CLYDE — A fifth-generation farmer who nearly upset incumbent 1st District Congressman Tim Huelskamp in the Republican primary two years ago is running as an independent against the Republican who dethroned Huelskamp in August. Alan LaPolice of Clyde announced Tuesday that he has officially been placed on the Nov. 8 ballot for the 1st District race. He will face Republican physician Roger Marshall, who beat the tea party-backed incumbent in the GOP primary, and Libertarian Kerry Burt. LaPolice says as an independent candidate he doesn’t have the baggage attached to candidates for the two major parties and is the only one in…
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A 35-year-old man was arrested yesterday in the 2500 block of Farm Bureau Road. Orenthal Johnson of Manhattan was arrested at approximately 9:30 PM on a warrant for probation violation originating in Dickinson County. This warrant had a bond of $20,000.00.
Updated Friday morning: TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – A federal judge has set a new sentencing date for a Kansas man who has admitted aiding a wannabe Islamic State jihadist’s plan to detonate what they thought was a bomb at a Kansas military post. U.S. District Judge Daniel Crabtree on Thursday continued the sentencing hearing for Alexander Blair to Sept. 8. The 29-year-old Topeka man has admitted his role in a foiled plan to kill or maim as many U.S. service members as possible at the Fort Riley in Kansas. He blames a genetic disorder for allowing others to take advantage…
While a vast majority of the 2,000-plus confirmed cases of Zika in the U.S. are travel-related, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) was in Manhattan Tuesday to learn more about the growing concern of the mosquito-carried virus. Moran met with Dr. Stephen Higgs, the research director of the Biosecurity Research Institute on the campus of Kansas State University in Pat Roberts Hall. “Part of my visit here is to check in on what’s happening at the BRI,” Moran said. “But of course, specifically and in a sense of timeliness, the conversation in Washington, D.C., is…
Today’s guests on In Focus were: Pottawatomie County Commission Chair Dee McKee and Public Works Director Peter Clark Speedy PD and Parkinson’s program leader Michelle Haub and Virginia Bennett, Parkinson’s Program participant Manhattan Director of Community Development Karen Davis on city’s housing rehabilitation program
Officers with the Riley County Police Department arrested Gina Jones, 22, of Manhattan while in the 2400 block of Buttonwood Street on August 22, 2016 at approximately 9:00 PM. Jones was arrested on the offense of probation violation which was listed on a warrant with a bond of $10,000.00. The original offense on this warrant was listed as possession of methamphetamine. At the time of this report Jones was confined at the Riley County Jail. The Seth Child/Fort Riley Boulevard overpass was closed at approximately 4 a.m. Monday, with some traffic detours following an incident involving a 23-year old woman…
Updated 5:07 p.m.: Tuesday’s early morning blaze that called firefighters to the Dairy Queen on 3116 Anderson in Manhattan caused $400,000 in damages. A news release from the Manhattan Fire Department said the Dairy Queen suffered $200,000 in structure damage and another $200,000 in equipment and food losses. Updated 11 a.m.: News release provided by Manhattan Fire Department–At 7:25 a.m. Tuesday, the Manhattan Fire Department was dispatched to the Dairy Queen located at 3116 Anderson for a report of smoke in the building. Upon arrival, crews found a one-story restaurant building with moderate smoke and a fire located in…
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) The trial is getting underway for a Hutchinson teenager charged as an adult with setting a fire that killed his mother and sister. The Hutchinson News reports that attorneys will begin picking the jurors Monday who will hear the case against 17-year-old Samuel Vonachen. He was 14 in September 2013 when he is accused of using gasoline to ignite his family’s Hutchinson home, killing 11-year-old sister Audrey Vonachen and their mother, 47-year-old Karla Jo Vonachen. His father escaped. Filings in the case show that his defense will be that he suffers from a “mental disease or defect”…
ROSE HILL, Kan. (AP) A Kansas mother who was caught in flash flooding says she is “blessed” after she and her 3-year-old son were rescued from a tree limb. The Wichita Eagle reports that 32-year-old Cassandra Phillips of Burlington pulled her toddler, Ethan, from his car seat Friday night after floodwaters rose in a rural area south of Rose Hill. She spent the next hour clinging to the tree limb with one leg while holding her son in the crook of an arm and talking to emergency dispatchers on her cellphone. The National Guard soldier and mother of three says…
A Junction City woman went missing over the weekend. The Junction City Police Department is asking the public in finding Kathy Marie Jackson (59) who disappeared on Friday on her return home. According to JCPD, Jackson is disabled and family members are concerned about her well being. If you have any information regarding the whereabouts of Kathy Jackson, contact the Junction City Police Department at 785-762- 5912 or call the Junction City / Geary County Crime Stopper TIP line at 785-762- TIPS (8477).