in order to inform the new commissioners and the department heads of the details within the policy. Human Resource Manager, Cindy Volanti presented the policy and several department heads were quick to comment. The topic of the shared leave policy was brought up during a previous commission meeting, when a request to grant an employee shared leave was approved.…
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UPDATE: KMAN reported of a vehicle accident on Thursday and more details have been released. At approximately 10:45 Thursday morning at the intersection of Fort Riley Blvd. and Westwood, Kabita Wosti-Nepal, 34, of Manhattan was driving a 2000 Honda Accord when she failed to yield and struck a 2006 Dodge Caravan driven by Rita McCorkle, 60. Due to this initial collision , a third vehicle, at 2005 Ford Taurus driven by Katrina Cada, 30, also struck McCorkle. Three people were transported by the Riley County EMS with non-life threatening injuries. Wosti-Nepal was issued a citation for failure to yield the right of…
A Los Angeles jury ruled that concert promoter AEG Live is not responsible for Michael Jackson’s death. Jackson’s family brought the suit, seeking $1.5b in damages.
President Obama brought congressional leaders to the White House for the first time since the government shutdown began. Still, no sign of progress toward ending an impasse that has idled 800,000 federal workers and curbed services nationwide.
Inches matter in sports, and Kansas was able to win the close plays in the Sunflower Showdown on Wednesday night at Ahearn Fieldhouse in a three-set decision over K-State, 31-29, 26-24, and 25-18. The Cats rallied from a 16-12 deficit in the first set, eventually fought off six Jayhawk set points to take a 29-28 lead before KU claimed the final three points of the frame. Set two played out much the same as K-State overcame a 19-15 Jayhawk lead, had set point at 24-23, but KU took advantage of a Wildcat serving error and back-to-back stuff blocks to rally.…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A Wichita businessman is trying to find the owner of a small bag of cremated remains labeled “Grandma.” KAKE-TV reports reports a customer left the bag about two weeks ago at Charlie’s Liquor and Smoke Shop near downtown Wichita. Owner Charlie Nguyen review security tapes but couldn’t identify the customer. This week, he placed an ad on Craigslist hoping to connect with the bag’s owner. The plastic bag holds a small amount of ashes and a piece of paper that reads “Remains of Helen K. Dapron,” with “Grandma” in parentheses. It also gives apparent dates of birth…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) More than 100 current and former University of Kansas faculty and staff are publicly affirming the free-speech rights of a professor whose Twitter post against the National Rifle Association sparked a political firestorm. The statement issued Wednesday described the tweet by associate professor of journalism David Guth as “intemperate” but said the signers support his right to express his ideas. Retired American Studies Professor Bill Tuttle said the statement is a response to comments from conservative Republican Kansas legislators that Guth should be fired. Guth is on indefinite paid leave and declined to comment. In his tweet…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A 20-year-old Wichita man has been convicted of capital murder in last year’s shootings of two people inside a Dollar General store. The Wichita Eagle reports a Sedgwick County jury deliberated less than 90 minutes Wednesday before finding Marquis Marshall guilty. Prosecutors were not seeking the death penalty, meaning Marshall faces a mandatory life sentence on each of the two counts. Surveillance tapes from the November 2012 killings show a man entering the Dollar General holding a semi-automatic pistol and firing several times at employee Zachary Hunt, 22, and customer Henry Harvey, 79. Both died at the scene.…
On today’s InFocus, Cathy talks with the Aaron Estabrook, USD 383 School Board member, and Bob Shannon, USD 383 Superintendent. Up next was Lt. Col. Brent Dixon, Megan Walden, Ryan Crosser, Adam Rosendahl with Wildcat Battalion (ROTC at K-State) on recent trip to Washington. Cathy and Erik then end the show with Open Phones. [mp3-jplayer]
Only one new business item was slated for Wednesday night’s USD 383 school board meeting, but that didn’t mean the meeting would be lacking discussion. The board took some time before even hitting the main event to tackle some spoken and written reports and some of the issues they possessed. During the informational piece concerning the Summer 2013 Programs Summary, Darell Edie, board member, remarked that “I think our state and federal government could do a lot better if they used this type of program” when he was processing that with the summer programs, they are only paying about $50 per…