An unusual search occurred early Friday morning. Details are still a little scarce at this point, but the Riley County Police Department stated that at about 5:44 Friday morning they received a call reporting that two Fort Riley soldiers who were supposed to be on base never arrived. Police began looking for the individuals and located their vehicle in a ditch along Deep Creek Road. Continuing their search for the individuals, police checked with local hospitals and were unable to locate them. A report came that the two individuals somehow made their way back to Manhattan; both badly injured. KMAN…
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President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul could reduce treatment options for nation’s 11 million illegal immigrants.
The Flint Hills Regional Council will under-go a change in leadership as Executive Director, Ty Warner, has resigned. Warner will take a new role as Executive Director of the North Western Indiana Regional Planning Commission. Gary Stith, will step in as Interim Executive Director, while the Flint Hills Regional Council begins a national search to find a permanent replacement for Warner. Stith has over 38 years in public and private planning practice, and led the redevelopment of downtown Manhattan. Stith is also a Visiting Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture / Regional and Community Planning at Kansas State University.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Incoming Kansas Senate President Susan Wagle has hired two aides from the staffs of departing Republican leaders in the House. Wagle announced the appointments Thursday of Ryan Gilliland as her chief of staff and Aly Rodee as communications director. Wagle, a Wichita Republican, said she wanted an experienced staff. She takes over as Senate president when lawmakers convene their 2013 session Jan. 14. Gilliland most recently served as chief of staff for House Majority Leader Arlen Siegfreid. Rodee was communications director for House Speaker Mike O’Neal. O’Neal did not seek re-election to the House and is CEO…
EL DORADO, Kan. (AP) A south-central Kansas woman will spend at least 25 years behind bars for helping murder her boyfriend’s grandmother one year ago. KAKE-TV reports 20-year-old Lyndsey Giovinazzo was sentenced Thursday in Butler County District Court to 25 years to life in prison. Giovinazzo pleaded guilty in July to first-degree murder in the December 2011 strangling of Loyce Cody, grandmother of Jacob Allen Hoyt. The 69-year-old pre-school teacher was strangled in her Augusta home, where a car, debit cards and candy were stolen. Hoyt’s trial had been scheduled for this month but has been postponed. Hoyt and Giovinazzo…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas City Power Light has been granted a $33 million rate increase that will add about $74 a year to electric bills for its 242,000 Kansas customers. The increase was approved Thursday by the Kansas Corporation Commission, which says it will boost the average residential customer’s costs by $6.20 a month. The Kansas City, Mo.-based utility had sought a nearly $64 million increase for its Kansas customers. KCP officials said they needed additional revenue to maintain generating plants and cover new costs of complying with federal environmental regulations. The company also sought to earn a 10.4 percent…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) An economic consulting firm predicts Kansas would lose nearly 40,400 jobs next year if no deal is struck on the so-called fiscal cliff. A state-by-state analysis posted Wednesday by Regional Economic Models Inc. says the private sector in Kansas would take the biggest hit, with nearly 35,000 jobs at risk. The firm says retailers would suffer the most as consumers cut spending. The fiscal cliff refers to automatic tax increases and cuts in government spending that would effect Jan. 1 unless Congress and the White House reach a deal to avert them. For Kansas, Regional Economic Models…
PITTSBURG, Kan. (AP) A Pittsburg man who fell to his death in a strip mining pit will be buried Thursday, thanks to a group of caring Pittsburg State students. Mateo V. Lorenzo died on Nov. 24 at a Pittsburg park. His mother, Becky Jones, couldn’t afford to pay for his funeral. A funeral home wouldn’t bury him without the money upfront because Jones owed money for the funeral of her daughter, who died last August. That prompted Samantha York, who used to work with Jones, to begin raising funds for funeral expenses. She and several other Pittsburg State students held…
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) A three-toed dinosaur foot estimated to be between 70 million and 100 million years old is back on display at the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center. The foot was one of the first displays at the Hutchinson museum and has been returned for the center’s 50th anniversary. It will be on display through January. The Hutchinson News reports the foot is from a duck-billed dinosaur believed to have lived in the Jurassic period of the Mesozoic Era. The Cosmosphere first displayed it in 1964. The 200-pound foot was found in a coal mine at Dragerton, Utah. It…
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) A Hutchinson baby who apparently ingested a feather is home from the hospital and doing well. The nearly 7-month-old girl, Mya Whittington, was hospitalized during the weekend while doctors tried to determine why her jaw swelled. Eventually, a doctor pulled a 2-inch feather out of her neck area. The girl’s father, Aaron Whittington, said Wednesday the baby was home from the hospital. Doctors decided not to treat an enlarged area on her neck that has a hard knot inside it. They say the area will heal on its own. The Hutchinson News reports the little girl has…