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:
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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Updated Friday, 2:15 p.m. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment has rescinded a boil water advisory for the Riverchase Mobile Home Park in Riley County.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…
Today’s guests on In Focus included Riley County Extension Agriculture Agent Greg McClure, Daryn Soldan with the Wamego Area Chamber of Commerce with Emmy Award-winning producer John Fricke, and the Blue Township Fire Chief John Stamey with Public Information Officer for the Blue Township Fire Station Austin Rice. McClure: Soldan & Fricke: Stamey & Rice:
Officers filed a report for aggravated unlawful transmission of a visual depiction of a child in Manhattan on October 5, 2017. Officers listed a 10 year old female as the victim when it was reported a 13 year old male sent inappropriate pictures of himself to the victim. Due to the nature of the crime reported, no additional details will be released. Keron Colbert, 22, of Junction City, was arrested while at the Riley County Police Department on October 5, 2017 at approximately 1:40 PM. Colbert was arrested on a Riley County District Court warrant for theft by deception. Colbert’s…
Storms forecast in the area tonight have led to adjustments in kickoff times for area high school games. The changes are as follows: Manhattan vs Junction City – 6 p.m. (5:30 pregame on KMAN) Rock Creek vs St. Marys – 6 p.m. (5:30 pregame on B104.7) Silver Lake at Riley County – 6 p.m. Wamego at Concordia – 5 p.m. Randolph-Blue Valley at Hanover – 5 p.m. Wakefield at Frankfort – 5 p.m. Clay Center at Abilene – 5 p.m. Chapman at Marysville – Saturday at 3 p.m.