MANHATTAN — Officials with the Manhattan Area Chamber of Commerce continue to look at new ways to market the community to others traveling through Kansas. Lyle Butler, President and CEO of the Manhattan Area Chamber of Commerce, was on In Focus recently and provided an update on Marketing Manhattan and some of the recent contract renewals approved by the Manhattan City Commission recently. According to Butler this is a great form of economic development for the area. The other contract is with their military relations effort. Those contracts were approved at the Dec. 18 meeting. Butler also previewed some events…
Author: KMAN Staff
Friday’s In Focus guests were Riley County Police Department Captain Josh Kyle speaking on holiday safety and the department’s transition period from Director Brad Schoen to Director Dennis Butler. We also spoke in the second half of the program with Pottawatomie County Commission Chair Dee McKee on their year-end meeting held Thursday and ongoing capital improvement needs in the county.
Thursday’s guests included Matt Bellis, Communications Officer with Liberty HealthShare and Pawnee Mental Health Executive Director Robbin Cole.
KANSAS CITY — A group in Kansas City, Kansas, is getting community members involved in the planning for a mobile food truck designed to bring healthy and affordable food to neighborhoods lacking good grocery stores. The Dotte Mobile Grocer’s Mobile Market Community Council figures getting locals involved in the details means everything to the success of its grocery-store-in-a-food-truck idea. Kansas News Service reports that across the state, the closing of grocery stores has hollowed out communities and left residents stuck with impractical options for getting the fresh produce, meat and other staples they need to eat well. Often residents get…
Update 11:15 a.m. Officials have shut down a stretch of Interstate 70 in western Kansas as a winter storm batters the area. The Kansas Department of Transportation says it closed the major east-west route Thursday from Goodland to Wakeeney because of poor visibility and wrecks. Several other highways are either closed or snow covered in the western part of the state. The National Weather Service has issued a combination of blizzard warnings, winter storm warnings and winter weather advisories in about three dozen counties. Forecasts are calling for ice and up to 2 to 12 inches (about 5 to 30…
OVERLAND PARK — A suburban Kansas City shopping mall filled with after-Christmas bargain hunters had to shut as police investigated a report of gunfire in the parking lot. The Kansas City Star reports that shoppers poured out of Oak Park Mall on Wednesday night upon hearing the shots, but some were forced to stay inside as police put stores on lockdown. Police in Overland Park, Kansas, found several shell casings outside but no blood. Police say an unoccupied vehicle in the parking lot was struck by gunfire. Police are seeking a suspect and any possible victims. The gunfire comes two…
Diedre Hogan, 29, of Manhattan was arrested while in the 100 block of N 4th St in Manhattan on December 26, 2018, at approximately 3:25 PM. Hogan was arrested on two Manhattan Municipal Court warrants for failure to appear and an offense of unlawful possession of stimulants. Hogan was issued a total bond of $7,250.00 causing her to remain confined at the time of this report.
KANSAS CITY — The families of two Kansas sheriff’s deputies who were overpowered by an inmate and killed have hired legal counsel to help prosecutors. The Kansas City Star reports that husband-and-wife law partners, Tom and Tricia Bath, were retained to assist the Wyandotte County District Attorney’s Office in the prosecution of 30-year-old Antoine Fielder. He is charged with capital murder in the deaths of Theresa King and Patrick Rohrer last June. In Kansas, the intentional, premeditated killing of a single law enforcement officer is eligible for the death penalty. Attorneys for Fielder have indicated they will oppose the Baths’…
Wednesday’s In Focus guests were 66th District Representative Sydney Carlin (D-Manhattan) and 67th District Representative Tom Phillips (R-Manhattan) with a 2019 Legislative preview. Both discussed some of the top priorities, bills they plan to introduce and committees they will be serving on.
TOPEKA — Allegations of violence between staff members and sexual relationships between workers and underage inmates at Kansas’ only juvenile corrections facility were uncovered during a state audit prompted by allegations that a former superintendent of the center assaulted an employee. Auditors sought to contact 229 former and current employees of the Kansas Juvenile Correctional Complex in Topeka but only 48 responded. Of those, seven people reported being attacked or assaulted by other staff. Auditors also received three reports of sexual relationships between staff and youth at the facility, according to Kansas News Service . Other comments alleged staff removed…