Big band music wafted through the air Wednesday night at the Premier of the Movie Memorial Day. The red carpet affair started at the K-State campus Dog Tags Memorial, and then moved on into McCain Theater for the main movie event. Memorial Day director Sam Fischer says the initial idea for the movie came from a footlocker full of World War II memoribilia found in a house that was about to be demolished. The stories from the man who left the locker were never going to be told. The movie features Oscar nominated James Cromwell, and his son John Cromwell. James Cromwell plays a grandfather whose…
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Tobias Schlingensiepen (D) – community leader and pastor of Topeka’s First Congregational Church – announced Tuesday he is forming a committee to run for the United States House of Representatives in Kansas’s 2nd Congressional District. “After talking with many people around the 2nd Congressional District and thoughtful deliberation with my wife and children, I have decided to form a committee to run for the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2nd District.” “We have important business here in Kansas and throughout our nation that requires a spirit of hard work and compromise that is currently absent in Washington. I have heard over…
State Representative Sydney Carlin of Manhattan has filed for re-election to continue representing the 66th district. Carlin says her passion is to help the community and that is why she filed for re-election. Carlin continues by explaining there is still so much to do in Topeka. Carlin has served since 2003.
FORT RILEY, Kan. (AP) A member of the World War II Army unit memorialized in the book and HBO miniseries “Band of Brothers” has paid a visit to Fort Riley. Eighty-nine-year-old retired Staff Sgt. Earl McClung stopped at the northeastern Kansas post Wednesday to meet wounded soldiers at the Warrior Transition Battalion complex. McClung, who now lives in Colorado, served with E Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. Members of Easy Company parachuted into France on D-Day, fought through the Battle of the Bulge and reached Adolf Hitler’s Eagle Nest retreat. WIBW-TV reports McClung talked to the wounded…
PRINCETON, Kan. (AP) There’s an art to stealing an ATM, and whoever made off with one of the cash machines outside an eastern Kansas bank apparently was no artist. The Ottawa Herald reports that Franklin County sheriff’s officers responded early Sunday to an alarm at Patriots Bank in the small town of Princeton. Deputies arrived to see an ATM missing from its place outside the bank and being pushed slowly along a street by a pickup truck. The driver abandoned the cash machine and sped off, then crashed the truck and ran away. Officers recovered the ATM and the cash.…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) Federal agents are looking for an Overland Park, Kan., man who failed to appear for a hearing where he had been expected to plead guilty. The FBI on Wednesday asked the public for information on the whereabouts of 46-year-old Ronald Catrell, who didn’t show up Monday to federal court in Kansas City, Kan. Catrell was last seen Sunday afternoon at his home. He was charged in December with bank fraud, money laundering, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. Prosecutors say Catrell scammed three banks out of millions of dollars in loans and duped several investors in…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Two Kansas Democrats want the state’s Republican attorney general to stay out of a federal court case over political redistricting. The matter is in federal court because Kansas lawmakers ended their session Sunday without drawing new maps for the state House and Senate, Board of Education and the four U.S. House districts. Attorney General Derek Schmidt says he wants to weigh in on attempts by lawyers to collect legal fees from the state. But Kansas House Minority Leader Paul Davis said Wednesday the case should proceed under the same rules governing past lawsuits. The Lawrence Democrat notes…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Flags will fly at half-staff across Kansas Saturday to honor a soldier from Wichita who died in Afghanistan. Gov. Sam Brownback ordered the honor for Sgt. Zachary Hargrove, who died May 3 while serving with the 1st Infantry Division in Afghanistan. Hargrove was found unresponsive at a medical facility at Bagram Airfield. His death is being investigated. Hargrove was a wheeled vehicle mechanic assigned to the Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 84th Explosive Ordnance Disposal Battalion, 1st Infantry Division. He served three tours in Iraq before his deployment to Afghanistan. Hargrove joined the Army in September 1998 and…