Former New England Patriot football player Aaron Hernandez, is lead into court in Attleboro, Mass., Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013. Hernandez was indicted on first-degree murder and weapons charges in the death of a friend whose bullet-riddled body was found in an industrial park about a mile from the ex-player’s home. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds, File)
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Hospital workers protest outside La Paz hospital in Madrid, Spain, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013. Madrid’s residents and medical workers are angered by budget cuts and plans to privatise part of their cherished national health service as the regional government of Madrid aims to partially privatise six hospitals in Spain’s capital city. The interior minister delegate for Madrid, Cristina Cifuentes is currently being looked after in the emergency ward of the hospital after a serious motorcycle accident. (AP Photo/Paul White)
On today’s InFocus, Cathy talks with Michelle Haub and Don Rasmussen, on the Parkinson’s Speedy PD race, followed by Robbin Cole, Executive Director of Pawnee Mental Health. [mp3-jplayer]
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas health officials say the state’s infant mortality rate has edged higher. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment said Thursday the number of infant deaths rose from 247 in 2011 to 254 in 2012. That works out to an infant mortality rate of 6.3 deaths per 1,000 live births last year, up from 6.2 in 2011. But KDHE also notes that the 2011 rate was the lowest in Kansas since the state began keeping records in 1912. Leading causes of infant deaths in Kansas are prematurity, low birth weight, birth defects, sudden infant death syndrome, suffocation…
FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) Officials at Fort Leavenworth say Bradley Manning has arrived at the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks to begin serving a 35-year prison term. A brief statement from the northeast Kansas post Thursday afternoon gave no other details about Manning’s arrival or status. He previously spent nearly two years at an adjacent prison while awaiting court-martial. The soldier was sentenced Wednesday for sending classified government material to WikiLeaks. Manning announced Thursday he intends to live as a woman and go by the name Chelsea Manning. He said he would ask the Army to let him begin hormone therapy as…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A Kansas consumer advocate agency says Westar Energy Inc. can get by with a smaller rate increase and still be able to make necessary environmental improvements at its power plants. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that David Springe, an attorney for the Citizens Utility Ratepayers Board, filed testimony Wednesday with the Kansas Corporation Commission saying Westar could reduce its rate increase request by $1 million and still accomplish its goals. Westar, the largest electric utility in Kansas, is seeking a $31.7 million rate increase from its customers. The utility is seeking the increase to pay for $1.2 billion…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A former vicar at a Topeka church will be sentenced Sept. 27 after pleading no contest to sexually assaulting a boy who attended the church. Hugh Denton Cranford, 32, was taken into custody Tuesday after entering the plea to one count of aggravated indecent liberties with a child. He had been scheduled to go to trial Sept. 23 on three counts involving boys ages 7 and 9. At the time of the crimes, Cranford was vicar at Faith Lutheran Church. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the boys and their parents attended the church, and Cranford and the boys’ father…
NICKERSON, Kan. (AP) Members of co-ops in Nickerson and Sterling will vote next month on whether to merge. The merger of the Nickerson’s Farmers Co-op and Farmers Co-op Union of Sterling requires a two-thirds vote of approval by both cooperatives. If approved, the new cooperative would be called Central Prairie Co-op. The Hutchinson News reports Nickerson members will vote Sept. 9 and Sterling members will vote Sept.10. Nickerson’s board president, Orville Miller, says both co-ops are healthy but they need to be bigger to compete and serve larger farm operations. He says the merger also would provide both co-ops with…
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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) Federal government workers are cleaning up thousands of gallons of toxic chemicals left at an abandoned circuit board factory in north Springfield. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates it will take technicians until October to finish work at the former site of Ozark Circuits. The Springfield News-Leader reports the company’s owner filed for bankruptcy in 2011. The EPA says more than 3,000 gallons of sludge and solutions of acids, copper and lead were left behind when the building was abandoned. EPA on-scene coordinator Mike Davis said Wednesday technicians are currently taking samples and will eventually ship the waste…