Teacher recognitions topped Wamego’s Board of Education meeting. Wamego High School teacher Mary Lonker, and West Elementary teacher Abby Ross were recognized as Wamego’s Teacher of the Year nominees. Wamego approved hiring an additional ESOL para. At Monday’s USD 320 Board of Education meeting, Superintendent Denise O’Dea presented the proposal for the ESOL Para to support the remainder of the 2012-13 school year, and would support 7 elementary school students. According to Director of Curriculum, Dr. Mary Kay Siebert, there are currently 27 students in the Wamego School District with ESOL needs, and the K thru 5 needs were not…
Author: KMAN Staff
Serbia’s health officials say 13 people have been killed when a man went on a shooting spree in a village near Belgrade.
North Korea has closed a factory that it operates jointly with South Korea, and pulled out more than 50,000 workers. South Korea is urging the north to reopen the facility.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A Topeka man has pleaded guilty to 40 counts of rape, robbery and other charges stemming from a string of holdups in the city last year. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports Arthur Lee Crain III, 27, will face at least 21 years in prison at his sentencing in May, on the same day he was to have gone on trial. He entered the pleas Monday in Shawnee County District Court. Crain was released from prison in January 2012 after serving time for armed robbery. He was arrested in late August, about six weeks after the robberies began. The…
SALINA, Kan. (AP) Police in Salina are looking for the thief who drove off with a trailer containing the belongings of a woman moving into an apartment. The Salina Journal reports the crime happened sometime Friday while the trailer was parked in the lot outside an apartment building. Police say the thief hooked the trailer up to a vehicle and towed it away. Items in the trailer included a love seat, bed, mattress and other household goods. The loss is estimated at $3,000.
KINGMAN, Kan. (AP) About 120,000 acres of Kansas land are in conservation easements and the director of the Nature Conservancy of Kansas says the number is growing. The easements allow landowners to restrict the use of their land forever, generally to keep the property in its natural state. Rob Manes, director of the Nature Conservancy of Kansas, says his group’s goal for easement is protecting critical habitats, like remnants of the tallgrass prairie. Other conservation groups also promote the easements. He says more landowners consider easements out of fear the grasslands will be developed or become a patchwork of wind…
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) After years of declining numbers, The University of Kansas Law School says its 2012 graduates had improved success in finding jobs. Law school dean Stephen Mazza says the school is pleased with data from the American Bar Association. The Lawrence Journal-World reports the association found that 85.6 percent of the university’s law school’s 2012 graduates found jobs nine months after graduation. That’s the best rate in five years, ranking the university No. 95 in the country in graduate job placement. In 2011, only 80.5 percent of the law school’s class found jobs at the same point, a…
PILSEN, Kan. (AP) A small Kansas town is preparing for the spotlight after a native son is awarded the Medal of Honor this week. President Barack Obama will present the nation’s highest military honor for valor this week to the family of the Rev. Emil Kapaun, who was credited with saving hundreds of lives while serving a chaplain in the Korean War. Kapaun’s family says they plan to give the medal to Pilsen, a town of about 40 people an hour northeast of Wichita. The Wichita Eagle reports that Pilsen residents are discussing how to keep the medal secure, and…
DODGE CITY, Kan. (AP) Dodge City officials are not quite sure just where to put two massive sculptures donated by the Dennis Hopper Art Trust to the city where its namesake was born and raised. The pieces are known as La Salsa Man and Mobil Man. They are 26 and 21 feet tall respectively. The trust administrator calls them a “large, impactful and a defiant blend of Californian and Southwestern culture mixed with Hollywood grandeur.” County Commissioners unanimously voted to put the statues at the special events center. The city commissioners unanimously voted against that placement, suggesting instead displaying them…
PITTSBURG, Kan. (AP) A three-day summit meeting on homelessness and housing in Kansas takes place next week in Pittsburg. The annual gathering is designed to help community members, law enforcement, educators and others better serve the homeless population. This is the 14th year for the summit, which will take place April 15-17 at Pittsburg Memorial Auditorium. The hosts are the Kansas Statewide Homeless Coalition and the nonprofit SEK-CAP Inc., the Southeast Kansas Community Action Program. Sessions will focus on programs for the homeless and the effects of gambling on homelessness. There will also be a poverty simulation, and sessions on…