An August 10th hearing is set in a case involving a former executive of NanoScale in Manhattan. The change of plea hearing for Aaron Madison is planned for August 10th before District Judge Richard Rogers. Madison was executive vice president and chief operating officer of Nanoscale. A criminal information was filed last month in federal court in Wichita, charging Madison with wire fraud. Allegations are that Madison manipulated contract costs and falsified invoices to meet payroll between 2009 and 2011.
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One Kansas State University geologist becomes a “rock” star as he tests aquifer rocks as containers to permanently trap carbon dioxide. Associate Professor for the Department of Geology at Kansas State University, Saugata Datta has been testing the capability of injecting carbon dioxide into porous rocks within the Arbuckle Aquifer here in Kansas and seeing if it is truly possiblity to trap the carbon dioxide. Datta says “this is an important study because it could be beneficial to manufacturing and production industries who currently monitor carbon dioxide production levels due to regulations”. Beginning January of 2013, the project will be in…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Casper Wells homered and drove in a career-high five runs, all of them against Jonathan Sanchez, and the Seattle Mariners beat up the Kansas City Royals and their beleaguered starter in a 9-4 victory Monday night. Justin Smoak also had a two-run homer off Sanchez (1-6), pulled after allowing a season-high seven runs in a season-low 1 1/3 innings. The left-hander who once threw a no-hitter for San Francisco gave up seven hits and a walk before he was yanked to a chorus of boos. Jason Vargas (9-7) took advantage of the rare output from…
Ray Rice and Matt Forte got what they wanted Monday: long-term contracts that sometimes elude NFL running backs. Chiefs wide receiver Dwayne Bowe did not sign a long term deal, instead agreeing to a one-year tender worth $9.4 million. The two sides cannot agree to a new deal until after the season, and the Chiefs would have to franchise him again to avoid him becoming an unrestricted free agent. Neither Rice nor Forte was enamored of playing under the franchise tag tender in 2012, and negotiations went down to the wire. Then Rice scored big with the Baltimore Ravens, getting…
Lightning storms struck Tucson, Arizona on Monday night. Weekend storms knocked out power to thousands in the area.
Authorities began draining an Iowa lake Monday in the search for two missing girls whose bicycles were found nearby, but they suspended a massive sweep of the area over the weekend because the effort failed to produce significant leads.
The Pottawatomie County Commission met on Monday to go over a few updates and to take care of a couple of budget concerns. Updates came from a number of departments including County Attorney Sherri Schuck, County Treasurer Lisa Wright, County Appraiser Lois Schlegel and a transportation update. The construction team on the new Justice Center also made a report on the progress being made. At this point, most of the walls and part of the basement floor concrete have been poured, though there is some concern with the temperatures. “Concrete and heat don’t work well together on curing,” said Gary Yenzer, Chairman of the…
A Manhattan asphalt plant employee has now been upgraded to serious condition after surgery at a Wichita hospital. As KMAN news first told you in breaking news over the noon hour Monday, emergency officials responded to the plant located at McDowell Creek Road at about 12:30, with an employee caught in a conveyor belt. That employee was later identified as 24 year old Willie Hegwood of Manhattan. Hegwood was transported to Mercy Regional Health Center, and then airlifted to Via Christi Hospital in Wichita. Hegwood was found trapped in what responders called an inverted cruciform position. Hegwood complained of arm and leg pain,…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A new government report is painting a grim snapshot of the drought’s effects on farms across Kansas. Kansas Agricultural Statistics Service reported Monday that more than half of the state’s corn crop is in poor to very poor condition. Soybean and sorghum crops are faring only slightly better with more than 40 percent of both those Kansas crops also in poor to very poor condition. The misery extends beyond the field crops as livestock producers struggle with dried up pastures and shrinking hay and stock water supplies. The agency estimates 78 percent of the range and pasture…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas attorney general is opposing efforts by environmental groups that want new regulations on farm runoff that flows into the Gulf of Mexico. Attorney General Derek Schmidt said Monday he’s seeking to intervene in opposition to a lawsuit filed in federal court in Louisiana earlier this year. The lawsuit aims to force the Environmental Protection Agency to impose new regulations on runoff that flows into the Gulf from farms, ranches and sewage systems in Kansas and other states in the Mississippi River basin. The lawsuit filed by the Sierra Club and other environmental groups says the…