Manhattan-Ogden USD 383 announced Monday the district and Manhattan-Ogden NEA reached a tentative agreement Friday, July 7, 2017. The teams have been meeting for five months to discuss the contract for the 2017-2018 school year. Highlights of the new contract include: 3.88% total compensation package increase Increase of $1,000.00 on the base salary (starting salary for a teacher will be $38,000) Allowed steps and movement on salary schedule Continued coverage of the health insurance premium Extended due process language procedure for teachers Continued contract language to support dual credit classes with MATC Review of equity through extending teaching overload language…
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A Manhattan man faces a variety of charges including attempted second degree murder following an incident in Pottawatomie County Saturday morning. A Monday news release from the Pottawatomie County Sheriff’s Office indicates they received a transferred “911” call from the Riley County Police Department in reference to a burglary in progress. The victim reported that a suspect had entered their residence. While inside the residence, encountered the victim and threatened them. They reported that the suspect had left the residence driving a green four door Ford car with the trunk tied down with a rope. While deputies were meeting with the victim,…
UPDATE: KMAN learned shortly after noon Monday charges have been filed in connection with this juvenile case first reported on a little more than a month ago. Pottawatomie County Attorney Sherri Schuck tells KMAN Jace Ward, 18, from Wamego has been charged with “aggravated child endanger, furnishing alcohol to a minor and lewd and lascivious.” ### (earlier report) Not much information is being released regarding what initial reports indicated might be an alleged sexual assault involving a juvenile in Pottawatomie county. But a month after KMAN first reported on the case, officials from the Pottawatomie county Sheriff and Attorney’s offices confirm…
Today’s guests on In Focus were Gene Klingler and Marcia Locke with Tough Enough to Wear Pink rodeo. For the Battle of Badges with Manhattan Fire Dept Driver Gregg Van De Creek, Riley County Police Department PIO Officer Alexander Robinson, Riley County EMS KayLee Proctor and Account Manager American Red Cross Kristi Ingalls. And finally Lt. Bradli Millington with K-State Police, and Michael Bear, K-state’s new Emergency Manager.
Officers filed a report for aggravated assault and violation of a protection order (both domestic related) in the city of Manhattan on July 14, 2017. Officers listed a 28 year old female as the victim when she reported that a 23 year old male known to her attempted to run her over with her vehicle and also violated a protection order. Due to the nature of the crimes reported, no additional information will be released. Officers filed a report for motor vehicle theft in the 1400 block of Yuma St. on July 15, 2017 at approximately 6:45 AM. Officers listed…
LAWRENCE – A Kansas man has been ordered to spend more than 15 years in prison for abandoning his infant stepdaughter in an apartment complex trash compactor. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that 28-year-old Marquis Young was sentenced Friday in Douglas County. That’s where he pleaded no contest in May to reduced charges of aggravated battery and child abuse. He initially was charged with attempted first-degree murder after the baby was found in July 2016 in the trash bin. The then-9-month-old suffered two skull fractures but has recovered. Young’s wife has testified she went to spend the night with friends after…
ATCHISON – Authorities are investigating the crash of a P-51 Mustang that killed two people. Authorities say the plane crashed around 10:30 a.m. Sunday about 60 miles northwest of Kansas City in Atchison County, Kansas. The pilot and a passenger both died in the crash. The victims have been identified by the Kansas Highway Patrol as Bethany Root, 34, of Atchison, who was the General Manager of the Atchison Airport and Vlado Lenoch, 64, of Burr Ridge Illinois, who piloted one of the planes in the Amelia Earhart festival Saturday. Lt. Bryce Whelply of the Kansas High Patrol says the cause…
A Junction City man died in a Clay County accident Sunday. James Jenkins, 29, was driving a Chevrolet Impala eastbound on K-82 at the west end of the Milford Lake causeway when he drove off the north edge of the roadway and rolled down the embankment. The Kansas Highway Patrol reports the accident occurred at 3:10 a.m. Sunday. Jenkins was not wearing a seat belt. And in an un-related accident on the Kansas Turnpike Saturday, a 75-year-old Manhattan man was injured. According to the Kansas Turnpike Authority, Duane McKinney was eastbound at about milepost 195 near Lecompton and started to…
The welcome home ceremony for Fort Riley’s 1st Infantry Division’s headquarters was held Friday night. As reported previously by KMAN, more than 150 soldiers were formally welcomed home and reunited with loved ones and Big Red One leaders also uncased the division’s colors, signifying the completion of the unit’s deployment to Iraq. This group is part of over 300 soldiers with the 1st Infantry Division headquarters stationed in Iraq and Kuwait who are expected to return this month.