Author: KMAN Staff
On Friday afternoon Manhattan City Commissioners met on the third floor of the Flint Hills Discovery Center to work out some of their goals for 2012. Some of the key points that were brought up were sales taxes, and finding more efficient ways to conduct city business. All of the commissioners wanted to concentrate on taking a look at some outdated ordinances, and finding ways to help developers streamline the building process in the Manhattan Area. The next event for Manhattan City commissioners is the intergovernmental luncheon to be held on Monday at noon at the Holiday Inn on Anderson…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas Department on Aging is cautioning clients that some of their personal and health information may have been breached. The agency says paper files, a flash drive and a laptop computer were stolen Jan. 12 from a locked vehicle used by a department employee in Wichita. The files contained information mainly on department clients in Sedgwick, Harvey and Butler counties. None of the items had been recovered by Thursday afternoon, and the agency says there’s no sign the stolen information had been misused. The Department on Aging says no banking or driver’s license information was involved.…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A man accused of collecting life insurance payouts in numerous deaths is now charged with premeditated murder in the 2003 death of a Kansas woman initially investigated as an accidental drowning. Daniel U. Perez appeared via video hookup Thursday in Sedgwick County District Court on 39 charges, including the death of Patricia Hughes at a home in Valley Center. The complaint unsealed Thursday charges the 52-year-old defendant with multiple counts of rape and sodomy involving three victims. He’s also charged with aggravated assault, making false statements to obtain auto credit, sexual exploitation of a child and making…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Two ministers have delivered an Internet-based petition with 34,000 names urging Speaker Mike O’Neal to resign from the Kansas House. The petition protests his forwarding of an email earlier this month to colleagues about President Barack Obama. The email cites a Bible verse that begins, “Let his days be few.” An aide says O’Neal doesn’t intend to resign. Senior Pastor Tobias Schlingensiepen of Topeka’s First Congregational Church and the Rev. Jim McCollough of the Topeka Center for Peace and Justice delivered the petition Thursday to O’Neal’s office. They say it’s unacceptable to use Scripture to advocate a…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas Museum of History is planning a full day of activities Jan. 27 to mark the 151st anniversary of the state’s admission to the union. The Kansas State Historical Society says events at the museum in west Topeka will be geared to schoolchildren and the general public. The state’s birthday is actually two days after the events, Jan. 29, a Sunday. Kansas became a state in 1861, on the eve of the nation’s Civil War. The historical society says events will include music and a scavenger hunt. Historical demonstrations will help visitors make rope, weave on…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) House Speaker Mike O’Neal and fellow Republican leaders are developing their own ideas for how Kansas should revamp its tax code this legislative session. O’Neal, a Hutchinson Republican, is scheduled to share some of those ideas Friday during his weekly gathering with reporters. Gov. Sam Brownback is proposing to lower the individual income tax rates for most Kansas residents and for some classes of businesses. The Republican governor’s plan eliminates most itemized deductions and exemptions, including a tax credit for the working poor. Critics say the plan hurts the poor to help upper-income earners. But Brownback is…
GREAT BEND, Kan. (AP) A man charged with killing a 14-year-old Great Bend girl wants his trial moved out of Barton County. The Hutchinson News reports that lawyers for 37-year-old Adam Longoria filed a motion this week for a change of venue. Longoria is scheduled to go on trial March 26 on charges of capital murder and sexual crimes for the August 2010 death of Alicia DeBolt. The girl’s charred body was found at an asphalt plant near Great Bend where Longoria worked. Prosecutors have decided against seeking the death penalty, although the capital murder charge remains. Longoria would face…