WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Wichita is hopping as the city plays host to the National American Rabbit Breeders Association Convention. Broadcaster KAKE reports that the event has attracted more than 3,000 rabbit breeders from across the country. Organizers say the five-day event will provide a $2 million economic boost. Convention chairman Tom Little says downtown hotels and some in outlying areas are packed. The crowd pours into downtown Wichita at meal time. Convention-goer Allan Ormond says he grew up on a ranch in Utah. Everything changed when he moved to the suburbs. Because subdivisions frown on cattle, he settled on rabbits.…
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Gov. Sam Brownback’s emphasis on increasing adoptions in Kansas is showing some early promising results. The Kansas Department of Children and Families says 777 adoptions were finalized in the state in the 2012 fiscal year. Another 761 state adoptions were recorded in 2011. Those are increases from 721 in 2010, although not as high as the 816 in 2009. Brownback, whose family includes an adopted boy and girl, has made public adoptions a priority. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports adoptions through the state cost almost nothing, while private adoptions can cost up to $30,000. Children adopted after age…
PITTSBURG, Kan. (AP) Pittsburg State University is offering an academic take on zombies, vampires and other things that go bump in the night. The school says assistant English professor Jamie McDaniel is planning a Halloween lecture titled “Let’s Talk Monsters.” The public is invited to attend for free at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday in Grubbs Hall. McDaniel plans to trace the origins of today’s monster culture, from Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” and voodoo zombie rites through the “Twilight” series and “The Walking Dead.” The school hopes that the “Let’s Talk” lecture will be the first in a series. Monsters, scary stories and…
MCPHERSON, Kan. (AP) A preliminary hearing for two men charged in the beating death of a Tabor College student has been rescheduled to December. The hearing for Alton Franklin and DeQuinte Flournoy, both 19-year-old men from Dallas, was scheduled for Monday. But it was postponed until Dec. 10. The Hutchinson News reports attorneys did not explain the reason for the delay. The suspects, both former McPherson College football players, are charged with being accessories to second-degree murder in the Sept. 22 death of 26-year-old Brandon Brown. Brown, a redshirt defensive lineman for Tabor College, died after being injured in a…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Gov. Sam Brownback and other top Kansas Republicans are planning a two-day motorcycle tour of the state ahead of next week’s elections. Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer and congresswoman Lynn Jenkins are among those set to join the ride that starts Thursday in Topeka and ends Friday in Salina. Everyone taking part will travel by motorcycle if the weather allows. The so-called “Road Map for Growth Tour” will promote Republican GOP candidates for the U.S. House and state Legislature. Among the targets are several Kansas Senate seats where Brownback has backed conservative Republicans. From Topeka, the group plans…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas officials and university economists plan to meet Election Day to draft new revenue projections for Gov. Sam Brownback and legislators to use in making budget decisions. The Nov. 6 meeting will allow the forecasters to revise earlier projections for the fiscal year that began July 1. They’ll also issue the first official estimates for the fiscal year that begins in July 2013. The team includes legislative researchers, members of Brownback’s budget stuff, Department of Revenue officials and economists from the state’s three largest public universities. The current forecast was issued in April and predicts the state…
Campaign receipt and expenditure reports were due the first of this week, with numbers gradually coming in. Many started this reporting period of July through October with quite a bit of cash on hand. The 22nd Senate race featuring Tom Hawk and Bob Reader shows Hawk with $33,280.25 in contributions, with expenditures of $15,822.48. Reader looks to have received $74,106.00 in contribution, with his expenditures landing at $56.060.01. Of these two candidates, only Reader began this reporting period with any cash on hand with $4,608.72. Those running for the State Representative 51st District were no exception to having cash on hand when…
Twelve jurors were selected Monday during day one of Domingo Soto’s trial. Soto is charged with aiding and abetting the 1st degree murder of Steve Freele in December 2011. During Tuesday’s continuation of the trial, Prosecuting Attorney, Barry Disney began by questioning Riley County Police Detective Alan Riniker about Soto’s cell phone history on the night of the incident. Riniker stated there were nine outgoing calls in Soto’s phone record, as well as 3 incoming calls and 12 missed calls-three of which were from Michael Lang. Riley County Police Detective, Robert Dierks was next to take the stand. Dierks serves…
An out of town woman told police she was the victim of rape. The 22-year-old female told Riley County Police Tuesday that sometime on July 27th between 6:30 and 8:30 pm a suspect known to the victim committed the rape in the south east area of Manhattan. Police are investigating the incidents, and no arrests have been made at this time. ——— Police are reporting an incident of rape was alleged to have occurred on Monday afternoon. Riley County Police released a report which indicated the victim is a 21-year-old female who says the rape occurred in the north west…
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