SALINA -Brown Mackie Colleges across the country, including the two Salina campuses, are closing.
Officials from Education Management Corporation, the operator of Brown Mackie Colleges say they are phasing out all Brown Mackie locations nationwide, according to a media release.
Brown Mackie will not close immediately, but will do so in the near future. The schools are currently not accepting any new student enrollments. The current plan is to “teach out” students who are currently enrolled at the school, which will allow them to finish their degree field study.
Though the schools are not immediately closing, some employees will be immediately affected, particularly those who work within the admissions department.
The phase out of the Brown Mackie schools could last through June 2018.
Including the two Salina locations, there are currently 26 Brown Mackie College locations in more than twelve states.
Along with the Brown Mackie College locations, Education Management Corporation also owns and operates all Argosy University locations, all Art Institute locations, all South University locations, and all Western State locations.
JEFFERSON COUNTY –Six people were injured in an accident just before 11:30 a.m. on Friday in Jefferson County.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2006 Ford Freestyle driven by Richard E. Hamm, 60, Riverside, MO., was eastbound on U.S. 24 two miles east of Perry.
A 2004 Dodge Caravan driven by Lisa M. Lawrence, 41, Olathe, rear-ended the Ford as it stopped to make a left turn.
Hamm, Lawrence and passengers in the Ford Jessica Lynn Hamm, 11 and Austin L. Hamm, 6, both of Riverside MO., and passengers in the Dodge Arelyn Marie Lawrence, 9 and Adam Michael Lawrence, 7, both of Olathe, were transported to Stormont Vail
All were properly restrained at the time of the accident, according to the KHP.
SALINA — Five Guys Burgers and Fries will open a Salina location in a strip plaza that is currently under construction in south Salina.
The 10,825 square foot plaza, which will be known as Salina Square, recently broke ground at the southeast of corner of 9th Street and Schilling Road. The plaza is being built on a 1.56 acre site at 3015 S. 9th, just north of Rib Crib and west of Lowe’s. The land is owned by BMH Partners LLC of Leawood.
Five Guys Senior Communications Manager Lauren Lewis tells The Salina Post that the Virginia-based restaurant chain signed a lease in February. A projected opening date is not yet known.
The new plaza is also slated to include a beauty shop.
According to Saline County records, the plaza is being built at a cost of $1 million.
The Obama administration on Wednesday moved to sharply limit short-term health insurance plans, which a growing number of consumers have been buying even though they offer less coverage than what the Affordable Care Act decreed all people should have.
The plans, designed for people between jobs or in need of temporary insurance until they secure a regular policy, are cheaper than regular insurance plans. But they also can lack features that the health law requires for other policies, such as coverage for pre-existing medical conditions, maternity care and prescription drugs.
In addition, insurers are allowed to refuse to sell short-term plans to people they think will run up large medical costs, and insurers can cap the maximum amount they will pay.
Both practices are banned for regular policies under the health law. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said under its proposal, short-term health policies could be written for no longer than three months, instead of up to a year as is currently allowed. In addition, consumers would not be able to renew the policies.
The department said it plans to require insurers to clearly tell consumers that the plans do not qualify as coverage under the health law and that they may still face a tax penalty if that is the only insurance they have.
“People buy these policies probably not fully understanding that they’re not getting comprehensive coverage, and then they have to pay the penalty, and if anything serious goes wrong, they have very limited coverage,” said Timothy Jost, a law professor at Washington and Lee University who has studied the ACA.
The government said these changes were necessary to ensure that consumers have “meaningful health coverage” and that the short-term plans would not siphon away healthy people from other insurance plans that comply with the ACA. An exodus of healthy people could lead to increasing premiums for the remaining people in plans sold on healthcare.gov and on state marketplaces.
“It’s important for the stability of the risk pool that people be encouraged to buy coverage whether they’re healthy or not healthy,” Jost said.
Simultaneously, the government announced refinements to the methods by which it gauges financial risk of insurance populations.
It plans to begin factoring in people who held plans for part of the year and include prescription drug use. The government said these changes would help insurers better predict the cost of medical care for enrollees and price its policies appropriately.
The department further announced that it planned to take a more active role in getting marketplace customers to sign up for Medicare when they turn 65. People who do not sign up on time for Medicare B, which covers outpatient care and doctors visits, could end up paying higher premiums when they eventually enroll.
They also will likely lose their subsidies for the marketplace plan after they are eligible for Medicare. The government will begin this summer contacting people enrolled in commercial plans to advise them on how to transition to Medicare. polici#sthash.NgdvpzC8.dpuf
DETROIT (AP) — Gordie Howe, the hockey great who set scoring records that stood for decades, has died. He was 88.
Son Murray Howe confirmed the death Friday, texting to The Associated Press: “Mr Hockey left peacefully, beautifully, and w no regrets.”
Howe set NHL marks with 801 goals and 1,850 points that held up until Wayne Gretzky surpassed his idol in the record books.
Howe was also so famously fierce, using elbows and fists to rough up opponents, that a “Gordie Howe Hat Trick,” became synonymous with the combination of having a goal, an assist and a fight in one game.
HODGEMAN COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities in Hodgeman County have wrapped up a case involving a suspect hunting from the cab of a vehicle.
On December 1 of 2015, a Hodgeman County Game Warden received a call from an observant landowner who had witnessed a vehicle stop and shoot a deer from the cab, according to a social media report from the Kansas Wildlife and Parks and Tourism.
The landowner was able to give a detailed description of the vehicle.
The Game Warden was able to locate the vehicle and catch the individuals responsible.
On Thursday, KDWPT reported the defendant agreed to pay $3872 in restitution and forfeit the rifle seized as evidence in connection with these crimes.
Kansas Health Foundation board member Junetta Everett, Health Advocate Tonya Lewis Lee, Representative Melody McCray-Miller, Foundation President and CEO Steve Coen, and Dockum Sit-In participants Galyn Vesey and Joan Williams. -photo Kansas Health Foundation
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The site of an important civil rights sit-in in 1958 in Wichita will be getting a memorial for the first time.
Young black protesters sat at the lunch counter in the Dockum Drug Store in 1958. The Wichita Eagle reports after three weeks of sit-ins, the drug store agreed to serve the black students at the counter. It is considered one of the first successful lunch counter sit-ins in the nation that eventually helped lead to desegregation.
On Thursday, two participants in the sit-ins, Joan Williams and Galyn Vesey, attended a ceremony where the Kansas Health Foundation presented a $50,000 grant to the Kansas African American Museum and Ambassador Hotel for the memorial project.
Organizers have not determined what form the memorial will take, or what it will include.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Topeka call center plans to add about 200 jobs as part of expansion plans by its owner.
Alorica Inc. announced last week that it would acquire Expert Global Solutions and expand its national and international business. Spokesman Ken Muche says the Topeka call center, which currently employs about 395 people, will have about 600 workers by August.
The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the company’s current location has enough room for the increased number of employees. Currently, about 3 percent of Alorica’s Topeka employees are part-time. Muche says about 10 percent of the new jobs will be part-time.
The Irvine, California-based company offers a variety of customer service solutions to businesses.
HUTCHINSON — A Kansas man, originally charged with kidnapping a woman, saw that charge dismissed on Thursday. He was arraigned on the other a variety of additional charges
Michael Meeks, 46, Hutchinson, entered a not guilty plea for aggravated burglary, criminal threat and two misdemeanor counts of battery in Reno County court.
He’s alleged to have battered two victims by choking them at a residence in the 300 block of West 14th Street in Hutchinson.
The state believed he forced a female victim into his truck and drove her to Wichita.
The victim denied that happened. She also denied that he forced his way into the home. The homeowner testified to just the opposite and said Meeks threatened to kill his cousin over possibly selling a girlfriend drugs and taking items from her apartment.
Magistrate Judge Cheryl Allen had found that there was insufficient evidence that the kidnapping occurred, so she dropped that charge.
A tentative trial date is set for September 13 and a motion deadline of Aug. 12.
MANHATTAN- A Manhattan landmark, Varney’s Bookstore will close their Manhattan store at 623 North Manhattan in Aggieville, and all other locations at the end of June.
The store originally opened in 1890 and sold a variety of items from textbooks to KSU clothing apparel and school supplies.
General Manager Steve Levin confirmed the decision to close the store, noting the landscape of textbook sales has changed,
“With many college courses no longer using books, and instead online course materials, it has become difficult to compete.”
Among other factors cited by Levin was the loss of a contract with KSU to operate the bookstore in the K-State Student Union.
Varneys also has a store in the Manhattan Town Center Mall and the Central Mall in Salina.
PRATT–Several thousand nonresident hunters who successfully drew Kansas deer permits from the April drawing received a surprise mailing in early June. Due to a printing error at a fulfillment service contracted to print and mail permits to the 21,225 successful applicants, nearly 3,260 hunters received duplicate mailings.
A successful applicant should have received only one mailing with one set of permits, which included an either-sex permit and carcass tag and a whitetail antlerless-only permit and carcass tag. Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism (KDWPT) officials want to remind hunters that the law only allows them to have one permit that allows the harvest of an antlered deer, so only one set of the permits they received is valid. Duplicate permits may not be used or transferred to another hunter.
Hunters who received duplicate permits and carcass tags are asked to return duplicate sets to the KDWPT Licensing Section, 512 SE 25th Ave., Pratt, KS 67124. Department staff are working with the contractor to identify issues that led to the error and to ensure that all successful applicants received the correct permit, and that those who received duplicate permits are notified.
All applicants who were unsuccessful in the drawing should have received their refunds, and all successful applicants should have received their set of permits by now. Hunters can see their status in the draw at www.ksoutdoors.com and clicking on the “Nonresident Deer Permit Draw Results” button on the left-hand edge of the homepage. If you have questions, please contact Mike Miller at (620) 672-0765 or Ron Kaufman at (785) 296-2870.
Sarah McClure’s father speaking out about the lawsuit on Thursday- image courtesy KSHB
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A woman who is suing the University of Kansas for how it handled her sexual assault allegations is joining a separate lawsuit that accuses the school of misleading the public about the safety of its campus housing.
Sarah McClure said in a video released Thursday that KU did nothing for months after she was sexually assaulted by a KU football player last August. Her attorney says McClure joined a lawsuit filed by the parents of another woman who says she was raped by the same football player.
McClure went to police, though the player was never charged. He was later expelled by the university office that investigates sexual assault allegations.
The AP generally doesn’t identify victims of alleged sexual assault, but McClure says she wants her name used.
JEFFERSON COUNTY –Six people were injured in an accident just before 11:30 a.m. on Friday in Jefferson County.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Topeka call center plans to add about 200 jobs as part of expansion plans by its owner.
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