Manhattan Regional Airport Director Jesse Romo meets with KMAN’s Cathy Dawes: Pawnee Mental Health Ex. Director Robbin Cole on Thursday’s in Focus:
Author: KMAN Staff
On Friday July 29th and Saturday July 30th, 2016 the Riley County Police Department will be conducting two DUI Saturation Patrols. Officers involved in the Saturation Patrol will be looking for signs of impaired driving and other traffic violations. Motorists who show signs of alcohol and/or drug consumption will be evaluated and appropriate action will be taken. The purpose of this program is to place additional officers in and around the Manhattan area with the goal of detecting and deterring impaired driving. These patrols are the second and third, in a series of eight, which will be conducted this year. The Kansas…
A Dwight man was taken to the hospital following a two vehicle accident in Geary county Wednesday. Vernon Bohn, 60, was taken to Stormont-Vail in Topeka following the accident, reported shortly before 7:30 a.m. in the 7,000 block of Humboldt Creek Road, 12 miles southeast of Junction City. The Kansas Highway Patrol reports a 2008 Dodge Truck driven by Bohn was northbound driving the ditch line checking fences at a slow speed when a 1988 International truck driven by Robert Rahe, 47, of Marion was also northbound and struck the rear of the Dodge truck. Bohn’s truck came to rest…
TOPEKA – A top social services official says Kansas expects to ask the federal government to partially recertify its state mental hospital in Osawatomie. Interim Department for Aging and Disability Services Secretary Tim Keck said Wednesday the agency will seek recertification of 60 of Osawatomie State Hospital’s 206 beds. Federal officials decertified Osawatomie in December over an employee’s rape and other safety issues. A legislative committee reviewed an audit that said the state is losing about $1 million a month in federal funds. Keck said renovation on a 60-bed unit is almost complete and staffing at the hospital has improved.…
TOPEKA – State auditors say the Kansas Department for Children and Families is struggling to adequately oversee private foster care contractors, putting children in the system at risk. Shortly after the 59-page audit was released Wednesday, two Democratic senators called for department Secretary Phyllis Gilmore to resign. Among other things, auditors said the agency has implemented only one of nine recommendations in a 2013 assessment of services. It also said the department doesn’t ensure that background checks of individuals in foster homes are as frequent and thorough as they should be. Some state lawmakers sought the audit in response to…
The headlines in many newspapers might hint at the decline of the rural communities of the American Midwest, but Wednesday night’s Flush Picnic in Pottawatomie county was a prime example of the resiliency, beauty and fellowship that Kansas communities still have to offer. Eighty-one years of delicious fried chicken and fun have kept large crowds coming back to the picnic each summer. Volunteers cook the food and serve it to their friends, neighbors and one thousand other people who come to the picnic because of its’ reputation. For just $5 people were able to sit among their friends and be…
The Pottawatomie County Sheriff’s office Wednesday released more information regarding a Monday night accident, reported at about 9:17 p.m. Pottawatomie County Dispatch received a report of a motor vehicle accident with injury on Elm Slough Road, West of Salzer Road. The accident was a one vehicle roll-over, involving a 2007 Ford Pickup. The vehicle had been East bound on Elm Slough Road when it left the roadway and rolled. The driver, Craig Spears, 17, of Wamego was injured as a result of the accident. He was transported by ambulance to a local hospital. The accident remains under investigation. ### The…
The Department of the Army announced Wednesday the deployment of the 1st Combat Aviation Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kan., with about 800 soldiers to Afghanistan in the summer of 2016. This deployment is part of a regular rotation of forces in support of Operation Freedom’s Sentinel. “I could not be more proud of the 1st Combat Aviation Brigade, and I know they will succeed at any mission given during this deployment,” Maj. Gen. Wayne W. Grigsby Jr., the commanding general of the 1st Infantry Division said. “The Demon brigade has trained long and hard for this important mission,…
Blue Valley Randolph USD 384 superintendent Brady Burton meets with KMAN’s Cathy Dawes: Christopher Dorm with My Mil Deals, Don Glaspie with Jon Murdock Chevrolet, David Cole with Dillards: Cathy visits with new Riley County USD 378 Supt. Cliff Williams: Trisha Gott and Kaitlin Long with Staley School of Leadership Studies at K-State on Furniture Amnesty Day:
Carli Hodges, 30, of Manhattan was arrested while in the 500 block of Leavenworth Street on Wednesday at approximately 12:25 AM. Hodges was arrested on the offenses of possession of methamphetamine, possession of a controlled substance, and use or possession with intent to use drug paraphernalia. She was given a bond of $5,000. This arrest was the result of a traffic stop where a police K9 was deployed. Police are investigating a report of theft which is said to have occurred in the 1500 block of N. 10th Street (Manhattan Country Club) last Friday. Officers were told that several film canisters…