4-28-11

In local news…

A certification hearing for fourteen-year-old Cole Drake has been set for September 22nd and 23rd. 1350 KMAN reports County Attorney Barry Wilkerson is asking for drake to be tried as an adult in the murder of fourteen-year-old Tyler Dowling. Drake is being charged with first-degree murder and aggravated robbery.

A Manhattan therapist who stalked a Fort Riley soldier she was ruled mentally competent. Rachelle Santiago was working at the Irwin Army Community Hospital at Fort Riley. Santiago faces a five-count indictment of stalking, sexual battery, making a criminal threat, eluding a pursuing police vehicle and unlawfully entering a military installation.

A three-time Fulbright recipient and K-state professor Emizet Kisangani is going to Central Africa for eight months. The university released this information this morning stating Kisangani is K-state’s director of African studies and is researching the parliament and the banking sector on post-conflict reconstruction on the region. He wants to show the importance of parliament and a banking sector on post-conflict reconstruction because he feels that those two areas have been overlooked in the past.

In state news…
Governor Sam Brownback is asking the U.S. Department of Agricutlture to declare a drought in 21 counties in western Kansas. According to KSNT, The declaration would make farmers eligible for loans from USDA’s farm service agency as well as other types of aid.
Dylan spencer and his wife Amy as well as their two children were laid to rest yesterday in holton. The Topeka Capital Journal writes Outside of the church…Holton residents held American flags in support of the couple and their two children. The residents outside were blocking members of Topeka’s Westboro Baptist Church from interrupting the procedures.

For the first time in six years…measles was reported in Johnson County. According to the Associated Press, The Johnson County Health Department is investigating the report. The case was reported at Blue Valley North High School in Overland Park. It is being suggested that the student was not treated for the disease. Other students and staff that had also not been vaccinated for the disease were told to stay home. Ten people who had not been treated for the disease came in contact with the patient.

In entertainment news…
During their second rehearsal in as many days…the soon to be wed Kate Middleton and Prince William thanked everyone for their affection. The Associated Press reports that the two were both delighted that many are able to join them in celebrating what they hope will be one of the happiest days of their lives.” "The affection shown to us by so many people during our engagement has been incredibly moving, and has touched us both deeply. Thousand of guests are expected to line the streets on Friday for the couple’s parade route. Around nineteen hundred people have been invited to the wedding. Although Britain did revoke it’s invitation to Syria yesterday due to violent attacks on protesters.