Today’s guests on In Focus were: Wamego USD 320 Supt. Denise O’Dea and Rock Creek USD 323 Supt. Darrel Stufflebeam Trent Armbrust with Manhattan Area Chamber of Commerce and Jack Allston with Pottawatomie County Economic Development Corporation regarding Ice House project
Author: KMAN Staff
Officers with the Riley County Police Department arrested Sydney Samuelson, 20, of Morganville, Kansas while at the Riley County Police Department on April 12, 2016 at approximately 4:05 PM. Samuelson was arrested on the offense of failure to appear which was listed on a warrant with a bond of $5,000.00. The original offense on this warrant was use/possession with intent to use drug paraphernalia. At the time of this report he was confined at the Riley County Jail. Those with information about crimes in our area are encouraged to contact RCPD or the Manhattan Riley County Crime Stoppers.
Via Christi Hospital has named a new leader. According to a press release from the hospital, experienced administrative leader in Catholic healthcare, Bob Copple will become senior administrator for the Manhattan hospital. Copple has held the position of president and chief executive officer of CHI’s Memorial Community Hospital & Health System in Blair, Nebraska since 2013. “Our Via Christi Hospital in Manhattan has a strong history of providing high quality healthcare services to the community,” said Todd Conklin, chief operating officer for Via Christi Health. “I am confident that under Bob’s leadership, it will continue to serve this important and growing community with…
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) A man has been arrested after Hutchinson police say he fatally stabbed his wife’s pit bull for keeping him awake. The Hutchinson News reports that the 59-year-old man was arrested around 11:30 p.m. Saturday on suspicion of animal cruelty and disorderly conduct. Hutchinson police Lt. Marty Robertson said that the man was trying to sleep and the dog was being loud. According to Robertson, the man put the dog outside, but it kept barking and he told his wife that if the dog did not stop, he would kill it. Police say the man’s wife told officers…
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) A man serving almost six years in prison for setting fires to a vacant Salina motel has been sentenced in another case. The Hutchinson News reports that Dustin James Gordon was sentenced Monday in Reno County District Court to another three years and four months in prison. The judge ordered the sentence to run consecutively with the sentence he is serving for a series of arson fires in Salina. In the Reno County case, Gordon pleaded guilty last month to a single felony count of arson. In exchange for the plea, prosecutors dismissed a second arson count.…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Some oak leaf itch mites that fell from trees and bit people in the Wichita area last fall have managed to stay alive over the mild winter and are biting again. Sedgwick County Extension Education Center agent Matthew McKernan says the office has received about a half-dozen calls over the past couple of weeks from people who have been bitten. The Wichita Eagle (http://bit.ly/1qNfOIv ) reports that the oak leaf itch mite isn’t an issue most years and that during a normal winter, low temperatures would have killed them. But some that are living in in leaves…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A Wichita, Kansas, police lieutenant is charged in federal court with making fraudulent reports so she would be paid for working a part-time job while on duty. Heather D. Bachman faces seven wire-fraud counts and one count of making a false statement to a federal investigator. Bachman is accused of defrauding the Wichita Police Department by working part time for Orion Security Services while on duty and being paid by the department. The city says she has been suspended without pay. Prosecutors allege Bachman made a claim for mileage with Orion, even though she used a Wichita…
Emergency crews in Riley County are currently investigating a suspicious package found at a UPS building on 1133 Hayes Drive. Crews were dispatched just after 1:30 Tuesday afternoon, after a bottle containing a suspicious liquid, was found in a package mailed from Nigeria. KMAN will keep you keep you informed as the story develops.
UPDATED — 3:26 p.m. JUNCTION CITY, Kan. – Following an apartment fire, residents of Junction City are receiving aid from the American Red Cross. Tenants of The Bluffs apartments at 1810 Caroline Avenue in Junction City required assistance after a fire that affected 40 units and displaced dozens of residents, broke out Tuesday morning. The Red Cross says those in need are receiving “food, clothing, shelter, comfort and care.” A team of 14 volunteers from Topeka, Junction City, Fort Riley and Salina are arranging client casework to those residents impacted by the fire. There are reports of an apartment fire…