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.
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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…
Today’s guests on In Focus were: Glenn Brunkow, Kansas Farm Bureau board member and Pottawatomie county farmer Riley County Emergency Management Director and Fire Chief Pat Collins Linda Uthoff, an actress in the ongoing performance of Gypsy in Wamego Dick Werzburger, President of the Guardians
Riley County Police Department officers responded to a single vehicle motorcycle accident at McDowell Creek Rd. and Pillsbury Dr. on June 3, 2017 at approximately 12:45 PM. When officers arrived on scene, they found that a gold 2015 Harley Davidson, driven by Patrick Hooker, 45, of Abilene, struck the bridge on Pillsbury Dr. Hooker was transported by EMS to Via Christi for his injuries. No citations were issued at the scene of the accident. Officers also responded to a single vehicle motorcycle accident at Tuttle Creek Blvd. and Madison Rd. on June 3, 2017 at approximately 3:35 PM. When officers…
TOPEKA — Kansas legislators are tying a plan to increase income taxes to another measure that would increase spending on public schools. Republican negotiators for the House and Senate agreed Sunday on a plan for raising more than $1 billion over two years by increasing income taxes. The negotiators agreed on another plan to phase in a $285 million school funding increase over two years. GOP negotiators agreed to put both plans into a single bill. The House planned to vote on the package Sunday night. Democrats opposed the tactic. GOP leaders believe the tax increase has a better chance…
TOPEKA — A proposal to restore guaranteed tenure for some Kansas public school teachers has become part of legislative talks on education funding. Republican Rep. Clay Aurand of Belleville outlined the proposal Friday as the House negotiated with the Senate over a plan to boost spending on public schools. Negotiators said they would review it. Lawmakers are looking at phasing in an increase in spending of at least $230 million over two years in response to a Kansas Supreme Court ruling in March that education funding is inadequate. Republican legislators stripped teachers of guaranteed tenure in 2014. Teachers have been pushing…