Month: June 2014

Two Wyandotte County students inducted into Phi Beta Kappa

Two Wyandotte County students were inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa honor society at Kansas State University, Manhattan, recently.

They are Khiana Harris, junior in psychology and anthropology, Kansas City; Kan.; and Xavier Capalla, junior in biology and Spanish, Bonner Springs.

To be eligible for membership to the honor society, a student must be a junior or senior with a grade point average of at least 3.7; students with GPAs of 3.6 to 3.7 may be considered if the level and depth of their course work indicates an unusually distinguished record. In addition, students also must be candidates for a bachelor’s degree in the university’s College of Arts and Sciences or have at least 90 hours or three-fourths of their total course work from departments in the college. Students also must have taken a required number and level of courses in a foreign language, mathematics, humanities, social sciences and natural sciences.

Vandals strike again on highway signs in KCK

A highway sign off I-35 between Southwest Boulevard and 7th Street Trafficway in Kansas City, Kan., has been tagged with graffiti, and is expected to cost $1,000 to $1,500 to repair, according to state highway officials. (KDOT photo)

The overhead sign structure located off I-35 between Southwest Boulevard and 7th Street Trafficway in Kansas City, Kan., has been tagged, according to state highway officials.

Within the next month, as weather permits and schedules allow, Kansas Department of Transportation maintenance crews will complete repair work on this pair of signs by covering the graffiti with green sign sheeting, a spokesman said.

There will be at least two lanes closed on I-35 during the day while repair work is completed. At the time of the repair, the catwalks and ladders will be removed from the overhead sign structure, the spokesman said. Estimated cost for repair to these two signs: $1,000-$1,500.

Last August, two highway signs were tagged with graffiti on I-35 near Southwest Boulevard. The state repaired the signs at a cost of $6,500 in November of last year. When they repaired the signs, crews removed ladders to them.

A KDOT spokesman said that in the Wyandotte County area, KDOT crews previously have removed catwalks and ladders on a portion of eastbound I-70 and the ladders along a portion of westbound I-70 to help deter further graffiti incidents.

Last year two signs on I-35 were tagged. It cost about $6,500 to repair them. (File photo from KDOT)

Driver injured after car overturns on K-32

A 38-year-old woman was injured when her Chrysler left K-32 just east of 88th Street at 8:25 p.m. June 24.

According to a Kansas Highway Patrol trooper’s report, the woman from Independence, Mo., was eastbound on K-32 when her vehicle left the road, struck a tree and overturned in the ravine.

It was not known why her vehicle left the road, according to the report.

The woman was taken to a hospital.