2-1-10

KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY HAS ANNOUNCED ANOTHER LANDON LECTURE FOR THIS SPRING. ADMIRAL MICHAEL MULLEN WILL BE SPEAKING MARCH THIRD AT FOUR P-M IN MCCAIN AUDITORIUM. MULLEN IS THE CHAIRMAN OF THE JOINT CHEIFS OF STAFF. HE WAS ORIGINALLY GOING TO SPEAK IN AUGUST BUT HAD TO POSTPONE DUE TO CONFLICT. THE FIRST LECTURE OF THE SEMESTER WILL BE FEBRUARY 22ND BY DENNIS BLAIR AT 1:30 ALSO IN MCCAIN AUDITORIM.


A MANHATTAN MAN WILL STAND TRIAL ON THE CHARGE OF INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER IN THE DEATH OF HIS 12-DAY-OLD SON. RILEY COUNTY MAGISTRATE JUDGE WILLIAM MALCOM RULED FRIDAY THERE WAS ENOUGH EVIDENCE FOR THE CASE TO GO TO TRIAL. THE MOTHER TESTIFIED AT THE PRELIMINARY HEARING THAT HER AND COREY GORMAN SHARED A MARIJUANA JOINT AND THAT HE HAD DRANK AN UNDETERMINED AMOUNT OF BEER THE NIGHT BEFORE. THE BABY FELL ASLEEP WHILE GORMAN HELD HIM IN BED AFTER HE HAD BECOME FUSSY. THE BABY WAS FOUND THE NEXT DAY FACE DOWN AND A FORESIC PATHOLOGIST SAID THE CHILD DIED BECAUSE “THE WEIGHT OF ANOTHER PERSON CAUSED HIM TO HAVE TROUBLE BREATHING.”


A TOPEKA MAN IS ONE OF TEN US BAPTISTS BEING HELD IN HAITI. 34-YEAR OLD DREW CULBERTH WAS TRYING TO RESCUE CHILDREN WHEN HE WAS DETAINED IN THE HAITIAN CAPITAL. A FRIEND OF CULBERTH’S SAID HE WENT ON THE TRIP BECAUSE HIS EMT TRAINING WOULD BE VALUABLE. CULBERTH IS A PART TIME PASTOR AT BETHEL BAPTIST CHURCH WHERE THEY PRAYED FOR HIM YESTERDAY DURING THE SERVICES.


THE ECONOMY STILL ISN’T GETTING BETTER IN OVERLAND PARK. CITY MANAGER JOHN MACHBAR SAID LAST WEEK THEY WILL BE LAYING OFF 42 EMPLOYEES AS THE CITY “CONTINUES TO STRUGGLE.” HE SAYS A FIVE YEAR FINANCIAL FORECAST SHOWS A DECREASE IN REVENUE IN SALES AND PROPERTY TAXES. OF THE 61 POSITIONS BEING ELIMINATED 42 WERE FILLED, 55 WERE FULL TIME, AND THE REST WERE PART TIME.


SWINE FLU HAS BEEN LAYING LOW LATELY BUT THAT DOESN’T MEAN IT’S GONE. KANSAS HAS ITS 27TH DEATH OF THE H1N1. THE KANSAS DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT SAYS THIS LATEST DEATH IS A 78-YEAR OLD WOMAN FROM THE WICHITA AREA WHO DID HAVE UNDERLYING HEALTH CONDITIONS. THE KDHE SAYS THE FLU USUALLY PEAKS IN FEBRURARY AND MARCH AND THEY SUGGEST GETTING THE H1N1 AND REGULAR FLU SHOTS.


TOYOTA HAS ANNOUNCED THAT DEALERS SHOULD BE GETTING PARTS FOR THE STICKY GAS PEDALS THIS WEEK. THAT DOESN’T MEAN EVERYONE IS GETTING THEIRS FIXED RIGHT AWAY THOUGH. WITH 4.2 MILLION CUSTOMERS AFFECTED, SOME WILL HAVE TO WAIT. THEY WILL BE GETTING SHIMS TO FIX SPRINGS IN THE PEDAL BUT BEFORE REPAIRS CAN START TECHNITIONS STILL NEED TO BE TRAINED. THE REPAIR PLAN WILL OFFICIALLY BE ANNOUNCED LATER TODAY.


LAST NIGHT WAS THE 52ND GRAMMY AWARDS AND THERE WERE SOME BIG WINNERS AND PERFORMERS. THE NIGHT STARTED OFF WITH A DUET BY LADY GAGA AND SIR ELTON JOHN. BEYONCE TOOK HOME SIX, INCLUDING SONG OF THE YEAR FOR SINGLE LADIES, LADY GAGA WON BEST DANCE RECORDING FOR POKER FACE, KINGS OF LEON WON RECORD OF THE YEAR, AND BEST NEW ARTIST WENT TO ZAC BROWN BAND. BUT THE BIG WINNER WAS YOUNG TAYLOR SWIFT WHO TOOK HOME ALBUM OF THE YEAR FOR FEARLESS. THERE WAS A 3-D TRIBUTE TO MICHEAL JACKSON WHERE HIS CHILDREN PRINCE MICHEAL AND PARIS ACCEPTED AN AWARD ON HIS BEHALF. AND HAITI GOT HELP FROM MARY J BLIGE AND ADREA BOCELLI SANG BRIDGE OVER TROUBLE WATER TO BENEFIT HURRICANE RELIEF.