WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A group of Wichita residents plans to ask city officials to add fluoride to the city’s water supply. The group called Wichitans for Healthy Teeth said Thursday they have collected more than 2,500 signatures on petitions supporting fluoridation, which they say improves dental health. Dr. Sara Meng, a Wichita dentist, says the effort is supported by nearly 500 Wichita dentists and health providers and about 50 state and local organizations. The group plans to gather at least 6,300 signatures before presenting petitions to the City Council. The Wichita Eagle reports Wichita is the fourth-largest city in the…
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LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) A judge has dismissed three of eight claims in a lawsuit claiming an elderly resident was sexually assaulted at a Lawrence retirement center. The family of 87-year-old Jean Allen alleges in the lawsuit that she was assaulted at the Brandon Woods at Alvamar in 2010 and that the staff concealed the crime. Allen died in November 2010. No one was charged with the alleged assault. Brandon Woods officials have denied the allegations. A Douglas County judge recently dismissed claims that the retirement center violated the Kansas Consumer Protection Act and breached its fiduciary duty, and a battery…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Topeka police say a resident shot and killed a man who was trying to break into his home. Police found a man dead after being called to the home Thursday evening. A man at the home told police that the suspect had tried to break into his house. The resident wasn’t injured. Witnesses told police they saw other men fleeing from the scene. Police say they are looking for at least one other suspect.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A detachment from the Kansas National Guard deploys soon for a year in Afghanistan where the soldiers will assist with medical air evacuations. About 20 soldiers from Detachment 2, Company C, 2nd Battalion, 211th Aviation Regiment will be deploying to Afghanistan, working with the Iowa National Guard unit. A ceremony sending the soldiers off is scheduled for Sunday at the Kansas Regional Training Center in Salina. The soldiers will head to Fort Hood, Texas, to complete their mobilization process. The Black Hawk helicopter unit will provide medical evacuation support, transporting wounded soldiers from the battlefield to hospitals…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A state board in Kansas has denied parole to a man who’s spent three decades in prison after being convicted of killing a state Highway Patrol trooper. The Kansas Prisoner Review Board rejected a request from George Rainey, according to The Topeka Capital-Journal. The board won’t consider paroling Rainey again until July 2017. Rainey, 53, an inmate at the state prison in Hutchinson, is serving a life sentence for the shooting of Trooper Ferdinand “Bud” Pribbenow in July 1981 in Butler County. Pribbenow stopped a car speeding on the Kansas Turnpike north of El Dorado and was…
Youth will be served as the Kansas State High School Athletic Association named Rock Creek and K-State alum Jeremy Holaday as its new Assistant Executive Director for Communications/Sports Information. Holaday will also serve administrative duties for KSHSAA in baseball and softball for the coming year. After graduating from Rock Creek in 2007, he added a bachelor’s degree from K-State four years later in public relations with a minor in leadership studies. Holaday is currently working on his master’s in student development from the school of education. He spent three years in the K-State sports information department and two years in…
The new National Academies of Science’s report concerning NBAF has been published on Friday. Kansas Senator Jerry Moran dropped by the KMAN studios to give his reaction. Senator Moran says he is pleased the Academy has verified the need for a state of the art biological research facility, and sees the need to keep the facility within the United states. Senator Moran believes the report will bolster his efforts to bring about the NBAF project, and should be helpful in the next stages as the Department of Homeland Security goes forward with the construction of the facility. [mp3-jplayer]
In a Friday morning hearing a Fort Riley soldier charged with the homicide of a Manhattan man on New years was deemed competent to stand trial. 29-year-old Daniel Parker was evaluated at Larned State Hospital, and the results were presented to Riley count district court in a hearing on Friday. Defense attorney Larry McCrell disputed the content of the report met standards set forward in the law, but Judge David Stutzman upheld that the findings in the report sufficed to label Parker as competent to stand trial. Parker is accused of killing 22-year-old Frederick Beverly in a drive-by-shooting near the…
At 12:00 pm, the Meeting Critical Laboratory Needs for Animal Agriculture: Examination of Three Options report was released concerning the future of NBAF and the options that the committee on Analysis of the Requirements and Alternatives for Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Disease Research and Diagnostic Laboratory Capabilities looked into. Though repeatedly stated, the committee did not make any recommendation as to which direction should be taken, their job was just to study and look at the alternative options. During the teleconference with committee members, they discussed the three different options. The three options as stipulated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security were: constructing NBAF as…
On Friday morning in Riley County court a motions hearing was held on the issue of certain interviews involved in the Cole Drake case. Drake is charged with the killing of Manhattan High school Student Tyler Dowling in April of 2011. Defense attorney Larry McRell argued that some interviews conducted by Riley County Police should not be allowed in the upcoming trial. Those interviews were conducted before the case was turned from juvenile to adult proceedings, and McCrell felt the court should hear his arguments on the admissibility of those interviews. Judge David L. Stutzman informed McCrell that the evidence…