TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas branch of the Reform Party is at odds with the national party over who should appear on the state’s ballot as its presidential nominee. Kansas Reform Party officials favor Montana pastor Chuck Baldwin and submitted his name in June. But the party’s national convention last month chose Andre Barnett, a business owner, model and military veteran from New York State. On Monday, the national organization formally objected to a decision by the Kansas secretary of state’s office to list Baldwin as the Reform Party nominee. The State Objections Board expects to decide the issue later…
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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) An estimated $300,000 worth of high-grade marijuana has been recovered from a home in southeast Wichita. The Wichita Eagle reports that the seizure happened last month after a real estate agent used a cellphone to photograph the drugs. After seeing the pictures on her real estate agent’s phone, the owner of the home contacted police Aug. 30. Sgt. Bruce Watts said Saturday that the woman told officers that her husband had given a key to the new tenant before the scheduled Sept. 1 move-in date. A search of the home yielded 120 pounds of marijuana that had…
OLATHE, Kan. (AP) The district attorney for Kansas’ most populous county says government officials are getting in trouble too often for failing to follow the state’s open meeting and public record laws. That’s why Johnson county District Attorney Steve Howe plans to ask government officials to take a refresher course on the laws. The Kansas City Star reported that Howe found last week that the city of Mission violated the state open meetings law. The problem there was the mayor purchased a building without council approval. The city of Gardner also ran afoul of the open meeting law. Now, Howe…
STOCKTON, Kan. (AP) Two fellow north-central Kansas nursing home residents have turned 100 on the same day. The Hays Daily News reported that Neva Marshall and Grace Turnbull met in the dining room of Solomon Valley Manor in Stockton in March of 2008. They soon learned they shared a birthday, and they marked the occasion Sunday with parties. Before World War I even began, Marshall was born in Rooks County, and Turnbull, in Phillips County. They have lived to see nearly half of the 44 U.S. presidents in office. Marshall was a teacher. All along the way, they have kept…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas Museum of History is hosting a new exhibit featuring presidents and presidential elections. “Hail to the Chief” opens Friday and runs until Feb. 24 at the Topeka museum. The Kansas Historical Society says the exhibit marks the 2012 presidential election by looking back at national campaigns throughout history. Items on display include campaign materials, banners and personal items as well as souvenirs of candidates’ visits to Kansas. Prominently featured are Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses Grant, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The U.S. Department of Education has named a half-dozen schools in Kansas as National Blue Ribbon Schools for their efforts to improve student achievement. One elementary school Marshall Elementary in Eureka is among the 2012 honorees. The others are Basehor-Linwood High School; Blue Valley High School in Stilwell; Garden City High School; Goddard High School; and St. Thomas Aquinas High School, a private, Roman Catholic school in Overland Park. Blue Ribbon schools are honored as high-performing schools based on state assessment scores, or as exemplary improving schools that have shown progress in helping disadvantaged students improve on…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas Democrat Tobias Schlingensiepen has picked up the endorsement of one of his former primary opponents in his race in for Congress in the 2nd District. Former rival and Lawrence attorney Bob Eye said voters in the eastern Kansas district would be well-served by electing Schlingensiepen in the November general election. Schlingensiepen is a Topeka minister and hopes to unseat two-term Republican congresswoman Lynn Jenkins. Eye said he believes it’s important for Democrats to recapture control of the U.S. House, and Schlingensiepen’s election would help. However, Jenkins is favored to win, partly because of voter frustration with…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Wichita police say a 38-year-old woman could be responsible for more than 30 tire slashings in southeast Wichita in the past month. The woman was arrested Saturday after a man reported seeing her beside his car. He said he heard a hissing sound and saw his car tire deflating. Police say the man followed the woman and his yelling attracted the attention of other neighbors, who helped pursue her. Police say the woman threatened at least two men with her knife. The tire and knife will be taken to the CSI laboratory to determine if it is…
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) The Women’s Christian Temperance Union is back at this year’s Kansas State Fair, still preaching its message that alcohol is dangerous. It’s the 100th straight year that the group has been at the fair. The Women’s Christian Temperance Union led the drive for prohibition, which was in place across the country from 1920 to 1933. Kansas had statewide prohibition from 1881 to 1948, longer than any other state. The Hutchinson News reports that the organization has 125 members this year. The oldest member, 90-year-old Glenna Dellenbach, says there is renewed interest in the group. Dellenbach said she…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Topeka police say the deaths of man and woman in the apartment during the weekend were a murder-suicide. The bodies of Kahlyn Hiene (22) and Jeremiah Campbell (26), both of Topeka, were found in their apartment Saturday morning. On Monday, police said investigators determined the deaths were a murder-suicide, with Campbell shooting Hiene and then himself. No other details, including a possible motive, were released. Officers were dispatched to the apartment complex after a tenant reported finding a bullet hole in the wall of her apartment. The couple was found dead in an adjacent apartment.