TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Five grants totaling $1.2 million have been awarded by the Kansas Department for Children and Families to support programs for visually impaired older residents. The grants were announced Thursday through the agency’s Independent Living Services Program for Older Individuals who are Blind. The funds go to nonprofit groups whose services help residents stay in their homes though individual living skills training and technology. The recipients are Alphapointe Association for the Blind, in the Kansas City area; Envision Vision Rehabilitation Center in Wichita; Prairie Independent Living Resource Center in Hutchinson; Resource Center for Independent Living in Topeka; and…
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A Kansas Senate committee is taking up legislation to block tax breaks for abortion providers and bar public schools from using sex education instruction from abortion providers. The measure being reviewed Friday by the Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee passed the House earlier this week. It’s the most sweeping anti-abortion bill being pursued in Kansas this year. Senate Republican leaders had promised it would be considered quickly. The measure bars groups providing abortions from receiving tax exemptions or credits that go to other nonprofit groups or health care providers. It would also prohibit women who claim…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A Topeka man has been found guilty of multiple charges for a November 2011 home invasion in which he burned a woman twice with a heated knife blade. The Topeka Capital Journal reports a jury took about 90 minutes Thursday to find Monroe Lockhart III guilty of aggravated burglary, aggravated assault and aggravated battery. The 40-year-old is to be sentenced April 30. Kansas sentencing guidelines call for a prison term of about eight years. That’s more than twice as long as the three years and nine months he would have received under a plea deal he reached…
On today’s InFocus, Tom talks with State Representative Sydney Carlin of Manhattan, followed by Pat Collins, Riley County Fire Chief. To end the show, Cathy talks with U-S Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas. [mp3-jplayer]
A theft was reported to the Riley County Police Department, but the circumstances behind it are still being investigated. Kara Ramseyer, 27, of Junction City, told police sometime between February 1 and March 21 her place of residence in the 1400 block of Cambridge Place was entered by an unknown person who took a number of items including some jewelry. The total loss is $1,000.
Update: The Kansas Highway Patrol has released more information regarding the accident that occurred around 7:00 this morning on eastbound K-18 near the 4500 block of the K-18 bypass on the bridge coming into Manhattan. Multiple cars were involved and while there were no fatalities reported from the accident, officials have confirmed that an occupant of one of the vehicles either fell off the bridge or dove to get out of the way of an oncoming vehicle. The individual has been confirmed deceased, but no further information has been released at this time. KMAN will continue to update you as…
A man who could be linked to the slaying of Colorado’s state prison chief is likely to die after being shot by Texas authorities following a harrowing car chase there, authorities said Thursday.
Following their loss to defending National Champion Baylor in the Quarterfinals of the Big 12 Tournament on March 9, the Kansas State Women’s Basketball team had a long time to wait and see if they would be playing again. With Selection Monday for the NCAA Tournament 10 days away, K-State had plenty of time to wonder if the Big 12 would get enough teams into the Big Dance even though they would not be one of them. Usually, Wildcat fans don’t get excited when good things happen to the University of Kansas but when the Jayhawks became the league’s seventh…
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) Country music star Toby Keith has been announced as the latest act in this year’s Kansas State Fair in Hutchinson. The Hutchinson News reports the “Should’ve Been A Cowboy” and “American Soldier” singer is slated to perform at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 15 at the U.S. Cellular Grandstand. Ticket prices range from $20 to $100. Keith joins a lineup that already includes Kansas, the Eli Young Band, Larry Gatlin and the Gatlin Brothers with Billy Dean, and Jars of Clay.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A man convicted in 2011 in the death of a 58-year-old woman has died at the El Dorado Correctional Facility. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Roger Hollister, 61, died Wednesday at the prison. Jeremy Barclay, spokesman for the Kansas Department of Corrections, said the prison couldn’t immediately release details about the circumstances surrounding Hollister’s death because family members were still being notified. Hollister was serving a life sentence without parole for the first-degree murder of Patricia Kimmi of rural Horton. She disappeared in November 2009, and her remains weren’t found until May 2010. Hollister was convicted of…