Funeral services were held at 10:30 am on Thursday for Dominick Lubrano at the First United Methodist Church in Manhattan. 6-month-old Lubrano is survived by his older brother Damian, his mother Sabrina Ross-Lubrano, and father Eric Lubrano Jr. 19-year-old Micheal Dechant of Ogden has been charged with possible first degree murder of Lubrano, and is set to appear in Riley County court on April 9th at 1:00pm
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A Manhattan man was arrested for failing to report to jail on Wednesday afternoon. Riley County Police arrested 44-year-old David Ray Lewis on a warrant. Lewis was originally charged with possession of opiates, and other controlled substances. Lewis being held by police without bond. Riley county Police arrested a Manhattan man on burglary charges. 33-year-old Micheal Westgate was charged with residential burglary. 74-year-old Norma Nordgren told police her house near the 400 block of Valley Drive was burglarized, and assorted tools were taken from the residence. Westgate is being held on a $5,000 bond. Police are investigating an alleged burglary…
LOS ANGELES (AP) Wichita State and La Salle busted a few brackets with their early wins in the NCAA tournament. Now they’re in the final 16 and playing a short drive from Hollywood. Just don’t script their matchup as a meeting of underdogs. These guys think they’ve got a lot of credibility, even if large chunks of the country didn’t pay them any attention until now. The ninth-seeded Shockers (28-8) and No. 13 Explorers (24-9) meet in the second West Regional semifinal on Thursday night at Staples Center, where Kobe Bryant of the Lakers and Blake Griffin of the…
SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) Chris Getz went 6 for 6, James Shields pitched five strong innings and a Kansas City Royals split squad and the Chicago Cubs played to a 9-9 tie in 10 innings Wednesday night. Getz doubled, tripled and drove in two runs, raising his average to .450. Lorenzo Cain, Mike Moustakas, Salvador Perez and Alex Gordon homered for the Royals, who are 23-7-2. Shields, who will start Monday against the Chicago White Sox on opening day, held the Cubs to three singles and two runs over five innings, walking one and striking out four while throwing 37 strikes…
Scheduling was a main topic at Wednesday’s Manhattan Ogden school board meeting as both the high school and elementary schools schedules was again on the agenda, but this was followed by the tentative upcoming calendar year. The elementary schedule had a bit more discussion as the issue of communication was brought up on how the board had gone about working on this issue over the past few months. The board referenced an email, which caused some strong reactions. “There was one negative email I responded very aggressively to,” said Dave Colburn, board president, during Wednesday’s meeting. “It hit me hard. I…
On today’s InFocus, Cathy talks with Brad Starnes, USD 378 Superintendent, and Brady Burton, Blue Valley Randolph USD 384 Superintendent. [mp3-jplayer]
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A new national study says Kansas could see an increase of nearly 19 percent by 2017 in medical claims costs for individual insurance policies under the federal health care overhaul. That’s better than the nationwide figure of nearly 32 percent forecast by the Society of Actuaries study. Kansas legislators from both parties said Wednesday they’re not surprised some costs could rise under the 2010 federal health care law championed by President Barack Obama. Medical claims costs are a major driver of health insurance premiums. The study assumes all states expand Medicaid coverage under the federal health care…
OBERLIN, Kan. (AP) A northwest Kansas man has been convicted of fatally shooting another man and wounding a woman as the couple slept. Dylan Coryell, 25, of Oberlin, will be sentenced in June following his conviction Wednesday on charges of intentional second-degree murder and aggravated battery. It was the first murder trial in Decatur County in more than a decade. Coryell was charged with shooting Corey Cook, 22, also of Oberlin, and a female acquaintance as they slept the morning of Oct. 16, 2011. The Salina Journal reported last week that witnesses testified Coryell had recently begun a relationship with…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas Senate’s top negotiator on taxes says canceling a scheduled decrease in the sales tax is vital to allowing future reductions in income tax rates. Wichita Republican Les Donovan defended the Senate’s proposal to keep the sales tax at its current 6.3 percent rate as his chamber opened talks Wednesday with the House. The tax is set to decline to 5.7 percent in July by law. Republican Gov. Sam Brownback and many GOP legislators want to follow up on personal income tax cuts with more cuts in income tax rates. But the state also must stabilize…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas House has approved a bill that would require the University of Kansas Medical Center to start a center to promote research and use of adult stem cells, cord blood and related stem cell therapies. The bill would prohibit the center from using embryonic stem cells or cells taken from aborted fetal tissue. It also would require the medical center to appoint a director of the center to oversee patient treatment and research. However, the bill does not include any state funding for the proposed center. The Lawrence Journal-World reports the Midwest Stem Cell Therapy Center…