Updated Wednesday morning: Authorities have arrested a 21-year-old woman in connection with a Manhattan apartment fire . Riley County Police Captain Tim Hegarty tells KMAN Brianna Elston was taken into custody for aggravated arson. RCPD Captain Jeff Hooper has clarified that Elston was also the injured party in the fire and was transported to the hospital for treatment and was later arrested. As reported earlier, the Riley County Police Department said the Monday night fire was intentionally set. Bond for the Elston is set at $75,000. Another victim identified earlier was Ashley Nuss, 31, of Manhattan who lived above where the…
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A Geary County man was sentenced Monday to 16 years in federal prison for taking part in the kidnapping of a Junction City woman who was killed during the abduction, according to a press release from Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall. Drexel A. Woody, 27, who lived on Fort Riley at the time of the crime, pleaded guilty to one count of kidnapping resulting in death. The body of Amanda Clemons, 24, of Junction City, was found in February 2014 in Geary County. In Woody’s plea, he admitted that on Feb. 7, 2014, he and some of the co-defendants met…
The Kansas Supreme Court ruled Monday the latest version of the state’s school finance formula violates adequacy and equity requirements, according to a press release from the Kansas Judicial Center in Topeka. This is the fifth decision in the ongoing Gannon v. Kansas case. The court is giving lawmakers till April 30, 2018, to submit changes. If the legislature fails to meet that deadline, the court cautioned “we will not allow ourselves to be placed in the position of being complicit actors in the continuing deprivation of a constitutionally adequate and equitable education owed to hundreds of thousands of Kansas school…
Today on In Focus, we had Kicker Country Stampede Director Wayne Rouse call in and talk about the mass shooting that took place in Las Vegas. We also had K-State Director of Bands Frank Tracz call in and talk about he vulgar chant that took place during the Wabash Cannonball. We the opened the phones to callers in the community.
As KMAN previously reported in August, Ness County District Magistrate Judge James R Kepple had been selected to fill a magistrate judge vacancy in Riley County. As of today, Kepple has been sworn in and his new position has taken effect. Kepple takes the place of retired Magistrate Jude Sheila Hochhauser, who’s retirement sparked the new appointment. She retired on August 11th of this year and served since 2007. The 21st district includes Riley and Clay counties.
Duane Dunn has been appointed interim dean of Kansas State University Global Campus. Dunn’s appointment was made by April Mason, provost and senior vice president, and is effective Oct. 1. He replaces Sue Maes, the longtime dean of Global Campus who begins her retirement in October. Dunn had been serving as associate dean and director for academic and professional programs at K-State Global Campus since he joined the university in June 2015. The search for the permanent dean of K-State Global Campus is well underway with a timeline for announcing the appointment by mid-November 2017.
Lawrence Police are investigating a downtown shooting that left three people dead and wounded two others. The Lawrence Journal-World reports the shooting happened around 1:45 a.m. Sunday in a popular restaurant and bar area downtown not far from police headquarters. Interim Police Chief Anthony Brixius says officers heard more the more than 20 gunshots, and responded to find several people wounded within a large crowd. It wasn’t immediately clear what led to the shooting. The victims were identified as 22-year-old Leah Elizabeth Brown of Shawnee, 20-year-old Colwin Lynn Henderson and 24-year-old Dupree Dean. Henderson and Dean are from Topeka.
In the early going of Saturday’s Big 12 opener for Kansas State, it looked like a blowout was imminent. The Wildcats had winless Baylor on the ropes, mostly thanks to great defense. In the end, the win was harder to earn than expected, but it was still a win. K-State beat the Bears 33-20 to move to 3-1 on the season. “We were inconsistent,” Bill Snyder said. “We were not a good team – a disciplined team – in the second half today. Quite obviously, we have to be a more disciplined football team than what we are, in some…
Kansas State University, President, Richard B. Meyers delivered his State of the University address Friday to a full crowd in the Student Union’s Forum Hall. “The State of our University is Strong.” Meyers spoke passionately about a broad range of topics pertaining to the University including conceal carry on campus. “There’s not a President in the university system in Kansas under the Board of Regents that believes that it’s a good thing to have conceal carry on campus.” Meyers offered a glimpse of hope for those wanting the law repealed. “We may have a new dynamic in the legislature, so…
Enrollment at K-State declined by 984 students this year and the university has seen an overall decline in applications of nearly 20 percent, according to a press release from the KSU Friday. K-State attributed the declines to higher admissions standards set by the state in 2015. The university’s website says incoming freshman must complete the pre-college curriculum with at least a 2.5 grade point average on a 4.0 scale and achieve a 2.0 GPA on all attempted college work. Students can be admitted with an ACT minimum composite of 21, a minimum combined SAT-1 of 980, or a minimum of…