WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A party is planned to wish a cabin a happy 140th birthday. The cabin on Beaver Creek in Smith County is where Brewster Higley wrote a poem in 1873 that became the words to “Home on the Range.” The July Fourth party will include music, food and plenty of gratitude to Kansans who have helped save the cabin. The event will give Kansans a chance to see the cabin before a major restoration project starts. Contract bids for the project will be let this summer. The cabin is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. An…
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CHASE, Kan. (AP) A 3-story cactus that has brought national attention to a small central Kansas town is blooming for the first time in decades. And then it’s expected to die. The Agave americana plant has been owned by Ed and Joyce Ward of Chase for 36 years. It was featured on a national news show and has drawn thousands of visitors to Chase. The plant normally grows in the southwest. It is popularly known as the century plant because it lives about 30 to 40 years, blooms, and then dies. The Wichita Eagle reports the plant has begun to…
DODGE CITY, Kan. (AP) Dodge City is preparing to welcome 16 physically challenged veterans who are riding bicycles across the country to show people that they aren’t defined by those challenges. The Sea 2 Shining Sea ride started in San Francisco on Memorial Day. It is scheduled to end in Virginia Beach on July 28. The riders will be in Dodge City Tuesday through Thursday. The Dodge City Daily Globe reports that the city has several events planned to welcome the riders. They include a welcoming line when the riders arrive, dinners and admission to some of the city’s Wild…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Law enforcement agencies are looking for an inmate who didn’t return to his work release facility during the weekend. The Kansas Department of Corrections says Pete Vazquez was due back from his job with a construction company Saturday evening. He was declared an escapee early Sunday. Corrections spokesman Jan Lunsford says employers often call the facility to ask that release inmates stay longer. He says somebody called on Vazquez’s behalf but it wasn’t his work supervisor. KAKE-TV reports Vazquez was serving a sentence in a Finney County theft case. He had been at the work release facility…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The first of nine defendants charged in a crime spree that resulted in one woman’s death is scheduled to go on trial. Twenty-six-year-old Anceo D. Stovall of Topeka goes on trial Monday. He faces numerous charges, with the most serious being first-degree murder in the death of 40-year-old Natalie Gibson. She and 42-year-old Lori Allison was shot outside their home last July 21. Stovall’s trial will be followed by a series of trials of other defendants scheduled from July through October. Stovall’s attorney, Jonathan Phelps, says he will present evidence that his client was not present when…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A Kansas state school board candidate who thinks the state should stop teaching evolution in its public schools also attends Westboro Baptist, the Topeka church known for anti-gay protests worldwide. Jack Wu told The Topeka Capital-Journal that he decided to run for the State Board of Education after learning that Democratic incumbent Carolyn Campbell would otherwise be unopposed for a second term. She is also from Topeka and represents the 4th District of eastern Kansas. Campbell supports the state’s current science standards, which treat evolution as a well-established, core scientific concept. But Wu’s link to the Rev.…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas City-area woman who filed a federal lawsuit over political redistricting in Kansas is asking to have more than $45,000 in legal bills covered by the state, bringing its total potential cost to more than $700,000. Robyn Renee Essex, a Republican precinct committee woman from Olathe, submitted her request to the three federal judges who heard her lawsuit and redrew the state’s political boundaries earlier this month. The judges drew new congressional, legislative and State Board of Education districts to account for population changes over the past decade because the Legislature failed to do the job.…
1) A 22 year-old victim received facial injuries and broken nose after a dispute with his 21 year-old girlfriend at their residence in Manhattan No arrests were made for the incident. 2) The Riley County Police department reported Monday that Vanessa Thomas came back on Sunday to find her ethernet card, 32 inch Samsung TV, a Toshiba laptop, 50 DVDs, Toshiba Blu Ray player, and a laptop charger all missing from her residence in the 900 block of Humbolt. Total loss was estimated around $2100. 3) Erin Downs reported to the Riley County Police Department Friday that and unknown suspect…
One last series of jumps separates K-State junior Erik Kynard from a trip to the Olympic games in London. The three-time NCAA champ in the high jump will compete in the finals on Monday night at the US Olympic Trials in Eugene, Oregon. Kynard breezed through the prelims on Saturday night as one of only four competitors to clear all three heights without a miss. He jumped 6′ 10 3/4″, 7′ 1/2″, and 7′ 1 3/4 in his first try. The top three finishers will qualify for the London Olympics next month in Monday night’s high jump finals at 7:50pm…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Carlos Beltran had three RBIs and Matt Holliday and Allen Craig each had two, powering the St. Louis Cardinals to an 11-8 victory Sunday and their first three-game sweep in Kansas City since 2009. Mike Moustakas had two home runs for the Royals, who gave up 41 hits and 30 runs to their state rivals in the three games. The previous weekend in St. Louis, the Royals won two out of three. Beltran gave the Cardinals an early lead with a three-run homer in the first, lining Jonathan Sanchez’s 0-2 pitch 389 feet over the…