Local emergency-services departments are set to face off in the 17th annual Battle of the Badges blood drive. The friendly competition will take place at St. Thomas More Catholic Church, which is located at 2900 Kimball Ave., on July 20 from 11:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. and July 21 from 7:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.. In a addition to giving blood, donors will have a chance to vote for either the Riley County Police Department, Riley County Emergency Medical Services or the Manhattan Fire Department. “We all wear a lot of different hats,” Gregg Van De Creek, a captain in…
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USD 383 Manhattan/Ogden Schools Assistant Superintendent Eric Reid and school board member Jurdene Coleman previewed Wednesday’s school board meeting and reopening draft plan for the schools. Manhattan Christian College President Kevin Ingram also joined us to discuss the schools plans for the fall.
The following summary of calls for service/reports filed by the Riley County Police Department is a portion of those received by police. Some names, addresses, and case details are withheld to follow local, state, and federal law as well as in an attempt to protect community members from being victimized further. Those arrested are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. MANHATTAN, KAN. – Officers filed a report for aggravated transmit visual of child 12-18 years with intent to harass; offender less than 19 and computer unlawful acts in Manhattan on July 13, 2020, at approximately 4:43 PM.…
Riley County Commissioner Ron Wells and Riley County Clerk Rich Vargo joined us for the hour to discuss mail balloting, advance voting and the upcoming primary as well as CARES Act funding distribution.
The Riley County Commission Monday gave consensus to put a mask recommendation into the county’s next local health order. Commissioners debated the language of the mask recommendation. With Manhattan’s mask ordinance, the commission didn’t want to mandate masks for residents living outside the city, nor have language that closely resembled that. Commissioner John Ford stated the order needed to include the recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and suggested the phrase “strongly encouraged” for masks. “Given the dynamics of everything and where we’re going to be the next couple months or so, I thought back and forth on whether…
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — The latest government report shows the winter wheat harvest in Kansas is nearing completion well ahead of last year or the average for this time of year. The Agriculture Department’s National Agricultural Statistics Service reported Monday that 95% of the state’s wheat crop has now been cut. The state’s other major field crops are also making progress this summer. The agency says that 47% of the corn in Kansas is silking. About 6% of the soybeans are now setting pods. And 9% of the sorghum has headed in the state.
Health officials plan to release a new local health order Friday to go into effect on Monday, July 20. During a Facebook live update, Riley County Health Department Director Julie Gibbs reported 18 new positive COVID-19 tests and 9 recoveries since Friday, July 10. That brings the county to 150 active cases, 202 reported recoveries and 3 deaths out of 355 total confirmed cases. No positive patients are accounted for in Manhattan’s Ascension Via Christi Hospital, though 2 persons with symptoms are at the facility awaiting test results. Overall, nearly 60 percent of all confirmed positive individuals in the county…
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — A former Boy Scout leader was charged with rape and child abuse for crimes dating back years. The Kansas City Star reported 45-year-old Andrew Rowland of Overland Park faces charges of rape, aggravated indecent liberties with a child involving sex, and two counts of child abuse. The allegations in a July 4 criminal complaint date from 2010 to 2018. Rowland was the scoutmaster for Boy Scouts of America Troop 284 in Overland Park.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Prosecutors say they have charged the father of a 3-year-old Kansas girl who was found dead and his girlfriend with felony murder in the child’s death. Wyandotte County District Attorney Mark Dupree said Sunday 29-year-old Howard Jansen III and his girlfriend, 33-year-old Jacqulyn Kirkpatrick, were also charged with aggravated endangerment of a child and criminal desecration in the death of Olivia Ann Jansen. Olivia’s body was found around 5:45 p.m. Friday nearly nine blocks from her Kansas City home, from which her father had reported her missing.
Kansas State University has signed a new pre-clinical research and option agreement to develop a vaccine candidate for COVID-19 prevention. The university announced Monday its reached an agreement with Tonix Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage bio-pharmaceutical company. Directing the research is Waithaka Mwangi, professor of diagnostic pathobiology in the K-State College of Veterinary Medicine. It’s based on a new vaccine platform that his research team developed for bovine parainfluenza 3 virus, also known as BPI3V, closely related to human parainfluenza 3 virus. Mwangi says in a release from the college “a weakened BPI3V has previously been shown to be an effective vaccine…