GARDEN CITY, Kan. (AP) The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is holding a public meeting in southwest Kansas on the proposal process for listing the lesser prairie chicken as a threatened species. The meeting is scheduled for Thursday evening at Garden City Community College. A final decision on listing the lesser prairie chicken as threatened under the Endangered Species Act is expected later this year. Kansas has the largest concentration of lesser prairie chickens. The birds are also found in New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and Colorado. The five states are also involved in an effort to develop a range-wide conservation…
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CLAY CENTER, Kan. (AP) A member of the State Board of Education says arming teachers or guards in Kansas schools should be a local decision. The Clay Center Dispatch reports Deena Horst addressed the issue during a weekend legislative forum in the north-central Kansas community. Horst is a retired teacher from Salina who also served 16 years in the Kansas House. She says she’s “personally fine” with having armed security in schools. But she believes it should be up to local districts to decide if they want to arm teachers or have armed guards in schools. Horst also says the…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Abortion opponents are preparing to deliver a rezoning petition to the Wichita City Council, aiming to block the opening of a clinic at the building once owned by slain abortion provider George Tiller. Kansans for Life planned to present the document to the council Tuesday. The group says thousands of residents have signed the petition, saying they don’t want an abortion clinic in the neighborhood. The abortion rights group Trust Women plans to open a center offering services including abortion in the building. Its owners have said the rezoning drive is an effort to limit reproductive health…
Fake Patty’s Day, or “green break”, was the main discussion item during Tuesday’s Aggieville Business Association meeting. Due to the success of last year’s event, the Riley County Police intend to take many of the same precautions this year. Officers will be taking 12 hour shifts each, and will be patrolling not only the Aggieville area, but the surrounding residential areas as well. The few changes include: the parade will take place at 2 p.m. this year and shuttles will be provided to hotels and possibly the old stadium parking lot. Individuals from an Aggieville clothing store expressed concern about…
The Energy Department rays U.S. drivers spent 4 percent of their pre-tax income on gasoline last year, the second highest percentage in thirty years.
President Barack Obama is asking Congress to come up with tens of billions of dollars in short-term spending cuts and tax revenue to delay automatic spending cuts scheduled to kick in March 1.
A local hardware store has reported the theft of a large piece of equipment to the Riley County Police Department. According to police the Waters True Value store on Poyntz avenue is reporting a large metal frame for a greenhouse missing from their back lot. Police say the theft allegedly occurred sometime between the 1 October, 2012 and 31 January , 2013. Police say the estimated loss is around $1,000, and the investigation is ongoing at this time. 2. Riley County Police say a suspect has severely damaged a room at a local hotel. The Super 8 hotel located on the 200…
With a Super Bowl already on his resume, K-State senior associate athletic director Reid Sigmon has been named the chief financial officer of the new college football playoff and national championship game. Sigmon will begin his new job on April 22nd at the group’s new headquarters in Dallas alongside chief operating officer Michael Kelly and BCS executive director Bill Hancock, who announced the move. Sigmon will be a senior leader on a staff that will have operational responsibility for the playoff and championship game. At K-State, Sigmon also served as Chief Operating Officer and directed the daily operations of the athletics…
West Virginia 60, Texas 58 MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) Deniz Kilicli and Jabarie Hinds scored 14 points apiece to lead West Virginia to a 60-58 win over Texas on Monday night. West Virginia (11-11, 4-5 Big 12 Conference) swept the season series and sent the Longhorns (10-12, 2-7) to their seventh loss in nine games. Freshman Eron Harris added 13 points for West Virginia. Sheldon McClellan led Texas with 14 points and Javan Felix had 12. Texas trailed by as many as 11 early in the second half but went ahead 49-47 on two free throws by Felix with 8:21…
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell called the Super Bowl power outage “unfortunate” Monday, but said it won’t stop the NFL from returning to New Orleans.