TOPEKA, Kan. — (AP) Kansas’ school board has suspended the state’s top public school administrator over an offensive public comment about Native Americans. Its decision Friday to suspend Education Commissioner Randy Watson for 30 days without pay came after it unanimously rejected the resignation he submitted after the governor and indigenous leaders demanded it. Board Chair Jim Porter said members believe in what he called restorative justice and considered Watson’s entire career. The elected 10-member board appointed Watson commissioner in November 2015 to run the State Department of Education. The board’s suspension frustrated Native American leaders who had joined Gov.…
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The following summary of calls for service/reports filed by the Riley County Police Department is a portion of those received by police. Some names, addresses, and case details are withheld to follow local, state, and federal law as well as in an attempt to protect community members from being victimized further. Those arrested are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. MANHATTAN, KAN. – Officers filed a report for rape in Manhattan on February 24, 2022, around 5:10 p.m. Officers listed a 24-year-old female as the victim and a 29-year-old male known to her as the suspect. Due…
On Friday’s edition of In Focus we spoke with RCPD Administrative Captain Josh Kyle and Sergeant Curt Steel.
A look at the upcoming weekend around the Big 12 Conference: GAME OF THE WEEKEND The Big 12’s best team this season meets the league’s best — and the nation’s best, for that matter — from last season when No. 5 Kansas heads to No. 10 Baylor on Saturday night. The Jayhawks (23-4, 12-2) can essentially put away the Bears (23-5, 11-4) in the race for the regular-season title with a season sweep of the defending national champions. Kansas has won four straight following a nip-and-tuck loss to Texas, while the Bears have won four of their past five since…
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As Manhattan continues to see its revenue rebound following the pandemic, city officials are assessing strategies to manage the city’s rising debt burden. City Commissioners Tuesday reviewed the 2021 annual report on city finances, as well as the revenue neutral rate and plans for the use of federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds. Numerous aspects of Manhattan’s revenue picture last year looked promising to staff. Sales tax revenue was up 10 percent over 2020 and 8 percent from 2019, prior to any COVID-related impacts. Compensating use — i.e. internet sales tax — was up 21 percent over 2020 and…
TOPEKA, Kan. — Gov. Laura Kelly and indigenous lawmakers are calling on Kansas’ top public school administrator to resign after reviewing video of him making an offensive public remark about Native Americans. Kelly and three state House members issued their statements Thursday after the State Board of Education called a special meeting for Friday to discuss Education Commissioner Randy Watson’s remark during a conference on virtual education last week. A Kelly spokesperson says she has seen video and the lawmakers said they have too. The 10-member elected state school board appoints commissioner. Watson did not respond Thursday to a request…
A group of Kansas State University scientists have received the international BIAL Award in Biomedicine for a publication focused on mRNA technology, now used in the two federally approved vaccines to prevent COVID-19. The nearly $340,000 award aims to distinguish a work in biomedicine of exceptional quality and scientific relevance. It recognizes an important breakthrough of a technology for vaccine creation, published in 2017, that describes the complex work to engineer an mRNA vaccine to treat a disease, and demonstrates its efficacy in mice and monkeys. The technology investigated by this team uses a synthetic mRNA to allow the body…
The Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art has an ongoing exhibit that celebrates an African American artist from Kansas. The museum is highlighting the Gordon Parks: Homeward to the Prairie I Come in cooperation with Black History Month. Museum Curator Aileen June Wang says Parks grew up in segregated Fort Scott until he was 15. Parks’ artistic endeavors expanded into other mediums such as poetry and films. Parks directed the cult classic Blacksploitation film series Shaft, and was the first Hollywood produced black director of the film The Learning Tree. Wang says while Parks made New York his home, Kansas…