Opportunities to view indigenous peoples through the eyes of indigenous photographers are rare and recent. Our People, Our Land, Our Images , which opens Jan. 28 at the Flint Hills Discovery Center, presents the works of three generations of indigenous photographers from the North America, South America, the Middle East and New Zealand. They include newly discovered, nineteenth-century trailblazers, well established contemporary practitioners and emerging photographers from the next generation. Fifty-one works in the exhibition tell their stories through differing photographic approaches, ranging from straightforward documentary to aesthetically altered images that combine overlays and collage. The images stand united, however,…
Author: KMAN Staff
Rodney McGruder scored 21 points and #16 K-State overcame a slow start to claim the first Big 12 meeting with TCU, 67-54 in Fort Worth on Tuesday night. The Horned Frogs jumped out to an 8-2 lead in the game’s first three minutes, but the Cats righted the ship and closed out the half by outscoring TCU 36-17. K-State would push the lead to as many as 25 points in the 2nd half at 67-42 with 6:19 to play, before the Frogs scored the final 12 points of the game. K-State (14-2, 3-0) won their seventh straight game as they…
Notre Dame University is expressing support for football star Manti Te’o, saying that he was the victim of a hoax. Reports surfaced Wednesday that Te’o’s dying girlfriend never existed.
President Barack Obama is taking 23 executive actions aimed at curbing gun violence that don’t require congressional action, including measures to encourage schools to hire police officers and improve efforts to prosecute gun crime.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A federal appeals court has upheld the convictions of a Kansas doctor and his wife in a moneymaking conspiracy linked to 68 overdose deaths. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday sided with prosecutors in the case of Stephen and Linda Schneider, who ran a pain clinic in Haysville. The Schneiders were convicted in 2010 of conspiracy, unlawfully prescribing drugs, health care fraud and money laundering. Stephen Schneider was sentenced to 30 years, and his wife to 33 years. A three-judge panel agreed with the government that the Schneiders waived their right to conflict-free legal…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A Wichita man has been sentenced to more than 15 years in prison for a fatal beating in a dispute over a dog. Forty-one-year-old Samuel Sims was sentenced Wednesday in Sedgwick County District Court, where he pleaded guilty last month to involuntary manslaughter and two other felonies. Sims admitted taking part in the beating death of 47-year-old John Tolliver in July 2011. Police said Sims and another man, Nelson Glover, got involved in a dispute between Tolliver and his former girlfriend over possession of a dog. Tolliver was found dead in his Wichita home, where burglars had…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Police in Wichita are trying to identify a man found dead near railroad tracks in the northeastern part of the city. The Wichita Eagle reports police believe someone placed the body near the tracks but they don’t know when. Workers heading to a construction site came across the body shortly before 9 a.m. Wednesday. Police Lt. Doug Nolte says an autopsy will show the cause of the death, but authorities are treating it as suspicious for now. A homeless shelter is located not far from where the body was found.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Several law professors say they would favor a different system for appointing judges to the Kansas Court of Appeals and the state Supreme Court. The Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimony Wednesday on a proposed change in the Kansas Constitution to let the governor appoint appellate judges, with confirmation by the Senate. Voters would have to approve the constitutional change. Under the current system, the governor chooses appellate judges from slates of three finalists nominated by a special commission. The commission is made up of four non-lawyers appointed by the governor and five lawyers who belong to the…
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) A suburban Chicago woman has been sentenced to one year of probation after two of her children were found last June bound and blindfolded in a Walmart parking lot in Kansas. Deborah Gomez of Northlake, Ill., pleaded no contest in December to three counts of child endangerment. Her husband, Adolfo Gomez, has pleaded no contest to two counts of child abuse and three counts of child endangerment. Both parents have been in custody since they were arrested after a woman at a Lawrence Walmart reported seeing two children bound and blindfolded near the family’s vehicle. Douglas County…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) A Johnson County man was sentenced to 15 months in prison and ordered to pay $1.3 million in restitution for his part in a scheme to fraudulently obtain millions of dollar in mortgage loans. Federal prosecutors say 55-year-old John T. Bradfield, of Overland Park, was sentenced Tuesday. He admitted that he submitted fraudulent information to mortgage lenders. One co-defendant, Paul Hartfield of Overland Park, obtained $4.9 million in loans to rehabilitate more than 40 homes in the Kansas City metro area. After he stopped rehabilitating the homes in October 2006, he persuaded friends and family to…