The Flint Hills Discovery Center Horizon Ranch Immersive Experience Theater will be getting some improvements thanks to Marty Vanier. The Manhattan City Commission unanimously approved the purchase of 4 new projectors using funds donated by Marty Vanier and her late husband, Bob Krause. The projectors cost $417,950 and will replace older, obsolete models. Discovery Center Director Susan Adams said the upgrades will improve the quality of their movie showings “I think it has lost a little luster lately and I look forward to it as bright and beautiful as it did at the beginning,” Adams said. Discovery Center Foundation President Bruce Snead…
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Daniel Mainville, 34, of Manhattan was arrested while at the Riley County Police Department on December 4, 2018, at approximately 12:05 PM. Mainville was arrested on a Riley County District Court warrant for failure to appear. Mainville was issued no bond causing him to remain confined at the time of this report. Timothy Lesher, 53, of Gardner was arrested while at the Riley County Police Department on December 4, 2018, at approximately 11:30 AM. Lesher was arrested on a Riley County District Court warrant for failure to appear. Lesher was issued a total bond of $20,000.00 causing him to remain…
More U.S. beef is being recalled because it may be contaminated with salmonella. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says a unit of Brazil’s JBS is now recalling a total of more than 12 million pounds of raw beef that was shipped around the country. JBS Tolleson in Arizona already recalled about 7 million pounds of beef in October. Health officials say their investigation identified additional products with the USDA inspection number “EST. 267.” The products were packaged between late July and September. The USDA says any products still in people’s freezers should be thrown away. It says 246 illnesses have…
KANSAS CITY — Officials say a gunman pursued two shooting victims as they drove to a Kansas hospital, where he shot one of them at the entrance and then killed himself. The University of Kansas Hospital says in a statement that it started around 11:30 p.m. Monday when gunfire erupted about 2 .5 miles (about 4 kilometers) away. The statement says the shooting suspect followed a male victim as he drove to the hospital with a female victim. Upon arriving, the man ran to the hospital’s main entrance, which was secured. The hospital says the gunman then shot the man…
Officers filed a report for aggravated battery in the 1000 block of N 11th St. in Manhattan on December 3, 2018 at approximately 2:50 PM. Officers listed Jason Wagoner, 24, of Manhattan as the victim when it was reported a known male suspect intentionally collided with the victim’s vehicle.
The Riley County Police Department updated Riley County Commissioners on the activity for the month of November during Monday’s meeting. Sgt Daryl Ascher informed the commission what they have been doing to help stop package thieves during the holiday season. Ascher also says during this time of year they see a different trend in police activity with the K-State semester ending. As for last week’s blizzard, Ascher says 40 calls were taken related to weather, 30 of which were for motorist assist, nine for malfunctioning traffic devices in Manhattan and five for disabled vehicles and two calls for traffic hazards. Ascher…
WICHITA — A new sentencing date has been set for next month in the case of the three Kansas militia members convicted of plotting to bomb a mosque and an apartment complex housing Somali immigrants. A court filing Monday shows the hearing for Patrick Stein, Gavin Wright and Curtis Allen will be Jan. 25 before U.S. District Judge Eric Melgren in Wichita. A federal jury in April convicted the three men of conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction and conspiracy against civil rights. Wright was also found guilty of lying to the FBI. The attack in the meatpacking…
LAWRENCE — A 26-year-old Missouri woman accused of driving her car into the Kansas River has pleaded not guilty in her daughter’s drowning. Scharron Dingledine, of Columbia, Missouri, pleaded not guilty Monday to first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder. The Lawrence Journal-World reports Dingledine is accused of driving into the river near downtown Lawrence on Aug. 3 in an effort to kill her children and herself. Rescuers pulled Dingledine and her 1-year-old son, Elijah Lake, from the water soon but were not able to save her 5-year-old daughter, Amiyah Bradley. The child’s body was recovered from the river the next…
WICHITA — The last weekly government report for the 2018 growing season shows fall harvest for the major farm crops in Kansas is nearly finished. The National Agricultural Statistics Service reported Monday that the corn harvest is 96 percent in, while soybean harvest stands at 95 percent complete. About 89 percent of both sorghum and sunflower crops are cut. Winter wheat condition is rated as 16 percent poor to very poor. About 39 percent is listed as fair while 45 percent is in good to excellent condition. About 89 percent of the 2019 winter wheat crop has emerged.
KANSAS CITY — A Minnesota man was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for driving a load of 471 pounds of marijuana to Kansas. U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said 40-year-old Mark Anthony Berg, of Coon Rapids, Minnesota, was sentenced Monday for one count of possession with intent to distribute marijuana. He will serve three years of probation after serving his sentence. A Kansas Highway Patrol trooper stopped Berg’s van in December 2017 on Interstate 70 in Ellsworth, Kansas. Berg told the trooper he had been in Las Vegas and drove through Denver on his way back to Minnesota. After…