Incidents at Country Stampede trended lower this year. David Adams, the director of EMS services for Riley and Pottawotomie counties, briefed Riley County commissioners Monday morning on some statistics. Adams said EMS crews saw 372 patients over the country music festival’s three days. “That’s down from 382 last year,” he said. There were 11 EMS transports — including a serious incident that included helicopter transport after a man was assaulted Thursday night. Still, Adams said there were 16 transports last year. “Our busiest day was Thursday,” he said. While Stampede is known for its binge-drinking atmosphere, Adams said booze problems…
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A 73-year-old man serving time with the Kansas Department of Corrections on Riley County rape and aggravated kidnapping convictions has been released from custody after 30 years. Nordell Glover was released last week and reportedly is staying in the Sedgwick County Area. Glover was sentenced in 1987 on the Riley County charges. He was held at several facilities throughout the years, ending up at El Dorado the last four years.
Today’s guests on In Focus were: Jack Lindquist and Joe Fanning on Flint Hills Regional Leadership Program Dr. Tim Shaffer, Assistant Professor of Communications Studies, K-State; also with Institute for Civic Discourse and Democracy
UPDATE: Rodney Dembkowski, 51, has been identified as the victim. Riley County Police Offices found him lying next to his Hagie sprayer. Officers believe the sprayer struck an electrical line, which electrified the sprayer and set it on fire. ### Earlier report: Riley County EMS has confirmed a man was electrically shocked Monday morning while spraying a field southeast of Manhattan, when the boom of his sprayer hit a power line. EMS Director David Adams indicated the man was first taken to Via Christi Hospital in Manhattan but then transferred by Riley County EMS to the Burn Unit at the University…
Officers filed a report for sexual exploitation of a child and battery in the city of Manhattan on June 23, 2017. Officers listed a 7 year old female as the victim when it was reported that a male known to the victim took sexually explicit pictures of the victim. Due to the nature of the allegations made, no additional information will be released. Officers filed a report for aggravated assault in the 3100 block of Fort Riley Bvld. on June 25, 2017 at approximately 12:55 AM. Officers listed Maxwell Chandler, 20, of Fort Riley, and Robert Luick, 21, of Fort…
TOPEKA — Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has signed a state budget for the next two years that will use a $1.2 billion income tax increase to fund government and schools, but he complained about “excessive spending.” Brownback signed the $15.6 billion budget bill on Sunday. It will provide raises of up to 5 percent to state workers who haven’t had any in recent years. He vetoed two items that imposed some limits on programs for people with disabilities and mental health programs. Lawmakers will have a chance to override those vetoes Monday. Brownback already had signed a separate plan to…
A fatal accident was reported in Pottawatomie County Saturday evening. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, Alex Blow, 49, of Havensville died in the accident on Havensville Road just west of Angus Road. Blow was driving a Polaris ATV westbound when it entered a south ditch and struck a power pole. The accident was reported at 6:41 Saturday night.
It was a special second birthday for Sawyer Baldwin of Manhattan. Earlier this week Sawyer’s Mom Ashley Baldwin put out a notice to motorcycle riders in the area that her son was obsessed with motorcycles, loving the sound pipes make. She added Sawyer is “non-verbal with a sensory processing disorder as well as lots of red flags for Autism.” Ashley Baldwin asked motorcycle riders out for a Sunday ride to PLEASE ride by the Blue Earth Plaza splash park between one and three p.m. and let their throttles roll back as that was where Sawyer’s birthday party would be. And…
It was difficult to gauge Saturday morning where U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) stood on the Senate healthcare bill that was finally released to the public — and apparently to Moran himself — late Thursday afternoon. For the most part, Moran reiterated remarks he made on the draft of the legislation through a statement on his YouTube channel Thursday. But it doesn’t seem like his uneasiness expressed with the bill then has faded since. “As a Kansan — and particularly as a rural Kansan — keeping our hospital doors open and physicians in our communities… does this legislation increase the…
WICHITA — A judge has fined Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach $1,000 for misleading the court about the contents of materials he was photographed taking into a November meeting with then President-elect Donald Trump. The ruling Friday by U.S. Magistrate Judge James O’Hara also requires Kobach to submit to a deposition by the American Civil Liberties Union about that document as well as a separate draft amendment to the National Voter Registration Act. The ruling stops short of ordering the materials be made public as the ACLU had requested. But O’Hara says they would become a judicial record if…