Riley County commissioners approved an additional 19 days for improvements to be completed on the University Park sewer rehabilitation project Thursday. The project cost $2.6 million and 45 percent of the project is funded by a federal grant. Sam Johnson of BG Consultants told commissioners he hopes the project is complete before Christmas of this year. “We’re about 31 percent complete of the work,” Johnson said. University Park is a small community east of Riley right by the waters of Tuttle Creek Lake. The community was originally founded in the early 1960s after the dam was put in and set…
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ABILENE — Baseball players will don uniforms from the 1860s and use equipment from the era during a game next week in Abilene. The Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum and Boyhood Home is sponsoring the Aug. 6 game. It will be played at Eisenhower Park, during the Central Kansas Free Fair, with rules from the Victorian era. The rules are different from today’s game. For example, outfielders can catch the ball on one bounce for an out and base stealing and sliding are prohibited. On the field will be the “Abilene Iron Cutters” and the “Wichita Bull Stockings” of the Cowtown Vintage Base…
TOPEKA — Children who fled from their mother several months after they were taken to sing for occupiers during the armed takeover of an Oregon wildlife refuge will remain in the custody of Kansas child welfare officials. The Kansas City Star reports that a judge cited abuse in ruling Wednesday that Odalis Sharp couldn’t get her children back. Sharp has 10 children, but several are over 18. The younger children were ordered to remain in state custody. Several of the children testified that their mother hit them with rods. They said she yelled and screamed Bible verses during the punishment. Sharp, of…
Manhattan Regional Airport Director Jesse Romo meets with KMAN’s Cathy Dawes: Pawnee Mental Health Ex. Director Robbin Cole on Thursday’s in Focus:
On Friday July 29th and Saturday July 30th, 2016 the Riley County Police Department will be conducting two DUI Saturation Patrols. Officers involved in the Saturation Patrol will be looking for signs of impaired driving and other traffic violations. Motorists who show signs of alcohol and/or drug consumption will be evaluated and appropriate action will be taken. The purpose of this program is to place additional officers in and around the Manhattan area with the goal of detecting and deterring impaired driving. These patrols are the second and third, in a series of eight, which will be conducted this year. The Kansas…
A Dwight man was taken to the hospital following a two vehicle accident in Geary county Wednesday. Vernon Bohn, 60, was taken to Stormont-Vail in Topeka following the accident, reported shortly before 7:30 a.m. in the 7,000 block of Humboldt Creek Road, 12 miles southeast of Junction City. The Kansas Highway Patrol reports a 2008 Dodge Truck driven by Bohn was northbound driving the ditch line checking fences at a slow speed when a 1988 International truck driven by Robert Rahe, 47, of Marion was also northbound and struck the rear of the Dodge truck. Bohn’s truck came to rest…
TOPEKA – A top social services official says Kansas expects to ask the federal government to partially recertify its state mental hospital in Osawatomie. Interim Department for Aging and Disability Services Secretary Tim Keck said Wednesday the agency will seek recertification of 60 of Osawatomie State Hospital’s 206 beds. Federal officials decertified Osawatomie in December over an employee’s rape and other safety issues. A legislative committee reviewed an audit that said the state is losing about $1 million a month in federal funds. Keck said renovation on a 60-bed unit is almost complete and staffing at the hospital has improved.…
TOPEKA – State auditors say the Kansas Department for Children and Families is struggling to adequately oversee private foster care contractors, putting children in the system at risk. Shortly after the 59-page audit was released Wednesday, two Democratic senators called for department Secretary Phyllis Gilmore to resign. Among other things, auditors said the agency has implemented only one of nine recommendations in a 2013 assessment of services. It also said the department doesn’t ensure that background checks of individuals in foster homes are as frequent and thorough as they should be. Some state lawmakers sought the audit in response to…
The headlines in many newspapers might hint at the decline of the rural communities of the American Midwest, but Wednesday night’s Flush Picnic in Pottawatomie county was a prime example of the resiliency, beauty and fellowship that Kansas communities still have to offer. Eighty-one years of delicious fried chicken and fun have kept large crowds coming back to the picnic each summer. Volunteers cook the food and serve it to their friends, neighbors and one thousand other people who come to the picnic because of its’ reputation. For just $5 people were able to sit among their friends and be…
The Pottawatomie County Sheriff’s office Wednesday released more information regarding a Monday night accident, reported at about 9:17 p.m. Pottawatomie County Dispatch received a report of a motor vehicle accident with injury on Elm Slough Road, West of Salzer Road. The accident was a one vehicle roll-over, involving a 2007 Ford Pickup. The vehicle had been East bound on Elm Slough Road when it left the roadway and rolled. The driver, Craig Spears, 17, of Wamego was injured as a result of the accident. He was transported by ambulance to a local hospital. The accident remains under investigation. ### The…