HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) A Hutchinson manufacturing plant that makes food processing equipment plans to move to a Kansas City, Mo., suburb. Officials of the Marlen International plant announced Wednesday that the plant will move to Riverside, Mo., early next year. Company president and CEO Nikola Vajda says about a dozen of the plant’s 29 employees will be able to stay in Hutchinson and work through telecommunications. The other employees will be offered jobs in Riverside. The Hutchinson News reports the company plans to close during the first quarter of next year, if it can get a month-to-month extension on its…
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KINGMAN, Kan. (AP) A judge says statements from a former Kansas police officer that were made after his wife was killed will be allowed as evidence at his trial. Brett Seacat is charged with first-degree murder in the April 2011 shooting death of 34-year-old Vashti Seacat. He’s also charged with arson for a fire at the couple’s home in Kingman that day. His attorneys say Vashti Seacat set the fire and took her own life. Kingman County Judge Larry Solomon ruled Wednesday that statements Seacat made are admissible during his trial, which is scheduled to begin Dec. 3. Seacat was an…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) After nearly a decade of working toward becoming a National Cancer Institute facility, the University of Kansas Cancer Center was ready to announce it has obtained that designation. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and a number of Kansas lawmakers were scheduled to be on hand for the announcement Thursday afternoon at the Robert E. Hemenway Life Sciences Innovation Center in Kansas City, Kan. Officials say the NCI designation will bring additional federal research money to the university and give patients access to clinical trials that are available only at NCI centers. U.S. Sen. Jerry…
Riley County Commissioners reviewed the language of a new quarter-cent sales tax question during a work session on Thursday. If passed, the quarter-cent sales tax would replace the current half-cent sales tax that is in place in Riley County. “I drew it based on the premise that the simpler is the better it’s going to be,” Clancy Holeman, Riley County Counselor, said. The revenue generated from the new tax would be allocated to road and bridge projects; however, the county would not start seeing returns at the beginning of 2013. “Revenue from the existing tax will come in after January 1,” Holeman…
HAYS, Kan. (AP) Fort Hays State University has renamed its business college to highlight the western Kansas institution’s focus on promoting new business development. The new name is now the College of Business and Entrepreneurship. The name has been approved by the Kansas Board of Regents, which oversees the state’s higher education system. Fort Hays State President Ed Hammond says the new name eliminates confusion and highlights the university’s support for new and existing businesses. It had previously been the College of Business and Leadership, but the university’s Department of Leadership Studies moved to the College of Arts and Sciences in…
FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) A new commander is taking over at two military prisons and a military police brigade at Fort Leavenworth. Col. Eric Belcher is relinquishing his command of the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks, Joint Regional Confinement Facility and the 15th Military Police Brigade in a ceremony Thursday at Fort Leavenworth. Col. Sioban Ledwith is taking command of the prisons and unit. Ledwith was most recently a student at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pa. The U.S. Disciplinary Barracks is the military’s only maximum security prison, where inmates are sentenced to terms from more than five years to…
The jury in the capital murder trial of Luis Aguirre reached a verdict Thursday afternoon in Riley County District Court of life in prison without the possibility of parole. The jury deliberated approximately four and a half hours before reaching the decision. The other option for the jury was to give Aguirre the death penalty but they chose the life sentence instead. Aguirre was convicted last month for the murders of 18-year old Tanya Moldanado and her 13-month old son Juan in 2009. Formal sentencing for Aguirre has been set for Tuesday, August 7 at 1:15 p.m. Stay with KMAN…
Sometime around 2:00 A.M. Thursday morning, Riley County Police received a report of a fight in progress in the Westloop Dillons parking lot. Upon arrival, police found Chrispino Marino-Santos (25) on the ground bleeding from the face. With Santos, was Mranon Merino-Solano (21) who was on his feet, but complaining of pain in his face. Both were transported by Riley County Police to Mercy Regional where they were treated and released. Police found two suspects a short distance away from the scene pushing a bicycle. The suspects were identified as David Perez (27) and Michel Romero (24). Both Manhattan residents were…
Members of the Geary County Sheriff’s Department made a drug-related arrest earlier this week after conducting a traffic stop on a vehicle,in the 400 block of East Chestnut Street in Junction City. Ricardo Jimenez, 25, of Junction City faces seven charges including possession of marijuana with intent to sell, possession of A narcotic drug, possession of drug paraphernalia, and driving with a revoked driver’s license. There was also a seizure of marijuana, believed to be for sale, and miscellaneous currency from the vehicle. Deputies then obtained a search warrant for Jiminez’s address and an additional amount of marijuana, a small amount of suspected…
NEW YORK (AP) The National League’s 8-0 victory set a record low rating for baseball’s All-Star game, just 4 hundredths of a point below last year’s figure. The blowout over the American League on Tuesday night, which had the third-highest victory margin in All-Star history, received a 6.8 rating and 12 share on Fox and was seen by an average audience of 10.9 million, the network said Wednesday. The NL’s 5-1 victory last year drew a 6.9/12 and was seen by an average audience of 11 million. Still, the total audience that watched any portion of the game was…