Hy-Vee, Inc., based in West Des Moines, Iowa, is voluntarily recalling six trail mix products across its eight-state region due to possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes, according to a press release from the grocer Friday. The products include Hy-Vee Caramel Cashew Honey Crunch Trail Mix, Hy-Vee Dark Chocolate Cranberry Trail Mix, Hy-Vee Mountain Trail Mix, Hy-Vee Mountain Trail Mix To Go, Hy-Vee Berry Trail Mix and Hy-Vee Santa Fe Trail Mix. Listeria monocytogenes is an organism, which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Although healthy individuals…
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An appeal from a Manhattan man serving a sentence in a rape and aggravated sodomy case has been dismissed by the Kansas Court of Appeals. Lamont Cox was sentenced in Riley County District Court last August to 155 months in prison in the case which involved a five year old girl who was the daughter of his fiance. The higher court did not agree with Cox’s argument that the district court erred in sentencing him, adding that Cox entered into a plea agreement to receive the 155 month sentence. With the district court approving the plea agreement on the record and…
Unemployment numbers continue to be low in the Manhattan area, with Kansas Department of Labor numbers released Friday morning. The Manhattan metro area including Pottawatomie and Riley Counties had a 2.6 percent unemployment rate in April compared to three percent in March and 3.4 percent in April of last year. Those numbers continue to be the lowest in the state, with Lawrence and Douglas County having the next lowest rate at 2.9 percent. The Manhattan/Junction City combined statistical area had a three percent rate. Even the Junction City micro area with Geary County showed a decrease to 4.8 percent in…
For the second time in the history of K-State’s Landon Lecture Series, the President of Costa Rica was its speaker Thursday night. President Oscar Arias Sanchez spoke in Manhattan in 1987. President Luis Guillermo Solís acknowledged that fact early in his speech and thanked the university for the opportunity. “It is indeed a great pleasure for me, but it also a true honor for the Costa Rican president to be here,” he said. “Having been preceded by 171 orators is something I do treasure very much.” President Solis spoke on many topics ranging from international security, immigration, migration and the…
Today’s guests on In Focus were: Riley County Extension Agriculture Agent Greg McClure Riley County Sr. Center Director Jami Ramsey Leon Havens, Vietnam veteran who is graduating from Manhattan High School at the Adult Learning/Center Open door May 26th; Meg Roe College and Career Counselor with USD 383 Adult Learning Center; Sandra Hobbs (student)
A report was filed for the offense of rape in the city limits of Manhattan, Kansas on May 19, 2016 at approximately 12:30 PM for an incident that is said to have taken place on May 17, 2016 at approximately 11:00 PM. Police were told that a suspect and victim had engaged in unlawful sexual intercourse which constituted the offense of rape. The suspect, a 54-year-old male, and the 31-year-old female victim are known to each other. No arrests have been made at the time of this report as police continue to investigate the matter.
*Courtesy of K-State Sports Information* FORT WORTH, Texas – K-State allowed three unanswered runs, including the decisive one on a squeeze play in the seventh, to fall to No. 11 TCU, 3-2, on Thursday at Lupton Stadium. The Wildcats (26-27, 8-14 Big 12) dropped its ninth one-run game of the season, including six in conference action, despite taking a 2-0 lead after the top of the fourth. Two-out RBI singles by Tyler Wolfe and Brooks Zimmerman off TCU starting pitcher Brian Howard staked the Wildcats to their two-run advantage, but a two-out, two-run single by Dane Steinhagen in the fourth…
The Flint Hills Regional Council is undertaking a joint land use study of Fort Riley and surrounding communities. “What it is looking at is the compatibility and issues around a large military installation coexisting with residential communities and that they’re both able to prosper equally without the harm of the other,” said Jennifer Jordan, regional planning manager with the Flint Hills Regional Council. Jordan told local leaders at Thursday’s joint City/County/County meeting that a technical advisory committee and a policy committee, comprised of local elected officials, will steer the project to completion. “Then hopefully we will wind up with some concrete…
WICHITA — The Wichita school board has voted to eliminate more than 100 district positions, close a high school and stop bus transportation for thousands of students. The Wichita Eagle reports that these and other cuts will trim about $18 million from the district’s budget. Six board members voted unanimously to approve superintendent John Allison’s first three phases of budget cuts for the upcoming school year. Board member Sheril Logan was absent. Allison says the district will need to trim an additional $5 million to make up for projected cost increases. Wichita schools have projected nearly $23 million in cost increases next…
Riley County commissioners were updated Thursday with the latest revenue numbers from the Register of Deeds office and the news wasn’t bright. “Good morning commissioners,” Riley County Register of Deeds Debbie Regester opened, “Don’t have very good news. Our revenue is down, two-fold.” Regester said the numbers are the result of a combination of the continuing phase-out of the mortgage registration fee and decreasing mortgages. “We’re losing money on that, as well as recordings and mortgages are down,” she added. The state began the five-year phase-out of the mortgage registration fee after Gov. Sam Brownback signed the legislation in 2014…