Crowds gathered around Hong Kong’s harbor on Thursday to watch the arrival of a giant inflatable rubber duck. Created by a Dutch artist to transport a message of peace and harmony to all, it has been sailing the seas since 2007.
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More than 500 bodies have been recovered from the Bangladesh garment-factory building that collapsed last week, authorities said Friday.
Sales tax revenues for Manhattan are up for the first time in a while, with the April report released by Manhattan Finance Director Bernie Hayen. $779,560 was collected, with an adjusted rate of about $718,523 , or $2,137 up from the year before. The city’s budget had called for $715,368. Information from state Treasurer Ron Estes’ office indicates The total for April 2013 is $1,974,794.95, with the compensating use tax amounting to $99,017.48. The transportation development district tax amounts to $38,284.99, resulting in a grand total of $1,322,097.42. Hayen indicates as in the past three months local retailers were both…
A small plane crashed into the Hudson River and sank on Thursday. Officials say it’s unclear how many people were on the plane, but there are no signs of survivors.
President Barack Obama said Thursday he was comfortable with his administration’s decision to allow over-the-counter purchases of a morning-after pill for anyone 15 and older.
A leader of a Boston mosque disavowed the Marathon bombing during an interfaith service on Thursday. Anwar Kazmi acknowledged that the bombing suspects had prayed at the mosque, but called the attack ‘a grotesque perversion of our faith.’
The recent Boston Marathon bombings were devastating, and left many searching for answers. Pickett Professor of military history for Kansas State University, Dr. David Stone, gave a presentation Thursday evening on Chechnya’s violent history and how it may have influenced the bombing suspects, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. “It’s very difficult to say, without knowing a lot more specifically; and so what I’m suggesting is a general picture without necessarily saying this is exactly what happened to these two guys. But I think it is fair to say that the Chechen cause, over time, has become more radical, more interested in violent interpretations of Islam, less…
LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) A 28-year-old Leavenworth woman who left her baby alone in an alley pleaded no contest to endangering a child and drug charges. Prosecutors say Elizabeth A. Michaud entered the pleas Wednesday to aggravated endangering a child and two drug charges arising from other cases. Michaud’s 7-week-old son was left sitting alone in a stroller in May 2012. The Leavenworth Times reports officers who responded to a report of a missing child found Michaud crying and saying she needed to find her baby. She wasn’t able to provide any information while officers searched for the baby. Another woman…
VALLEY FALLS, Kan. (AP) After just one week of operation, some citizens of Valley Falls have already had enough of the town’s new police auxiliary program. Valley Falls, a Jefferson County town of about 1,200 residents, started the program April 25. It allows some civilians without police training to patrol the city in police cars. The town has two full-time and two part-time police officers. About 40 people attended a Valley Falls City Council meeting Wednesday night to complain about the actions of some of the auxiliary officers Saturday night. Some residents say teenagers were drag-racing and speeding on Valley…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas attorney general’s office is working to keep up with the fast pace of applications for concealed-carry permits. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Attorney General Derek Schmidt’s office received 3,462 applications during April. Schmidt’s office said Thursday that’s the third-highest month since the state’s licensing program began in 2007. Schmidt’s staff also received a record 4,072 applications in March for licenses to pack a hidden handgun. That followed 3,573 requests in February and 3,167 in January. Schmidt’s office has been criticized for not completing the processing of applications within the legal maximum of 90 days. He…