President Barack Obama was in Colorado Friday to get a first-hand view of the devastation brought on by wildfires. Later he stopped at a YMCA shelter, where he spoke to volunteers and fire victims, saying the country’s ‘got your back.’
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Two felonies and one misdemeanor lands one Manhattan man in jail. Brian Kottke(42) was arrested in the 1200 block of Colorado Street around 12:45 A.M. Saturday morning. Kottke was charged with aggravated battery, aggravated intimidation of a witness and criminal damage to property. Kottke is being held on a $5,000 bond.
Associated Press Fri 03:07 PM 06/29/2012 Officials of a northeastern Kansas equipment company say one worker was killed and another was injured when a 9,000-pound electrical transformer they were salvaging tipped over. The accident occurred around 7 a.m. Friday at Solomon Corp.’s reclamation facility in Solomon. The company manufactures, maintains and recycles electrical equipment such as transformers and voltage regulators. Company vice president Tom Hemmer identified the man who was pinned under the transformer as eight-year employee Vicente Castaneda. The other employee was taken to a hospital with minor injuries. — Associated Press information from: The Abilene Reflector-Chronicle
In a press release on Friday, it was announced that the Manhattan Ogden USD 383 and the Manhattan Ogden NEA have reach a tentative agreement after seven meetings spanning over the past three month. The highlights of the new contract include: -a 3% compensation package increase -an increase of $900.00 on the base salary, meaning starting salary for a teacher will be $34,900. -continued coverage of the basic health insurance premium. -small increase in supplemental contracts, which include advisors and coaches. -Continued longevity increment increase -continued payment for National Board Certification. -provides a new stipend for bully prevention teacher leadership. -continue…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Gov. Sam Brownback has urged a large crowd at the Kansas Statehouse to work to overturn a federal government policy designed to ensure that most employers’ health plans cover contraceptive. Brownback joined the state’s Roman Catholic bishops Friday in decrying the policy as an attack on religious freedom. Several thousand people attended. The rally is part of a nationwide campaign prompted by the mandate announced by President Barack Obama earlier this year. The mandate included a religious exemption for houses of worship but not religiously affiliated hospitals, charities, universities and social service agencies. Obama later announced a…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A federal judge has again barred Kansas from stripping federal family planning funds from Planned Parenthood clinics in Wichita and Hays as well as an unaffiliated clinic in Dodge City. U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten on Friday extended his preliminary injunction first issued a year ago. Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri and the Dodge city Family Planning Clinic sought the extension after the Legislature this year re-enacted restrictions on family planning funding. The dispute stems from a Kansas law requiring the state to first allocate some federal family planning money to public health departments and…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Kansas farmers planted 20.4 million acres this season to their four major crops of wheat, sorghum, corn and soybeans. Kansas Agricultural Statistics Service said Friday that acreage is up slightly from the previous year. Almost half of it, or about 9.6 million acres, went into winter wheat. But growers this spring put in 4.7 million acres of corn. That is down about 4 percent from a year ago, but it is still the third largest planted corn acreage since 1936 in Kansas. The service also reported that Kansas farmers have planted or plan to plant some 3.6…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Kansas has extended the hours for hunting sandhill cranes, raising concern among conservationists who say the longer hours could imperil the endangered whooping crane. The Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism recently approved extending the hours for sandhill crane hunting from sunrise to sunset. The hours previously had been one half hour after sunrise until 2 p.m. The season runs from early November to early January. Ron Klataske, director of the Audubon of Kansas, says the longer hours put the endangered whooping crane at risk because whooping cranes migrate through some of the same habitat…
HAYS, Kan. (AP) A plan to build two wind turbines to supply energy to Fort Hays State University is closer to reality. The Ellis County planning and zoning commission on Wednesday approved a conditional-use permit for two 2.1-megawatt wind turbines on private land near the university. The turbines would use underground cables to provide electricity to the university. The commission’s approval hinges on the developer providing insurance certification and a final transportation plan. The Ellis County Commission would make the final decision. The Hays Daily News reports the turbines are part of a long-term plan by Fort Hays State to…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Police say robbers have targeted two fireworks stands in the Wichita area this week. In the first robbery on Wednesday, three men took fireworks, but no money, from a Wholesale Fireworks stand in Derby. Derby police say one of the men fired a shot into the ground with a silver-colored revolver. No one was injured. Sedgwick County authorities say two men armed with a weapon held up a stand early Friday in Wichita. It was not immediately clear if any fireworks or money were taken in the second robbery. The suspects in both robberies are described only…