TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The chairman of the Kansas State Board of Education says the state needs to look into home schooling to make sure children are being adequately educated. A lot of parents prefer to send their children to schools like these private schools in houston, others prefer public schools that are closer to home. However, some insist on home schooling. David Dennis of Wichita says he has heard reports of children being kept at home to babysit younger siblings while their parents claim they are being home-schooled. While it’s obvious that most homeschooled children are getting the correct education…
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PAOLA, Kan. (AP) A Union Pacific train headed from Colby, Kan., to Corpus Christi, Texas, has derailed in eastern Kansas, sending three cars into a small river but causing no injuries. Railroad spokesman Mark Davis says 23 of the train’s 106 cars went off the tracks at 1:45 a.m. Wednesday near Osawatomie in Miami County. Three of the cars ended up in the Marais Des Cygnes River. Davis says the cause of the derailment hasn’t been determined, and he doesn’t know how long it will take to clean up the area because of possible damage to a bridge that will…
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) A group seeking to have a bare-breasted statue removed from the Overland Park Arboretum says it has collected enough signatures to force a judge to convene a grand jury. The American Family Association of Kansas and Missouri says the statue promotes obscenity to children in violation of state law. Association director Phillip Cosby says the more than 4,500 signatures will be filed with the court Sept. 4 unless the Overland Park City Council acts to remove the statue. The life-size bronze sculpture depicts a woman wearing an opened blouse, her breasts exposed, taking a photograph of…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The acting director of the Kansas Legislature’s research staff has been promoted to permanent director. Legislative leaders gave the promotion Tuesday to Raney Gilliland. He became acting director of the Legislative Research Department in February, when Alan Conroy left to head the state pension system for teachers and government workers. Gilliland has worked for the Research Department since 1979, specializing in energy and agriculture policy. He became an assistant research director in 2006. Gilliland holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and a master’s in agricultural economics from Kansas State University.
HUGOTON, Kan. (AP) A groundbreaking ceremony takes place Thursday in southwestern Kansas for a $20 million dairy ingredient and cheese processing plant. The facility will employ 60 people when it is finished. Gov. Sam Brownback is among the officials scheduled to attend the ceremonial start of construction of the Kansas Dairy Ingredients plant in Hugoton. It’s expected to open later this year. Company officials have said the plant will initially process about 1 million pounds of milk per day, growing to 2.5 million pounds by the end of 2013. The expansion will allow for production of cheese and other dry…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas attorney general’s office says participation in an Internet safety program for children grew by about 8 percent in the state’s last fiscal year. Attorney General Derek Schmidt’s office says more than 65,000 children, parents and teachers took part in the Netsmartz program during the year that ended June 30. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that more than 60,000 people participated during the previous fiscal year. Netsmartz is presented throughout the state by the Kansas Alliance of Boys Girls Clubs. It was developed by the national Boys Girls Clubs and the National Center for Missing and Exploited…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A Topeka official says commercial flights from the city’s regional airport could resume by next year thanks to $2.2 million in government incentives. Topeka Regional Airport, formerly called Forbes Field, hasn’t had commercial service since Allegiant Air halted its weekly round trips to Las Vegas in 2007. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the Metropolitan Topeka Airport Authority learned Tuesday that it has secured $950,000 from the U.S. Department of Transportation. The state allocated $1 million earlier this year to lure commercial flights back to the airport, and the authority has set aside another $250,000. Authority president Eric Johnson…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) A northeastern Kansas man has been sentenced to more than 15 years in federal prison for selling exceptionally pure heroin blamed for at least two overdose deaths. The U.S. Attorney’s office says 36-year-old Tyrone Ramsey, of Kansas City, Kan., was sentenced Tuesday for distributing and possession with intent to distribute heroin. He pleaded guilty earlier. Prosecutors said Ramsey sold heroin for a drug trafficking ring that operated in the Kansas City metro area from late 2007 to May 2009. Investigators bought heroin from him several times, and found evidence that heroin he sold led to the…
After serving the Manhattan area community for more than 10 years, Roy Crenshaw will step down as Executive Director of Big Brothers Big Sisters on September 7th. Crenshaw said the organization has reached the goals he set when he accepted the position and he now looks forward to enjoying his time in retirement. A member of the Manhattan community for most of his life, Crenshaw accepted the executive director position in 2002 after returning from living and working in Israel. Crenshaw says he was looking for a challenging position that also allowed him to serve his community. Crenshaw adds One of his goals at…
Riley County Police are investigating a camper theft. Sometime between the hours of 9:30 pm on August 14 and 6:45 am August 15, a camper was reported taken from a residential location. Daniel Mulhern, 56, of Manhattan, reported that his 2006 Jayco Camper trailer was stolen from the alleyway behind his residence in the 900 block of Pierre Street. The camper is white and blue and is a pull-popup style. The total loss is $7,000.