There were some good news and bad when it came to construction talk at Wednesday night’s Manhattan Ogden School Board meeting. The bad news came to be the chiller for the Manhattan High School East campus has more work it needs done on it and that will cause the rental of the current chiller to continue. Keith Noll, director of maintenance and facilities , told the board the chiller will probably need to be replaced within the coming years. The good news for construction is that the Manhattan High School West campus was awarded their Certificate of Occupancy for the entire building. …
Author: KMAN Staff
Rezoning was a major issue tackled on Tuesday evening as the Ogden City Council met in their regular meeting at City Hall. Ogden Mayor Robert Pence Jr. says the old zoning laws were put into place in 1995, and so the council is looking at possible revision of the zoning laws and procedures for Ogden to keep up with the changing times. Richard Faulkner was also hired on as a full time city employee as a code enforcement officer. The next regularly scheduled Ogden city council meeting is on the 15th of August at City Hall.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) A 64-year-old man has pleaded guilty to robbing an Overland Park bank. Federal prosecutors say Thomas Crowl pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of bank robbery in connection with the May 22 heist at Metcalf Bank in Overland Park. Crowl was arrested the same day at an area hotel. He told investigators he had been released from prison in 2011 after serving a sentence for bank robbery. He says he then lived in a halfway house and later moved to the VA hospital in Leavenworth County. Crowl says he was recently told he couldn’t stay at…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The owner of two closed Kansas dog racing tracks is funding a new political action committee that is helping moderate Republican candidates for state Senate seats. A campaign finance report filed Wednesday by the Kansas Wins PAC showed it received more than $144,000 from Phil Ruffin. He owns Wichita Greyhound Park and Camptown Greyhound Park outside Pittsburg. A 2007 law allows slot machines at both tracks and the Woodlands dog and horse racing complex in Kansas City, Kan. But Ruffin has argued that the law isn’t generous enough to track owners to make the machines financially viable.…
OLATHE, Kan. (AP) The Olathe fire department says a 3-year-old child was injured after falling from a third-floor window. The fire department says the incident was reported Wednesday morning, and when firefighters arrived they found the boy had fallen out of a window on the building’s third floor. The department says it appears the child fell when he leaned against a screened window and the screen gave way. The child was taken to an area hospital and was reported in stable condition later Wednesday.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Survivors of four people who died in a western Kansas house fire have sued the owner of the rental home and a home health care agency. The March 10 fire in Scott City killed Jackie Coberly, who was quadriplegic; her 4-year-old son, Brandon Carter; and two girls who were also in the home. The families filed suit Wednesday in state court, seeking damages for wrongful death. They claim Windsor Place At-Home Care failed to provide health care services because its provider was not present when the fire started. They also contend the rental house lacked smoke detectors.…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A Wichita man has admitted he stole copper inside nearly 70 air conditioners earlier this year. Forty-one-year-old Byron Stuckey will be sentenced Aug. 30 for felony theft and attempting to elude officers. Stuckey was captured July 11 after stealing copper from an air conditioner at southeast Wichita house. Police say they believe Stuckey stole at least 68 air conditioners, including from several churches. The cost of replacing the damaged units exceeded $100,000. Stuckey pleaded guilty last Friday in Sedgwick County District Court.
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) A former Lawrence police officer says he plans to sue the city over his firing after he was accused of fixing traffic tickets. Michael Monroe was one of two officers the city alleged fixed traffic tickets in exchange for tickets to University of Kansas basketball games. City Manager David Corliss has said the person whose traffic tickets were fixed is in federal prison related to a broader Kansas ticket scandal. Police Chief Tarik Khatib fired Monroe in March, overruling a city employee grievance board’s decision that Monroe should be reinstated with a demotion. The Lawrence Journal-World reports…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A church in need of a permanent home has submitted the winning bid for a former elementary school in Wichita. The 21,000-square-foot Booth Elementary School has been used for storage since students were moved to a nearby school in 2003. The Wichita Eagle reports that a nondenominational Christian church called Hope International Fellowship submitted a winning bid of $83,000 for Booth Elementary during an auction Tuesday. The Wichita school board must approve the sale. Hope International has about 70 to 100 members who’ve been meeting for years in a school gymnasium rented from the Wichita district. Senior…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas has launched a cost-sharing program to help farmers and ranchers increase water supplies for livestock as the state remains in severe drought. The State Conservation Commission voted this week to spend $500,000 from existing funds for water projects, mainly in pastures that have little or no water supplies. The state will provide up to $2,000 per project and up to $4,000 to each landowner. The Kansas Department of Agriculture is asking applicants to focus on restoring existing ponds, developing wells and springs or completing water storage projects. Officials say applications should be submitted through county conservation…