The Manhattan-Ogden Board of Education met on Wednesday night in the midst of some negative news. Earlier that afternoon the Governor’s office announced a revenue shortfall totalling $290 million dollars. Coincidentally, the board would be speaking about budget matters with a report from Lew Faust, Director of Business Services. As reported by Faust, the district could possibly be relying on the taxpayers more than ever. The Governor’s office released three different proposals, which include ideas such as another drastic cut to highway spending along with more cuts to higher education. Faust also flirted with the idea of HB 2741, which is…
Author: KMAN Staff
TOPEKA — A new fiscal forecast for Kansas has slashed the state’s projected tax collections by $348 million for the current and next fiscal years. The new forecast drafted Wednesday would leave the state with budget shortfalls totaling more than $290 million. The figures were included in documents prepared by legislative researchers ahead of a Wednesday evening Statehouse news conference and obtained by The Associated Press from another source. The forecasters reduced the projection for total tax collections for the current fiscal year by $177 million, or 2.9 percent, to about $5.86 billion. They also cut the estimate for the…
Two female students have sued Kansas State University, alleging it has refused to investigate their rapes at off-campus fraternity houses. The two civil rights lawsuits filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Kansas contend the university’s practice endangers students and violates federal law by creating a hostile learning environment for victims. Kansas State declined to comment. The suits say Kansas State is under a federal Title IX investigation. The students’ attorney, Cari Simon, says the U.S. Department of Education has said schools have an obligation to respond to such complaints, even if they occur off campus. She says Kansas State’s…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Police are looking for a woman who they say stole a purse from another woman who had collapsed and died before entering a Wichita building. According to authorities, a woman in her 50s was about to walk into the Inter-Faith Villa Courts building around 7:15 a.m. Saturday, when she died of natural causes. Police say that about 15 minutes later, a woman in her mid-20s walked around her body and stole her purse. Wichita police Sgt. Nikki Woodrow said Tuesday that when first responders arrived at the scene, a person told authorities about the theft. Woodrow says…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A Topeka city councilman charged with child abuse is resigning from the City Council. Jonathan Robert Schumm announced during a council meeting Tuesday that his resignation would be effective noon Wednesday. He said he is leaving his position to best serve his family’s needs and to honor an agreement he reached with the Shawnee County District Attorney’s office. Schumm and his wife, Allison Nicole Schumm, are charged with one criminal count each of aggravated battery and four counts of endangering a child. Court records show that Jonathan Schumm is accused of choking a child and threatening to…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A new Wichita ordinance bans all sex activity in massage parlors and requires formal training for would-be masseurs and masseuses. The Wichita Eagle reports that the Wichita City Council approved the measure Tuesday. It’s designed to fight sex trafficking and prostitution. Under the ordinance, massage parlor owners, operators and employees must undergo an extensive licensing procedure. The measure also bans nudity while performing massages, requiring “fully opaque” coverage of breasts, buttocks and genitalia. Kansas is one of a handful of states that doesn’t regulate massage therapy. The push for regulations came from police after they started seeing…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) Three men have been charged in a Kansas City, Kansas, bank robbery that a federal prosecutor witnessed. The Kansas City Star reports that 33-year-old Jonathan Dehaven, 29-year-old Brandon Wright and 37-year-old Darus Mebane are accused in the Saturday morning robbery at a UMB branch. Court documents say two robbers tied an employee’s wrists with a zip tie before fleeing in a sport utility vehicle that a third person drove. After witnessing the robbery from outside the bank, an assistant U.S. attorney in Kansas called 911 and chased the robbers. Police pursued the SUV until it wrecked.…
The Riley County Police Department arrested Timothy Anderson, 64, of Manhattan on April 19, 2016 at approximately 11:05 AM while in the 1800 block of College Ave. Anderson was arrested on the offense of aggravated assault of Law Enforcement Officers which occurred over the weekend in Riley County. This incident involved shots being fired in the direction of law enforcement. He was given a bond of $50,000.00 and at the time of this report was confined at the Riley County Jail. This arrest stems from a warrant issued in Riley County, Kansas. RCPD is investigating a burglary which occurred in…
The wildcat family has welcomed their interim leader. Faculty, staff, and students at Kansas State University welcomed Gen. Richard B. Myers to campus Wednesday morning. Myers appointment to the position of interim president was announced late last week. The K-State alum and air force veteran told the campus community, “I’m really proud to be here, I’m privileged to be here.” “I look forward to working with you and to continue on what Kirk and Noel (Schulz) have built and take K-State to even greater heights,” the general continued. A Kansas Board of Regents search for a permanent successor to outgoing…
Riley County Police released new information regarding the investigation of a Sunday standoff, Wednesday morning. Timothy James Anderson was named as the person taken into custody by police after the nearly 12 hour standoff at 4400 River Road. Anderson was recently released from the hospital. He’s being held on a 50-thousand-dollar bond.