AMAZONIA- A semi driver was injured in an accident just before 10 p.m. on Tuesday in Andrew County.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported a 2006 Freightliner semi driven by Wade L. Hartley, 44, Albert City, IA., was northbound on Interstate 29 at Lincoln Township. The truck traveled off the north side of the road and struck a ditch.
Hartley was transported to Mosaic Life Care.
The MSHP reported he was properly restrained at the time of the accident.
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Claire McCaskill and Kirsten Gillibrand today praised the more than $30 million in new resources included in the President’s budget, to help fund an additional 200 full-time staff at the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, which investigates and enforces sexual assault laws at colleges and universities.
“As we work to pass our bipartisan legislation, these additional resources are a terrific step in ensuring that as more survivors come out of the shadows to report these crimes, schools and law enforcement have the tools they need to help empower students and bring perpetrators to justice,” said McCaskill, a former courtroom prosecutor of sex crimes.
“There’s a lot of work Congress must do to address and prevent campus sexual assault, and that includes enforcing the laws we already have on the books – which is exactly what this funding would help do,” said Senator Gillibrand. “This budget request would finally provide the resources needed to properly investigate sexual assault complaints and put more cops on the beat to raise accountability on college and university campuses for accurately reporting statistics to the federal government.”
The Senators in November wrote to President Obama requesting these additional resources to help combat campus sexual assault be included in his FY2016 budget request. Each year, the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights handles more than 10,000 complaints against schools over violations of Title IX, but has just half the staff it did in 1980, when it received a third of the amount of complaints as today.
The Senators also recently joined ten of their colleagues in a letter to the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, & Education, calling for new federal funding to investigate and enforce sexual assault laws at colleges and universities.
Last year, McCaskill, Gillibrand, and a bipartisan group of Senators introduced the Campus Accountability and Safety Act, to take aim at sexual assaults on college and university campuses by protecting and empowering students, and strengthening accountability and transparency for institutions—including establishing stiff penalties for non-compliance with the legislation’s new standards for training, data and best practices.
NEW YORK (AP) — Women’s clothing retailer Cache says it is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after running out of time and money to complete a turnaround.
The New York company Cache Inc. sells dresses, sportswear and accessories and runs 218 stores. They have two stores in Kansas City area and two in Missouri.
Cache Inc. says it will continue operating its business, and it has secured a commitment for up to $22 million in financing from Salus Capital Partners. The company plans to continue closing stores and selling or renegotiating some of its leases.
It also will seek a so-called stalking horse buyer for its assets. That involves a potential buyer making an initial offer to set the floor for an auction that invites competitive bids.
Its shares closed at 5 cents on Tuesday. The stock will be removed from the Nasdaq exchange.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Topeka man will be sentenced May 11 after being found guilty of killing his mother at a home they shared in 2011.
A Shawnee County jury on Tuesday found 40-year-old Jason Hachmeister guilty of the premeditated murder in the death of Sheila Hachmeister. Prosecutors say the victim was stabbed several times and strangled.
Testimony during the trial indicated that Jason Hachmeister would receive a $125,000 life insurance payout because of his 58-year-old mother’s death.
The defense had contended a man Sheila Hachmeister met on an online dating service killed her.
Prosecutors say they will seek a “Hard 50” sentence for Hachmeister.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Officials say Ford Motor Co. will create an additional 900 jobs in Missouri to build the next-generation F-150 pickup.
Gov. Jay Nixon says Ford’s decision to add jobs at the Kansas City Assembly Plant shows the growth of the state’s automotive manufacturing industry.
He will visit on Wednesday afternoon the Magna Seating of America, an Excelsior Springs supplier of seating components to the company’s Missouri plant. The governor’s office says Nixon will discuss the continued expansion of the state’s auto sector in Kansas City and across Missouri.
The Michigan-based company will have more than 7,000 workers in Kansas City with the new positions.
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — At least 19 people are dead and 24 are missing after a Taiwanese flight crashed shortly after takeoff from Taiwan’s capital, Taipei, with 58 people aboard.
Video shows the TransAsia Airways plane turning on its side in midair, clipping an elevated roadway and careening into a shallow river.
Rescue crews in rubber rafts are clearing the mostly sunken fuselage in the Keelung River a couple dozen yards from the shore. The death toll is expected to rise.
A broadcast report says the plane’s wing also hit a taxi, injuring the driver.
It’s the airline’s second French-Italian-built ATR 72 prop-jet to crash in the past year. Another ATR 72 operated by the same airline crashed last July 23, killing 48 at the end of a typhoon. That crash is also under investigation.
CHRISTINE ARMARIO, Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The gap in bachelor-degree attainment between the nation’s richest and poorest students by age 24 has doubled during the last four decades.
A study released Tuesday by two education organizations finds that the percent of students from the lowest-income families earning a bachelor’s degree has inched up just 3 points since 1970, rising from 6 to 9 percent by 2013.
Meanwhile, college completion for students from the wealthiest families has risen dramatically, climbing from 44 to 77 percent.
The report comes amid renewed debate on college affordability spurred by President Barack Obama’s proposal to make two years of college free. If adopted in every state, the proposal would benefit a projected 9 million students each year. It would cost taxpayers an estimated $60 billion over 10 years.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A record of more than 18.5 million guests visited Missouri state parks in 2014.
Gov. Jay Nixon on Tuesday announced the attendance during a visit Bennett Spring State Park in south central Missouri.
The governor says park attendance has helped the state economy by supporting more than 14,500 jobs.
Camping occupancy at the state’s 40 parks and historic sites with campsites also increased about 5 percent last year, in part because of a bump in youth camping. About a quarter of campers in 2014 were under 18 years old.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Senate is expected to confirm appointees for several state posts, including the three members of the Kansas Board of Regents.
Republican Majority Leader Terry Bruce says the confirmation votes will be taken Wednesday.
Goodland lawyer Joseph Bain and former Democratic State Rep. Bill Feuerborn of Garnett were appointed to the Board of Regents by Republican Gov. Sam Brownback in August, along with Zoe Forrester Newton who currently serves as the city attorney for Sedan.
Kari Bruffett also is up for confirmation as secretary of Aging and Disability Services.
Bruffett has been serving as interim secretary since May, replacing Shawn Sullivan, who is now serving as the state budget director.
KANSAS CITY (AP) – A Missouri man has been found guilty in the bludgeoning death of a retired Kansas art teacher who was known nationally for breeding, raising and showing Afghan hound dogs.
The Wyandotte County, Kansas, district attorney’s office said Darrell Broxton of Kansas City, Missouri, was found guilty early Tuesday evening of intentional second-degree murder, burglary and two counts of theft.
Broxton was convicted after a seven-day trial of killing 69-year-old Peter Belmont of Kansas City, Kansas, who was found bludgeoned to death in his bed on Dec. 16, 2012.
An autopsy estimated that he had been dead for several days before he was found.
The district attorney’s office says it presented evidence that Broxton was investigated for a similar 1996 homicide in Florida.
A sentencing date has not been scheduled.
