A Manhattan man faces a $20,000 bond following his arrest Thursday night. Larry Jones, 46, was taken into custody in the 800 block of Colorado Avenue in Manhattan at approximately 10:05 PM. Jones was arrested on a Riley County District Court warrant for failure to appear. ### Riley County Police Officers filed a report for theft in the 400 block of South 3rd Street in Manhattan Thursday. Officers listed Wade Lewis, 60, of Somerville, Massachusetts as the victim when he reported an unknown suspect took electronics, a suitcase and miscellaneous items from his vehicle. The total loss associated with this…
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In a Facebook post Thursday morning, college football reporter Brett McMurphy shed light on the coaching situation at Kansas State and detailed a since-abandoned 2016 plan to make Oregon defensive coordinator Jim Leavitt the coach-in-waiting at the school. The plan, put together by former athletic director John Currie and current K-State president Richard Myers, was shot down by Bill Snyder due to Snyder’s desire for his son, Sean, to succeed him, McMurphy reports. The agreement would have brought Leavitt to K-State before the season and set the table for a transition of power after the season. Bill Snyder’s contract has…
The Geary County Sheriff’s Office is asking the public for help in an attempted burglary case. According to a press release from the Geary County Sheriff’s Office Thursday, deputies responded to Hildebrand Farms Dairy on Rucker Road just west of Junction City at approximately 3 a.m. Monday morning. Authorities say an unknown suspect forced entry into the business and attempted to remove property. Security video shows an individual wearing blue jeans, a dark hooded jacket and face covered. The suspect arrived and left in a dark-colored GMC or Chevrolet truck. If you have any information regarding this case, contact Detective…
The Pottawatomie County Commission voted 3-0 Monday that it is opposed to the possible listing of the Pottawatomie County Courthouse on the National Register of Historic Places. Properties with such a listing are eligible to qualify for state tax credits and the Heritage Trust Fund grant program. Consideration of the courthouse’s nomination to the National Register will be held at 9 a.m. Saturday in the Kansas Museum of Natural History by the Kansas Historic Sites Board of Review. The debate over the preservation of the building began in July, after a study concluded that replacing the structure with a new consolidated office…
A 62-year-old Kansas Department of Corrections inmate serving time for a 1986 aggravated robbery in Geary County has just been released. Archie Watkins Jr. was released by the KDOC November ninth. Watkins parole hearing was in September after August public comment sessions. Watkins had been serving time since his sentencing in April of 1987. He most recently had been at the El Dorado Correctional Facility. According to KDOC records, he currently is in Sedgwick County post incarceration.
Today’s guest on In Focus was Lyle Butler.
The arraignment of a Manhattan man charged with first degree murder and attempted first degree murder was held earlier than originally scheduled this past Monday. As KMAN previously announced Steven Harris had been scheduled for a November 27th arraignment, but attorneys appeared in Riley County Court Monday and requested the arraignment be moved up and heard that day. Harris entered a not guilty plea and the jury trial has been set for five days, to begin March 26th of next year in front of Judge Meryl Wilson. Harris is the suspect in a deadly May shooting in the 2800 block…
HOLTON — A man whose cases sharply divided his small Kansas town was given more jail time by a judge who departed from a plea deal. Jackson County District Judge Norbert Marek on Wednesday sentenced 23-year-old Jacob Ewing to a total of 7.5 years for attempted rape of a woman and child exploitation related to images he had of an underage girl. Ewing was sentenced in September to 27 years for raping and sodomizing two other women. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports Ewing’s attorney and the prosecutor had agreed the sentences could be served concurrently but Marek departed from that agreement.…
TOPEKA — State agencies have asked for more than $274 million in new funding for next year just months after Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback called the current budget bloated. The agencies are collectively seeking a 4.1 percent increase in spending in next year’s general fund budget. The Wichita Eagle reports preliminary budget requests for the next fiscal year became public when agencies presented them to a legislative committee last week. One agency seeks money to restore earlier cuts to universities. Another wants money to eliminate waiting lists for people with disabilities. A third wants more money for social workers. The…
Wednesday’s guests were USD 383 Assistant Superintendent Eric Reid and USD 383 School Board Member Curt Herman for the first half hour. Wednesday’s program closed with Manhattan Christian College President Kevin Ingram.