West Virginia 60, Texas 58 MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) Deniz Kilicli and Jabarie Hinds scored 14 points apiece to lead West Virginia to a 60-58 win over Texas on Monday night. West Virginia (11-11, 4-5 Big 12 Conference) swept the season series and sent the Longhorns (10-12, 2-7) to their seventh loss in nine games. Freshman Eron Harris added 13 points for West Virginia. Sheldon McClellan led Texas with 14 points and Javan Felix had 12. Texas trailed by as many as 11 early in the second half but went ahead 49-47 on two free throws by Felix with 8:21…
Author: KMAN Staff
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell called the Super Bowl power outage “unfortunate” Monday, but said it won’t stop the NFL from returning to New Orleans.
The 5-year-old boy held hostage in Alabama for almost a week is now free. Authorities stormed the bunker where he was held on Monday, rescued him and killed his abductor.
The new Justice Center in Westmoreland was yet again the central topic of Monday’s Pottawatomie County Commission meeting as a work session was scheduled. The purpose behind the work session was to examine a few issues not covered in the original bid documents. Robert Reece, County Administrator, had a list of about 40 items in which he reviewed with the commissioners and those present. Some items that were brought up concerned the efforts of actually moving departments to their new places, where vending machines were going to go, storage for the departments, parking and curbs, along with a number of…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A 39-year-old Wichita man has been sentenced to two years in prison for evading taxes on income linked to pornographic websites. The U.S. Attorney’s office says Dallen Harris must also pay $827,000 in restitution under the sentence he received Monday in U.S. District Court. Harris pleaded guilty earlier to one count of tax evasion, admitting he earned more than $1 million in 2010 but reported income of just $164,000. Prosecutors dropped three other counts of tax evasion in return for the plea. In a related civil case, the government describes Harris as a webmaster who owned the…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A former Topeka executive has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for scheming to steal more than $2 million in Medicaid funds. The U.S. Attorney’s office for Kansas says in a release Monday that 44-year-old Jason Sellers of Lyndon also was ordered to pay $2.08 million in restitution. He pleaded guilty in October to one count of wire fraud for diverting Medicaid funds to his own use when he was chief financial officer of Kansas Health Solutions. Prosecutors said Sellers fraudulently billed Kansas Health Solutions for information technology services performed by a fake business. Some…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas Senate Majority Leader Terry Bruce says he expects the chamber’s Republican-dominated tax committee to endorse most of GOP Gov. Sam Brownback’s tax plan. But Assessment and Taxation Committee Chairman Les Donovan said Monday the situation remains “fluid.” The committee plans to begin debating Brownback’s proposals Tuesday. Brownback wants to follow up on last year’s aggressive income tax cuts by reducing individual tax rates further, but he also wants to stabilize the budget. He’s proposing to eliminate two popular income tax deductions for homeowners and cancel a decline in the state sales tax scheduled that’s scheduled to…
EL DORADO, Kan. (AP) Police in a southeast Kansas community are looking for a woman who’s been stealing from residents after gaining entrance to homes with a sob story. The El Dorado Times reports the woman is responsible for numerous thefts in the Butler County town. Authorities say the woman often goes to the homes of senior citizens and says she needs to use a telephone or bathroom. Once inside, she steals prescription medicines, cash and jewelry. The suspect is white, and 30 to 35 years old. Descriptions of her hair color and style vary, but lately it’s been blond…
EMPORIA, Kan. (AP) The damage is estimated at $10,000 after a deer wandered into an Emporia jewelry store and panicked before dying of fright. KVOE-AM reports the deer was one of several that were spotted in the city on Saturday. On Commercial Street, the doe activated an automatic door entry at Stanley Jewelry and calmly walked inside. Employees said the deer wandered toward the back of the store and become agitated at the sight of itself in a mirror. The deer destroyed an expensive china display, along with glassware and the mirror. The animal quickly collapsed and died of stress.…
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) A program begun in 2011 to persuade people to live in rural Kansas is having some success. The Rural Opportunity Zones program pays part of student loans and gives income tax breaks to people who move to a county with a declining population. The Hutchinson News reports since the program started, 628 people have applied to have up to $15,000 of their student loans repaid. Of those, 322 have been approved and 151 applications are pending. Gov. Sam Brownback says he’s pleased the program is working as planned. The program’s success is presenting the biggest challenge. Some…