TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback’s top staff attorney is among 21 applicants for an opening on the state’s second-highest court. Brownback Chief Counsel Caleb Stegall was joined by five lower-court judges in meeting Friday’s deadline to apply for the Court of Appeals. They included Sedgwick County District Judge Tony Powell of Wichita, a former Kansas House member. The applicants are seeking the seat held by Judge Christel Marquardt. She plans to retire in January after 17 years on the 13-member court. A statewide nominating commission will interview the applicants next month and send the names of three finalists…
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Federal officials have removed four female inmates serving federal sentences from the state-operated Topeka Correctional Facility. The Federal Bureau of Prisons arrived Thursday to take the prisoners away. The action comes after the U.S. Department of Justice released a report in September concluding there was widespread sexual abuse of inmates at the Topeka prison. However, a spokesman for the Kansas Department of Corrections says federal officials didn’t given any explanation for the decision to remove the inmates. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports a spokesman for the federal Bureau of Prisons declined to say why the inmates were transferred…
On Saturday, Oct 13, the Traffic Operations Facility had its open house to welcome the community in to see the new building. Starting the morning with an opening ceremony, the tour moved those in attendance through the conference room for a powerpoint presentation to discuss the beginning of the facility and to where things are now. The tour then moved to the control center where computers and televisions were set watching traffic and showing how things are progressing as the days goes by. The offices were the next on the tour, followed by the sign making room where the process of making…
At about 6:00 pm on Friday night, weather was a factor to a number of accidents on K-18, which has slowed the pace of traffic considerably. Continue to expect some delays.
On Friday the 7th annual Great Plains Radio History Symposium took place at the Campus Holiday Inn in Manhattan. K-state professor Steven Smethers says the symposium seeks to commemerate and educate the public on the impact of radio in midwestern culture and beyond. Kansas Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame member Bill Miller, and sportscaster Tom Hedrick took questions from the audience about their views on radio issues, and personal experiences working in the field. A Luncheon was held and the Huck Boyd Community Award was presented to multiple radio station owner Cliff Shank. Next year’s symposium is scheduled to span two days to…
An interactive mobile exhibit called: Hunger-U mobile tour, made a stop on K-State’s campus yesterday and today. It was stationed in the University’s Bosco Plaza. Funded by Farmers Feeding the World and Dupont, the 40-foot long exhibit is on a seven stop tour across the United States, visiting college campuses such as Missouri, Purdue and the National FFA Convention in Indianapolis. Mobile Marketing Associate, Tiffany C. Dole, stated the goal for the exhibit is to educate college students about world hunger and the role of advanced agriculture, and ultimately getting us one step closer to alleviating hunger.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) An inmate who fled from a north-central Kansas jail has been sentenced to another 18 years in federal prison for carjacking. Federal prosecutors announced Thursday that Eric Jerome James, 22, received the sentence after pleading guilty to stealing a vehicle following his escape from the Ottawa County Jail. The Wichita Eagle reports that James escaped along with three other men who had been transferred to the jail from an overcrowded state prison. James was the last to be captured when he was arrested two days later in Omaha, Neb. James admitted that after escaping, he assaulted a man…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A deadline is looming for attorneys and lower court judges who hope to fill a coming vacancy on the Kansas Court of Appeals. They had until Friday to submit their applications to a statewide nominating commission. It will interview the candidates and send the names of two or three finalists to Gov. Sam Brownback. The 13-member Court of Appeals is the state’s second-highest court. Applications due Friday are for the seat held by Judge Christel Marquardt. She plans to retire in January after 17 years on the bench. But the court has another vacancy because Chief Judge…
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) The Kansas State Fair collected 14 percent more in ticket sales this year than last year as attendance increased. Fair officials reported the $200,000 boost in gate receipts Thursday as they set the 2014 budget. The Hutchinson News reports that the fair had nearly 4,000 more fairgoers than in 2011. This year also saw the price of adult tickets bought at the gate increase by $2 to $10. Plus, advance tickets increased by $1. The 2012 event also netted the fair $1.79 million in sales, up $2 million from last year. The sales category includes the percentage…
NICKERSON, Kan. (AP) The central Kansas town of Nickerson is dropping its police force because of budget concerns. The Hutchinson News reports that the city council made the decision in a 4-3 vote Thursday night. The last police shift in the town of about 1,000 residents will end at midnight Saturday. And the Reno County Sheriff’s Office will be the primary law enforcement agency in Nickerson after Tuesday, when the department officially will be eliminated. The county already responds to about half the city’s calls, and questions had been raised about the actual effect of the city’s mostly part-time police…