New York Gov. Cuomo signed a bill into law Tuesday, to restrict gun sales and require reporting of threats by mentally ill.
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During Tuesday’s meeting, the Manhattan City Commission unanimously authorized the purchase of property owned by Feather Field Farms, LLC, for improvements at the Manhattan Regional Airport. City Administration will pay over 1.5 million dollars to the Riley County Clerk of the District Court. Payment to the Court will be financed through issuing temporary notes. The primary reasons for the acquisition are the complete a Wildlife Fence around the Airport, while at the same time to protect the critical area around the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) operated electronic equipment used by pilots for navigating their aircraft. A work session was held…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas attorney general’s office says two companies have agreed to pay $10,000 each for violating the state’s no-call telemarketing law. Attorney General Derek Schmidt identified the companies Tuesday as Prairie Life Fitness LLC, of Omaha, Neb., and Vandell Communications LLC, based in Illinois. Schmidt’s office began investigating Prairie Life Fitness in early 2012 after an Overland Park resident complained of getting a solicitation by phone. The company acknowledged marketing its Kansas-based fitness centers to Kansas residents who had placed their numbers on the national do-not-call registry. The attorney general says Vandell Communications telephoned Kansas residents on…
STOCKTON, Kan. (AP) A former northwest Kansas sheriff has been sentenced to four years and one month in prison for distributing methamphetamine. KWCH-TV reports the sentence given Tuesday to former Rooks County sheriff Randy Axelson was shorter than the five years and four months requested by prosecutors. Axelson was arrested December 2011 following an investigation by Kansas authorities. He was accused of distributing meth over a period of four months at the Rooks County Fairgrounds and within 1,000 feet of Stockton High School. He pleaded guilty in July 2012 to four counts. Prosecutors dropped five other counts in exchange for…
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) A woman who was abandoned as a newborn in Lawrence almost 50 years ago says she’s had a happy life. A cleaning woman found the baby at what was called the Grover Bungalo Launderette in November 1964. She was likely no more than three hours old. Nurses at a Lawrence hospital named her Baby Amy. Her parents were never found. The Lawrence Journal-World reports she was adopted and spent the first seven years of her life in Kansas. The family moved to New York state. After earning two college degrees, she has traveled the world as an…
COLUMBUS, Kan. (AP) Penn National Gaming is proposing a $7.25 million settlement with Cherokee County in a dispute over a casino that was never built. Cherokee County sued Penn National for $53 million in 2008 after the company decided not to build a casino in southeast Kansas. The company cited competition from a resort just south of where it planned to build the casino. A Shawnee County judge in November accepted the county’s argument that the company backed out after deciding it could make more money elsewhere. Penn National has the state contract for a casino in Kansas City, Kan.…
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) A suspect in a fatal Hutchinson shooting will be arraigned Feb. 4, after he waived his right to a preliminary hearing. Twenty-year-old Isaac D. Beltran of Hutchinson is charged with second-degree murder in the November 2012 death of 26-year-old Dustin Brooks. The Hutchinson News reports Beltran’s case was transferred after Monday’s hearing to Judge Tim Chambers. Beltran will enter a plea at the Feb. 4 hearing. Brooks died at Hutchinson Regional Medical Center after being shot outside a Halloween party. Police say the shooting occurred after Brooks and Beltran argued.
HAYS, Kan. (AP) Searchers found the body of a missing Hays high school student who had been missing for two days. Police say a group of searchers found the body of 18-year-old Citlatli Adilene Armendariz Monday afternoon in a creek about a mile south of Hays. She had been missing since she left a party Saturday night in Hays. Ellis County Sheriff Ed Harbin said an autopsy will determine the cause of death. Armendariz was a senior at Hays High School.
PRATT, Kan. (AP) A new owner plans to reopen an ethanol plant in Pratt that’s been closed since 2008. Officials with Scoular Co. of Omaha, Neb., announced Monday that it sold most of its interest in the plant to Pratt Biofuels Investors. That’s a new company formed by investors in a California ethanol plant, Calgren Renewable Fuels. Calgren plans to reopen the Pratt plant by spring. The plant, which can produce 55 million gallons of ethanol a year, closed in 2008. The Wichita Eagle reports Scoular will continue to procure feedstock and will market and ship the ethanol and distillers…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Gov. Sam Brownback wants Kansas lawmakers to cut individual income taxes even further. In the prepared text of his State of the State speech Tuesday night, Brownback also says his ultimate goal is abolishing the state’s individual income tax altogether. For now, the Republican governor said he wants to lower the top rate on individual income taxes to 3.5 percent from the current 4.9 percent. For low-income families, Brownback wants the rate reduced to 1.9 percent from the current 3 percent. The current rates were adopted in 2012 and took effect Jan. 1. The state also exempted…