Riley County Police Officers filed a report for aggravated arson and domestic battery in the southwest part of Manhattan yesterday when a 39 year old male reported that a 36 year old female known to him set his bed on fire and struck him with a cell phone. Due to the nature of the allegations made, no additional information was released. Catrina Profit, 23, of Wichita, was arrested while at the Riley County Police Department yesterday evening. Profit was arrested on a Manhattan Municipal Court warrant for failure to appear. Profit’s bond was set at $6,000.00, causing her to remain confined…
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One of the Riley County Police Department’s K9s Kato officially retired Thursday. Festivities included the presentation of a dog bone to the retiring K9 and recognition with plaques presented to Kato and his handler Officer Jared Hayes.
Kansas State University President Richard Myers announced late Thursday afternoon the formation of an eight-member search committee comprised of faculty, students, alumni and athletics representatives that will assist him in selecting the university’s next director of athletics. Myers appointed K-State Alumni Association President and CEO Amy Button Renz to chair the committee. Former athletic director John Currie told K-State Tuesday he will be leaving for the same job at the University of Tennessee. His first day there will be on April 1. The committee will begin work immediately on a national search and offer its recommendations to Myers later this spring.…
UPDATED: Thursday, 5:16 p.m. Fire investigators have ruled a massive blaze that engulfed The Dusty Bookshelf during the early morning hours Thursday in Manhattan’s Aggieville business district accidental. Self-heating of floor finishing materials was blamed for the fire in an investigation conducted by the Manhattan Fire Department, Riley County Police Department, Kansas Office of the State Fire Marshal and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Investigators said the total loss for the building, including surrounding structures, is estimated to be $822,000. The Dusty Bookshelf building accounts for $550,000 of that total, along with $123,000 for the contents. The damage estimate for…
The Kansas Supreme Court has ordered the state to increase its spending on public schools, but it didn’t say by how much. The court ruled Thursday that legislators must enact a new education funding law by the end of June. The decision comes with the state already facing projected budget shortfalls totaling more than $1 billion through June 2019. Lawmakers are considering rolling back steep income tax cuts championed by Republican Gov. Sam Brownback. The justices ruled in a lawsuit filed by four school districts in 2010. They argued that legislators were violating the state constitution by failing to finance…
A piece of Aggieville history went up in smoke during Thursday morning’s blaze. The Dusty Bookshelf had served Manhattan residents with affordable books for 25 years, but the history of the building dates back as far as 1908 when the building first became a staple in Manhattan’s premiere bar district. In 1899, a group of students at Kansas State Agricultural College founded the Students Cooperative Association, said Linda Glasgow, an archivist at Riley County Historical Museum. By 1908, the students settled into the iconic building on the corner of Moro street and North Manhattan avenue. “They were looking for a way…
On Thursday’s edition of In Focus, Marty Vanier, Director of Partnership Development with Homeland Security and NBAF, stopped by the KMAN studio to deliver an update on some recent happenings at the biosecurity lab construction site. Vanier said there is meticulous planning going on which will flesh out the inner workings of the building. With recent mumps outbreaks throughout Manhattan and across Kansas, Cathy was joined by Riley county health director Jennifer Green alongside Jim Parker and Dr. Jean DeDonder from Lafene Health Center. Dave Colburn spoke about plans for the upcoming Bike Month in Manhattan.
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Wesley Iwundu scored 16 points and had 10 rebounds in his record 119th career start for Kansas State, and the Wildcats held on to beat TCU 75-74 on Wednesday night in a matchup of teams considered to be on the NCAA Tournament bubble. Dean Wade had 20 points for the Wildcats (18-12, 7-10), who had lost eight of their previous 10 games. The tournament chances for TCU (17-13, 6-11) under first-year coach Jamie Dixon took a significant hit. The Frogs lost their sixth consecutive game, even after cutting an 11-point halftime deficit to one. Vlad…
Take a moment and visualize the chaos of hundreds more grade school children roaming the hallways of USD 383’s buildings. That vision is expected to be a reality in five years’ time. Manhattan-Ogden officials and administrators heard the results of a long range facilities study at a work session before Wednesday night’s board meeting. RSP and Associates of Kansas City, Mo., was selected as an architectural partner last fall as the result of an extensive selection process. CEO Robert Schwarz was at the Robinson Education Center last night where he detailed his findings in a four part presentation. While the status…
TOPEKA — Kansas is reporting that it collected $37 million more in taxes than anticipated in February. The Department of Revenue’s report Wednesday is good news for legislators and Republican Gov. Sam Brownback as they deal with the state’s budget problems. It lessens pressure for immediate spending cuts. The department said the state took in nearly $332 million in taxes when the state had projected collections of $295 million. The monthly surplus is 12.5 percent. It was the fourth consecutive month tax collections exceeded expectations. But revenues are being compared against a revised and more pessimistic fiscal forecast issued in November.…