ATCHISON, Kan. (AP) Residents of Atchison are looking forward to the opening of a new grain elevator, which will replace a Bartlett Grain Co. elevator destroyed by a fatal explosion. The company announced it would rebuild soon after an explosion last October killed six and seriously injured two others. The concrete was poured last Friday, and the grain elevator is expected to open in September. Bartlett is contracting grain from farmers for this year’s harvest. The St. Joseph News-Press reports the elevator will have a capacity of 1 million bushels of grain, 20 percent more than the old elevator. Bartlett…
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HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) The Hutchinson City Council will consider a proposal to add sexual orientation and gender identity to the city’s anti-discrimination ordinance. The Hutchinson Human Relations Committee voted Wednesday to recommend the change to the ordinance. The city council will consider the issue in early May. If the council approves the change, sexual orientation and gender identity could not be the basis for discrimination in housing, employment and public accommodations. The Hutchinson chapter of the Kansas Equality Coalition asked the council last November to amend the ordinance. The Hutchinson News reports that people who opposed the change said it…
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) A human rights activist from Syria is scheduled to speak next week in Lawrence about the turmoil in his country. The University of Kansas says that Radwan Ziadeh will be at the university’s Dole Institute of Politics on Tuesday for a free afternoon forum. Institute director Bill Lacy said Ziadeh will discuss Syria’s current struggle. Ziadeh has been involved in documenting human rights violations since the Syrian uprising began. Last year he was elected director of the Foreign Relations Office for the Syrian National Council, the main umbrella organization for the Syrian opposition. He’s a senior fellow…
ABILENE, Kan. (AP) Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt will discuss current legal issues next week during a town hall meeting at the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum in Abilene. The April 17 program is part of a series at the Eisenhower center featuring officials from across Kansas. Schmidt will discuss the state’s involvement in the challenge before the U.S. Supreme Court to the Obama administration’s health care reforms. Schmidt, a Republican, was elected attorney general in 2010 after 10 years in the state Senate.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas Department of Agriculture is accepting applications for a revised program that gives water right holders more flexibility in managing the way they use their allocations. Changes in the state’s multi-year flex account are aimed at conserving water and extending the life of the Ogallala Aquifer. The new application form is available on the website of the state Division of Water Resources and at its offices. A multi-year flex account lets water right holders pump more water in any year but restricts the total pumping over the five-year period. The program is voluntary.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback and top officials in his administration are preparing to reorganize three departments as part of an overhaul of the Medicaid program. Brownback scheduled a Thursday morning news conference to discuss the project. The governor was being joined by Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer, who led the team that drafted the Medicaid overhaul plan, and secretaries of the departments of Aging, Health and Environment and Social and Rehabilitation Services. Brownback issued an order in February to reorganize those agencies. The order takes effect in July because lawmakers didn’t attempt to block it. The administration plans…
The name of the victim involved in a fatal skid loader accident Tuesday has been released. Jerry DeFoor, 65, of rural Olsburg died in that accident. Pottawatomie County Sheriff Greg Riat reports just after 3:45 Tuesday afternoon, the Pottawatomie County Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call of a man trapped under a skid loader. EMS, Fire and Rescue, as well as Sheriff’s Deputies responded to the call in rural Olsburg. DeFoor was found to be trapped between the bucket of a skid loader and the cab. The man was determined to be deceased when found. He was removed from the skid…
The number 13 is considered unlucky, and definitely was for K-State on Wednesday night at Missouri State in a 3-0 loss. The Cats had 8 hits, but stranded 13 runners on base, and struck out the same number of times. The bright spot for K-State offensively was Jared King with a 3 for 4 night. The Bears meanwhile, managed just two hits, but scored three unearned runs thanks to a pair of costly errors. K-State drops to 17-15 overall with the loss, while Missouri State improves to 25-10. The Cats will welcome in #5 Baylor this weekend, who’s 12-0 atop…
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) Jonathan Broxton hit Jonny Gomes on the first pitch he threw with the bases loaded in the 12th inning, forcing Jemile Weeks home for the winning run in the Oakland Athletics’ 5-4 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Wednesday. Moments earlier, Broxton (0-1) plunked new A’s cleanup hitter Yoenis Cespedes on the first pitch to load the bases and the closer received a mound visit from pitching coach Dave Eiland. It marked the third time the A’s won on a game-ending hit by pitch in Oakland history and first since Olmedo Saenz on July 20,…
WACO, Texas (AP) The NCAA has put Baylor on three years of probation after a three-year investigation into hundreds of impermissible telephone calls and text messages sent by basketball coaches to prep recruits. The NCAA and school released the details Wednesday, and the violations were considered to be major infractions. The NCAA said men’s coach Scott Drew failed to monitor his program and will be suspended for two Big 12 games next season in addition to recruiting restrictions. Women’s coach Kim Mulkey, whose team won the national championship last week, also received recruiting restrictions. All the penalties were proposed…