Suspected tornadoes are under investigation in a number of states, after severe storms blasted the South and Midwest. Two deaths are blamed on the weather.
Author: KMAN Staff
Security teams are preparing to shut the airspace over the Superdome, all cargo is being scanned and the waterways secured in advance of Sunday’s Super Bowl in New Orleans.
Thomas Gipson had 17 points and seven rebounds as #18 K-State broke a two-game losing streak with an 83-57 rout of Texas. The Cats won their third straight game over Texas at Bramlage Coliseum as Omari Lawrence had a career-high 12 points and Angel Rodriguez added 11. Rodriguez added eight assists, his fourth game in the Big 12 with at least eight assists. K-State built a 38-19 halftime lead, and never looked back in the second half as their lead was as many as 28 points. Texas (9-11, 1-6) was topped by Sheldon McClellan with 15 points and Jaylen Boyd…
SALINA, Kan. (AP) Saline County authorities say a television crew has been in Kansas looking for Bigfoot. The Salina Journal reports that Saline County sheriff’s deputies got a call of suspicious vehicles Monday near a rural residence. Sheriff Glen Kochanowski says deputies found a television crew with several sport utility vehicles and a U-Haul at the site and determined the vehicles belonged to the crew from Ping Pong Productions of Los Angeles, Calif. The sheriff says the crew had the landowner’s permission to be at the location. A representative of the television crew said they had received information about a…
MCPHERSON, Kan. (AP) A preliminary hearing resumes Thursday afternoon for two suspects in the death of a Tabor College football player. The hearing for Alton Franklin and DeQuinte Flournoy began last week. But it was continued to give prosecutors time to search for a key witness to a fight that led to the death of Brandon Brown, 26. The redshirt defensive lineman from Tabor College was found unconscious Sept. 16 at a McPherson Party and died about a week later. The suspects both are former McPherson College football players. They’re charged with being accessories to second-degree murder. The missing witness…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) A Kansas City, Mo., lawyer has pleaded guilty to conspiring to launder the drug money of an undercover agent posing as a marijuana dealer. Ronald Partee, 66, entered the plea Wednesday in federal court in Kansas City, Kan. Partee admitted that he and the operators of a credit counseling service agreed to funnel drug money through Kansas bank accounts. As part of the scheme, a certificate saying the purported dealer had completed training as a bankruptcy specialist was created. Prosecutors say that Partee served on the counseling service’s board and approved two wire transfers that he…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas Senate has approved a proposal to give the governor and legislators more power over appointments to the state’s appellate courts. Wednesday’s vote on the proposed amendment to the Kansas Constitution was 28-12, slightly more than the two-thirds majority needed for passage. The measure would have the governor appoint judges to the Kansas Court of Appeals and the state Supreme Court, subject to Senate confirmation. The proposal would scrap an attorney-led commission that screens applicants and nominates three finalists for each vacancy. The governor must pick one, with no role for legislators. The measure goes next…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Two Kansas lawmakers are introducing measures aimed at limiting employers’ access to job applicants’ social media accounts. The Kansas City Star reports that Rep. Gail Finney and Sen. Oletha Faust-Goudeau, both Democrats, are supporting measures that seek to protect job seekers from employers who want access to user names and passwords to look through social media accounts like Facebook or Twitter. Finney is also pushing a bill that would ban colleges and universities from asking for the same information from students and potential students. Finney understands why employers might research applicants using Facebook, but says she doesn’t…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) A California company is buying two financially troubled hospitals in eastern Kansas. The Kansas City Star reports that Providence Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., and Saint John Hospital in Leavenworth are being sold to Prime Healthcare Services. Both Kansas hospitals had been operating at a loss. The financial terms of the sale weren’t disclosed Tuesday, when the sale was announced. The hospitals’ current owner is SCL Health System, which was founded by the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth and moved its headquarters last year from Lenexa to Denver. The announcement says Prime Healthcare “will make…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Two men accused in the death of a 34-year-old Topeka woman have been extradited to Kansas from Texas. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Benjamin Brian Anaya, 20, and Gabino Campos Alcala, 20, both of El Paso, Texas, are charged with felony first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit felony first-degree murder in the Oct. 18 shooting death of Ashley Alcala at her Topeka home. Two other people are also charged in Ashley Alcala’s death, and are scheduled to stand trial in March. Anaya and Gabino Alcala were booked into the Shawnee County jail on Tuesday and are being…