LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) The University of Kansas has received a $790,000 gift from the Hall Family Foundation. The KU Endowment said in a release Tuesday that $430,000 will go toward renovating the university’s Hall Center for the Humanities. Another $360,000 will go toward meeting a matching challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Victor Bailey, Hall Center director, said renovations will include creating a new seminar room and two office spaces. The NEH challenge grant of $425,000 requires $1.275 million in matching gifts by July 31, 2015. The grant will underwrite two new programs at the Hall Center.…
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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) The Small Business Administration is now taking applications for low-interest federal loans to Kansas residents and business owners affected by the recent storms SBA representatives will also be available Tuesday to answer questions about the program. The disaster declaration makes the loans available to homeowners, renters, businesses and nonprofit groups whose property was damaged or destroyed by the April 14 storms. The SBA loans are available in Sedgwick, Butler, Cowley, Harvey, Kingman, Reno and Sumner counties. Cleanup efforts have now entered their second week. The Wichita Eagle reports The American Red Cross, Midway-Kansas Chapter has closed its…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Commissions are in the process of taking nominations for two court vacancies in northeast Kansas. One commission will take nominations for a seat on the state trial court that sits in Topeka. The new judge will replace Judge Charles Andrews, who retired from the Shawnee County District Court in March. A second commission will nominate candidates to fill a vacancy in the 21st Judicial District, which includes Clay and Riley counties. The eventual selection will replace Riley County District Judge Paul Miller, who plans to retire June 8. The commissions will each forward two or three names…
GARDEN CITY, Kan. (AP) Garden City officials say early response to a new air service makes them hopeful the service will prosper. The aviation director at the Garden City Regional Airport says American Eagle flights from Garden City to Dallas were at maximum capacity last weekend. The American Eagle regional jet service to and from Dallas began on April 3. It replaced daily flights to and from Denver, which were operated by Great Lakes Aviation. The Garden City Telegram reports monthly passenger counts in April won’t be available until mid-May. Brett Hooyerink, a senior manager with American Airlines, says the…
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) Police say two female students have reported being attacked on the University of Kansas campus in the last week. One student said a man threw her to the ground last week as she walked outside Strong Hall. She was able to kick the man and get away. She described her attacker as a black man between 40 to 50 years old, average height and weight, black hair with graying tips and wearing a brown jacket. Early Saturday, another female student said she was briefly molested by a white man as she was walking outside Haworth Hall. She…
BALDWIN, Kan. (AP) Baldwin High School is celebrating its second national title in an aerospace technology competition. A team from the northwest Kansas school on Saturday won the national finals of the Real World Design Challenge in Washington D.C. The competition is sponsored by federal agencies, private aerospace companies and governments of participating states. The Lawrence Journal-World reports teams in the competition were required to digitally design tail sections and wings for a light-aviation aircraft. Teams then had to demonstrate their designs could fly from Kitty Hawk, N.C., to Dayton, Ohio. Pam Davis is team coach. Baldwin competed in the…
WASHINGTON (AP) Three schools in Kansas have been awarded “green ribbon” honors from the U.S. Department of Education The department said in a release Monday that the schools are Eisenhower High in Goddard, Erie High in Erie and Brookwood Elementary in Leawood. The federal agency began the Green Ribbon Schools program last year. It honors schools that use a comprehensive approach to sustainability by cutting utility costs and providing healthy learning environments. The Kansas schools given the one-year designation were among 78 honored nationwide.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A commission in northeast Kansas is taking nominations until May 24 for a seat on the state trial court that sits in Topeka. The new judge will replace Judge Charles Andrews, who retired from the Shawnee County District Court at the end of March. Nominations will be screened by a seven-member commission headed by Kansas Supreme Court Justice Marla Luckert. Attorneys can nominate themselves, or people can suggest candidates. Under state law, the potential judge must be at least 30 years old, live in Shawnee County and have actively practiced law for at least five years. The…
Kansas State University’s Vice President of Research Ron Trewyn has been making the rounds recently, with presentations for both Riley County Commissioners and intergovernmental leaders Monday. Trewyn was asked at the intergovernmental meeting about recent news out of Wichita, with Kansas Senate President Steve Morris saying a split between conservative Congressman Tim Huelskamp and Speaker of the House John Boehner could impact funding for the National Bio and Agri-defense Facility. Trewyn indicates he is disturbed by mis-information, stressing there’s been support all across the Congressional level. Trewyn also told the group of a successful open house at the Biosecurity Research…
After being swept over the weekend by Missouri, the K-State baseball team will look to pick up the pieces on Tuesday night against Wichita State. Errors and a lack of timely hitting plagued the Cats against the Tigers, as they dropped to 3-12 in the Big 12. The team K-State always wants to beat is of course KU, but on the baseball diamond, the Wildcats’ biggest rival is Wichita State. The Cats had beat Wichita State eight times in a row before the Shockers won the final meeting last season in Wichita. K-State welcomes in Wichita State to Tointon Family…