TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A troubled Kansas foster care management provider has reached an agreement with the state to repay $9.4 million in unspent grant funds. The deal that the Kansas Department for Children and Families announced it had reached Tuesday with St. Francis Ministries comes on the heels of earlier controversies. In January, Nebraska agreed to pay millions more to St. Francis after it significantly underbid the company that used to provide child welfare services in the Omaha area. And Kansas officials announced in December that St. Francis employees had falsified documents to show visits with families that never took place. DCF spokesman…
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The Greater Manhattan Community Foundation celebrated the seventh annual Community Foundation Awards Monday, this time in a virtual format. Despite the awards ceremony being canceled last year due to the pandemic, the show went on as local businesses, organizations and people were recognized through a video created by 502 strategic marketing agency for their efforts to improve their community. Several awards celebrating local volunteer efforts were handed out, including the Rising Star Volunteer Award, which is reserved for those under 50-years old. The Rising Star Volunteer Award went to Manhattan Soup Kitchen co-founder Shelly Williams, “My dream for Manhattan Soup…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas medical marijuana supporters have found support from some conservative Republican legislators, allowing a proposal to advance after weeks of deliberations. Some Republicans say they have been motivated by conservative neighbors Missouri and Oklahoma legalizing the medical use of marijuana in 2018 through ballot initiatives. Others say many of their constituents support it. The state House Federal and State Affairs Committee on Monday approved the bill 13-8, sending it to the full House for approval. The measure has received push back from law enforcement groups that say that there’s not enough evidence that marijuana can treat…
GARDEN CITY, Kan. (AP) — Garden City police say a 15-year-old is in custody in the shooting death of his mother. Police say in a news release that the teenager reported Monday afternoon that he had shot his mother inside their home. When officers arrived at the home, they found 34-year-old Mallory Hernandez suffering from several gunshot wounds. She died later at a Garden City hospital. The teenager was at the home and surrendered to police. He is being held at the Southwest Kansas Regional Detention Center on suspicion of first-degree murder. Police did not release further details.
Speaking to the larger community about issues “many would seek to avoid”, the Manhattan Nonviolence Initiative’s third “Conversations on Race & Reconciliation” fostered an environment of understanding and mutual trust to express beliefs free of judgment so that the community may work together to address and overcome tensions raised by the deaths of People of Color at the hands of police brutality and mass shootings. In the preview session, Director Susanne Glymour said these conversations intended to allow an opportunity, “to talk with someone who’s maybe living in a very different neighborhood, has that different experience, in an exchange of…
Kansas State University Division of Communications and Marketing Vice President Jeffery Morris joined us for the hour to talk about a variety of university related matters including enrollment, COVID-19 in campus communities, commencement and plans for the fall semester as well as the financial state of the university.
Riley County commissioners on Monday discussed the local impact on government entities and taxpayers from last week’s ruling by the Board of Tax Appeals on the Manhattan Home Depot’s appeal of its 2018 appraisal. County Clerk Rich Vargo presented the impact per the request of other local government entities. Before the BOTA case, Home Depot was being taxed in 2018 over $239,000. That number now is around $150,000, which was the previously reported number the county owed. The county actually owes $87,000 which is the difference between the two values. The county plans to appeal the BOTA ruling. The costs…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — The FBI is offering a reward of up to $50,000 in the death of a Kansas City-area woman who died more than 22 years ago. Rhonda Tribue was a mother of six from Kansas City, Kansas. She was found dead on Oct. 8, 1998. Her body was in the roadway near Edwardsville, Kansas. Authorities say she died of blunt force trauma. She was 34. The FBI says Tribue had been at the Firelight Lounge in Kansas City, Kansas, hours before her death. Anyone with information can call a tip line at 800-CALL-FBI, or go to tips.fbi.gov.
LIBERTY, Mo. — An avowed anti-Semite who fatally shot three people at two suburban Kansas City Jewish sites in 2014 is asking the Kansas Supreme Court to overturn his death sentence. The court is scheduled to hear arguments Monday in Frazier Glenn Miller Jr.’s appeal. He is also known as Frazier Glenn Close. He represented himself at trial and during the penalty phase. Miller’s attorneys in the appeal argue the trial court should not have let him represent himself, and that the death penalty is unconstitutional. Miller says he shot the victims because he wanted to kill Jews. His victims…