A couple of Kansas State students face serious charges in Goodland, following their arrest on campus at about noon Wednesday. Fernando Martinez, 21, and Eduardo Martinez, 20, both of 823 Ratone Street, were taken into custody by Riley County and Kansas State police on a warrant from Sherman county. The case reportedly involved the robbery of an A-T-M machine at the First National Bank on the campus of the Northwest Technical College, overnight August 13th of this year. Loss is estimated at $6,000. Charges on the warrant include burglary, felony theft, and criminal deprivation of property. Bond for each Martinezes was set…
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A pallet of cantaloupes at the heart of a nationwide recall due to listeria was sold in Manhattan. Terri Olsen with Eastside and Westside Market says they received the shipment of Rocky Ford Canatloups from Jensen Farms in Holly, Co., on August 24, and that they were sold prior to notification of infection. Olsen urges anyone who purchased the cantaloupes to be tested for listeria infection, as symptoms may not show for up to two months. The Centers for Disease Control Tuesday linked 72 illnesses and 13 deaths to the tainted fruit, though officials are investigating three additional deaths they believe are…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas is among the 26 states asking the U.S. Supreme Court to quickly strike down the federal government’s overhaul of health care. The states requested Wednesday that the high court consider the overhaul’s constitutionality by summer 2012. Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt said states and the American public need certainty about whether the overhaul law is constitutional. Schmidt, a Republican, had Kansas join the other states in a federal lawsuit in Florida against the overhaul championed by President Barack Obama, a Democrat. A judge in Florida struck down the entire law. A federal appeals court in Atlanta…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas Leadership Center wants to work with a state organization tackling a tough civic issue. It is offering leadership training it says is worth up to $1 million for the selected group. Preferred candidates would be focused on what the center calls public challenges such as education, rural economic development, health care or other civic concerns. Its Academy of Team Leadership would train up to 400 people in groups of 50 on the issue chosen for the initiative. The immersive training could run from two to four years. The group says it came up with the…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas health officials have scheduled a discussion on Twitter to answer questions for state residents about getting prepared for the upcoming flu season. Kansas Department of Health and Environment Secretary Robert Moser says the event Friday is designed to answer questions about the flu, vaccinations and steps that can be taken to prevent getting sick. Residents can participate in the hour-long discussion by logging on to www.twitter.com/KDHE and using #KSflu. Tweeters can follow the conversation by submitting questions of 140 words or less, then refreshing the page to see the question appear and the response. The agency…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Bond was set at $1 million for a Wichita man charged with strangling a woman over the weekend. Fifty-year-old Eldridge Sherill was charged Wednesday with first-degree murder in the Saturday strangling death of 46-year-old Dana Arnold of Valley Center. Sherill’s bond was set at $1 million. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for Sherrill for Oct. 1.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Spring and summer storms in Kansas have led to more than $1 billion in insurance claims this year. The Kansas Department of Insurance reported Wednesday that the 197,000 claims have been filed for property and crop damage. The numbers do not include losses from flooding. That easily beats the state record of $700 million paid in 1992 for 365,500 claims. The Wichita Eagle reports that about $18 million of the claims were for crop damage, with the rest of property damage. More than half of the damage was from wind and hail storms in east and south-central…
HOISINGTON, Kan. (AP) The Barton County Sheriff’s Office is looking for those responsible for damaging nearly three dozen tombstones in a cemetery near Hoisington. Authorities believe the damage to the headstones, many from the late 1800s or early 1900s, happened last weekend. The Hutchinson News reports that a group of volunteers from the Hoisington area plan to work together to clean up the Methodist Cemetery, which is northeast of Hoisington. Tom Van Brimmer, who helped maintain the cemetery for several years, said volunteers started cleanup efforts Wednesday night.
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) Motor home owners from six states are gathered in Hutchinson this week for a festival to celebrate the mobile lifestyle. About 500 motor coaches from Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas are in Hutchinson for the 38th annual Six-State Rally Heartland Motor Coach Festival. The event, which concludes Saturday, includes entertainment, a demolition derby, seminars, socials and a chance to check out other peoples’ motor homes. The Hutchinson News reports the festival is a regional event that is part of a national organization called Family Motor Coach Association.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Gov. Sam Brownback says he wants to define a strategy for boosting the state’s share of U.S. animal agriculture production. Brownback said during an economic development summit in Garden City on Wednesday that he wants investment in the state’s beef, dairy and pork industries to grow by hundreds of millions of dollars. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Brownback also said that reforming the state’s regulatory and legal framework for the agriculture industry could attract new investment to Kansas. Brownback, a Republican, also said recent expansion of dairy farms in western Kansas could be replicated by redevelopment of…