It was a day of reviewing goals from the past year and looking toward the coming year for the Riley County Law Board Tuesday. Progress indicators in 2012 were basically met, according to Riley County Police Director Brad Schoen, who went over the approximate half dozen goals. Some of those are improving traffic safety, reducing crime, increasing public satisfaction, and making use of available technological advances. One particular goal that created discussion involved mental health housing needs, with an ad hoc working group discussing the matter. Board member Wynn Butler indicates he wants to see something concrete and less talk. Director Schoen…
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A horse with a knack for opening stall doors at a Michigan farm is getting attention after a video of her escape-artist antics was posted online.
President Hugo Chavez returned to Venezuela early Monday after more than two months of treatment in Cuba following cancer surgery, triggering street celebrations by supporters who welcomed him home while he remained out of sight.
Will Spradling scored a season-high 19 points, and K-State easily spoiled Bob Huggins’ return to Manhattan in a 71-61 over West Virginia on Monday night at Bramlage Coliseum. The Cats jumped out to an 18-4 lead thanks to a 12-0 run, and held a 33-20 edge at halftime. The lead stretched to as many as 21 points in the second half, both shortly after Mountaineer technical fouls, one on Huggins and the other on guard Eron Harris. K-State (21-5, 10-3) had four other players in double figures, Nino Williams scored 13 points, Angel Rodriguez and Thomas Gipson had 11, and…
Cathy has returned from her vacation and sits down to talk with Linda Knupp, Director of the Manhattan Public Library Book Sale, Heather Lansdowne, Library Association President, and Gary Jeffrey, MLA book sale chair, followed by C.Clyde Jones, Diana Chapel, and Beverly Olson, with Shepherd’s Crossing, on today’s InFocus. [mp3-jplayer]
HOLTON, Kan. (AP) A northeast Kansas high school cheerleader is expected to undergo at least two more surgeries after her team’s van rolled off an icy road and into a ditch. WIBW-TV reports Christa Merriman already has had surgery to reconstruct her nose after the accident Friday night as she and fellow Holton cheerleaders were coming home from a game. The van carrying Christa, three teammates and their supervisor hit black ice on a bridge just north of Topeka and went into the ditch. Christa says everyone had their seatbelts on but she somehow ended up in a storage part…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback’s budget director has apologized publicly for supplying him with an incorrect figure that led the Republican governor to make erroneous claims about his Democratic predecessor. Budget Director Steve Anderson said in a statement Monday the mistake occurred in entering data on an internal administration spreadsheet tracking total state spending. The error showed total state spending peaking at $16 billion during the state’s 2010 fiscal year, under Democratic Gov. Mark Parkinson. The actual spending for fiscal 2010 was about $14 billion. In recent presentations to groups, Brownback has contrasted the purported $16 billion figure…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A new cafe in Topeka is serving breakfast and lunch to the public while providing valuable experiences for Topeka students and those who haven’t graduated. The Kanza Cafe opened last month in a building owned by the Topeka School district. The cafe’s food serving manager, Jake Taylor, says adult staff operates the cafe, with volunteer high school students helping out. Volunteers also include students in the Next Step program, which teaches job and life skills to 18- to 21-year-old who haven’t graduated from high school. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports Taylor said the students learn such skills as…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Wichita’s Mid-Continent Airport says the number of passengers in 2012 fell 2 percent. The airport says the decline is the result of some airlines dropping flights from Wichita. Frontier Airlines halted service to Denver in November, a loss of about 200 seats each way. And Allegiant Air stopped seasonal service to Los Angeles in August 2011. Air carriers offered 33 daily departures out of Wichita in December, down from 53 daily flights in 2003. At the same time, 1.51 million passengers flew in and out of the airport, compared with 1.41 million in 2003. Passenger traffic in…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Wichita police say three people were arrested after a man couldn’t pay for the prostitute he called to his home. Police went to the 33-year-old man’s home early Sunday after a neighbor reported a disturbance. Spokesman Sgt. Bart Brunscheen says the man apparently wasn’t able to pay the full amount he owed the prostitute. She and an associate returned and forced their way into the man’s home, where the woman took his cell phone. The homeowner was charged with soliciting a prostitute. The 24-year-old woman was charged with burglary and prostitution and her 28-year-old associate was charged…