4-20-11

In local news…

K-state Junior Joshua Ericson mathematics major is trying to track and predict the spread of rural epidemics. Ericson is studying the town of Chanute to help him research for his project.

Ericson says “these outbreaks very often originate in rural settings, so our results will be able to be applied immediately to regions throughout Kansas and the Midwest."

The study has been going on since this past summer.

According to the Manhattan Mercury, when the Manhattan school board meets tonight, it will decide on whether it wants to cut the school year short. The board made the school year one day shorter last year.

According to WIBW, police in Junction City seized fifty-two pounds of narcotics during a normal traffic stop. The cops called in the k-9 unit after they became suspicious of the vehicle. The unit proceeded to find the stash of drugs that is worth two hundred and sixty thousand dollars in street value. Police then arrested the two men.

In state news…

According to KSNT, A Tyson plant in Emporia is cutting its workforce by sixty to eighty employees this week.

Tyson spokesman Gary Michelson said the cuts are due to improved efficiency at other plants.

Mickelson added that the released employees are being encouraged to apply to other Tyson plants.

The Tyson Emporia plant reduced its workforce in 2008 from twenty four hundred employees to one thousand employees

In national news…

According to USA Today, Three children are in stable condition after a school shooting in Houston. A six year old brought a loaded gun to the school. The gun then fired after the boy dropped the firearm on the floor. Thirty three year old Shawn Dixon said that the school should add metal detectors as an added security concern.

Spokesman for Houston public schools normal reminded parents that they should keep their firearms locked up and away from their children and to check through your child’s backpack before sending them off to school.

In entertainment news…

According to Yahoo Entertainment, The Black Eyed Peas are starting a music academy in New York City that will start this July. The academy will allow kids from the ages of thirteen to nineteen to work with professional level audio and video equipment.

The peapod Adobe Youth Voices Academy will accept students that are recommend by their teachers or have an interest in music and video production.