SALINA, Kan. (AP) Salina police and Saline County sheriff’s deputies plan to try a new “no refusal” policy during a saturation patrol Friday aimed at drunken drivers. Salina police Lt. Russ Lamer said if a driver refuses a breath or blood test after being stopped on suspicion of driving under the influence, the officer will seek a search warrant to collect a sample of the driver’s blood. He says new equipment will allow officers to ask for a search warrant electronically. Lamer says a representative of the county attorney’s office and a judge will be able to sign the warrant…
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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A Wichita police officer is on administrative leave after firing at a man who appeared to aim a weapon at him. No one was injured in the shooting overnight Tuesday. Police say the officer was working on paperwork in a parking lot when he saw someone looking around the corner of a nearby building. The man went away and returned a few minutes later. Police say the officer got out of the car and began firing after it appeared that the man aimed a rifle at him. The man ran away and police say it’s not clear…
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) A group that believes a statue in a northeast Kansas arboretum is obscene has filed a petition to empanel a grand jury to consider whether the statue should be moved. The American Family Association of Kansas and Missouri filed the petition in Johnson County Court Tuesday. The group contends a statue at the Overland Park Arboretum that shows a woman with her breasts exposed violates a state law against promoting obscenity to children. The director of the group, Phillip Cosby, says members collected 4,700 signatures. The Kansas City Star reports the group needs just under 3,700…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) The latest government snapshot of Kansas crops shows slight improvement with limited rains, but major crops across the state continue to fare poorly. In its weekly update Tuesday, Kansas Agricultural Statistics Service said only producers in extreme eastern Kansas got any rain while the rest of the state remained hot and dry. The agency says that 71 percent of the Kansas corn crop, 73 percent of the soybean crop and 68 percent of the sorghum crop are in poor to very poor condition. Range and pasture conditions improved only slightly, with 89 percent still in poor to…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) An eastern Kansas man who set up a nude photo shoot with a 14-year-old girl has pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography. The U.S. Attorney’s office says Kristopher Hausback (30), of Spring Hill, entered the plea Tuesday. He’ll be sentenced in December. Prosecutors say the girl went to a Johnson County hotel in August 2011 to be photographed by Hausback and texted the hotel name and room number to her brother. Leawood police went to the hotel after Hausback reported his camera had been stolen. In fact, prosecutors said, the girl’s stepfather showed up at the…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan will stop in Topeka this month as part of a national bus tour. Duncan will visit the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site on Sept. 18. He’ll be joined by members of the Kansas State Board of Education, Topeka city officials and students from the area. Topeka’s former Monroe School was designated in 1992 as a national historic site honoring the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 decision that declared segregated schools unconstitutional. Duncan will discuss recent education successes in Kansas and nationwide. His tour will also take him to Emporia and…
WINFIELD, Kan. (AP) Authorities say a south-central Kansas man is facing fresh charges after running from a courthouse where he’d just been sentenced to prison and speeding south into Oklahoma. The Arkansas City Traveler reports Chang Lee Saulsberry (30), of Winfield, was arrested Tuesday after driving into a ditch in Oklahoma’s Kay County. The car burst into flames, but Saulsberry was unhurt. Saulsberry had just received a 20-month sentence in Cowley County District Court for possessing a chemical used to make methamphetamine. Cowley County Attorney Chris Smith says that Saulsberry bolted outside, then led officers on a 25-mile, high-speed chase from…
A powerful, magnitude-7.6 earthquake shook Costa Rica and a wide swath of Central America on Wednesday. There were no immediate accounts of injuries, but communications were down in many areas.
Kathryn Focke of Manhattan is currently at the Democratic National Convention, and she recently took some time out from the convention to speak about her time there. Delegate Focke explains her day starts with breakfast with the delgation, where there is usually a speaker, followed by credentials being issued before being transported to the convention itself. Focke says she attended the womans caucus, which was well attended with several thousand women present. There were several notable speakers there including the president of Emily’s list, “which is a national fundraising organization for women canidates” explains Focke. Other speakers included Donna Brazile who is…
Justin Hall on the K-State campus has received some needed additions as far as classrooms go. The 52 year old building previously had structures inside classrooms that made it difficult for student-teacher interaction. The new addition includes 16, 000 square feet structure and houses two new classrooms. Virginia Moxley, Dean of the College of Human Ecology, says the two new classrooms put in are electronic-friendly. “Each (classroom) has outlets where students can plug-in their computers,” Moxley says. “We also have Airport so students can have wireless access throughout the classroom.” A special dedication will be held on Friday at 2pm…