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- Senate candiate Johnston to speak at Labor Day picnic
Lisa Johnston, the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate, is scheduled to speak Saturday at the Wichita/Hutchinson Labor Federation’s annual Labor Day picnic at the Machinists Hall, 3830 S. Meridian.The event is from noon to 4 p.m. and is open to the public. Food will be provided.Also scheduled to speak is Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tom Holland, Democratic candidate for the 4th Congressional District Raj Goyle and Kansas Secretary of Labor Jim Garner.Read more
- State pension system shows some improvement
Improved returns on investments helped reduce the shortfall in the state's public employee pension system, but it is still facing a $7.6 billion deficit.A prominent Kansas lawmaker who heard the report on Thursday said the system's budget problems will be one of the Legislature's top priorities during the next session.Glenn Deck, executive director of the Kansas Public Employee Retirement System, told a joint House-Senate committee that Wall Street gains last year reduced the KPERS deficit by $602 million.Read more
- Dance teacher Julie Keeling died at her home this morning
Julie Keeling, a Wichita mom and longtime dance instructor, has died. She was 52.Keeling, who graduated from Kansas State University in 1980 with a degree in physical education, taught ballet, tap and jazz for decades at a studio in her home on North Cypress. Her students ranged from 3 to 18.According to a police report, Keeling was pronounced dead at her home early this morning. She died of "apparent health problems," according to the report.Read more
- Wichita weather: sunny, warm and windy holiday weekend
Labor Day weekend will be warm, sunny and breezy in the Wichita metropolitan area, forecasters say.Highs today may only touch 80 under sunny skies, with northerly winds blowing steadily in the teens and gusting to more than 20 miles an hour. Saturday will reach the mid-80s, with south winds gusting past 25 miles an hour, forecasters say.Sunday and Monday should see temperatures in the 90s, with winds topping out at more than 30 miles an hour.Read more
- Wichita crime commission to announce gang awareness effort
The Wichita Crime Commission will hold a news conference today to announce a new community gang awareness initiative.The announcement will take place immediately after the Wichita Police Department Interwatch briefing at 10 a.m. at City Hall.Check Kansas.com for more information about the initiative.Read more
- Service for Great Bend teen today
GREAT BEND — Funeral services for 14-year-old Alicia DeBolt, whose body was found last week in Great Bend, will be held this morning.A celebration of life service will be at 10 a.m. at the First Assembly of God in Great Bend. The Rev. Kyle Ermoian will officiate. A private family inurnment will take place after the service.Memorials are requested to the Alicia DeBolt Expense Fund, in care of Bryant Funeral Home, 1425 Patton Road, Great Bend, KS 67530.Read more
- Psychiatrist gets probation for drug convictions
A former psychiatrist at the Veterans Administration hospital in Topeka has been sentenced to three years probation for unlawfully prescribing controlled substances.Fifty-eight-year-old Ethan Bickelhaupt, who now lives in Chicago, was sentenced Thursday.He worked at the VA Medical Center from May 2006 until February 2008. Prosecutors said he wrote prescriptions for people who weren't patients at the hospital. Prosecutors say he often prescribed drugs such as Adderall and Tylenol 3 for people to use at parties at his house.Read more
- Report gives high marks to Kansas highway system
A California foundation has ranked the Kansas state highway system third-best in the nation based on performance and cost-effectiveness.The ranking by the Reason Foundation in Los Angeles is based on 11 indicators, including highway spending, pavement and bridge condition and fatalities. Kansas has ranked third each of the past two years of the study.North Dakota was ranked first, followed by Montana in the report released Thursday.Read more
- New lottery game to mark Kansas' 150th birthday
The state's founders probably wouldn't have approved, but Kansas will use a new lottery game to celebrate the state's 150th birthday.The Kansas Lottery scheduled a news conference Friday to launch the new game. Lt. Gov. Troy Findley planned to participate.Kansas was admitted to the union on Jan. 29, 1861, becoming a new free state just weeks ahead of the Civil War.Read more
- Goats rescued after 2 days on 6-inch ledge
Two young goats wandered onto the thin ledge of a railroad bridge and spent nearly two days high above the ground until rescuers in a towering cherry picker plucked them from their perch, hungry but safe.The rescue occurred Wednesday 60 feet above a little-trafficked rural roadway in southern Montana between Billings and Roundup, after a caller told the Rimrock Humane Society the goats were stranded on the 6-inch ledge.The young female animals weighing 25 and 35 pounds mostly stayed on the angled ledge, even though there was a wider surface area on a pillar just a few feet away.Read more
