Monday’s guest was Dr. Timothy Shaffer, assistant professor of communication studies at Kansas State University and assistant director of the K-State Institute for Civil Discourse and Democracy.
Author: KMAN Staff
Manhattan High School Principal Greg Hoyt has announced he will retire effective June 1st, 2019. He has been principal since 2014. Hoyt first started with Manhattan High School since 1988, where he began his career as a math teacher. “I will cherish the time that I have spent in USD 383, including the thirteen years as a student and the past 30 as an employee,” states Hoyt. “I be learned from the best, I’ve learned with the best, and I’ve been mentored and supported by the very best.” He previously served as principal at Eisenhower Middle School from 2004 to…
ELLINWOOD — Authorities in central Kansas say a 63-year-old man has been arrested after 40 animals were seized from his property. Barton County Sheriff Brian Bellendir said his office assisted the Golden Belt Humane Society and the county health department Thursday at a home north of Ellinwood. Officials removed 20 cats, four dogs and two chickens from inside the home. Another 10 cats, two dogs, a horse and a donkey were found outside the home. A decaying horse carcass that had been there for months was found in a barn. All the animals were taken to the Golden Belt Humane…
Update: 2:00 p.m. The Geary County Sheriff’s Office released more information on a shooting that occurred at approximately 11 a.m. Friday morning on the 700 Block of West 14th Street in Junction City. In a release, officials said officers made contact with a silver 2006 Chevrolet Malibu with multiple occupants when one occupant exited the vehicle holding a handgun. He fled and was pursued by Geary County Sheriff’s Deputies. During the chase, the suspect’s gun fired and struck the suspect in the chest. No shots were fired by officers. The suspect was transported to an unnamed hospital with life-threatening injuries.…
MELVERN — Authorities say remains found last year near Melvern Lake in east-central Kansas were those of a 40-year-old Topeka woman. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation and the Osage County Sheriff’s Office announced Friday the victim was Anna Marie Baldwin, whose remains were found on Aug. 25, 2017. Her death is being investigated as a homicide. Authorities have not said how she died. A park ranger found the remains during a routine check on the north side of Melvern Lake in Osage County. The KBI said in a statement that investigators believe Baldwin was killed sometime between April and July…
LAWRENCE — A newly released police affidavit says two Lawrence toddlers were briefly left alone before one of them was fatally shot. One-year-old Autumn Grace Smith was killed in September 2017 at her family’s home in Lawrence. Her father, 32-year-old Chance Smith, is charged with involuntary manslaughter and two counts of aggravated endangerment of a child. The Lawrence Journal-World reports Autumn and a 2-year-old were at the home. According to the affidavit, Smith told police he left the toddlers watching TV for 5 to 10 minutes to let his dogs out and smoke a cigarette. When he returned, he found…
WELLINGTON — A Kansas mother has been charged in the death of a 7-month-old girl who died of multiple head injuries. The Wichita Eagle reports that 26-year-old Shelby Dawn Johnson, of Oxford, was booked into the Sumner County Jail on Thursday. She is being held on $250,000 bond on a first-degree murder charge in the death of her daughter, Jesslinn Hulett. The girl was taken to a hospital on April 1, Easter Sunday, and died four days later. Court documents say Johnson killed her infant daughter either by “cruelly beating” or “shaking” the baby. The documents say the girl needed…
TOPEKA — Authorities have found a possible bomb while serving a search warrant at the home of one of the three suspects in a double homicide in Topeka. Topeka police Lt. Andrew Beightel says the discovery was made Thursday as officers searched for evidence related to the killings of 28-year-old Lisa Sportsman and her cousin, 17-year-old Jesse Polinskey, in the small Washington County town of Greenleaf. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that details about the suspicious item weren’t made available Thursday afternoon. Police say the two victims were pronounced dead Monday at a residence in Topeka’s Hi-Crest neighborhood after paramedics arrived.…
A 1st Infantry Division soldier was found dead in Grandview Plaza Wednesday. The body of 19-year-old Pfc. Spencer Rose of Connersville, Indiana was discovered in his apartment. He was an aircraft structural repairer with the 1st Attack Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Aviation Regiment, 1st Combat Aviation Brigade, 1st Infantry Division. Officials say Rose’s death is still under investigation. “We are deeply saddened by the passing of Pfc. Spencer Rose,” said Lt. Col. Glenn McQuown,1st Attack Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Aviation Regiment, 1st Combat Aviation Brigade commander. “Our thoughts, prayers and support go out to his family and friends during this difficult time.” Rose had been…
Friday’s guests were Riley County Police Department Director Brad Schoen and Jackson County School Resource Officer John Calvert of Topeka.