A Clay Center man was sentenced Thursday to two years on supervised release for selling assets he had pledged as collateral on a federal loan. U.S. Attorney Tom Beall for the state of Kansas in Wichita adds Harold Mugler, 64, was ordered to pay $84,594 in restitution. Mugler pleaded guilty to one count of criminal conversion. In his plea, he admitted that in 2009 in received a $100,000 loan through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency. Over the following years, he sold off various pieces of farm machinery that he had pledged as collateral on the loan. He…
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A Wamego man will serve nearly five years in prison in connection with a Wamego kidnapping this past May. David Rojas was sentenced Thursday in Pottawatomie County District Court to 59 months for kidnapping, and 12 months for criminal discharge of a firearm. The sentences will be served concurrently and Rojas was remanded to serve his time. Rojas was arrested in Wamego after police received reports of gun fire. No one was injured. Also Thursday in Pottawatomie County Court, David Zarger was given a 12 month sentence to be served in the Pottawatomie County Detention facility. Zarger was arrested for…
Today’s guests on In Focus were Fort Riley’s 1st Infantry Division Band, Specialist Andrew Turner, Fort Riley Combined Federal Campaign Coordinator Clint Strutt, Flint HIlls Christian School Administrator Tim McDonald and Manhattan Catholic schools Principal Scott Hulshoff.
Riley County USD 378 school board members said goodbye to two of their own, with a Farewell reception for Kerry Thurlow and Ross Wahl, who have each been board members for four years. The board Monday night also accepted Erik Willimon’s resignation as the grades 7-12 athletic director at the end of the 2017-18 school year, hired Zach Stout as the middle school boys assistant basketball coach and directed Superintendent Cliff Williams to advertise for grades 7-8 and 9-12 athletic directors. Principal contracts for 2018-19 & 19-20 were approved for Teresa Grant and Harold Oliver. USD 378 board members approved…
Wednesday’s guests were Wamego Superintendent Tim Winter, Rock Creek Superintendent Kevin Logan and State Rep. Tom Phillips of Manhattan.
At Tuesday night’s work session, Manhattan city commissioners discussed the possibility of selling a city-owned parking lot in Aggieville on Bluemont between 12th and Manhattan Avenues. Deputy City Manager Jason Hilgers said the city administration has been negotiating to sell the 15,000-square foot lot to the Kansas City-based Johnson Company, who currently owns the site of the former Willie’s Car Wash, with plans to build a 7,500-square foot retail space there. Johnson is willing to pay $800,000 for the lot, and is proposing to use the two lots to build a 116-room hotel and a 122-space private parking garage. Proceeds…
The first G. Thomas Jewelers, Manhattan Running Company Jingle Bell Rock has been found. Brian and Rachel of Manhattan brought the Jingle Bell Rock to Manhattan Broadcasting Company late Tuesday afternoon and won cash and prizes provided by sponsors. Brian said he found it under railroad ties in Keats Park. “The first clue had to do with baseball,” Brain said. “So we just made a list of parks that had baseball fields and checked them off. “It was a little bit of disbelief,” he added. “I’d been there three days in a row. I don’t know how I missed it.” The…
The Riley County Police Department has released a composite sketch of a man possibly connected to one rape case and perhaps more. On July 27 the Riley County and Lawrence police departments held a joint press conference that announced a partnership in finding a man suspected of 14 different rapes in Manhattan and Lawrence since 2000. The RCPD re-released the image in a press release sent to KMAN Tuesday. RCPD Capt. Tim Hegarty, who leads investigations for the department, urged caution. “We simply don’t know if this person has any connection to the incident in question, and we’d rather not…
After some discussion as to whether to close a Riley County murder retrial motions hearing to the public and media, Judge Meryl Wilson allowed the Tuesday Luis Aguirre hearing to be open. Aguirre is facing a new trial after the Kansas Supreme Court reversed his earlier conviction more than two years ago in connection with the 2009 double-murder case involving a mother and son in Ogden-Tanya Maldonado, 18, and her son Juan,1. While Defense Attorney Chris Biggs expressed concern about the jury pool and pretrial publicity, Judge Wilson began his response by describing “free and open court” as a “cornerstone,”…
WICHITA — A new report shows that Kansas is experiencing a shortage of child care services. The report was released Monday by Child Care Aware of Kansas. The agency administers the state’s child care referral service. The Wichita Eagle reports the agency found that Kansas counties on average have capacity to meet only about half the potential demand for child care. Sedgwick County can meet 45 percent of potential demand. The lower the percentage, the less likely that parents will find the right child care provider. The report says nearly 164,000 children under age 6 potentially need child care in…