GREAT BEND, Kan. (AP) A Barton County judge has set a February date to hear any pending motions in the case against a Great Bend man accused of killing a 14-year-old girl and burning her body. Judge Hannelore Kitts is expected to hear arguments in the case of Adam Joseph Longoria beginning at 9 a.m. on Feb. 10 in Great Bend. Longoria is charged with capital murder and other crimes in the death of Alicia DeBolt, whose charred body was found in August 2010 at the asphalt plant where Longoria worked. Still to be decided is whether jurors will hear…
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) An aide to U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts has been named Kansan of the Year by a group that celebrates the state’s heritage. Harold Stones, of Topeka, will be honored Jan. 27 in Topeka at the annual banquet of the Native Sons and Daughters of Kansas. The group picks both a Kansan of the Year, honoring a native of the state, and a Distinguished Kansan of the Year, which can honor someone born elsewhere. Stones has been director of special projects for Roberts since 1997. He serves primarily as the Kansas Republican’s liaison to military bases, local governments,…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Downtown Wichita gets its first charging station for electric vehicles this week. Westar Energy, the biggest electricity provider in Kansas, says the station will be dedicated Thursday morning outside its general office on North Broadway. Westar says it’s providing the 240-volt charging station is a courtesy to drivers of electric vehicles. The company installed its first electric vehicle station in October in its home city of Topeka and plans two more, in Emporia and Lawrence. Westar says it has eight electric vehicles in its own fleet so far.
LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) Members of the public get a chance to hear more details this week on a proposal to build a second federal prison in Leavenworth. A public meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Riverfront Community Center in the northeastern Kansas community. Leavenworth is already home to the U.S. Penitentiary, which switched from maximum to medium security in 2005. The Federal Bureau of Prisons says the new facility would be built on the same grounds, with space for about 1,500 medium-security inmates plus 300 inmates at a minimum-security camp. Federal officials say the prison would have…
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) Students at a northeast Kansas high school could be spending a few more minutes in class each day through the end of the school year to make up a day lost to a bomb threat. Free State High School in Lawrence was evacuated just before the start of classes on Dec. 1 when the bomb threat was discovered. All classes were canceled, meaning the school day never officially began. The Lawrence Journal-World reports the cancellation cost Free State nearly five hours toward the state’s yearly requirement. Superintendent Rick Doll is proposing to make up the lost time…
Pawnee Mental Health Services recently celebrated a big anniversary, but the group has lost some headway due to budget cut-backs in recent years. That, according to the group’s executive Director Robbin Cole, who addressed Riley County commissioners Monday morning. Cole adds while Pawnee has grown in the more than five decades it’s been around, its budget and personnel numbers are down the last four years. Cole also expressed concern about Medicaid changes anticipated in the next year, which she says will impact other health care services as well. And to top it off, there are other changes, with a move…
A former Manhattan social worker has been sentenced to three years probation for harassing a Ft. Riley soldier. Rachelle Santiago, 44, also agreed to surrender her license to practice social work to the Kansas Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board and not to reapply for a license in Kansas or any other state. Santiago pleaded guilty to one count of fleeing from a police officer, one count of criminal restraint, one count of making a criminal threat and one count of unlawfully entering military property. In her plea, she admitted that in January 2011 she treated a Ft. Riley soldier for mental…
Kansas state treasurer Ron Estes will be at the Pottawatomie County commission office on Friday, Dec. 16 from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. County treasurer Lisa Wright says that Estes will be helping county residents through the process of getting their unclaimed money back from the state. For additional information, you can contact the Pottawatomie County treasurer’s office at (785) 457-3681. *** Whispering Meadows subdivision in Pottawatomie County garnered a lot of attention at Monday’s bid letting in Westmoreland. “We had 10 bidders,” public works director Leu Lowrey said. “That’s the most I think we’ve ever had on this type…