LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) Members of the public get a chance to hear more details this week on a proposal to build a second federal prison in Leavenworth. A public meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Riverfront Community Center in the northeastern Kansas community. Leavenworth is already home to the U.S. Penitentiary, which switched from maximum to medium security in 2005. The Federal Bureau of Prisons says the new facility would be built on the same grounds, with space for about 1,500 medium-security inmates plus 300 inmates at a minimum-security camp. Federal officials say the prison would have…
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LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) Students at a northeast Kansas high school could be spending a few more minutes in class each day through the end of the school year to make up a day lost to a bomb threat. Free State High School in Lawrence was evacuated just before the start of classes on Dec. 1 when the bomb threat was discovered. All classes were canceled, meaning the school day never officially began. The Lawrence Journal-World reports the cancellation cost Free State nearly five hours toward the state’s yearly requirement. Superintendent Rick Doll is proposing to make up the lost time…
Pawnee Mental Health Services recently celebrated a big anniversary, but the group has lost some headway due to budget cut-backs in recent years. That, according to the group’s executive Director Robbin Cole, who addressed Riley County commissioners Monday morning. Cole adds while Pawnee has grown in the more than five decades it’s been around, its budget and personnel numbers are down the last four years. Cole also expressed concern about Medicaid changes anticipated in the next year, which she says will impact other health care services as well. And to top it off, there are other changes, with a move…
A former Manhattan social worker has been sentenced to three years probation for harassing a Ft. Riley soldier. Rachelle Santiago, 44, also agreed to surrender her license to practice social work to the Kansas Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board and not to reapply for a license in Kansas or any other state. Santiago pleaded guilty to one count of fleeing from a police officer, one count of criminal restraint, one count of making a criminal threat and one count of unlawfully entering military property. In her plea, she admitted that in January 2011 she treated a Ft. Riley soldier for mental…
Kansas state treasurer Ron Estes will be at the Pottawatomie County commission office on Friday, Dec. 16 from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. County treasurer Lisa Wright says that Estes will be helping county residents through the process of getting their unclaimed money back from the state. For additional information, you can contact the Pottawatomie County treasurer’s office at (785) 457-3681. *** Whispering Meadows subdivision in Pottawatomie County garnered a lot of attention at Monday’s bid letting in Westmoreland. “We had 10 bidders,” public works director Leu Lowrey said. “That’s the most I think we’ve ever had on this type…
MANHATTAN, Kan. – Quarterback Collin Klein, linebacker Arthur Brown and defensive back Nigel Malone were named Kansas State’s 2011 offensive and defensive MVPs, while three players – Anthony Cantele, Tyler Lockett and Jared Loomis – took special teams MVP honors as the Wildcat football program held its annual awards ceremony Sunday night at McCain Auditorium on the K-State campus. “I would like to express my sincere appreciation and gratitude to everyone involved with this football program, including our coaches, support staff, players and especially their families,” head coach Bill Snyder said to those in attendance. “This coveted senior class has demonstrated tremendous leadership and worked extremely hard to pull this team together this…
MANHATTAN, Kan. – Freshman Thomas Gipson was named the Phillips 66 Big 12 Rookie of the Week on Monday after posting double-doubles in overtime games with West Virginia and North Florida last week. A 6-foot-7, 275-pound rookie, Gipson becomes the first K-State true freshman to earn the weekly honor since Michael Beasley collected the award for the eighth and final time on March 3, 2008. The Rookie honor is the 26th by a Wildcat since 1998-99 and the 11th by a freshman during the Frank Martin era. A native of Cedar Hill, Texas, Gipson averaged 19.0 points on 53.8 percent shooting (14-of-26) in helping K-State split…
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) A Hutchinson tea party group says its depiction of a skunk as the new symbol of the U.S. president is satire and people don’t have to look at it if they don’t want. Patriot Freedom Alliance says on its website that like the president, the skunk is “half black, half white, and almost everything it does stinks.” The Hutchinson News reports local NAACP president Darrell Pope sees no humor in the depiction, which he calls a blatant statement of racism. Local tea party supporter Chuck Sankey says former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has been the target…