RILEY COUNTY – A Kansas woman injured in Saturday’s 3-vehicle accident just after 11a.m. on Saturday in Riley County has died.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reports a 2014 Chevy Captiva Sport driven by Jenna Michelle LIndsten, 30, Manhattan, was eastbound on Marlatt Avenue approaching Tuttle Creek Boulevard.
The Chevy had a green light and started through the intersection.
A southbound semi ran the red light and struck the Chevrolet. The collision caused the Chevy to spin into the northbound lanes where it struck a 2008 Chevy Silverado driven by Quinton Lee Huncovsky, 42, Manhattan, which was stopped in the northbound lanes of Tuttle Creek waiting on a red light.
Lindsten was transported to Stormont Vail where she died.
Huncovsky was possibly injured. The KHP did not indicate where he was treated.
The semi driver Ethan Mark Butts, 21, Manhattan was not injured.
All were properly restrained at the time of the accident, according to the KHP.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A split vote last month on an abortion issue is the first time in Kansas Court of Appeals’ history that it has reached a deadlock.
The 14-member court was evenly divided in a Jan. 22 vote on whether the Kansas Constitution guarantees the right to an abortion.
The main reasons there have been no previous ties is that that initially the court had seven members, and normally decisions are made by three-judge panels.
The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the January session was the first time the court had met as a whole, or en banc, since 1983.
The tie meant a Shawnee County District Court ruling that prevented a ban on a second-trimester abortion procedure from taking effect was affirmed.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas lawmakers want to restrict public access to law enforcement body camera footage in an effort to protect the privacy of people caught on camera.
A bill introduced by the House judiciary committee last week would limit release of the video to the people in the footage, their attorneys and their parents if they are minors. The public would have access to footage only through a court order.
Under the current law, most of the footage is a public record available to anyone who asks for it.
Proponents say regulation would protect the public’s privacy. A critic said the bill doesn’t go far enough to balance privacy rights and the value of the cameras as an accountability tool.
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The University of Kansas Foundation is using its own crowdfunding campaign to raise money for smaller projects on campus.
The campaign, called Launch KU, is designed to bring in money for projects such as replacing 10 musicians’ chairs at Swarthout Recital hall or bringing therapy dogs to campus.
The Lawrence Journal-World reports the first projects started in November, with the second batch of eight projects ending in mid-April.
The endowment’s senior director of giving, David Decker, says the campaign is a new approach targeting a different audience than the foundation’s typical years-long, multimillion-dollar building campaigns.
The first round of Launch KU raised more than $50,000 from 200 donors for eight projects.
SALINA, Kan. (AP) — The first trial date is scheduled for one of five people accused in the killing of a Salina teenager.
A Saline County judge on Friday scheduled an April 11 trial date for 19-year-old Stephen Gentry in the death of Allie Saum in May 2015. Prosecutors say she was shot as she rode in a pickup truck that drove past a group of men who mistakenly thought the truck driver had been involved in an earlier confrontation.
The Salina Journal reports that the five suspects are charged with first-degree murder and three other charges.
Gentry’s attorney argued Friday that his trial should be continued until the person who actually shot Saum is tried. Prosecutors said they had no preference which of the defendants is tried first.
RICE COUNTY-Authorities and family members are searching for a missing Rice County woman.
Megan Renee Foglesong, 22, Alden, Kansas has been missing since late November or early December.
Her last activity on Facebook was November 30, and she was reportedly seen at a business in the 600 Block of Topeka Street in Larned around Christmas Day, according to family.
If you have seen her or know where she is, please contact the Rice County Sheriff 620-257-7876
DOUGLAS COUNTY – A Kansas woman was injured in an accident just before 7 a.m. on Sunday in Douglas County.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2005 Isuzu Ascender driven by Julie M. Vineyard, 49, Lawrence was northbound on U.S.59 one mile south of the U.S. 56 junction.
The driver lost control due to driving too fast for conditions on the icy roadway.
The vehicle slid sideways and rolled down the deep ditch.
Vineyard was transported to Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
She was properly restrained at the time of the accident, according to the KHP.
HUTCHINSON — A Kansas woman was granted community corrections for drug distribution on Friday in case from April of 2014.
Holly Caudillo, 26, was convicted of possession of cocaine with intent to sell, possession of marijuana with a prior conviction, possession of drug paraphernalia with intent to package and no drug tax stamp.
She was charged along with 28-year-old Raymond Kimball after Drug Unit Detectives
Kimball
found meth and marijuana along with a digital scale and new and used packaging inside a Hutchinson home while serving a search warrant.
Kimball was sentenced to nearly four years in prison for the case.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Republican president of the Kansas Senate has ousted Sen. Mary Pilcher-Cook from leadership of the Senate’s health committee.
Pilcher-Cook, a Shawnee Republican, said in an emailed statement Friday that Senate President Susan Wagle removed her from her post as chair of the Senate’s Public Health and Welfare Committee. Pilcher-Cook said she was removed because of her attempt to offer a Medicaid expansion proposal on the Senate floor Tuesday for the purpose of voting it down.
The Topeka Capital-Journal reports Wagle responded Saturday by saying Pilcher-Cook had shown “complete disrespect” for the Senate and its rules by bringing the amendment the way she did.
Wagle has tapped Sen. Michael O’Donnell, a Wichita Republican, to head the committee on an interim basis.
Abernathy Furniture Company Plant K. Early 1900s. Rosin Preservation, PSIQ photo.
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TOPEKA–At its regular quarterly meeting held at the Kansas Historical Society in Topeka on Saturday, February 6, 2016, the Historic Sites Board of Review voted to forward five nominations to the office of the Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C., to be evaluated by its professional staff members. If they concur with the board’s findings, the properties will be included in the National Register. The board also voted to list one property in the Register of Historic Kansas Places.
Nominated to the National Register of Historic Places:
Abernathy Furniture Company Factory (Plant K)
1100 N 2nd Street, Leavenworth, Leavenworth County
Hemmed in at the original site at North 2nd and Seneca streets, the Abernathy Furniture Company (1883) expanded with the construction of a new plant in 1926. Plant K, a complex of four brick buildings located one-half mile north of the existing factory, enabled the company to double its production capacity and to continue the manufacture and distribution of furniture in an era when many of its local competitors were closing operations. Abernathy was among the longest operating industries in Leavenworth and was one of the largest furniture manufacturers in the region. The original factory complex at 200-210 Seneca Street was listed individually in the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. The historic context for Plant K is within the period of significance (1883 to 1950) documented by the National Register nomination, though Plant K’s period of significance begins in 1926 with its construction.
First United Methodist Church of Lawrence Oregon-California Trail Segment
867 US-40 Highway, Lawrence vicinity, Douglas County
This 0.6-acre remnant of the Oregon and California trails network is part of the eastern (beginning) section of the combined trail, which emigrants passed over on the first few days of their journey west. One of the most important resources in this initial portion of the trail was Big Springs, a reliable water source lying approximately nine miles west of these two swales. Active between 1840 and circa 1860, these swales are associated with transportation and exploration/settlement along the combined route of the Oregon and California trails. This site’s location on the trail may suggest the presence of related artifacts. Due to current transportation developments within the immediate vicinity, this site is all that remains of a larger segment.
Eskridge Bandstand
City Park, Eskridge, Wabaunsee County
The Eskridge Bandstand, built between June 1908 and March 1909, stands in the approximate center of Eskridge City Park (established in 1903) and is the park’s focal structure. The park and bandstand are associated with the most vigorous period of economic growth and community development in the history of Eskridge. Built primarily for city band, the bandstand has a long history of use for other public and private social events. The period of significance begins with its construction in 1908 and extends to 1966.
Grandview Terrace Apartments
1736-1748 N Hillside, Wichita, Sedgwick County
Constructed between 1949 and 1950, the Grandview Terrace Apartments are nominated as a rare example of a post-World War II (WWII), private apartment building in the Fairmount neighborhood in north central Wichita. With the influx of WWII veterans and the increase in job opportunities in aviation, the housing shortage in Wichita that began in 1940 and 1941 continued well into the 1950s. Local real-estate women Maud Beech (sister of Beech Aircraft founder) and Marguerite Mollohan took advantage of the unmet demand for modern living. The apartment complex included covered off-street parking as well as a beauty salon, pharmacy, and restaurant. The property is also significant as a distinct 1950 Modern style building designed by Wichita architects Overend & Boucher. The Grandview Terrace Apartments reflect the general tenets of the post-WW II Modern apartment building not unlike the federal housing during and after the war.
Ash-Grove Historic District on East Douglas Avenue
2100 to 2330 blocks East Douglas Avenue, Wichita, Sedgwick County
The Ash-Grove Historic District is nominated for its association with the growth and development of this commercial cluster opposite Wichita East High School. The 2100-2300 blocks of East Douglas Avenue were initially developed during a time when the city was experiencing explosive growth that led to neighborhood and commercial expansion outside the city’s core. Development along this section of East Douglas followed the establishment of Wichita’s “Auto-Row” immediately east of downtown and coincided with the selection of the south side of the 2200 block as home to Wichita’s new high school, built in the 1920s to serve the eastward-marching Wichita population. This growth stalled by the end of the decade as the 1930s ushered in a focus on survival, not expansion. The second wave of development within this district spanned from 1940 to 1960. Wichita’s World War II and post-war growth was related largely to Wichita’s aviation industry. Grove Street, the eastern boundary of the district, served as the north-south thoroughfare connecting the aviation businesses that had developed south and east of the city. Eight new buildings were constructed in this three-block area in the post-war era. The district generally took its current form by 1960.
Added to the Register of Historic Kansas Places:
Coffeyville Municipal Building & Courthouse
102 W 7th Street, Coffeyville, Montgomery County
Completed in 1929, Coffeyville’s Municipal Building & Courthouse is an excellent example of civic architecture of the 1920s. It serves a unique dual function as a city hall and district court in a non-county seat community. The building was distinguished in municipal realms with financing from the city’s electric and light plant, without a cent of tax dollars—particularly significant given that the building was completed just after the stock market crash in 1929. Designed by Coffeyville architect Clare (C. A.) Henderson, in partnership with consulting architects/engineers Owen, Sayler, & Payson of Kansas City, Missouri, the Classical Revival style building maintains a significant degree of historic and architectural integrity. Its interior retains a marble-clad rotunda, terrazzo staircases, coffered plaster ceilings, and pendant light fixtures. The exterior embraces dominant characteristics of the Classical Revival style including symmetrical façades with central entrances, a prominent cornice band, massive Doric columns and pilasters, and delicately carved terracotta and stone panels.
The National Register of Historic Places is the country’s official list of historically significant properties. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America’s historic and archaeological resources. Eligible properties must be significant for one or more of the four criteria for evaluation. Properties can be eligible if they are associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history. They can be eligible if they are associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. Distinctive construction can qualify properties for the National Register if they embody the characteristic of a type, period, or method of construction, or represent the work of a master, or possess high artistic values, or represent a significant and distinguishable entity whose components may lack individual distinction. Lastly, properties may be eligible for the National Register if they have yielded or may be likely to yield information important in prehistory or history. The National Register recognizes properties of local, statewide, and national significance.
The Register of Historic Kansas Places is our state’s official list of historically significant properties. Properties included in the National Register are automatically listed in the State Register. However, not all properties listed in the State Register are included in the National Register. The same general criteria are used to assess the eligibility of a property for inclusion in the state register, but more flexibility is allowed in the interpretation of the criteria for eligibility.
Related Internet Links:
National Register of Historic Places: nps.gov/nr
Kansas Historical Society (National and State Registers): kshs.org/14638
To read drafts of these nominations and links to photographs, see this link: kshs.org/14633 (This is a temporary link to these documents.)
BARTON COUNTY -A rash of burglaries in Barton County has Sheriff Brian Bellendir asking for the public’s assistance in catching the criminals.
The thefts have been random in nature, taking place all over Barton County, according to the Sheriff.
“We have had some south of Great Bend in the past two or three days, some in the Claflin area last week and some in the northwest part of the county, said Bellendir.
“Most of the reports are from right around Great Bend but that’s not to say the incidents won’t spread out as they look for easier targets.”
With over 900 square miles to enforce with generally only 4 deputies available to patrol, Bellendir says he is relying on the public to help catch the bad guys.
The thieves have been targeting high dollar items that can be sold easily like guns, wire welders and expensive tools.
Bellendir encourages people to lock their doors to homes, machine sheds and equipment and if they can, take a photo of your expensive items along with the ID or serial number. He has that will make it much easier to identify your property when it is recovered.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A 19-year-old Kansas City man accused of trying to kill a Wyandotte County deputy has been sentenced on an unrelated robbery charge.
Charles Bowser is one of three men charged with shooting Deputy Scott Wood during a convenience store robbery last March in Kansas City, Kansas.
The Kansas City Star reports that two other men were found convicted earlier this month of attempted capital murder in Wood’s shooting. Bowser is set for trial in May in that case.
Bowser was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison for a January 2015 home invasion robbery. A jury found him guilty in December of aggravated robbery, aggravated burglary and criminal possession of a firearm.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas senators are working to keep Gov. Sam Brownback’s administration from approving new economic development projects that cost the state sales tax revenue.
Senators approved a budget bill Thursday with an amendment preventing the Department of Commerce from approving new STAR bonds projects this and next fiscal year. The program has been used to finance construction of projects and allows municipalities to use sales tax revenue to pay off the bonds.
Some lawmakers say the STAR bonds program should be halted temporarily because of the state’s dire financial situation.
The Wichita Eagle reports (https://bit.ly/1Xqd9Pd) the Department of Commerce says the program is used to develop regional attractions that will spur a significant economic impact. It would not release a list of current projects Friday.
