Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke to The Associated Press in a wide-ranging interview on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly _ his last as president of Iran.
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Tuesday night’s Manhattan City commission meeting featured a projected date for the final construction of NBAF, and a confrontation with the Manhattan Living Wage Coalition as the 2011 Economic Report and Update was presented during a commission work session. Assistant City Manager Lauren Palmer reported the Department of Homeland Security is projecting the facility to be finished by 2020. The general outlook of the report was positive with only one of the private companies, Collegiate Marketing Services, defaulting on the program’s loans. During public comment Manhattan Living Wage Coalition coordinator Geri Simon says the report is trying to spin things involving…
FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) Thirty-five members of a military police unit at Fort Leavenworth will soon be guarding prisoners at a U.S. military installation in Kuwait. The soldiers are members of the Army’s 705th Military Police Internment and Resettlement Battalion. The Leavenworth Times reports they’re leaving in stages following a deployment ceremony Monday at the northeastern Kansas Army post. The MP’s will operate a detention facility that holds U.S. military personnel at Camp Arifjan, a large U.S. base located about 40 miles from Kuwait City. The Navy has been operating the detention facility for 10 years. The soldiers are scheduled…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) A federal court jury has ruled that selling gasoline that has not been adjusted for its temperature does not violate the Kansas Consumer Protection Act. The jury returned the verdict Monday in U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Kan. The issue is whether customers are shortchanged when buying gasoline that is over 60 degrees in temperature. The plaintiffs had sued gasoline retailers including QuikTrip, 7-Eleven and Kum & Go. The case was consolidated from 26 cases filed across the country. The Kansas City Star reports the plaintiffs argued that customers get less fuel for the price…
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) The University of Kansas is increasing its efforts to help people who are victims of discrimination or harassment. The university opened a central office to take discrimination or harassment complaints this semester. And it is requiring all students, faculty and staff to take an online sexual harassment training course, both on the Lawrence campus and at the campus in Overland Park. Before this year, harassment or discrimination reports were directed to the Department of Human Resources or handled by individual academic departments. Jane McQueeny is director of the new office of Institutional Opportunity and Access. The Lawrence…
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) Overland Park residents will be able to carry their guns in public, with certain restrictions. The Overland Park City Council on Monday approved an ordinance allowing legal gun owners to openly carry their weapons, if they are in holsters with the safety engaged. The council passed the ordinance after the Kansas attorney general said cities may not completely prohibit open carry of a loaded firearm while on public property. Some Overland Park officials said they were concerned the city could be sued if it didn’t allow open carry. Gun owners will be allowed to carry weapons…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A Topeka man pleaded no contest to second-degree murder and other charges in a shooting death near a Topeka high school. Austin Tabor pleaded no contest Monday to killing Matthew Mitchell, 20, in October 2010 near Topeka West High School. A 17-year-old friend of Mitchell’s survived after being shot five times. Tabor was scheduled to go on trial in two weeks for a second time. His first trial ended in a mistrial when a newspaper reporter inadvertently tweeted a photo that showed a juror. His sentencing is scheduled for Nov. 26. WIBW reports two other people have…
OAKLAWN, Kan. (AP) One of five people arrested in a shooting death in a Wichita suburb has been convicted of first-degree murder and six other felonies. A Sedgwick County jury on Monday Reginald Dupree for his role in the Dec. 14 shooting death of Markez Phillips, 19. Prosecutors said Phillips was killed during a robbery at his girlfriend’s house in Oaklawn. Two young children were in the home at the time. The Wichita Eagle reports the alleged shooter, Malek Brown, is scheduled to stand trial in October. Dupree’s lawyer told the jury during the trial that his client was at…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A U.S. House candidate from northeastern Kansas is criticizing incumbent Republican Rep. Lynn Jenkins and Congress for failing to act on a new farm bill. Topeka minister Tobias Schlingensiepen, the Democratic nominee in the 2nd Congressional District, issued a statement critical of Jenkins on Monday. Schlingensiepen says House members left Washington to campaign for re-election without acting on the farm bill, despite receiving a version from the Senate earlier this year. Jenkins’ campaign issued a statement saying the congresswoman grew up on a farm and understood the issues and was trying to work for a solution. That…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt has reorganized his office’s administration of programs that help crime victims. He’s also promoted his chief spokesman to oversee some of them. Schmidt says he’s creating a new Division of Crime Victims Compensation that will be overseen by Jeff Wagaman, who has served both as his main spokesman and his deputy chief of staff. Wagaman also is a former assistant state treasurer. The new division will focus on helping crime victims obtain compensation for their losses, allowing the state’s three-member Crime Victims Compensation Board to concentrate on reviewing claims. The new division…