Officers filed a report for rape in Manhattan on October 6, 2017. Officers listed a 15 year old female as the victim when she reported a 15 year old male known to her raped her. Due to the nature of the crime reported, no additional information will be released. Officers filed a report for burglary and criminal damage to property in the 15000 block of Madison Rd. on October 6, 2017 at approximately 8:00 PM. Officers listed Robert Cammel, 62, of Riley, Kansas, and Laura Cammel, 56, of Riley, Kansas as the victims when it was reported an unknown suspect…
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Updated: Tuesday, 11:15 a.m. K-State Police are asking for the public’s help with information about an ongoing investigation of criminal damage to property. Police received a report of damage to a Sukkah and a vehicle between Marlatt and Goodnow Halls on Friday, Oct. 6. Police are investigating all causes because it is unknown if Friday’s severe weather had a role in the damage or if it was related to a hate crime. There currently are no suspects and no witnesses have come forward. Any person with information about the damage should contact the Kansas State University Police Department through SilentWitness, LiveSafe app, police@k-state.edu or…
The Pottawatomie County Sheriff’s Department has identified the victim from Sunday’s fatal accident near Belvue. Shane Abeyta, 25, of Manhattan, was the individual who died in the two vehicle accident. The accident remains under investigation. ### Earlier report: A fatality accident was reported in Pottawatomie County early Sunday afternoon. According to the Pottawatomie County Sheriff’s office the accident involved a sport utility vehicle and motorcycle and occurred just west of Belvue on highway 24. The accident was reported at 12:30 p.m. Sunday. Further information including names are expected later Monday morning.
Candidates for the Manhattan City Commission and the USD 383 School Board gathered Sunday afternoon at the Manhattan Fire Department Headquarters to discuss issues and answer questions during the League of Women Voter’s candidate forum. Incumbent city commissioners Usha Reddi and Wynne Butler were joined by Jerred McKee, Brian Thomason and Kaleb James. Jurdene Coleman, Karla Hagenmeister, Katrina Lewison and Jennifer Prewitt were the school board candidates. The forum aired live on KMAN Sunday and can be listened to below:
WINDSOR — Kansas residents are broadening the fight over an oil-related waste disposal well in the Flint Hills into a protest of similar wells across several counties and an effort to lobby lawmakers for regulatory changes. KCUR-FM reports that residents of Chase, Morris and other counties known for open pastures and tallgrass ecology lost efforts last month to block operation of a saltwater injection well near the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve in Strong City. Petitioners say they’re now focusing on fighting plans of additional wells across several counties. Energy companies use such wells to dispose wastewater resulting from oil production.…
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TOPEKA — Kansas officials are considering options if Congress doesn’t reauthorize a program that helps provide health insurance for nearly 80,000 children in the state. The Children’s Health Insurance Program provides insurance for children in low- and moderate-income, working families. Congress didn’t reauthorize funding before the end of the September deadline. Gerald Kratochvil, spokesman for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, told The Topeka Capital-Journal that if the program isn’t reauthorized, funds in Kansas won’t run out until March 2018. He says about 37,000 Kansas children are enrolled in CHIP, with another 42,000 in a hybrid CHIP-Medicaid program. Republicans…
Updated Friday, 2:15 p.m. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment has rescinded a boil water advisory for the Riverchase Mobile Home Park in Riley County. KDHE officials issued the advisory Wednesday because of positive bacteriological samples from the source water. Public water suppliers in Kansas take all measures necessary to notify customers quickly after a system failure or shutdown. Regardless of whether it’s the supplier or KDHE that announces a boil water advisory, KDHE will issue the rescind order following testing at a certified laboratory. Laboratory testing samples collected from the Riverchase Mobile Home Park indicate no evidence of…
TOPEKA — A Kansas official who is vice chairman of President Donald Trump’s commission on election fraud drafted a proposal for Trump to change federal voter registration laws. A federal court document unsealed Thursday shows the proposal was part of a strategic homeland security plan prepared by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach. Kobach was photographed taking the document into a meeting with Trump in November when Trump was president-elect. The portion dealing with federal voter registration laws was not fully visible. U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson also unsealed a second document prepared by Kobach and shared inside his office.…
WICHITA — The state’s largest school district says students won’t be disciplined merely for not standing for the Pledge of Allegiance or national anthem. The Wichita Eagle reports that the guidance was issued to principals in the Wichita school district this week after President Donald Trump lashed out at NFL players for not standing during the anthem. The kneeling protests started last year as a statement against the killings of unarmed black men and boys at the hands of police. Gil Alvarez, assistant superintendent of secondary schools, said in an email that students who object to participating “will be excused…