A power outage occurred on Manhattan’s west side at approximately 10:45am this morning. Westar Energy spokesman Nick Bundy tells KMAN that approximately 3,400 customer were affected. According to the Westar Energy outage reports on their website, as of right now that number has dropped tremendously with reports of just a few isolated outages. KMAN will continue to pursue information on the origin of the outage.
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The Pottawatomie County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the theft of two pickup trucks from the Bluebird Road area, North of Highway 24. The victim reported that the trucks were taken sometime around the 7th or 8th of May 2013. The trucks are owned by Bob Hull Incorporated. These trucks contained utility and general work tools. The first truck is a 2004 white Chevrolet HD 2500 4X4, with a Duramax Diesel. This truck is a crew cab with a pickup bed. The bed contained a tool box behind the cab, and then a fuel tank behind the tool box with a hand pump.…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Legislators are touting changes made to Kansas driver’s license laws that they say will help poorer residents drive in limited situations while their licenses are suspended. The measure allows residents with suspended licenses to apply for a restricted permit to drive to work, school or other limited locations while they pay off traffic fines. The Wichita Eagle reports that the law was on the books four years ago and lawmakers initially didn’t notice when a sunset provision took effect in 2012. They took action this session to restore the law. Two interns with Kansas Legal Services said…
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) Johnson County Community College has promoted one of its administrators to president of the college. The college’s trustees on Thursday named Joseph M. Sopcich the school’s fifth president His is currently the college’s executive vice president of administrative services. The 58-year-old Sopcich will assume the presidency this summer. He will replace President Terry Calaway, who resigned after serving as president since June 2007. The Kansas City Star reports Sopcich signed a three-year contract with a total compensation package of $317,900 a year. His base salary will be $240,000.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A homeless man has been sentenced to more than 13 years in prison for beating another homeless man to death over cigarettes. Patrick R. Perkins, 41, was sentenced Thursday for involuntary manslaughter and robbery in the death of Marshall K. Hauschulz, 41. Police say the beating occurred as Perkins was robbing Hauschulz of cigarettes in December 2011. The Wichita Eagle reports state prison records show Perkins was paroled from prison six weeks before he killed Hauschulz. He had served time for a Reno County aggravated battery conviction and also had a 1994 Saline County conviction for aggravated…
ARKANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) An administrator at an Oregon community college will be the new president of Cowley College in Arkansas City. The college’s board voted Thursday to hire Clark Williams to lead the college. He will replace Patrick McAttee, who retired at the end of 2012 after serving as Cowley’s president for 25 years. The Arkansas City Traveler reports Williams currently is the vice president and chief operating officer for Blue Mountain Community College in Pendleton, Ore. Williams will begin his new job on July 8.
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) Data from the Kansas Geological Survey show oil production in Kansas last year was up over 2011, but natural gas production was down. Officials with the survey, based at the University of Kansas, report the 43.7 million barrels of oil produced last year were the most since 1995. The oil had a value of $3.7 billion. The survey also reported that Kansas natural gas production declined from 312 billion cubic feet in 2011 to slightly less than 300 billion cubic feet last year, a drop of 4 percent. The value of the gas declined 34 percent last…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A committee in the Kansas Legislature is trying to prevent the sale of a parking lot for government workers near the Statehouse. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the Legislature’s Joint Committee on State Building Construction voted Thursday to ask the Department of Administration to reject all bids for the lot. The highest bid was $2.5 million. Some committee members said the department failed to follow the proper procedure for selling the lot because it didn’t consult the committee, legislative leaders or a state Capitol-area planning group before seeking bids. But interim Administration Secretary Mark McGivern said the state…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A federal judge has set a trial date for a Kansas store owner accused of selling phony luxury goods imported from China. U.S. District Judge Eric Melgren on Thursday scheduled the trial of Glenda Sue Morgan, 54, for July 2 in federal court in Wichita. A three-count indictment handed down last month charges Morgan and her Wichita shop, The Fabulous Store LLC, with conspiracy and trafficking in counterfeit goods. Prosecutors allege Morgan sold handbags, wallets, sunglasses and jewelry bearing trademark designs and brand names but not made by those companies. The luxury-name goods included Prada, Coach and…
On today’s InFocus, Cathy talks with State Representative Ron Highland from Wamego, U.S. Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas, and Lynda Bachelor with Hands on Kansas State. [mp3-jplayer]