Today’s guests on In Focus were Kansas State University Band director Frank Tracz and Pawnee Mental Health Executive Director Robbin Cole.
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A 1st Infantry Division soldier was found unconscious and later pronounced dead early Saturday morning on post, according to a press release from Fort Riley late Wednesday. Pvt. John Martinez, a cavalry scout with Troop A, 5th Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, was found unresponsive in his barracks room and was quickly transported to Irwin Army Community Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead. “Our sincere condolences go out to the family of Pvt. Martinez,” said Lt. Col. James Maxwell, 5th Sqdn., 4th Cav. Regt., commander. “We know the death of a family member is deeply…
The Pottawatomie County Sheriff’s Office is investigating an alleged robbery that occurred at approximately 9:30 p.m. on Monday. According to a press release from authorities, the victim was loading groceries into her vehicle at the Walmart parking lot in Manhattan when a white female with brown hair got out of a dark-colored passenger car and grabbed the victims purse from her shopping cart. The victim tried to get her purse back, jumping partially into the passenger side of the suspect vehicle. The suspect vehicle left the parking lot at a high rate of speed. The victim who remained partially inside…
Updated Thursday morning: The Riley County Police Department arrested Enrique Munoz, 19, of Topeka early this morning. Munoz was arrested in the 2200 block of College Avenue on Aug. 24, 2017 at approximately 2:50 AM. Munoz was arrested for aggravated burglary, identity theft, making false information, theft by deception, criminal use of a financial card, possession of marijuana, and use or possess with the intent to use drug paraphernalia. Munoz’ bond was set at $50,000.00. He is confined in the Riley County jail. ### (earlier report) The Riley County Police Department is asking for help in locating Enrique Munoz, 19,…
Today’s guests on In focus were Riley County’s USD 378 Superintendent Cliff Williams and Blue Valley/Randolph’s USD 384 Superintendent Brady Burton for the first segment. The next segment we had Candice McIntosh and Seth Kelso with the Girls on the Run of the Flint Hills–Tee Off Fore Youth event. And the final segment we had Honor Flight Co-Presidents Mike and Connie VanCampen.
TOPEKA — The grandmother of a woman suing over her 2013 firing from the Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s office has testified the woman’s failure to go to church was a factor in her dismissal. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports Margie Canfield also told jurors Tuesday in Topeka that Kobach’s chief deputy, Eric Rucker, asked her to do the firing of granddaughter Courtney Canfield. Margie Canfield says that’s even though she didn’t work in that office and hadn’t hired her granddaughter. Rucker countered he decided to dismiss Courtney Canfield at the deputy assistant secretary of state’s behest after she was…
TOPEKA — A 49-year-old lowland gorilla that died last weekend at the Topeka Zoo in Kansas will be remembered during a ceremony. The zoo says it will host the remembrance event in Tiffany’s honor from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Friday. Attendees won’t be charged admission to the zoo. Tiffany died Sunday after tests revealed she had late-stage ovarian cancer that had spread. She had undergone surgery four days earlier for constipation. During an operation Sunday, surgeons found that the cancer had spread to the gorilla’s abdominal wall, and they decided to not awaken her. Tiffany died a short time later.…
The City of Manhattan has been stuck with nearly a million dollars in lost special assessment revenues after two large developments were abated, including Four Winds and Lee Mill Village. Commissioners met Tuesday to discuss solutions for mitigating the City’s risk when issuing bonds for benefit districts going forward. “It is roughly a million dollars that was abated,” said Commissioner, Wynn Butler, “If the City hadn’t bid on the properties and taken them over, it could be worse.” Less than 2% of the $70 million in specials certified over the last 10-years have been abated, however Butler said the issue is…
Terrance Estes, 52, of Ogden, Kansas, was arrested in the 500 block of Pine Valley in Ogden on Aug. 21, 2017 at approximately 9:30 AM. Estes was arrested as the result of a search warrant on charges of possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute and two charges of possession of drug paraphernalia. Estes’ total bond was set at $15,000. Courtney Hoyt, 31, of Manhattan, was arrested in the 300 block of S Walnut Rd in Ogden on Aug. 21, 2017 at approximately 9:50 AM. Hoyt was arrested on a Riley County District Court warrant for three counts of distribution…
Today’s guests on In Focus were Pottawatomie County Commission Vice Chair Dee McKee and Public Works Director Peter Clark. We also had Director, Meadowlark Hills Parkinson’s Program & Memory Program Michelle Haub, Terry Olson, and Becky Fitzgerald.