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Four general items topped the agenda Tuesday for the Manhattan City Commission. Of those, the issue of the expansion at the public library held a lot of discussion from both the commission and the public itself. From both sides of the table, both views were expressed. Commissioners and public voiced that the expansion is needed and would be beneficial for the community. The other side showed this is not the right time for such a endeavor. Commission Wynn Butler brought up the issues of a new commission would be brought in and there are legislative issues still unknown. Butler made…
It’s time to talk Manhattan, as Cathy sits down with Mayor Loren Pepperd and City Manager Ron Fehr. [mp3-jplayer]
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger says she supports an expansion of the state’s Medicaid program encouraged by the federal government’s overhaul of health care. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports Praeger said Tuesday that Kansas is hurting poor residents by not expanding Medicaid coverage for the needy and disabled. The federal health care law promises to pay for most of the expansion. Praeger already has broken with many fellow Republicans, including Gov. Sam Brownback, over the 2010 federal health care law. The insurance commissioner has praised the overhaul as a step toward universal access to health care. A resolution…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A parochial school leader is set to become the new director of Wichita’s Catholic Charities. The Wichita Eagle reports that Mike Burrus will become director of the nonprofit agency on Sept. 3. Bishop Michael O. Jackels and the Catholic Charities board made the announcement Tuesday. Burrus has been president of Kapaun Mount Carmel High School in Wichita for the past 12 years. Melissa Grelinger currently is acting as the nonprofit agency’s interim director. She replaced Cynthia Colbert, who resigned in December to become the director of the Catholic Charities in the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston.
SALINA, Kan. (AP) Officials in Salina are happy to welcome thousands of visitors to the Bicentennial Center for conventions and sporting events every year, but there’s one group they’re trying to oust. The Salina Journal reports that several thousand bats have entered the Bicentennial Center through cracks and vents. They’ve taken up residence in the mezzanine level, right above the public restrooms. The City Commission voted unanimously Monday to pay a pest control company about $35,000 to remove the winged mammals. The company will also seal the cracks and vents and clean up the bats’ droppings, as well as a…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Some Kansas residents apparently consider the state’s list of banned words for personalized license plates a challenge. Revenue department officials say they are always on the lookout for Kansans who try to find a way around the list, which contains almost 1,200 entries. The Wichita Eagle reports that the list includes basic curse words, sexual innuendoes, racial slurs and drug references. Donna Shelite, director of vehicles, says drivers go to great lengths to get around the rules, such as using numbers for letters. And she admits she doesn’t always understand some of the applications. Shelite says the…
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) A Hutchinson woman is seeking to withdraw the plea she made more than a decade ago in the death of her mother. Tracie Lynn Miles testified Monday that she didn’t understand the consequences of her no contest plea in the 1998 death of her mother, Sandra Miles, in Hutchinson. She says her attorney did not give her good advice. Miles and her boyfriend, Paul Nelson, both pleaded no contest to first-degree murder in Sandra Miles’ strangulation and bludgeoning death. The Hutchinson News reports Miles, who was 18 when she pleaded, said she incorrectly believed that she might…
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) An 8-year-old Hutchinson boy is being credited with alerting his father to a house fire in time to save his two brothers. But the Hudson family lost their home and all their belongings in the Monday fire. The family says Tyler Hudson saw smoke and flames coming out of the roof of his home as he boarded the school bus. He called to his dad, who was able to run inside and rescue his 6- and 4-year old sons. The children’s mother was at work. The Hutchinson News reports the family’s cat died in the fire, which…
HESSTON, Kan. (AP) A section of interstate near Wichita is reopened after a bomb squad investigated the cargo in a truck. Interstate 135 between Hesston and North Newton was closed for six hours overnight after a trucker reported he had received a call about suspicious materials in his semi-trailer. The trucker says he parked his vehicle and called 911 after receiving the call Monday evening. KWCH reports it was unclear early Tuesday if anything was found in the truck. The Harvey County Sheriff’s office says the trucker was driving for Hobby Lobby on a route from Oklahoma to Colorado.