TOPEKA — Kansas legislators have voted to override Republican Gov. Sam Brownback’s veto of a bill that would repeal or roll back past income tax cuts he has championed. The House voted 88-31 Tuesday night to overturn Brownback’s veto of a bill that will increase income taxes to fix the state budget and provide additional funds for public schools. Supporters had four votes more than the two-thirds majority necessary to override a veto. The Senate earlier voted 27-13 to override, exactly a two-thirds majority. Manhattan-area lawmakers Tom Phillips, Sydney Carlin, Susie Swanson of the House and Tom Hawk of the Senate…
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The findings from the 2017 Community Survey administered to Manhattan residents this spring suggests the community is ready to vote “yes” on a quarter-cent quality-of-life sales tax issue on the November ballot. On Tuesday evening, Manhattan City Commissioners heard the findings of the survey which was administered to 2,500 homes this spring. Dr. Josephine Gatti Schafer, an assistant professor of political science at Kansas State University, began writing the survey in December of last year with city staff. The survey was sent out through mail in March and made available online. It elicited 604 responses for a 24% response rate, Schafer said. An overwhelming majority…
WICHITA — Police say a child who was hospitalized in critical condition after being found in a hot car in Wichita is improving. Sgt. Jesse Hancock says the girl and her siblings apparently were playing hide and seek Monday before her father found her in the car. The Wichita Eagle reports police spokesman Officer Paul Cruz said Tuesday investigators are still trying to determine what happened. The girl’s condition was improving Tuesday but no other details were released. The National Weather Service says the temperature in Wichita was 88 degrees just before the girl’s parents called 911 at 5:20 p.m. Meteorologist…
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Officers with the Riley County Police Department arrested Alec Pierson, 19, of Manhattan, for aggravated burglary Monday afternoon. Pierson’s bond was set at $10,000, causing him to remain confined at the RCPD.
Updated Wednesday, 5:12 p.m. CORRECTION: Tuesday’s version of this story said the alleged rape took place in Kansas City, Kan. That is incorrect and took place in Riley County. According to a Wednesday report by the Manhattan Mercury, the case was filed in a federal court in Kansas City due to the defendant’s former employment with the RCPD. A former Riley County police officer is being sued for allegedly raping a former K-State student last year after he gave her a ride home from a party. According to court documents viewed by KMAN, the civil lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District…
A Manhattan truck driver was sentenced to 12 months in the Riley County Jail for vehicular homicide. Ethan Butts, 21, was involved in a three-vehicle accident on Feb. 13, 2016, that took the life of 30-year-old Jenna Lindsten of Manhattan. The accident happened at the intersection of Tuttle Creek Boulevard and Marlatt Avenue. Butts was the driver of a semi-truck that ran a red light and struck Lindsten’s car, causing it to spin into northbound lanes and hit a pickup driven by 42-year-old Quinton Huncovsky, another Manhattan resident. Lindsten was initially taken to Via Christi Hospital in Manhattan. She was later flown…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — The family of a former Pittsburg State college football player who killed himself in 2014 is suing the NCAA, questioning the governing body’s handling of concussions including more than 100 they say factored into Zack Langston’s death. The federal lawsuit filed Friday in Kansas City, Kansas, also accuses the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association of negligence. It seeks unspecified damages The lawsuit alleges Langston was concussion-prone while playing at the Division II school. Langston later endured behavior and mood swings after his football career ended, and at 26 he fatally shot himself. A private, post-mortem examination of…
To recognize the 100th anniversary of the 1st Infantry Division, the century-old “Big Red One” will conduct a division run and a Victory with Honors ceremony Thursday. The division run will start at 6:30 a.m. on Fort Riley’s Custer Hill. Every unit at Fort Riley will take part in the run, led by Brig. Gen. Patrick D. Frank, 1st Inf. Div. and Fort Riley acting senior commander, and other division leaders. The four-mile path will take soldiers around Custer Hill and past displays of military equipment. The Victory with Honors ceremony will begin at 10 a.m. This will be the…
TOPEKA — The Latest on the Kansas Legislature’s debate over raising taxes to fix the state budget and provide additional money for public schools (all times local): 5:19 p.m. Kansas legislators have drafted a new proposal that would increase personal income taxes to raise $1.2 billion over two years. House and Senate negotiators agreed Monday evening on a measure that would raise income tax rates and eliminate an exemption for 330,000-plus farmers and business owners. It largely rolls back past tax cuts championed by Republican Gov. Sam Brownback. The plan is a larger than one rejected by the House earlier Monday…