KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Brady Quinn will take over as the Kansas City Chiefs’ starting quarterback and Matt Cassel will serve as the backup beginning with Sunday’s game against the Oakland Raiders. Quinn started in the Chiefs’ loss at Tampa Bay two weeks ago because Cassel was still feeling the effects of a concussion sustained the previous week against Baltimore. The Chiefs were off last week and that gave coach Romeo Crennel an opportunity to evaluate both of them along with the team’s miserable 1-5 start. Crennel said Monday that he hopes changing the quarterback “will get everybody’s attention…
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A rural Wamego teen has been arrested following a joint effort by area law enforcement authorities. The Pottawatomie and Wabaunsee County Sheriff’s offices executed a search warrant in the 16,000 block of Ebel Road, in rural Wamego early Friday afternoon. Pottawatoomie County Sheriff Greg Riat announced Monday as a result of this search, Deputies arrested Nicholas Tidwell, 18, of the residence, for possession of marijuana with intent to sell, possession of drug paraphernalia and no drug tax stamp. An unspecified quantity of marijuana and US currency were seized. Tidwell was transported to the Pottawatomie County Jail with bond set at $10,000.
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) Registered voters in Hutchinson are invited to come on down 650 feet down for free tours of the Kansas Underground Salt Museum on Tuesday evening. The Hutchinson News reports museum officials are offering the tours ahead of next month’s vote on extending a city sales tax that benefits the attraction. Revenue from the tax also goes for sidewalk and street improvements, property tax reduction and another of Hutchinson’s big attractions, the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Museum. Officials say the Underground Salt Museum gets about $100,000 a year roughly 10 percent of its budget from the sales tax.…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas legislative Democrats have created their own online survey to counter a new website created by Gov. Sam Brownback’s administration. Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley and House Minority Leader Paul Davis said Monday their site will gather suggestions for finding school spending efficiencies like the governor’s but it will also collect success stories of how schools are operating. A task force appointed by Brownback is studying ways to promote efficient use of state funding by schools. The task force has a website that accepts anonymous tips and comments from the public about school spending. Secretary of Administration…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A Wichita man has pleaded guilty helping his brother rob a bank in March of this year. The U.S. attorney’s office said Monday that Justin Cooper, 24, of Wichita admitted driving his brother Lessie Cooper to a Commerce Bank branch, where the brother pointed a 9 mm rifle at tellers. But as Lessie Cooper was getting into the getaway car with the stolen money, exploding dye packs surrounded him with a red mist. A nearby Wichita police officer who saw the packs explode chased the car. Justin Cooper surrendered after the car was stopped, but his brother…
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) A Douglas County sheriff’s detective is working to bring some good from an accident that killed a Nebraska man in November 2010. Zachary Harrison, 23, formerly of Hutchinson, is serving nearly seven years in prison for stealing a truck on the University of Kansas campus and later rear-ending a car Cameron Freeman, 21, was riding in. Freeman, of Lincoln, Neb., died in the crash on U.S. 59. In response, Freeman’s parents started the Cameron Effect, a Web-based effort that asks people to commit seven acts of kindness. Detective Jay Armbrister responded to the Freemans’ efforts by giving…
LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) A northeast Kansas woman is free on bond after a not guilty plea was entered on her behalf for allegedly leaving her 2-month-old son in an alley. District Judge Gunnar Sundby entered the plea Friday for Elizabeth A. Michaud, 28, of Leavenworth. Michaud’s attorney said her client needs treatment and wasn’t able to help with her defense. The Leavenworth Times reports a pretrial conference is scheduled for Nov. 30. Michaud is charged with aggravated endangering a child after she allegedly left her son alone May 3 in a Leavenworth alley near her home. Prosecutors believe she was…
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) Kansas State University is powering up a new smart grid laboratory, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday for the new facility in Rathbone Hall. A smart grid seeks to match electric power supply with consumer demand. The lab will be used for research and to train and recruit students. Kansas State’s project received funding from the Kansas City engineering firm of Burns McDonnell. The company’s vice president, Randy Pope, is a Kansas State engineering graduate and will be on hand for Tuesday’s event. Several other companies are donating equipment and furnishing to the lab.
EUDORA, Kan. (AP) Kansas Food Day takes place this week, and state Agriculture Secretary Dale Rodman will spend part of it touring the garden, orchard and culinary arts facility at a high school. The state Agriculture Department is partnering with the Eudora School District for the celebration Wednesday at Eudora High School. Officials from Douglas County and the state Department of Education will also take part. Students in Eudora’s agricultural education program will lead the tours. October is also National Farm To School Month, and the visiting officials will join Eudora students for a lunch made partly from local food…
IOLA, Kan. (AP) The people who designed the new dog park in a southeastern Kansas community didn’t forget the special needs of little dogs. The Iola Register reports the city expects to open the dog park within the next few weeks. The site measures 130 feet by 180 feet, with a special 90-by-40-foot pen reserved for canines weighing 30 pounds or less. And right in the middle of that pen is a feature sure to give the little ones something to yap about a tall, healthy pecan tree that’s been full squirrels. While small dogs romp, run and go nuts…