The results have come in on the Tri-State Wrestling Invitational in Sabetha on Monday. Two schools from the KMAN listening area sent athletes to the meet including local schools Wamego and Riley County. The Red Raiders finished second as a team in the tournament with Riley County placing fourth overall. Wamego came home from the meet with three individual champions of the event. Jacob Dietrich won the 126 lb weight class, Alec Pierson won the 138 lb weight class, and Dylan Campbell finished first in the 152 lb weight class. Other teams competing in the tournament where Marysville, host Sabetha,…
Author: KMAN Staff
Former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn and New York City hotel maid Nafissatou Diallo have signed a settlement of her sexual-assault lawsuit. The amount of the settlement is confidential.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Wichita police are sorting out the details in a pair of weekend homicides that occurred just a few hours apart. The first took place around 9 p.m. Saturday, when 23-year-old George Vasquez was shot in the head after answering a knock at the front door of a home. A 28-year-old man was arrested after police found him outside arguing with two men who live at the house. Police said Monday they were seeking a motive. A suspect is also in custody the fatally stabbing of a 27-year-old man around 1 a.m. Sunday, after a fight broke out…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) Police in Kansas City, Kan., are asking the public’s help in identifying a man found dead in burning vehicle over the weekend. Firefighters made the discovery around 11 p.m. Saturday while extinguishing the flames. Police said Monday the man’s death is now being investigated as a homicide. The victim is believed to have been 40 to 60 years old, with a full set of upper dentures and partial lowers. The vehicle is described as a red, 2012 Lincoln MKT crossover registered to Avis rentals. The cause of death has not been released.
GREENSBURG, Kan. (AP) A south-central Kansas hotel has reopened after carbon monoxide exposure sent more than 30 people to a hospital where they were treated and released. Sunday’s incident caused a brief evacuation of the Best Western Inn Suites in Greensburg. Kiowa County Sheriff Kendal Lothman said Monday that several children had got out of the hotel swimming pool with dilated eyes and difficulty breathing. Lothman says the children had been exposed to high levels of carbon monoxide believed to result from a water heater failing to vent properly. Guests were allowed back in their rooms later Sunday, but the…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A new state program that gives irrigators flexibility in managing their water allocations while also encouraging conservation has about 750 participants. The program was created last year by the Kansas Legislature to conserve the future of the Ogallala Aquifer. The Hutchinson News reports that the multi-year flex account program allows irrigators to use more water during drought years. They can manage their water rights over five years, which helps the state’s aquifers recover during years with more moisture. Kansas Department of Agriculture issued about 2,300 drought emergency term permits during last year’s drought that allowed irrigators to…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansans between the ages of 65 and 74 have only a few days left to enjoy hunting and fishing for free. The state will stop providing free hunting and fishing licenses for people in that age range, starting in January. The exemption began in 1971. State officials estimate ending the practice will bring in $900,000 to $1.5 million. Mike Miller, spokesman for the state’s wildlife department, says Kansas misses out on federal money because it doesn’t sell enough licenses. He says an estimated 30,000 hunters don’t have to buy licenses because of the age exemption. The Joplin…
MULVANE, Kan. (AP) Lottery officials say revenue from the Kansas Star Casino’s first 10 months in operation has exceeded the revenue earned by the two other casinos in Kansas in about the same period. The Kansas Lottery Commission says the Kansas Star casino, which opened in Mulvane on Dec. 20, 2011, had earned about $158 million through the end of October. That is more than the revenue earned in nearly the same period by the two other state-owned casinos. Boot Hill Casino in Dodge City earned $119 million. Hollywood Casino in Kansas City, which opened Feb. 3, has earned $93…
DODGE CITY, Kan. (AP) Kansas Congressman Tim Huelskamp has written House Speaker John Boehner seeking reinstatement to committees he was removed from last week. Huelskamp, R-Kan., was among four GOP lawmakers that Boehner removed from important House political assignments after they bucked party leaders on key votes. The four congressmen voted against the agreement in the summer of 2011 to raise the government’s debt ceiling. Huelskamp lost his seat on the House Budget and Agriculture Committees. Huelskamp says in a release that he sent a letter Friday to Boehner requesting that he be re-seated on the two committees. He says…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Incoming Kansas Senate Vice President Jeff King has appointed a legislative aide who’s worked for leaders in both chambers as his new chief of staff. King said he picked Katie Koupal for the job because of her Statehouse experience. King is a Republican from Independence. Koupal has worked for House Majority Leader Arlen Siegfreid, an Olathe Republican, and former Senate Majority Leader Derek Schmidt, an Independence Republican. She’s also worked for a Topeka lobbying firm. King was appointed to the Senate in 2010, after Schmidt was elected attorney general. King previously served four years in the House.…