by Randy Picking – Salina Post

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment has suspended the license of a day care provider in Beloit. The license of the day care home operated by Margo Hyman was suspended Friday.

The emergency suspension comes as a result of a report from the Beloit Police Department , and Kansas SRS that there had been an investigation regarding injuries to a 9 year old boy in the care of Hyman.

The boy said that Hyman had slapped him in head twice. The child has bruising on his face, and another child reported that Hyman had slapped the 9 year old boy.

The Beloit Police Department requested that the day care home be closed while it is re-evaluated for the safety of children in care.

KDHE says that Hyman has a right to a hearing on the issue.

Meterologists in the Topeka bureau of the National Weather Service say the tornado that hit Harveyville last week formed too quickly to have time to issue a warning.

The EF2 tornado killed one person, injured 11 others and damaged about 40% of the Wabaunsee County town last Tuesday.

Chad Omitt, meteorologist in charge of the Topeka branch, says the storm that had produced two tornadoes in Reno County appeared to be weakening. And radar did not show the rotation until the tornado was directly over Harveyville.

The Wichita Eagle reports that another problem was how quickly everything happened. The storm went from looking like a thunderstorm on one radar scan to showing a tornado in another scan four minutes later. On the next scan, the tornado was gone.

The 140-year-old cabin where the words to what became the Kansas state song were written has received a grant to help restoration efforts, but more money is needed.

Brewster Higley wrote the words to “Home on the Range” in a cabin along Beaver Creek in Smith County in north-central Kansas. It is badly in need of repairs.

The Kansas State Historical Society recently announced a $24,600 grant to help with the restoration. But supporters say it will take an additional $50,000 to fix the cabin.

The Wichita Eagle reports that two Kansas senators have sponsored a resolution that recognizes the historical significance of the cabin, and encourages Kansas students and others to help raise money for its restoration.

Gov. Sam Brownback is traveling to southwestern Kansas to sign two bills he initiated to prolong the life of the state’s water resources.

The Republican governor was scheduled to be in Garden City on Monday to sign two measures that change how water-rights holders use their water.

One bill would repeal a 1945 law that required use of a certain amount of water each year under a so-called use-it-or-lose-it doctrine.

The other bill gives rights holders more flexibility in how they use their water each year. Brownback says it will allow for more water usage in dry years, with an eye toward conservation in wet years.

Both measures were part of the agenda Brownback outlined in January for the 2012 legislative session.

Two people are found shot to death in a Kansas City, Kansas apartment, a day after two others were shot – one fatally – in the same city.

Police also found an injured 8-month old when they went to Rosedale Ridge Apartments around 2 a.m. Sunday and discovered the dead bodies of a man and a woman.

KCTV reports police say the infant was related to the deceased woman, but aren’t saying how. They say they have no suspects.

A man in his 40s was killed and a woman in her 30s was critically wounded in a separate Kansas City, Kansas shooting early Saturday. Police found them after responding to a home just after 1:30 a.m.

The identities of the victims have not been released.