GOVE COUNTY- A Kansas woman was injured in an accident just before 5:30p.m. on Monday in Gove County
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2004 Chevy Tahoe driven by Marisa Ellen Johnson, 22, Quinter, was eastbound on County Road CC just west of Castle Rock.
The driver lost control in the sand and entered the north ditch. The vehicle spun 180 degrees and rolled.
Johnson was transported to Gove County Medical Center. She was not wearing a seat belt, according to the KHP.
GOVE COUNTY- A Gove County woman was injured in an accident just before 5:30p.m. on Monday in Gove County
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2004 Chevy Tahoe driven by Marisa Ellen Johnson, 22, Quinter, was eastbound on County Road CC just west of Castle Rock.
The driver lost control in the sand and entered the north ditch. The vehicle spun 180 degrees and rolled.
Johnson was transported to Gove County Medical Center.
She was not wearing a seat belt, according to the KHP.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The lawsuit filed by a Wichita mathematician seeking voting machine tapes after finding statistical anomalies in election counts is set to go to trial early next year.
A scheduling order issued Monday sets a one-day bench trial for March 22 to hear the open records case brought by Wichita State University statistician Beth Clarkson.
Sedgwick County Judge Douglas Roth also set deadlines for motions and scheduled a Jan. 14 pretrial conference.
Clarkson wants the tapes to do a statistical model by checking the error rate on electronic voting machines used at a Sedgwick County voting station during the November 2014 general election.
Top election officials for Kansas and Sedgwick County want the court to block the release of tapes, arguing they are not subject to the open records act.
JEFFERSON COUNTY – Three people were injured in an accident just before 3p.m. on Monday in Jefferson County.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2001 Suzuki SUV driven by Joanne Therese Boschert, 30, McLouth, was northbound on Kansas16 just south of Fairmount Road.
The driver lost control of the SUV. It crossed into oncoming traffic, and hit a southbound 2014 Ford passenger car driven by David Shayne Benton, 37, Azle, TX., head on.
Boschert and a passenger Bailey Boschert, 3, McLouth, were transported to Stormont Vail. They were not wearing seat belts, according to the KHP.
Benton was transported to KU Medical Center.
PAUL J. WEBER, Associated Press
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — It’s easy to see what oil money means to the University of Texas. Tuition hasn’t budged in three years because of gushing wells in the Permian Basin. More than a few buildings, including the football team headquarters, are named after wildcatters.
But with oil prices down more than 50 percent since last summer, the outlook for both public revenue and donations is grim in energy-heavy states like Alaska, Oklahoma and Louisiana.
Major donors tied to the energy industry are taking longer to fulfill their pledges. Some campus projects, like the planned football stadium expansion at the University of Oklahoma, have been scaled back. And some scholarship programs are taking a hit. The situation may be the grimmest in Alaska, where colleges have frozen hiring and may have to consolidate programs.
Click below to listen to this week’s Tiger Talk with Fort Hays State head football coach Chris Brown. The program airs Monday evenings at 6 p.m. on your home for Fort Hays State sports, Tiger Radio Mix-103.
MANHATTAN -Francis Gary Powers Jr. will present a book lecture “The U-2 Incident and the Cold War” on Wednesday at the K-State Alumni Center in Manhattan.
Powers will discuss the U-2 incident, which he wrote about in his 2003 book “Operation Overflight: A memoir of the U-2 Incident.” He also served as technical director to the new Steven Spielberg film “Bridge of Spies,” which stars Tom Hanks and depicts the incident.
He will be signing books starting at 4 p.m. with the lecture to follow at 5 p.m. and a reception afterwards at 6 p.m.. Tickets are free and are available at Commerce Bank, 727 Poyntz Ave, Manhattan, and by emailing Sean Smith at Alliance Realty, [email protected]. Tickets are also available by emailing Brittany Beneke at [email protected].
The book lecture is part of the university’s Political, Diplomatic and Military Lecture series.
Last Week’s inspection results –
Kansas Department of Agriculture
Washington Elementary School, 305 Main, Hays – Oct. 8
Routine Inspection found two violations –
FRANKLIN COUNTY – One person was injured in an accident just before noon on Monday in Franklin County.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2004 Ford Escape driven by Dustin Frank, 22, American Fork, UT., was south bound on Interstate 35 at the Franklin Miami County line.
The vehicle drifted in to the median, the two left tires went into the grass and the driver over corrected.
The vehicle then crossed over both lanes of southbound traffic and over turned several times in a field.
Frank was transported to Ransom Memorial Hospital. He was not wearing a seat belt, according to the KHP.
KEN DILANIAN, AP Intelligence Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — An anonymous hacker claims to have breached CIA Director John Brennan’s personal email account and has posted documents online, including a list of email addresses purportedly from Brennan’s contact file.
The CIA said it referred the matter to the proper authorities, but would not comment further.
The hacker also claims to have breached an account belonging to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson.
The New York Post first reported the hack. They described the hacker Sunday as “a stoner high school student,” motivated by his opposition to U.S. foreign policy and support for Palestinians. His Twitter account, @phphax, includes links to files that he told the Post he took from Brennan’s account.
The Post said he didn’t reveal his name or where he lived.
From 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday, Fort Hays State University faculty and students from the English Department will celebrate the National Day on Writing on the Memorial Union patio.
The purpose is to bring attention to the writing that many people do in their daily lives and to consider that, in our time, we write more than we ever have. All passersby will be encouraged to stop and consider why and what they write.
The department will also offer opportunities to post to social media with the National Day on Writing hashtag, #whyIwrite.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government will require many drone aircraft to be registered.
The move is being prompted by a growing number of reported close calls and incidents that pose safety risks. The government says pilot sightings of drones have doubled since last year, including sightings near manned aircraft and major sporting events, and interference with wildfire-fighting operations.
Federal Aviation Administration chief Michael Huerta says the reports “signal a troubling trend.” He says registration will increase pressure on drone operators to fly responsibly, otherwise “there will be consequences.”
To work out details, the FAA and the Transportation Department are setting up a 25- to-30-member task force including government and industry officials and hobbyists. They’ll recommend which drones should be required to register and which should be exempted. The intent is to design a system that makes it easy for commercial operators to comply.
Toys and small drones are likely to be exempt. Drones that weigh only a pound or two or that can’t fly higher than a few hundred feet are considered less risky. Heavier ones and those that can fly thousands of feet pose more of a problem.
JEFF AMY, Associated Press
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi College Board has named Jeffrey Vitter, the brother of a U.S. senator who is provost at the University of Kansas, as its top choice to become chancellor of the University of Mississippi.
Jeff Vitter is the preferred candidate for Ole Miss chancellor but isn’t here today. He’ll come to campus next week
— Royce Swayze (@royce_swayze) October 19, 2015
John Polk, chairman of the Senate Universities and Colleges Committee, says Higher Education Commissioner Glenn Boyce told him the board will announced the selection on Monday. The board still needs to take a final vote to make the selection official.
Vitter, a 59-year-old computer scientist, has also served as provost at Texas A&M University and dean of the College of Science at Indiana’s Purdue University.
Republican Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana is Jeffrey Vitter’s brother.
Earlier this month, Vitter was named one of three finalists to become chancellor of the University of Arkansas. That status may have motivated quick action in Mississippi.