HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) The Reno County Commission is scheduled to discuss restrictions on shooting at public access points along the Arkansas River. The issue will be discussed at the commission’s Tuesday meeting, although a specific resolution has not yet been written. It arose after a stray bullet believed fired from along the river flew through a window of a Nickerson home and landed on a couch next to a mother and her baby. No one was injured. The Hutchinson News reports County Administrator Gary Meagher and Sheriff Randy Henderson are looking at a resolution that would make it a misdemeanor…
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LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) Douglas County authorities say one person died when a car was hit by a train north of Lawrence. The accident occurred early Monday near the entrance of Riverfront Park. The driver was pronounced dead at the scene. The accident scene is just west of the intersection of U.S. Highway 24-40 and 24-59. No other details were immediately available.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas Bureau of Investigation is investigating a fatal shooting involving Wichita police. Police say the confrontation began early Sunday when they got a call of shots fired. When they intercepted the car, four suspects ran away. Police say shots were fired by an officer who confronted one of the suspects. That suspect was taken to the hospital and pronounced dead. One of the other three suspects was captured.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Authorities have identified the five members of a Minnesota family killed when a motor home crashed in Kansas, sending 13 others to hospitals. The Kansas Highway Patrol identifies the dead as 24-year-old Melissa Kerber and 25-year-old Tom Kerber of New Prague, Minn., and 10-year-old Jessica Kerber, 14-year-old Joy Kerber and 12-year-old James Kerber of Jordan, Minn. Among the survivors, 46-year-old Pauline Kerber of Jordan, Minn., was in critical but stable condition Monday morning. She’s a widowed mother of 12. Her 17-year-old son Adam Kerber was in critical condition. Police say Adam Kerber was driving the vehicle…
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) Kansas State University is preparing an exhibit showcasing black newspapers and magazines. The exhibit is titled “Alternative Voices: Black Media and the Communities They Serve.” It will open with a panel discussion and formal event April 13 at the university’s Hale Library. The exhibit will remain on display through the end of the spring semester. The school says the exhibit will feature materials collected in the 1960s and 1970s by former faculty member Robert Bontrager. He used them in his course, The Black Press. Following the exhibit, the materials will remain with the university archives, where researchers…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas attorney general’s office paid outside lawyers almost $597,000 through March to defend anti-abortion laws enacted last year. The office says it paid nearly $317,000 to Foulston Siefken, a Wichita firm helping defend a budget provision denying federal family planning dollars for non-abortion services to Planned Parenthood. The group has a federal lawsuit against the measure. The attorney general’s office paid almost $177,000 to Thompson, Ramsdell Qualseth, of Lawrence, to help defend health and safety regulations for abortion providers. Two Kansas City-area physicians challenged the rules first in federal court and then in state court. The…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A veteran employee of the Kansas Corporation Commission has been named director of its utilities division. Jeff McClanahan has served in several roles for the regulatory agency, including chief of accounting and financial analysis. McClanahan will oversee the processing of rate cases filed by utility companies, tariffs and other regulatory filings. The division is comprised of telecommunications, accounting and financial analysis, energy operations, economic policy and planning and pipeline safety. McClanahan has a bachelor’s degree in accounting from West Texas State University.
Joshua Jeb Fincham, 31, Waterville, Kan., for driving under the influence. Confined on $1,500. Michael Vanpay, 25, 3115 Heritage Ct., Apartment No. 11, for failure to appear. Released on $129 bond. Anny Marina Lewis, 26, 3132 Lundin Dr., Apartment No. 11, for domestic battery. Released on $500 bond. Christopher Stephen Selby, 24, Midwest City, Okla., for soliciting without a permit. Confined on $500 bond. Louis Darwin Tilley, 21, 3213 Claflin Rd., for domestic battery, criminal restraint, and criminal damage to property. Confined on $1,000 bond. Timothy Michael Rowdown, 19, for probation violation and failure to appear. Confined on $1,500 bond.…
K-State hired former Illinois head coach Bruce Weber on Saturday to become the 24th head men’s basketball in school history. Weber was let go by Illinois after going 210-101 over nine seasons, which included six trips to the NCAA tournament and a runner-up finish in 2005. He was interviewed by K-State athletic John Currie at the Final Four in New Orleans, and the two reached a deal late Friday. Weber was signed to a 5-year, $8.5 million dollar contract, with a $1.5 million dollar salary during the 2012-13 season, with increases of $100,000 per year. Coach Weber will be a guest of KMAN’s Wildcat Insider…
All but set to claim its first Big 12 series victory, K-State saw Oklahoma put up two runs in the bottom of the 9th for a 4-3 victory at L. Dale Mitchell Park in Norman on Sunday. In a tie game in the top of the 7th, Jon Davis and Jake Brown ripped back-to-back doubles to give the Cats a 3-2 lead. With freshman Nate Williams on the mound in the 9th looking for his fourth save, Cody Reine blasted an RBI triple to knot the game at 3, and Evan Mistich followed with an RBI single to pull it…