Today’s guests were Manhattan Mayor Linda Morse and City Manager Ron Fehr.
Author: KMAN Staff
HUTCHINSON — The director of elections in Kansas says every piece of voting equipment used in the state has been certified at the state and federal level. His comments Friday come a day after The Hutchinson News reported Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s office failed to produce records showing it had certified voting equipment used by hundreds of thousands of Kansans. The newspaper reported it received just two letters of certification in response to an open records request. State Director of Elections Bryan Caskey says that is “just a paperwork situation.” Caskey says he is now in the middle…
LAWRENCE — A court document contends a former Douglas County sheriff’s deputy admitted he had sex with a female inmate in his office at the jail and in his personal car on the streets of Lawrence. The Lawrence Journal-World reported Tuesday it obtained the affidavit detectives prepared in support of the arrest of 47-year-old Mario J. Godinez of Lawrence. Gondinez was charged in August with engaging in consensual sexual activity with the inmate. The deputy told detectives the woman aggressively seduced him before he touched her and that afterward he felt ashamed of himself. The deputy was in charge of…
Officers filed a report for theft in the 3200 block of Kimball Ave. in Manhattan on October 15, 2018 at approximately 9:05 PM. Officers listed Dustin Downie, 46, of Manhattan as the victim when he reported an unknown suspect took his 2004 GMC Canyon Truck. The estimated total loss associated with this case is approximately $5,812.00. Police ask that anyone with information contact RCPD or the Manhattan Riley County Crime Stoppers. Using the Crime Stoppers service can allow you to remain anonymous and could qualify you for a cash reward of up to $1,000.00. Officers filed a report for rape in…
Health officials say Kansas has recorded its first flu deaths of the season. The Wichita Eagle reports that the Kansas Department of Health and Environment says two deaths in the state have already been directly attributed to influenza as of Monday. Pneumonia has been the direct cause of death in another 38 deaths, and the flu or pneumonia has been contributing factors in an additional 132 deaths. In last week’s KDHE flu report for Kansas, there were 101 outpatient visits for influenza-like illnesses. The newborn to 4 years old age group had 29 reported cases for the first week of…
Kansas State Police Department will be offering training on how to respond to active violence and critical incidents to both students and faculty at K-State near the end of the month. The training will be focused on an active shooter response training program called ALiCE — which stands for alert, lock-down, inform, counter, evacuate. Past active shooter situations have been evaluated by agencies to study how law enforcement and potential victims can minimize the risk during such events. The program will explore possible victim responses outside of and in addition to lock-downs in such scenarios. The training will be offered…
The selection process for the Riley County Police Department director will restart after the candidate chosen to be the next director unexpectedly withdrew his candidacy last week. The Riley County Law Enforcement Agency, or Law Board, discussed their next steps at their meeting in Randolph Monday. Board members agreed to re-list the job opening, take applications and re-do the process while maintaining the services of McGrath Consulting Group to help with candidate evaluation. “The consultant is obligated to, under contract at no further charge, assist us in the process,” said Board Chair Craig Beardsley. “The only thing we would have…
HUTCHINSON — The Kansas State Fair’s new director hopes to overcome challenges in order to grow the annual end-of-summer event in Hutchinson. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Robin Jennison recently took over the fair after leading the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism. Jennison says the challenge to growing the state fair will be to understand its roots in agriculture and to capitalize on agriculture as a large component of the event. About 300,000 people attend the Kansas State Fair each year. Jennison says another challenge will be to repair Bison Arena, which has at least $5 million in…
OLATHE — A Minnesota man has been charged with raping a 12-year-old Kansas girl who was the focus of an Amber Alert. The Kansas City Star reports that 23-year-old Dechon Michael White, of South St. Paul, Minnesota, was booked Friday into the Johnson County, Kansas, jail, where his bond is set at $250,000. Federal prosecutors initially charged White with kidnapping after he allegedly took a bus to Minnesota with the girl in July. She had been reported missing two days earlier in Lenexa, Kansas. The kidnapping case was dropped this summer before Kansas prosecutors filed two rape charges. White met…
WICHITA — Records show that a Wichita woman had fled with her six children and summoned police three weeks before her estranged husband ran her off the road, shot and killed her. The Wichita Eagle reports that Wichita police and court records show 33-year-old Kristin Florio-Gile had taken at least three steps to protect herself and her children from Randy Gile. Florio-Gile was killed on Oct. 6 before Gile shot himself. Her family says the system failed Florio-Gile. Records show Wichita police arrested Gile for felony aggravated assault after he threatened Florio-Gile on Sept. 15. He bonded out of jail…