DERBY, Kan. (AP) Police in a Wichita suburb are looking for a man driving a gray Ford Crown Victoria that resembles a patrol car and using flashing lights in the grill to stop other vehicles. Derby police tell KWCH-TV the man wears a silver badge and a name tag and has been impersonating an officer. A Derby resident says the man pulled him over Wednesday, but left in a hurry after being asked for his badge number. Police say drivers need to be careful when they’re being pulled over by someone driving an unmarked car. They say Derby has some…
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) State Revenue Secretary Nick Jordan has completed a two-day tour of western Kansas to gather ideas from rural citizens about potential changes in the tax code. Jordan, a former Republican state senator from Shawnee, is leading a group of advisers preparing a proposal for modifying the Kansas tax code. Gov. Sam Brownback is expected to announce the proposal in the coming weeks, with an eye toward lowering income taxes. The tour Tuesday and Wednesday included stops in Great Bend, Garden City, Colby, Hays and Salina. Jordan says residents expressed a desire for a strong Kansas economy and…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Former president George W. Bush spoke to about 5,000 people at the Wichita Metro Chamber of Commerce’s annual meeting, giving the chamber its first sold-out crowd. The Wichita Eagle reports that Bush on Thursday talked about the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the principles that guided his presidency, and some of his policy decisions. Bush also said he regretted using the phrase “Bring it on,” during early fighting in Iraq. But he defended sending troops to Iraq. Before the event, about 40 Occupy Wichita participants gathered to protest both Bush and the chamber. Eight local businesses…
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) A federal grand jury in Kansas City, Kan., has indicted a 29-year-old Mexican national accusing him of illegally re-entering the U.S. after serving a prison term for a fatal drunken-driving crash. The Lawrence Journal-World reports federal prosecutors allege that Adan Cruz-Santos returned to Douglas County illegally after he was deported in 2010 once he was paroled. He was sentenced in 2005 to five and a half years in prison after pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter and DUI in the death of a 25-year-old nurse from Olathe. He was paroled in 2010 and deported to Mexico because of…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) The Wichita school district says that beginning Monday it won’t allow students to attend school if they aren’t up to date on their required immunizations. The Wichita Eagle reports that more than 1,000 Wichita students could be pulled out of class Monday and not allowed to return until their immunizations are up-to-date. Kansas schools allow an unvaccinated child to attend school if the child has an annual written statement from a doctor saying that the child’s health would be endangered by undergoing the inoculation or if the parent or guardian has signed a written statement saying the…
COLBY, Kan. (AP) The U.S. Postal Service is investigating the post office in Colby and has placed two of its top employees on paid administrative leave. The Hays Daily News reports that Colby Postmaster Kenton Krehbiel and customer service supervisor Stanley Strange are on paid leave as a result of the internal investigation. The Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Postal Service conducted an investigation at the Colby office and says that it found a violation concerning Postal Service procedures for the external First Class Measurement System. The OIG says results of the investigation have been forwarded to Postal…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A group that wants to abolish the Kansas income tax kicked off a bus tour to build support for the idea as state official prepared a new fiscal forecast. Both events Friday are likely to influence budgeting next year by legislators and Gov. Sam Brownback. Brownback is developing a tax plan that’s expected to include reductions in income taxes, but his administration is waiting to release it until his administration has the new fiscal forecast. The bus tour began with a news conference at the Statehouse in Topeka sponsored by Kansans for No Income Tax. About three…
New zoning regulations were the focus of Thursday’s Riley County commission meeting. The commission held its second work session concerning amendments being made to the Vision 2025 plan. “We’re trying to preserve agriculture values and land,” McCulloh said. “(In that light) we’re going to try to divert residential development into areas that are not prime agricultural land. In hopes of facilitating what McCulloh calls ‘smarter development’, property owners will be required to own only five acres of land to start building, as opposed to the county’s previous standard of 20. *** This past year saw a record number of apartment renters in Riley…