With elections coming up this year and the primary coming up in August, it’s important to start thinking about who you want to vote for. This Saturday marks the first step in the re-election of President Obama as the democrats meet for the democratic party caucus. Held at Eisenhower Middle School, the caucus will kick off at 2:00 P.M. For anyone who has yet to register, those individuals need to arrive an hour early to register. Riley County Democratic Chairperson, Kathyrn Focke, mentions they are also looking for volunteers to help with the caucus. Anyone wishing to volunteer needs to…
Author: KMAN Staff
Arrests What started as an aggravated assault resulted in nine counts of offenses for a Manhattan man. 19 year old, Denzel Leonard, failed to register as a violent offender after getting charged with one count of aggrivated assault in Riley County. After failing to register, Leonard received eight other charges: three counts of incorrect information, three counts of failing to register different information, and one count of failing to inform of address change. Leonard now faces a $10,000 warrant for repeatedly violating the Kansas Offender Registration Act. Incidents KMAN reported yesterday about a series of worthless checks given to various…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Federal prosecutors have charged 14 people in an alleged cocaine smuggling ring in Wichita. U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said in a release Thursday that the 63-count indictment alleges that the drug trafficking organization was active in Wichita from October 2010 until this month. The indictment also accuses 30-year-old Juvenal Fernandez Jr., of Wichita, of conspiring with his father, 56-year-old Juvenal G. Fernandez, also of Wichita, to launder about $174,000 in drug proceeds by buying real estate. An attorney listed on the charging documents for Juvenal Fernandez Jr. did not immediately return a call seeking comment. An attorney…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A federal magistrate judge has allowed Kansas to join the fight over the Wyandotte Nation’s claim to Park City land where the tribe wants to build a casino. U.S. Magistrate Judge David Waxse ruled on Thursday that the state has a strong interest in exercising its sovereignty over the tract the tribe wants to take into trust. The state sought to intervene in the lawsuit to protect its taxing, regulatory and economic interests. Peninsula Gaming has opened a casino in south-central Kansas just 25 miles from the land where the tribe wants to put one. The Wyandotte…
WINONA, Kan. (AP) Items accumulated by a woman who led a fascinating life among the rich and famous before dying as a pauper in northwest Kansas will go up for auction this weekend. Barbara Bishop spent time with movie stars, once dated Johnny Carson and spent an inherited fortune on expensive items and homes. The Salina Journal reports she died last November at the age of 85 as a pauper in Winona, a town of about 160 people. The third and final of a series of Barbara Bishop estate auctions will be held this weekend in Colby. More than 1,000…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Severe weather is possible in much of eastern Kansas through Saturday. The National Weather Service in Wichita is predicting strong thunderstorms for a large section of eastern Kansas on Friday. And the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., says the risk for storms that could produce tornadoes is moderate on Saturday in an area that includes the Wichita metropolitan area, along with Salina and Hutchinson. Kansas counties inside the moderate zone include Harper, Kingman, Reno, Saline, Marion, Chase, Harvey, Butler, Sedgwick, Cowley, Sumner, Elk, Greenwood, McPherson and Chautauqua. A slight risk of storms is forecast for most…
ATCHISON, Kan. (AP) Residents of Atchison are looking forward to the opening of a new grain elevator, which will replace a Bartlett Grain Co. elevator destroyed by a fatal explosion. The company announced it would rebuild soon after an explosion last October killed six and seriously injured two others. The concrete was poured last Friday, and the grain elevator is expected to open in September. Bartlett is contracting grain from farmers for this year’s harvest. The St. Joseph News-Press reports the elevator will have a capacity of 1 million bushels of grain, 20 percent more than the old elevator. Bartlett…
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) The Hutchinson City Council will consider a proposal to add sexual orientation and gender identity to the city’s anti-discrimination ordinance. The Hutchinson Human Relations Committee voted Wednesday to recommend the change to the ordinance. The city council will consider the issue in early May. If the council approves the change, sexual orientation and gender identity could not be the basis for discrimination in housing, employment and public accommodations. The Hutchinson chapter of the Kansas Equality Coalition asked the council last November to amend the ordinance. The Hutchinson News reports that people who opposed the change said it…
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) A human rights activist from Syria is scheduled to speak next week in Lawrence about the turmoil in his country. The University of Kansas says that Radwan Ziadeh will be at the university’s Dole Institute of Politics on Tuesday for a free afternoon forum. Institute director Bill Lacy said Ziadeh will discuss Syria’s current struggle. Ziadeh has been involved in documenting human rights violations since the Syrian uprising began. Last year he was elected director of the Foreign Relations Office for the Syrian National Council, the main umbrella organization for the Syrian opposition. He’s a senior fellow…
ABILENE, Kan. (AP) Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt will discuss current legal issues next week during a town hall meeting at the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum in Abilene. The April 17 program is part of a series at the Eisenhower center featuring officials from across Kansas. Schmidt will discuss the state’s involvement in the challenge before the U.S. Supreme Court to the Obama administration’s health care reforms. Schmidt, a Republican, was elected attorney general in 2010 after 10 years in the state Senate.