Turkey’s interior minister says the death toll in the explosions in a town across the border from Syria is around 40, according to private NTV television. Muammer Guler said Saturday around 100 other people were injured car bomb explosions.
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Starting at the new home of the Wonder Workshop Children’s Museum, the Call Me Manhattan trolley tour provided Manhattan residents the opportunity to view historical sites and homes. Some of the sites featured on the tour included: Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, George Giles’ house, Phi Beta Sigma house, Wyandotte Colony Goodnow Park, and Henry Strong’s house. At all of the 22 sites, an informational panel displaying a telephone number with a code, allowed participants to access the audio history of the home/place which shared the stories of the families who established them. The event was donations only, to benefit…
The Yard Arts Classics Car Club held its annual car show today day with car enthusiasts from all over the area gathering to show off their vehicles . Car Show Chair for the club Pat Caffey says event organizers expect around one hundred participants for this year’s event, which is slightly higher than last year, when just under one hundred participated . There were a wide variety of cars on display, ranging across a span of years, makes, and models. Caffey says that all kinds were welcome and there were categories for every possible kind of vehicle. Those categories included…
Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has been buried in a cemetery in central Virginia, infuriating some members of the area’s Islamic community who say they weren’t consulted.
At 10:22 pm Friday evening, inmate Randy Ridens, Sr, was apprehended as he was entering Topeka, Kansas. He was immediately transported back to Lansing Correctional Facility. Earlier in the evening, Allen Hurst and Scott Gilbert, the other two minimum custody escapees from Lansing Correctional Facility, had been apprehended and taken into custody by law enforcement officers in Clinton County, Missouri. All three inmates had been declared on escape status from the minimum unit at Lansing Correctional Facility at approximately 7:40 am earlier in the day.
Marc Fucarile, one of the many people who was injured in last month’s Boston Marathon bombing is still recovering at Mass. General Hospital. Fucarile lost his right leg, and so did three of his friends.
President Barack Obama is launching a new effort to rally the public around his hotly disputed health care law, a strategy aimed at shoring up key components of the sweeping federal overhaul and staving off another challenge from Republicans.
On a night where offense was in short supply and they saw their catcher get thrown out of the game, the Kansas State Wildcats did what they’ve done numerous times so far this Baseball season….find a way to win. A pair of freshman pitchers combined to shutdown a potent Kansas lineup and a huge home run provided the difference as Kansas State downed the Jayhawks 4-3 Friday night in the opening game of a three-game Big 12 Conference Series before 2,090 at Hoglund Ballpark in Lawrence. K-State led 3-0 after four and a half innings on a pair of sacrifice…
On Friday, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced that it will cancel the planned closure of 149 airport control towers thanks to the bipartisan bill passed by Congress which unequivocally directed the FAA to find savings elsewhere in their budget rather than target control towers for closure and air traffic controllers for furloughs. Among those saved from closure is the tower at Manhattan Regional Airport which had been scheduled to close initially last month before it was postponed until September. Other Kansas Air Traffic Control facilities protected from closure by the announcement include: Philip Billard…
The silver spire topping One World Trade Center on Friday brought the structure to its final height of 1,776 feet. Loud applause and cries of joy erupted from construction workers as the spire was gently lowered and secured into place.