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- Latest Gulf oil rig problem differs from BP spill
Stark differences exist between the oil platform fire in the Gulf of Mexico and the blast that led to the massive BP spill. Mostly notably, no one was killed and no crude was gushing into the water, but the distinctions don't end there.Even though the Mariner Energy-owned platform that erupted in flames Thursday was just 200 miles west of the site of the spill, everything from the structures to the operations to the safety devices were different.Yet, when word spread of the latest mishap, Gulf Coast residents could only think of the three-month BP spill that began after the drilling rig Deepwater Horizon exploded on April 20, killing 11 workers.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
- Police: Pregnant woman, 20, stabs boyfriend's wife with screwdriver at Sonic
WICHITA — A 42-year-old man and his pregnant, 20-year-old girlfriend were relaxing at a Sonic drive-through early this morning when they had an unexpected visitor.His wife.She confronted the couple about their relationship shortly before 1 a.m. at the Sonic at 2935 E. 21st St., police said. The girlfriend responded by pulling out a screwdriver and stabbing the 45-year-old wife eight times in the head, police said.Read more
- Newman golfer needs heart transplant
Jeremy Gant is in for the fight of his life. Thursday, doctors at the Kansas Heart Hospital told the sophomore golfer at Newman University that in order to live, he would need a heart transplant to fix a previously undetected birth defect.Gant, 19, and his family were still in Wichita on Thursday afternoon when they heard the news but were getting ready to head to St. Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City, Mo., where Gant will be put on a transplant list and undergo two or three days of testing and, hopefully, get a new heart. Read more
- Former Rep. Glickman endorses Goyle in 4th District Congress race
- Arizona governor stumbles during debate
It will go down as one of the most painful openings to a political debate in recent memory.Gov. Jan Brewer stumbled and stammered through her opening statement during a televised debate Wednesday night, suffering through an embarrassing, cringe-eliciting pause that lasted more than 10 seconds.With her hands clasped in front of her, she looked at the camera, then down, possibly at notes, and back up at the camera. She smiled, let out a loud exhale, then resumed her statement with a pronouncement of her record as governor.Read more
- Traffic tie up at 13th and Tyler
Drivers headed to Northwest High School for tonightÂ’s game might want to allow extra time, due to a traffic tie up at 13th and Tyler.Emergency dispatchers say a vehicle hit a light pole earlier today. Work on the light pole has tied up westbound traffic on 13th, east of Tyler, in front of the school for a couple of hours.Workers hope to have the work completed soon, dispatchers said.Read more
- DA: Prosecutor did not make up evidence; prison report found
WICHITA _ A Sedgwick County prosecutor did not make up evidence against an accused sexual predator, as the Kansas Court of Appeals said last week, the District Attorney's Office said today.A document that the court said did not exist was actually in a stack of evidence with the case file at the Court of Appeals in Topeka.District Attorney Nola Foulston said that after the court claimed on Friday that prosecutor Marc Bennett falsified the document, she had her office sift through 3,600 pages of evidence that had been sent to the Court of Appeals.Read more
- Reason Foundation ranks Kansas roads third in the nation
Kansas has some of the best roads in the country according to a study released Thursday by the Reason Foundation.The Libertarian think tank’s study looked at 11 parameters including costs per mile, congestion, pavement condition, deficient bridges and fatalities.Nationwide, only North Dakota and Montana ranked higher than Kansas overall.Read more
- Three people robbed at gunpoint in south Wichita
WICHITA — Three people reported being robbed by two strangers at gunpoint early this morning, police said.The robbery occurred shortly after 12:30 a.m. in the 800 block of South Mission, police said. The driver of the Pontiac Bonneville, a 45-year-old woman, said the two men approached her car as it was stopped in the street.One of the suspects shattered the driver's side front window. The victims, two women and one man, were then robbed. Read more
