September is National Recovery Month and as a celebration Pawnee Mental Health along with a number of partners joined together to host a balloon launch, along with a speaker. Sheri is in recovery and she came out on Friday to tell her story and to impart her wisdom on the high school students who were in attendence. The high school SADD, Students Against Destructive Decision, had representatives in the audience gathering knowledge to take back to the schools. Even after the balloon launch and the lunch, some of these students even sat down to talk personally with Sheri about what…
Author: KMAN Staff
Fort Riley has seen a new addition to its scenery as the new Seitz Elementary has opened. On Friday, the official ribbon cutting ceremony occurred with a number of people in attendance including Governor Sam Brownback, Senator Jerry Moran, Under Secretary of the United State Army Dr. Joseph Westphal, Brigadier General Don MacWillie and the name sake of the building General Seitz. “Gen. Seitz was chosen [as the name sake] because of his committment and stead-fast support to the education of all Geary County students, and we are honored to be able to use his name,” the district said in…
HIAWATHA, Kan. (AP) A 12-year-old northeast Kansas boy has been charged with sexually assaulting a 5-year-old girl. Brown County Attorney Kevin Hill said Friday the Hiawatha boy faces two juvenile counts of rape and two counts of aggravated criminal sodomy. Hill filed the charges last week on the same day he received reports from the sheriff’s office and state social service officials. A phone message for the boy’s attorney, Judd Herbster, was not immediately returned. The boy remained in custody. Hill said he had no immediate plans to seek to try the boy as an adult. But he has until…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The state will reimburse Kansas counties for some of the costs incurred after a new motor vehicle registration system was installed, but county officials say more needs to be done. The program caused long delays and lines at motor vehicle offices across the state after it was introduced in May. During a legislative hearing Thursday, Revenue Secretary Nick Jordan said the state will reimburse counties a total of $561,000 to defray the unexpected expenses. And Gov. Sam Brownback plans to create a task force to examine how to improve the system. Jordan says the problems have eased.…
TRIBUNE, Kan. (AP) A large hog farm near Tribune in Greeley County is scheduled to begin operations in early October. The business will have 60 barns when it opens but has permits for 120 barns, with each barn housing 1,000 hogs. It is owned by Seaboard Foods. David Eaheart, marketing director for Seaboard, says the company began stocking the barns several weeks ago and will stock the final barn in the first week of October. He says 10 to 12 people will be hired at the farm. He says the Greeley County operation will house hogs before they are sent…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) After 11 years of discussion, Wichita has begun construction on a third terminal at Mid-Continent Airport. The $101.5 million Air Capital Terminal 3, or ACT 3 will be a two-floor, state-of-the-art terminal. Wichita Mayor Carl Brewer and airport officials said at a ceremony Thursday that the new terminal is a key part of plans to improve the city’s economy. The Wichita Eagle reports the terminal is scheduled to be completed by early 2015. It will be funded by airport user fees and a $53 million grant from the Federal Aviation Administration. The terminal will be able to…
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) The Kansas State Fair is entering its final weekend. Country star Billy Currington will take the stage Saturday night for the final grandstand musical performance. And Sunday’s grandstand entertainment is a truck and tractor pull. Weekend fairgoers also will be treated to an exotic animal petting zoo, milking demonstrations, pig races, horse shows, a chainsaw woodcarver and juggling performances. This year saw admission prices increase for the first time in four years, with a regular adult ticket going from $8 to $10. Fair officials have said expenses have increased.
EL DORADO, Kan. (AP) A southeastern Kansas judge has dismissed a first-degree murder charge against a man accused of killing his girlfriend’s 18-month-old daughter. KAKE-TV reports a Butler County judge on Thursday threw out the charge against Justin Edwards, of El Dorado. Judge David Ricke ruled the state failed to provide sufficient evidence of the cause of death, but prosecutors may refile the charge if the state can produce the evidence. Edwards and his girlfriend, Alyssa Haag, were both charged with killing Haag’s daughter, Jayla, in March of this year. The baby died at a Wichita hospital. A coroner says…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A federal appeals court has set the date for arguments on behalf of a Kansas doctor and his wife convicted in a moneymaking conspiracy linked to 68 overdose deaths. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday scheduled a hearing Nov. 7 in the case of Stephen and Linda Schneider, who ran a pain clinic. They were convicted in 2010 of conspiracy, unlawfully prescribing drugs, health care fraud and money laundering. Stephen Schneider was sentenced to 30 years, and his wife to 33 years. New lawyers for the Haysville couple contend the Schneiders’ trial attorneys were…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas Division of Emergency Management and other state agencies are holding a conference later this month on school safety and preparedness. About 300 people are expected at the fifth annual Kansas Safe and Prepared Schools Conference, taking place Sept. 24 and 25 in Topeka. The conference is designed for educators, administrators, first responders and emergency management personnel. Topics include natural disasters, suicide prevention, bullying, youth sports concussions and reducing sexual and domestic violence. Lessons from the tornadoes that struck Harveyville, Kan., and Joplin, Mo., are also on the agenda.