Egypt arrested the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohammed Badie. Pictures of him were shown on the pro-military television channel.
Author: KMAN Staff
A 12-year-old girl who was mauled by a black bear in northern Michigan last week says she feared for her life during the attack. Abby Wetherell said she thought she was going to die, but after attacking her twice, the bear went away.
Opening up at 9 am on Monday was the 2014 budget hearing for the Pottawatomie County Commission. Robert Reece, County Administrator, reviewed with the commission where the budget was sitting and explained that “in essence, [the budget] was the same as last year.” The tax rate for 2014 is expected to be 25.675%. After making a few adjustments concerning the consolidated fire districts, the commission approved the budget as presented. After the budget hearing was completed, the commission moved into department updates. During his report, Chris Trudo, the emergency management director, told the commission on August 5, they had a test…
LIBERAL, Kan. (AP) A 51-year-old southwest Kansas man is dead after being severely beaten in a rural Seward County home over the weekend. The High Plains Daily Leader reports Seward County deputies were called at 8:30 p.m. Saturday in the northwest part of the county on a report of an unresponsive man. They found Thomas Miller of Garden City, who was flown to a Wichita hospital where he died early Sunday morning. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation is helping the sheriff’s office investigate the death, which is considered a homicide. Seward County Undersheriff Gene Ward says nobody has been arrested…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) The seller of a Kansas house where BTK serial killer Dennis Rader took a woman’s life in 1985 says he is disclosing the murder to make sure any potential buyer doesn’t have a problem with the home’s past. The Wichita Eagle reports real estate experts think the seller is doing the right thing by letting buyers know what happened there, even though state law doesn’t require such disclosure. Rader told a judge in 2005 that he sneaked into the Park City residence and strangled 53-year-old Marine Hedge. The former Park City compliance officer is serving a life…
EUREKA, Kan. (AP) Auctioneers say a 9,100-acre ranch in south-central Kansas has been sold to seven buyers for a total of $13.5 million. The ranch in Greenwood County was owned by the Frank N. Bills Living Trust. The trust decided to sale the ranch after Bills died in January at the age of 70. The Wichita Eagle reports the ranch was broken into 16 tracts and sold to seven buyers from Texas, Nebraska and Kansas. The average price was $1,475 per acre. Auctioneer Jeremy Sundgren of El Dorado says it was one of the largest ranches ever auctioned in south-central…
POTWIN, Kan. (AP) Law enforcement authorities say a Kansas man is hospitalized after his wife shot him in an apparent accident. The Butler County Sheriff’s Office says the 49-year-old Potwin man was shot in the shoulder Sunday evening at his home. Undersheriff Tony Wilhite says the man’s 31-year-old wife and a neighbor both called 911 to report the shooting. The woman was giving her husband first aid when emergency workers arrived at the house. The man was flown to a Wichita hospital. Authorities say he was able to provide a statement to authorities, which confirmed his wife’s report that the…
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) Johnson County Community College is welcoming about 700 students to its new $13 million culinary academy. Classes at the Hospitality Culinary Academy begin Monday. Students will find a much larger work space with five new culinary labs that cook with gas instead of electricity. The college already has the largest culinary apprenticeship program in the country. It’s accredited by the American Culinary Federation and is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor. The Kansas City Star reports only 225 of the nearly 5,000 culinary programs in the United States have earned ACF accreditation. The Johnson Community…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Students who arrive at one Wichita elementary school to begin the new school year will see the results of long hours of extra work during the weekend by teachers and maintenance staff. The district had to scramble to find a new building after a fire damaged College Hill elementary school last week. District officials chose to reopen a school building that had been closed and employees worked throughout the weekend to prepare for students’ arrival Monday morning. Parents and students met with school employees Sunday to get a look at the school. The main concern is a…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas congressional delegation will be talking about taxes with independent oil producers. Their session Monday at this year annual Kansas Independent Oil and Gas Association convention in Wichita is titled “Over the Cliff Digging in on Taxes.” Expected panelists include U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts along with U.S. Reps. Mike Pompeo, Kevin Yoder, Lynn Jenkins and Tim Huelskamp. Other sessions planned during the convention include seminars on health care reform and oil exploration in a geologic formation known as the Mississippian Lime Play in southern Kansas and northern Oklahoma. Wichita State University men’s basketball coach Gregg Marshall…