OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) A managed health care company is moving 300 workers from offices in Kansas City, Mo., a few miles across the state line to Overland Park, Kan. KSHB-TV reports Coventry Health Care of Kansas Inc. plans to make the move next April. Coventry’s Kansas City offices are located in the southern part of the city, about a block from the Kansas border. Coventry Health Care of Kansas provides health benefit products and services to individuals in Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. It’s a subsidiary of Maryland-based Coventry Health Care Inc., and also has offices in Wichita.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Three more people are now charged in connection with last week’s killing of a Topeka woman. Ashley Alcala, a 34-year-old mother of two, died after being found severely injured in her home last Thursday. Her husband, Manuel Campos Alcala, is being held on $1 million bond on charges of first-degree murder and conspiracy. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports two 19-year-old men and a 58-year-old woman from Texas have now been charged with felony first-degree murder and conspiracy in the death. They’re being held in El Paso County, Texas, on other charges. The charge of felony first-degree murder applies…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A southwest Missouri man wounded in a summer shooting in northeast Kansas has died. The Topeka Capital-Journal reported Tuesday that Michael P. Bailey, 41, of Nevada, Mo., died Friday. He had been hospitalized since July 13, when he was shot in Topeka. The Shawnee County coroner performed an autopsy Monday. Sheriff Herman Jones says the coroner is holding the body for further review and hasn’t made a final determination on the cause of death. Jones says his office is waiting for those results before proceeding with the case. Two other men one from Nevada and another from Topeka…
OSWEGO, Kan. (AP) A Kansas man has been sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of a child sex crime that occurred in 2010. Nicholas Coree Joplin, 24, of Parsons was sentenced Tuesday by Labette County District Judge Robert J. Fleming. The Wichita Eagle reports that the case was prosecuted by the Kansas Attorney General’s office under Jessica’s Law. The statute mandates a life sentence with no possibility of parole for 25 years for adults convicted of certain sex crimes against children younger than 14. A jury convicted Joplin in April on a single count of aggravated indecent liberties with…
Officials of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation recently announced that two Manhattan High School students were named Semifinalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program – Sophia Harms and Austin Canady. There are approximately 16,000 Semifinalists in the 58th annual National Merit Scholarship Program from across the country. These high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for 8,300 National Merit Scholarships, worth more than $34 million, that will be offered next spring.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) Texas coach Mack Brown once welcomed the Longhorn Network. Now he sounds like he’d rather do without it. Brown complained Monday about his weekly time commitment to produce three shows, the network’s access to practice and the tips opposing coaches may get from watching it. Brown says he “didn’t ask for” the network, the school’s 20-year collaboration with ESPN that pays Texas $300 million. Brown says he wants to sit down with network and school officials to address his concerns. The network shows the first 30 minutes of daily drills and some of the conversations…
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…
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…