HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) A 24-year-old woman faces six years in prison after pleading guilty to charges from a June standoff with Hutchinson police. Kayla Salyer Rodriguez will be sentenced Feb. 1 after pleading guilty Monday to aggravated kidnapping and two counts of aggravated assault. As part of her plea, Rodriguez admitted she threatened two women with a handgun on June 1 and kidnapped one of the women. The Hutchinson News reports police were in a standoff for more than six hours at a Hutchinson apartment after receiving a report that Rodriguez had forced another woman into the apartment with a…
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MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) A new wheat variety will be named 1863 to help Kansas State University celebrate its 150th birthday. The hard red winter wheat variety will be introduced next year as the university begins its sesquicentennial celebration. The celebration’s coordinator, Megan Umscheid, calls the new wheat variety a “neat connection” to the school’s heritage. Kansas State was the nation’s first operational land-grant university under the Morrill Act. Kansas Wheat Alliance president Daryl Strouts approached Kansas State about the project. Planters who purchase the wheat variety will get waterproof stickers with the university’s 150th anniversary logo to post on their…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Incoming Kansas House Speaker Ray Merrick has filled three staff positions. The Stilwell Republican announced the appointment Tuesday of Rachel Whitten as his communications director. Whitten served most recently as public information officer for the Department for Children and Families. She’ll join Wade Hapgood and Sharon Chandler in the speaker’s office. Hapgood will be legislative director. He previously worked for House Republicans as both political and communications director but most recently has been a business analyst for the secretary of state’s office. Chandler will be Merrick’s executive administrative assistant. She worked for Merrick in a similar capacity…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Wichita State University says aircraft manufacturer Airbus has donated airplane structural parts and kits worth more than $800,000 to the school’s National Institute for Aviation Research. The materials will be used in the institute’s research laboratories and training classes. Researchers will use them to study structural durability and damage tolerance. Instructors will also use the materials in classes on composite fabrication, repair and testing.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Two Topeka police officers who were shot and killed outside a supermarket will lie in state Friday at the Expocentre, where their funerals will be held Saturday. Officials announced the arrangements Tuesday for 50-year-old Cpl. David Gogian and 29-year-old Officer Jeff Atherly. Both were shot Sunday night while investigating possible drug activity in a parking lot. The shooter, 22-year-old David Edward Tiscareno, was later killed following an armed standoff at a Topeka home. The officers’ bodies will lie in state at the Expocentre from 1 to 8 p.m. Friday. Guards will be posted overnight. Gogian’s funeral takes…
There was some cheer and emotion at Wednesday night’s Manhattan Ogden school board meeting as some discussion came of the Friday shooting in Newtown, Connecticut and the issue of safety in schools. Superintendent Bob Shannon went over a number of changes that the district has seen over the last few years because of the bond issue, including the ability to secure classrooms from inside. Though this made some a little choked up, not all of the meeting was unhappy. A part of the Manhattan High school choir showed up to do a little caroling. There were actual items on the…
Due to anticipated Winter Storms, several flights have been cancelled at MHK. This includes all remaining flights this evening and all flights until 5:00 pm tomorrow afternoon. More information will be avaible shortly.
When we hear da Vinci we likely think of Leonardo of the Italian Renaissance who was a famous painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor and anatomist. And not surprisingly a new da Vinci Surgical System at Mercy Regional Health Center in Manhattan follows along that line, with a sophosticated robotic platform designed to expand a surgeon’s capabilities and offer a minimally invasive option for surgery. The system was unveiled to reporters Wednesday, with Urologist Dr. Laki Evangelidis telling reporters how the system is an improvement for surgeons. While seated at the da Vinci console, the surgeion views a magnified, high-resolution…
All activities for the Living Word Church in Manhattan have been cancelled due to the weather.
A Junction City man tried to lie about who he is, and ended up picking a criminal as his false identity. Carlton Solton Jr.(27) was arrested during the early morning hours Wednesday in the 500 block of Stone Drive. Police responded to the residence due to a report of an altercation. Solton was one of the individuals in the altercation, but when asked who he was, he lied and gave a different name. The name he gave RCPD showed warrants out for that individual’s arrest. Solton was arrested for interference with the legal process and false information. His bond was…