The Manhattan City, CiCo and Northview Pools will open for the swim season on Saturday, May 25 at 1:00 p.m. Daily pool hours for the season will be: • City Pool 1:00 – 8:00 p.m. • CiCo Pool 1:00 – 6:00 p.m. • Northview Pool 1:00 – 7:00 p.m. For more information, please contact the Manhattan Parks and Recreation Department Office at 587-2757 or visit www.cityofmhk.com/pools. The Splash Park in the southeast corner of City Park continues to be open 10:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m., seven days a week.
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The Manhattan High Indians had a short stay at the Class 6A State Baseball Tournament in Lawrence on Thursday as the Tribe fell to Olathe South 4-3. After two scoreless innings, the Falcons plated two in the top of the third and added one more heading into the bottom of the fifth inning. Manhattan right fielder Brett Fehr broke the ice for Indians in the side with a two RBI triple. MHS would level the score on an additional run heading into the sixth. A fielding error landed Olathe South’s go ahead run on base as Chase Hanson would come…
President Obama is standing by the use of drone-launched missile strikes. But he’s also moving to limit them as part of a refocusing of the fight against Islamist terrorists that also includes a new push to close Guantanamo Bay.
The Boy Scouts of America threw open its ranks Thursday to gay Scouts but not gay Scout leaders, a move that LGBT activists are calling the “first step” to full inclusion of gays in scouting.
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) A June sentencing date has been scheduled for a suburban Chicago man who was arrested after two of his children were found bound and blindfolded in a Wal-Mart parking lot in eastern Kansas. Adolfo Gomez, 53, and his wife, Deborah Gomez, of Northlake, Ill., were arrested last June 13 in Lawrence. Police reported finding two of their children, ages 5 and 7, bound by their hands and feet in the store parking lot. Adolfo Gomez pleaded no contest to felony child abuse and child endangerment. The Lawrence Journal-World reports he’s scheduled to be sentenced June 19. A…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Wichita residents and businesses might be required to pay a $1,000 fine a month if they use too much water. The city staff made that recommendation as part of a water conservation proposal unveiled Wednesday. The fine would be imposed on those who use 310 percent more than their average winter water usage. Public Works official Ben Nelson says surveys and meetings found that water rates and indoor and business water use were residents’ top priorities, while outdoor use was the lowest priority. This recommendation will go before the Wichita City Council June 4. Wichita is working…
MAIZE, Kan. (AP) A teacher at a suburban Wichita high school was arrested after the district reported he had made criminal threats against the school. The 39-year-old teacher at Maize High School reportedly made the comments during a soccer game Tuesday night. The school’s principal, Chris Botts, said in an email sent to school parents Wednesday the comments suggested possible violence toward the school. He says the school was searched and there was no indication the threat was valid. Sedgwick County jail records show the teacher was booked on charges of criminal threat and was held on $250,000 bond. Maize…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) A Kansas City, Kan., man has been indicted on charges of threatening the city’s police chief and other law enforcement officers. Federal court records show John D. Hudson, 42, was arrested Thursday, one day after being indicted on four counts of retaliating against a witness. Prosecutors allege Hudson told someone in 2012 the police officers were “rats” who would be “eliminated” for giving information to FBI agents. The FBI at the time was investigating unspecified criminal civil rights violations. The indictment also accuses Hudson of saying in March 2013 that he would “start taking them out…
EMPORIA, Kan. (AP) Seven people have been released from an Emporia hospital after an ammonia leak at the city’s Tyson Foods plant. KVOE-AM reports reports that emergency workers were sent to the plant Thursday morning. Officials said the level of ammonia that was leaking was well below what’s considered lethal. Tyson spokesman Gary Mickelson says the leak temporarily disrupted production in part of the processing plant before it was found and stopped. About six weeks ago, Tyson Foods agreed to pay a nearly $4 million civil penalty to settle alleged violations of the Clean Air Act, largely because of ammonia…
We talk “Medical” on today’s InFocus as Cari Merrill with American Red cross stops in along with Marcia Locke and Rob Denell with Johnson Cancer Research Center. This is followed up by Robbin Cole, Executive Director at Pawnee Mental Health. *A correction needs to be made for Marcia Locke, during the interview she referenced June 7. It is really on the 14. [mp3-jplayer]