Paula Papan found her 8-year-old son using her iPad to mess around on eBay, so to teach him a lesson she told him he’d accidentally purchased a $50,000 Ford Mustang and there was no way to cancel the sale. Kenyon started crying. Papan posted a video of the prank on YouTube.
Some commenters complained of lasting psychological damage to her son, but Papan replied, “Trust me,? my son is fine, no permanent damage.”
What kind of pranks have you pulled on your kids or have been pulled on you?
The Kansas Department of Agriculture Division of Water Resources has approved the first Local Enhanced Management Area (LEMA) in Kansas. Proposed by Groundwater Management District (GMD) 4 in Northwest Kansas, Sheridan 6 LEMA will be located in Sheridan and Thomas counties.
The LEMA process is a central component of legislation supported by Governor Sam Brownback in 2012 to reform multiple Kansas water statutes.
According to the order approving the proposal, the GMD’s plan to reduce water use within the Sheridan 6 LEMA by approximately 20 percent during the next five years will serve the public interest by conserving water and extending the useful life of the Ogallala Aquifer.
Though they didn’t tour outside of the U.S., Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw‘s Brothers of the Sun trek has landed on Pollstar‘s Year End List of 2012’s Top 50 Worldwide Tours. Kenny and Tim’s tour took in $96.5 million to come in at #7 on the list, behind the likes of Lady Gaga, Coldplay and Bruce Springsteen. Madonna was on top of the touring list for the year, with more than $296 million coming in from her MDNA tour.
Jason Aldean ranked at #24 on the list with $40 million coming in from his My Kinda Party tour. Brad Paisley ranked 28th with $36.8 million, while Lady Antebellum ranked 32nd, making $35.7 million. Zac Brown Band, Eric Church, Carrie Underwood and Rascal Flatts were also ranked in the 40s.
Pollstar will release their full touring report on 2012 later this month.
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Between 1865 and 1880, Kansas attracted immigrants at a faster pace than anywhere else in the United States.
The state’s population grew from 107,205 in 1860 to 1,428,108 in 1890 thanks to the irresistible promise of a better life through land and jobs.
In 1870, 13 percent of Kansas’ total population was foreign-born.
Today, 6 percent of all Kansans are foreign-born. And, each year, the U.S. District Court, District of Kansas, conducts more than 20 naturalization ceremonies where individuals who have completed the requirements for citizenship take the Oath of Allegiance and become U.S. citizens.
This is the unique story told in Americans by Choice: The Story of Immigration & Citizenship in Kansas, a new exhibit now touring the state. It will open to the public Jan. 3 at Forsyth Library on the Fort Hays State University campus.
Admission is free. The exhibit closes Feb. 20.
The exhibit was commissioned by the U.S. District Court, District of Kansas, to highlight the court’s role in the naturalization process. A permanent exhibit of the same title is installed at the Robert J. Dole Courthouse in Kansas City, Kan.
The condition of the Kansas winter wheat crop has deteriorated in the wake of December’s limited rain and snow.
Kansas Agricultural Statistics Service reports that 31 percent of the state’s wheat crop ended 2012 in poor to very poor condition. Forty-five percent was rated in fair condition, with 23 percent in good shape and 1 percent in excellent condition.
The agency notes that only three of the 53 reporting stations around the state received more than an inch of precipitation from Dec. 1 through Dec. 30.
Range and pasture conditions declined as well, with 84 percent in poor to very poor shape. Supplies of stock water are also a problem for livestock producers. The agency said supplies are short to very short across 77 percent of Kansas.
A Saline County man has been sentenced to more than 11 years in federal prison for trafficking in methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
Shane Curtis Sheets, 33, New Cambria, Kan., was sentenced to 140 months in federal prison. Sheets pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. In his plea, he admitted to conspiring with co-defendants Lisandro Clara-Fernandez, Kevin Dale Ashcraft and Dennis Augustine to distribute methamphetamine in the area of Salina, Kan.
The investigation began when the 1-35/I-70 Drug Task Force based in Salina developed information that Augustine and Ashcraft were operating a drug trafficking organization. Investigators learned that on Nov. 27, 2011, Ashcraft was meeting Clara-Fernandez on I-70 in Wabaunsee County, Kan. At the meeting approximately 1.4 kilograms of methamphetamine was transferred to Ashcraft. Shortly afterwards, law enforcement officers arrested Ashcraft with the drugs.
Investigators learned that Ashcraft regularly received methamphetamine from Clara-Fernandez and that for every pound of methamphetamine he received he distributed a quarter pound to Sheets on credit. Sheets was distributing to other dealers and users down the line.
Co-defendants included the following:
Lisandro Clara-Fernandez, who was sentenced to 54 months.
Kevin Dale Ashcraft, who was sentenced to 94 months.
Dennis Augustine, who was sentenced to 240 months.
Grissom commended the 1-35/I-70 Drug Task Force and Assistant U.S. Attorney Randy Hendershot for their work on the case.
Votes this week on fiscal cliff legislation divided the all-Republican delegation in Washington.
The state’s two senators – Pat Roberts, Dodge City, and Jerry Moran, Manhattan – voted for the package, while all four Kansans serving in the House voted against it.
U.S. First District Rep. Tim Huelskamp, Fowler, opposed the overall bill, even though he said he found some things to like about it – including the legislation’s extension of the Farm Bill and a halt to congressional pay raises.
The package also extends the wind production tax credit that had been sought by wind energy companies, including Siemens Wind Power in Hutchinson.
University of Kansas administrators say the school is preparing to implement a new curriculum in the fall.
All freshmen will be required to take the new Core Curriculum, and some upperclassmen could opt into the new requirements. The new curriculum is the first to apply to all undergraduates, regardless of their school. The university says it will provide more flexibility and focus on skills the students will develop.
The Lawrence Journal-World reports the current Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of General Studies degrees include requirements that can be met by only one or a handful of courses. Most undergraduates pursue those degrees.
The Core Curriculum includes 12 skill-based requirements, which students will have a number of ways to fill.
The Kansas Chamber of Commerce wants to allow the state’s groceries and convenience stores to sell wine, liquor and full-strength beer.
Chamber vice president Kent Eckles says the chamber will be part of a coalition urging legislators to rewrite laws on alcohol sales in the upcoming session. Kansas law allows only retail liquor stores to sell wine, liquor and full-strength beer, while groceries and convenience stores can sell only so-called weak beer, also known as cereal malt beverage.
The restrictions are a holdover from a Prohibition past that included famed saloon-smasher Carrie Nation. Eckles said the chamber views the issue as free enterprise. Liquor store owners fear being pushed out of business by big retail chains, and proposals have failed the past two years.
Lyon County authorities say a homeowner shot and injured one person breaking into an eastern Kansas home and held another suspect at gunpoint until police arrived.
The incident happened Wednesday morning at a home about three miles north of Neosho Rapids.
Lyon County Sheriff Jeff Cope says the homeowner fired one shot at the suspect, who was treated at Newman Regional Health for non-life threatening injuries.
KVOE the second suspect was held at gunpoint until deputies arrived.
The residents of the home were not hurt.
Further details of the shooting were not immediately released.
A new survey of business leaders suggests the economy will remain sluggish in nine Midwest and Plains states, and hiring will be slow over the next three to six months.
The overall economic index for the region improved to 49.5 in December, but it remained in negative territory below 50. The overall index registered 48 in November and 46.5 in October.
Creighton University economist Ernie Goss says job growth will continue to be slow in the region, and some manufacturing jobs could be lost. The survey covers Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma and South Dakota.
The December employment index dipped to 48 from November’s 50.5.
Hays city commissioners will meet at 5 p.m. Thursday at city hall for a work session.
Agenda items include:
* 27th and Indian Trail intersection signalization.
* Configuration of 27th Street between Fort and Hall streets.
* Term limits and possible disbandment of advisory committees.
* City commissioner term on Ellis County Coalition for Economic Development board.
A southeast Kansas 18-year-old is among the elite in the Boy Scout world.
Jeremy Ebert of Rose Hill is only the 180th person in the country to ever earn all 134 merit badges offered by the Scouts. He belongs to Troop 0626 in Rose Hill.
His scoutmaster, Mark Esslinger, says Ebert is the first person in Kansas to earn all the badges.
Ebert told The Wichita Eagle he was driven to acquire all the knowledge learned from working on the badges.
He says the biggest obstacle was the archery badge because his left hand has palsy. A merit badge counselor taught him a new way to shoot an arrow at the right proficiency from about 100 feet away.
Scuba-diving and water skiing were among his favorite badges.
