Author: KMAN Staff
Arrests Saul Andrew Miller, 20, 2005 Hunting Ave., for driving under the influence. Bond set at $750. Guy Earl Millspaugh, 45, 712 Leavenworth St., for battery. Bond set at $500. Accidents An early morning accident on Saturday sent one man to the hospital. Skylar O’Shea, 20, was driving eastbound on Green Randolph Rd., when he lost control of his 2006 Dodge Ram truck. The vehicle left the roadway and landed in a nearby ditch. O’Shea was transported by police to Mercy Regional Health Center for facial lacerations. Incidents A United States soldier is looking at felony assault charges after allegedly threatening a female with…
SALINA, Kan. (AP) The Diocese of Salina will get a new bishop on Tuesday. Msgr. Edward Weisenburger will be installed as the 11th bishop of the diocese during a ceremony Tuesday at Sacred Heart Cathedral in Salina. The Hays Daily News reports nearly 200 priests, archbishops and bishops are expected to attend the ceremony. The Salina diocese has more than 80 parishes. Weisenburger will replace Bishop Paul Coakley, who left the diocese in February 2011 to become Archbishop of the Diocese of Oklahoma City. Weisenburger has served during that time as vicar general of the Oklahoma City diocese. A native…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas legislators are still trying to pin down how a compromise plan for cutting income and sales taxes will affect the state budget. Resistance to the proposal appeared to be hardening Monday among Democrats and some Republicans who already were skeptical. But Gov. Sam Brownback told The Associated Press that he’s still confident that the tax plan won’t cause major budget problems. The plan would cut individual income tax rates, exempt 191,000 businesses from income taxes and reduce the sales tax to 5.7 percent in July 2013 from its current 6.3 percent. Eventually, the tax cuts are…
GALENA, Kan. (AP) Businesses along the famed Route 66 are gearing up for tourism season, hoping for an annual boost in revenue from history buffs from inside and outside the U.S. The Carthage, Mo., Convention and Visitors Bureau is planning a Travel Workers Rally May 8 at the Boots Motel, an icon along the route that will open that day. The Joplin Globe reports some businesses already had tourists this season. A business called Four Women on the Route in Galena, Kan., welcomed visitors last week from France, Spain, Denmark and Australia. And Amanda Davis, director of the Miami, Okla.,…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Learjet executives say an expansion at the company’s plant in west Wichita could bring at least 450 new jobs to the city. Government officials and Bombardier Learjet executives held a groundbreaking ceremony Monday to launch the expansion, which is the largest in Learjet’s history. The expansion includes a Flight Test Center, centers for Engineering and Information Technology and new facilities for paint and production flight testing. A new delivery center also is planned. The $52.7 million project will make room for Bombardier’s newest business jet, the Learjet 85. The expansion is scheduled to be completed in 2014.
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) University of Kansas officials say a campaign to raise $1.2 billion for the school is more than halfway toward its goal. The campaign has brought in $612 million from private donors in the last four years. It was publicly launched at an event Saturday in Lawrence. The effort is scheduled to end in June 2016. Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little says the university will look for ways to use the money beyond traditional efforts such as scholarships and renovating buildings. The Lawrence Journal-World reports those efforts might include expanding study abroad and undergraduate research efforts. So far, donors have…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Anyone who has business with the Kansas Department of Motor Vehicles needs to get it done on Monday. After Monday, all DMV offices in Kansas will be closed for the rest of the week while the state installs a new $4 million computer system and employees learn how to use it. Kansas Department of Revenue officials say the one week of disruption will be worth it, promising that the new system will make filing paperwork much more efficient. Online voter registration in Kansas also will be unavailable starting at 7 p.m. Monday through May 7. That is…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A memorial honoring Americans and South Vietnamese who fought in the Vietnam war has been installed on the banks of the Arkansas River in Wichita. Several hundred people gathered Sunday for a private dedication of the Vietnamese American Community Memorial. A public dedication is planned in July. The Wichita Eagle reports that the memorial depicts two soldiers, one American and one Vietnamese. It also includes a plaque noting the sacrifices of Americans and South Vietnamese who fought together in the war. The memorial was paid for by Wichita’s South Vietnamese community. It created some controversy because some…
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) Hutchinson police are investigating the third church vandalism in the city in the last month. The Hutchinson News reports the latest vandalism was reported Sunday at Eastwood Church of Christ, where someone broke out windows and sprayed fire extinguishers throughout the building. Last week, Grace Episcopal Church officials reported vandalism that included several thousands of dollars in damage to the stained-glass windows. And on March 28, vandals clogged a toilet at Tenth Avenue United Methodist Church, causing flooding in large portions of the church. The church’s office was also broken into, but nothing was stolen.