A Fort Riley soldier was arrested after a law enforcement pursuit through Junction City Wednesday afternoon. Justin Johnson, 30, was taken into custody after the vehicle he was driving was clocked at 110 miles per hour just north of Junction City on highway 77. Johnson’s charges include felony fleeing and eluding, speeding, reckless driving, and improper display of a tag.
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A 29 year old man who was injured in an accident at I-70 and K-18 Tuesday morning has died. Travis Kemph was from Newton but had been living in Manhattan. A family member indicates Kemph’s life support was removed at 2:04 am Friday, when the organ donation team was finished. His organs have been donated to help others. Family member David Miller’s comments follow: “Travis was the funniest man I have ever met. He had an ironic sense of humor that will be missed. As we were leaving Topeka last night, a huge rainbow surrounded us on both sides of…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Abortion opponents in Kansas aren’t resting after a string of legislative victories at the start of Gov. Sam Brownback’s administration. But the proposals they’ll pursue most aggressively in 2012 aren’t likely to be as eye-catching. Anti-abortion leaders in the Republican-controlled Legislature say they want to strengthen legal protections for health care professionals who want to avoid participating in abortions or dispensing abortion-inducing drugs. They hope to prevent even indirect taxpayer support for abortions. Some abortion opponents anticipate interest in trying to prohibit abortion after the first detectable fetal heartbeat or a measure declaring that life begins when…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback continues to give truck drivers some relief from state regulations if they’re hauling hay to livestock in drought-stricken areas. Brownback has extended an executive order suspending some trucking regulations until Jan. 27. The governor began providing the relief in October. Truck drivers won’t need permits to haul loads up to 12 feet wide. Normally, a special permit is required for loads more than 8.5 feet wide. The order applies both when truckers are transporting hay within Kansas and when they’re driving through Kansas to deliver hay in Oklahoma and Texas. However, the latest…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas attorney general’s office has paid outside lawyers $476,000 in defending abortion laws enacted this year. The office says it has paid nearly $258,000 to a Wichita law firm involved in defending a provision of the state budget that denied federal family planning dollars for non-abortion services to Planned Parenthood. The group is challenging the provision in a federal lawsuit. The attorney general’s office has paid $138,000 to a Lawrence firm helping the state defend new health and safety regulations for abortion providers. Two Kansas City-area physicians are challenging the rules in both state and federal…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A suspect is in custody in the Christmas Eve slaying of a Topeka liquor store clerk. The Topeka Capital-Journal (http://bit.ly/w4AFl4 ) reported that the 44-year-old man was arrested at 3:30 p.m. Thursday and booked into the Shawnee County Jail. He is being held on suspicion of aggravated robbery and first-degree murder in the death of in the death of 41-year-old Matthew Hill. Surveillance video had shown a man entering Hudson Liquor Store last Saturday and beating Hill with a pry bar before shooting him. The suspect also is accused of stealing money from the cash register and…
The K-State baseball facilities have undergone a serious overhaul in the past decade. Most recently, a new playing surface was installed over this past offseason. One of the last pieces still needed at Tointon Family Stadium is an upgrade of the sound system for in-house music and the public address announcer. K-State baseball is holding a fundraising campaign to upgrade the sound system, and the Purple Invasion Golf Tournament will be held next week in Dallas-Fort Worth. The tournament is open to all K-State fans headed for the Cotton Bowl, and will be held at Riverside Golf Club, located just minutes from Dallas Cowboys Stadium. Tournament organizer Jay Kvasnicka says…
A public hearing to finalize 2011 budget amendments was held in the Riley County commission building Thursday. One large item, that was not budget for at the beginning of the year, was “Resourceful Kansas’ ” $1.2 million grant. “Its a grant we got midway through the year,” Riley County commission chair Karen McCulloh said. “We had to make sure appeared in the budget at the end of the year.” In addition to the grant, the register of deeds, capital improvement, city auction, landfill closure, Riley County police department, and juvenile services funds all required adjustments. The money needed to make…