Police close in on graffiti suspects
Riley County Police announced Wednesday that arrests will soon be made in a series of graffiti incidents.At least 78 graffiti reports were filled throughout 2009, mostly in the central and southeas |
Ogden residents vote to remove Bond as mayor
Ogden residents delivered Mayor Jimmy Bond a crushing defeat Tuesday in his bid to remain in office, voting him out by a margin of more than 21. Bond, who was elected last April by a nearly 2-1 m |
CITY COMMISSION -Trash talking
City commissioners are ready to crack down on the city's trash problems.At a work session Tuesday night, the commission strongly encouraged staff to craft changes to ordinances, which would allow t |
City moves ahead with storm water project
A project to improve the Tecumseh-Quivera stormwater system will continue to move forward amidst the dissatisfaction of some area residents.City commissioners favored a plan that would be designe |
AUTO INDUSTRY - Feds probing speeding Prius
The government has sent investigators to examine a Prius that sped out of control on a California freeway, and Toyota said it wanted to interview the driver as the besieged automaker dealt with a |
How inconvenient it is to live under the rule of law
The word "McCarthyism" is overused, but in this case it's mild. Liz Cheney, the former vice president's ambitious daughter, has in her hand a list of nine Justice Department lawyers whose "values" |
Asking legitimate questions is not `McCarthyism'
Wi ould most Americans want to know if the Justice Department had hired mob lawyers and then put them in charge of mob cases? Of course. They would rightly want their elected representatives to find |
DEAR ABBY ADVICE - Too many cooks would spoil beloved mother-in-law's broth
2010 Universal Press Syndicate DEAR ABBY: My mother-inlaw, Edye, was a wonderful cook and an accomplished hostess.
Friends and family enjoyed being a part of her events, not only because of the f |
Petraeus for president? `No' is his handy answer
-For a guy who professes to have no interest in running for president, Gen. David Petraeus can come off as surprisingly eager to talk about it -sometimes without even being asked. In a recent |
CRIME - Gunman had complained about bosses
An Ohio State University janitor who shot two supervisors, one fatally, and then killed himself had complained that he was being treated unfairly, though records show he slept on the job and was l |
KANSAS - Jobless figures `discouraging'
The first Kansas unemployment report for 2010 is out, and Gov.
Mark Parkinson calls the numbers ``discouraging.'' In a report, the state Department of Labor says Kansas' jobless rate in January was |
POLITICS - Petraeus' stock answer is `no'
For a guy who professes to have no interest in running for president, Gen. David Petraeus can come off as surprisingly eager to talk about it -sometimes without even being asked. Part of his stock r |
Pott Co. moving forward on new law facility
After years of discussion and planning, the Pottawatomie County Commission is poised to move forward with a multimillion-dollar law enforcement facility.A preliminary design, presented Monday by |
Greek PM says he's not looking for aid
-Ahead of a meeting Tuesday with President Barack Obama, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou said the United States cannot afford to ignore the financial woes of his country and, by extension, |
AFGHANISTAN - Gates touts embattled unit
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates told a hard-hit battle unit Tuesday that its heavy losses have helped the U.S. begin to push back against the Taliban in southern Afghanistan.
Gates visited a |
POLITICS - Kelsey ends congressional run
Republican Dick Kelsey has ended his campaign in Kansas' 4th Congressional District. Kelsey, a state senator from Goddard, sent a letter to supporters Monday saying that he is leaving the race bec |
HAITI - Missionary returns home
A U.S. missionary held for more than a month in Haiti on kidnapping charges flew back to the United States after being released from prison, while the leader of her Baptist group remained in custody |
BUSINESS - Suits costly for Toyota
Toyota owners claiming that massive safety recalls are causing the value of their vehicles to plummet have filed at least 89 class-action lawsuits that could cost the Japanese auto giant $3 billio |
FAKE PATTY'S DAY - THE GREEN SCENE
Ruth Schrum thought her home, at 720 Midland St., was a safe distance from Fake Paddy's Day celebrations in Aggieville Saturday. But she was so disturbed by the behavior she witnessed even in he |
What's the deal with all the cars parked at City Park?
Q: What's the deal with all the cars that were parked all throughout the grassy open areas in the northwest section of City Park?
It looked like they were all parked there for Fake Paddy's Day. Is |
Whatever happened to the notion of majority rule?
-Ask a kid who just took civics how a bill becomes a law took civics how a bill becomes a law and she'll explain that Congress takes a vote and, if a majority supports the bill, thebillgoestothepres |
Rove's book is 600 pages in search of a correction
-As a White House reporter during the Bush presidency, I often worried that I wasn't getting the whole story. Now, Karl Rove has finally given it to me. His new book, ``Courage and Consequence, |
At universities, is better learning just a click away?
The students in Michael Dubson's physics class at the University of Colorado fell silent as a multiple choice question flashed on a screen, sending them scrambling for small white devices on their |
RCPD seeks $1.2 million more in '11
The Riley County Police Department requested a $1.2 million increase in its budget for the 2011 fiscal year Monday as the Riley County Law Board opened 2011 budget discussions.
Most of that numbe |
USD 383 board to get first glance at recommended cuts
The USD 383 Board of Education will take its first look at recommended budget cuts and begin the process of making those cuts. The board will begin its part of the discussion at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday |
Ogden votes
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TURKEY - Earthquake claims 57
A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6 struck eastern Turkey on Monday, killing 57 people as it knocked down stone or mud-brick houses and minarets in at least six villages. The gov |
MOVIES - Bigelow wins the war
Kathryn Bigelow played field commander to bring her raw, relentless Iraq War thriller ``The Hurt Locker'' to the screen.
After her film triumphed at the Academy Awards with six prizes and made he |
KANSAS - State will help with energy
Kansas will award $3 million in grants to cities and counties so that they can make their public buildings more energy efficient. The State Energy Office says it is taking applications for grants un |
HISTORY - Letters to Jackie compiled
Given the overwhelming volume of mail -800,000 letters in the first seven weeks alone -most of the condolence letters written to Jackie Kennedy after the assassination of her husband, President Jo |
Fake day, real problems
Riley County Police responded to 462 calls for service during this weekend's "Fake Paddy's Day" in what RCPD Capt.
Tim Hegarty called "probably the busiest 24 hours in recent history."During the |
Introduction to orchestra
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Vote on Bond is Tuesday
Ogden residents will go to the polls Tuesday to cast ballots in the effort to recall Mayor Jimmy Bond from office. County clerk Rich Vargo said polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Ogden |
Trash talk back on city agenda
The city commission is ready to take another look at finding more effective ways to deal with trash.Commissioners expressed concerns in December with the city and the Riley County police department |
Intellectuals seek evidence of nation's shortcomings
``I have been over into the future, and it works.'' Lincoln Steffens, the muckraking journalist, offered that review of the Soviet Union on his return from a factfinding mission there. For decades, |
DEAR ABBY ADVICE - Man stopped keeping house the minute he got married
DEAR ABBY: When I first met my husband of two years, ``Phil,'' he owned his own home, kept it spotless and his yard neat, prepared his own meals and did his laundry. Those qualities made him stand o |
SoCal teen's skeletal remains found in remote area
-When 17-year-old Chelsea King went missing last month San Diego, Maurice Dubois had a sinking feeling that his 14-year-old daughter had fallen victim to the same killer.Amber Dubois vanished wal |
Crown prince of white-collar convicts might go free
In the rash of white-collar prosecutions that followed the rash of accounting scandals in 2001 and 2002, no conviction was as welcome as those of Enron's top two executives. Before Bernard Madoff j |
Obama: Nation is `owed' health care vote
2010 Marketwatch Congress must ``act now'' on health-care reform, and ``owes'' the country an up or down vote, President Barack Obama said in his weekly Saturday morning address.Reform will give |
What we've learned from H1N1 virus
We have learned a lot from the 2009 H1N1 swine flu pandemic. We have learned, for example, that one basic assumption about pandemics was wrong: You don't need a radical mutation in a flu virus to prod |
We're not less safe, but can we be safer?
Is America less safe under the Obama administration? Obama administration? Former Vice President Dick Cheney and other Republican critics think so. ``We are at war,'' Cheney said after the failed t |
Renting? Let's have a look
The city's rental inspection program that was approved last September is officially underway.Landlords have until Oct. 1 to turn in a license application and pay a fee of $20 per unit.
Inspectio |
Europe-U.S.ties nearing a critical point
Europe today faces a number of critical problems, the resolution of which will have important implications for U.S. foreign policy. We can complain and we can wish them well, but what they do will a |
Easing college debt...
For too long, bankers have gotten a free ride from the U.S. Department of Education. Under current law, taxpayers provide as much as $9 billion each year to subsidize guaranteed student loans |
A future without Hummers
The world might be saved: It looks as if the Hummer is destined for the junkyard.
The plan by General Motors to sell the muscular brand to a Chinese company went up in a puff of exhaust smoke late |
Obituaries
Nella Lee Anneberg Nella Lee Anneberg, 92, of Manhattan, died at her home, Thursday, March 4, 2010.Her family provided some of the following information. Mrs. Anneberg was born Oct.
25, 19 |
Briggs to host Arthritis Walk
The Kansas Chapter of the Arthritis Foundation will hold its first Arthritis Walk kickoff party at Briggs Super Center at 2312 Stagg Hill Rd. from 5:30 p.m. 7 p.m.Food and prizes will be availabl |
Alliance film series continues with Tuesday showing
The Manhattan Alliance for Peace and Justine will continue its monthly film series this Tuesday, March 9 at 6:30 p.m. Manhattan Thepublic at the Mercury library aruditorium. This month we will |
Police - Arrests
William Joseph Demel, 22, 500 N. Walnut St. Box 125 Ogden, for probation violation and sale/distribution of depressants. Released on $500 bond. Jon Marcus Bartholomew Tyler, 19, Bldg. 686 Huebner, |
Budget warning
Rising property taxes to pay off increasing debt are looming for Manhattan taxpayers.The city's first work session on the 2011 budget isn't scheduled until May 25, but just like in the private sect |
Hutch woman has quadruplets
A southcentral Kansas minister and his wife have gotten a few more blessings than they reckoned for from the stork.Lance and Jennifer Morrisett, already parents of a 5-year-old son, have added thre |
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EDUCATION - Tompkins to head Board of Regents
The Kansas Board of Regents has named former state Education Commissioner Andy Tompkins as its new chief executive officer. Tompkins takes office June 1 to succeed Reggie Robinson, who is leavi |
ECONOMY - Iceland expected to deny debt deal
Still smarting from the crippling aftermath of the global financial crisis, grudging Icelanders were expected Saturday to vote down a $5.3 billion plan to pay off Britain and the Netherlands for deb |
KANSAS - Senate to back revenue hikes
Kansas Senate President Steve Morris and Vice President John Vratil said the chamber is working on a plan to raise sales, tobacco and alcohol excise tax rates and eliminate sales tax exemptions. Bot |
MEDIA - The importance of verification
A rumor regarding Chief Justice John Roberts' job status turned in to an object lesson on verification for more than just a class of students at Georgetown University's law school. When students tre |
Guess who's going to Fake Paddy's?
A full staff of Riley Coun- ty Police officers and 14 members of the Kansas Alcoholic Beverage Control office (ABC)will descend upon Aggieville early Sat- urday morning and will stay until bar closing |
Agencies hope to brew up a real fund-raiser on Fake Paddy's Day
Three local social service providers will reach into the wilds of Aggieville Saturday in the hope of tapping in to the cash cow that is Fake Paddy's Day. Their goal is to use the green beer and studen |
City losing air service to K.C. and Denver
Great Lakes Airlines appears to be leaving the Manhattan Regional Airport after two years of providing service to Kansas City and Denver.Airport director Peter Van Kuren said he had not yet receive |
ADVICE - Inner beauty masked by mole
DEAR ABBY: I have been dating a guy who is wonderful, caring -- everything a woman would want. There's just one problem. When he takes off his shirt, he has an extremely ugly mole. It looks suspicious |
No love lost in Ogden phone dispute
The effort to recall Ogden Mayor Jimmy Bond has veered into a new field of debate: dating tips. Recall organizers say they have come into possession of records of Bond's use of a city-issued cell p |
WASHINGTON - Unemployment rate holds at 9.7
The unemployment rate held at 9.7 percent in February as employers shed 36,000 jobs, fewer than expected. The figures suggested the job market is slowly healing but that significant hiring has yet to |
SPORTS - One last time for KSU senior trio
Denis Clemente, Luis Colon and Chris Meriewether will make their final appearances before the home crowd Saturday when K-State hosts Iowa State in the final regular-season game. |
WORLD - Rebuilding may take three years
Chile's president says it will take three years to rebuild the region wracked by an earthquake and tsuna- mi, something all too clear to the peo- ple cleaning up this splintered tourist town. |
STATE - Senate backs off cuts in benefits
A bill easing the pain for Kansas businesses facing a huge tax increase easily won approval Thursday in the state Senate after its Republican majority backed away from proposed cuts in benefits for jo |
FOCUS - Reconciliation can lead to `war'
With Democrats now preparing to use reconciliation to sidestep Republi- can opposition and try to push through the most sweeping U.S.
health-care legislation in more than four decades, the 1995 exp |
Norwegians characterized by hardness and softness
The United States, a nation of 300 million, won nine gold medals this year in the Winter Olympics. Norway, a nation of 4.7 million, also won nine. This was no anomaly. Over the years, Norwe- gianshave |
Homes wanted
A Riley lack of suitable housing space is the biggest challenge facing Fort Riley, its current commander said Friday. The post's acting command- ing general Brig. Gen. David C. Petersen said there |
U.S. Postal Service is efficient, reliable and secure
For 235 years, the U.S. Postal Service has delivered your mail in snow, rain and dark of night. However, tough market conditions are creating new challenges for our business. Misconcep- tions about th |
NATIONAL - Demonstrations close freeway
Anger over rising tuition and school budget cuts boiled over as students across the country staged rowdy demonstrations that led to clashes with police and the rush-hour shut- down of a major freeway |
Governor's plan hits the roads
Gov. Mark Parkinson put forward his plan to balance an unexpected $106 million hole in the current fiscal year's budget Friday by, among other things, reducing work on Kansas' highways and roads throu |
A formula for cutting education
The Budget Advisory Committee has completed its task, but the decision on USD 383's budget cuts is far from final.The committee's recommendations now go to Supt. Bob Shannon, who will wade through |
STATE - House speaker lashes at Dems
Kansas' Republican House speaker challenged Democratic critics Wednes- day to file an ethics complaint against him or end ``vicious'' attacks on him over his participation in a lawsuit against the sta |
WORLD - Humanitarian aid gets to Chileans
The Chilean military's humanitarian aid effort hit the streets, carrying food and water to some areas that had seen little of either since a mammoth earthquake struck five days ago. Page |
Sebelius debates insurers on rates
Keeping up the pressure for President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius chastised top insur- ance executives Thursday over proposed double-digi |
WASHINGTON - House seeks vote on health care
House Democratic leaders are push- ing to finish far-reaching health legisla- tion and hold a climactic vote in the next three weeks, aiming to overcome reluctance from the rank-and-file law- makers w |
ENTERTAINMENT - `The Crazies' flick is not boring
Director Breck Eisner, who a cou- ple of years ago made a surprisingly good adventure film called "Sahara," has gone right after some of the most widely dispersed phobias in contemporary America. If y |
Productivity goes up in 4Q Productivity in the final three months
of last year surged at a faster pace than previously thought as labor costs fell more rapidly. |
Raise your hand if you're sure
Raise your hands everybody out there who wants your prop- erty taxes raised.Looks like about one-third of you have hands in the air. That's the feedback coming in to the county appraiser's of |
Local firm wins USD 383 roof bids
A Manhattan-based roofing company's bid to replace two school roofs won the Board of Education's approval Wednes- day evening when it came in more than $250,000 under bud- get.The board also approv |
Long way from Canada, eh
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LANDON SERIES LECTURE - A new war doctrine
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Hudson pilot Sullenberger hangs it up
The pilot of the ``Miracle on the Hudson'' has folded his wings. Shortly before 3 p.m. Wednes- day, Capt. Chesley ``Sully'' Sul- lenberger -- the hero of US Air- ways Flight 1549's safe landing on |
Modern parents would do well to light up a little
Memo to that Massachusetts school where children in physical education classes jump rope without using ropes: Get some ropes. And you -- you are about 85 percent of all par- ents -- who are constantly |
Shock jock-agent says FBI prodded his actions
Shock jock Hal Turner took the witness stand in his federal trial Wednesday and accused the FBI of prodding him to make violent statements as a way of infiltrating right-wing hate groups.In a day o |
America must invest to regain its competitive edge
Iwas traveling via Los Angeles International Airport -- LAX -- last week. Walking through its faded, cramped domestic terminal, I got the feeling of a place that once thought of itself as mod- ern but |
ADVICE DEAR ABBY - Retorts for women wanting to open their own doors
DEAR ABBY: I sympathize with ``Stumped for an Answer'' (Dec. 22), the man who was speechless when a woman objected to his opening the door for her. Haven't we all experienced ``moments after,'' wishin |
NATIONAL - U.S. Survey finds drop in bullying
There's been a sharp drop in the per- centage of America's children being bullied or beaten up by their peers, according to a new national survey by experts who believe anti-bullying programs are havi |
Get ready to drive in circles
Traffic in the blocks immedi- ately west of the intersection of Tuttle Creek Boulevard and Bluemont Avenue will be undergoing some significant changes beginning in May.That's when the city will beg |
Sidewalk gets new bricks
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Top Dems look to Obama for health care momentum
-- President Barack Obama is urging Con- gress to finally push through his massive health care over- haul, freshening it with a hand- ful of Republican ideas in a gesture of bipartisanship but strongl |
CITY COMMISSION - Keeping their wings
The city will negotiate with Kansas Air Center to provide fuel services at Manhattan Regional Airport for at least five more years following a decision made at Tuesday's city commission meeting.In |
POLITICS - Perry wins Texas primary
Texas Gov. Rick Perry tapped into a rising wave of anti-Washington ire and rode it to an easy Republican pri- mary win over Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, once seen as the candi- date who could block his |
KANSAS - One dead in Girard fire
A downtown fire that destroyed one building and damaged others in the southeast Kansas town of Girard is blamed for one death. Authorities announced late Tuesday afternoon that a body was found in the |
HOMELESS - Breakfast for needy causes stir
On Saturday mornings. crowds of homeless gather with other needy people at picnic tables outside a church in an upscale Phoenix neigh- borhood, listen to sermons and settle in for sausage, pancakes an |
CRIME - Thousands mourn teen's death
Thousands of mourners walked the sidewalks of a wide avenue in silence, holding candles and tearfully embracing. Many were at a loss for words over the discovery of a body believed to be that of 17-ye |
In some areas, we could use constructive gridlock
For the past several weeks the American people have been inundated with analysis about what's wrong with Washington largely from the perspective of Wash- ington insiders who are frustrated about healt |
Iceland would be justified in rejecting bailout costs
A referendum in Iceland ONDON -- A referendum in Iceland isn't the kind of event that would usually attract much world attention. This time will be different. The country will vote this week on how |
ADVICE - DEAR ABBY - Man tells little white lie about the little blue pill
DEAR ABBY: I am a 76-year- old man who is romantically involved with a 65-year-old lady.
She knows I take Viagra. I recently had to go out of town for a week. Before I left, she demanded that I giv |
