KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – A Missouri man has been charged in the death of former University of St. Mary basketball player Marcus Mondaine. The Kansas City Star reports that 21-year-old Damon Hammons, of Grandview, faces second-degree murder and armed criminal action charges in the death of Mondaine. Hammons has not been apprehended. Authorities said Mondaine had been dating Hammons ex-girlfriend.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – Republican leader Susan Wagle and other GOP candidates for Kansas Senate have outlined a broad campaign platform aimed at addressing voters’ anger with state government. But the 14 senators and 12 Senate candidates who signed onto the platform Wednesday are not publicly breaking with GOP Gov. Sam Brownback. Senate Democratic Leader Anthony Hensley of Topeka called the platform “a bunch of platitudes.”
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A man has been sentenced to life in prison in the shooting death of a Kansas bride as she left her reception in her wedding gown. Thirty-nine-year-old Thomas Earl Brown Jr. of Topeka was sentenced Tuesday for premeditated first-degree murder in the death of 42-year-old Tiffany Davenport-Ray and the attempted murder of her husband, Melvin Ray. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that under the sentence, he must serve at least 71 years and five months. Prosecutors say shots were fired in May 2014 at the Topeka newlyweds from a sport utility vehicle in which Brown and two others…
(Courtesy K-State Media) The Kansas State University Police Department is investigating an aggravated battery that involved an altercation between two students on the Manhattan campus, resulting in one student being stabbed. As first reported by the K-State Collegian, at approximately 2:00 A.M. on Wednesday, Oct. 5, two Kansas State University students got into an altercation in their room on the sixth floor of Marlatt Hall. During the altercation, Freshman in Microbiology, Christopher Stutler, was injured with a knife. The Kansas State University Police Department responded to the incident. The victim was taken to Via Christi Hospital in Manhattan, was treated for a wound…
The Wamego City Commission approved an engineering study at Tuesday’s meeting. City Manager Merl Page informed the Governing Body that he’d talked to an engineer about a study to eliminate a lift station in the northern part of the City. Page said the engineering study would cost about $23,000 and would include a field evaluation design and bid documents. He said by eliminating the lift station, it would also eliminate continued maintenance problems and could position the City for future development to the North. Page asked the Commission to approve the review and design of the project contingent on the…
This week’s In Focus guests included Dr. Barry Flinchbaugh, Professor Emeritus Department of Agriculture Economics, and Jackie Hartman, Kansas State University Chief of Staff and Director of Community Relations. Manhattan Ogden USD 383 School Board member Darell Edie and Superintendent Marvin Wade also stopped by. Flinchbaugh and Hartman: Edie and Wade:
RCPD filed a report for the offense of motor vehicle theft in the 2300 block of Stagg Hill Road in Manhattan yesterday. Officers were told that Enterprise had become the victim of theft when a 2016 Chevy Cruze was not returned or paid for by a customer. At the time of this report, officers were investigating this loss of approximately $20,516. No arrests had been made at the time of this report. A 23-year-old man was arrested on the offense of probation violation yesterday. Leonard Green Jr., of Coffeyville, was charged with the violation which was listed on a warrant…
Marlin Fitzwater, less than two months away from his 74th birthday, walked into a room of reporters Tuesday like he’d done countless times before during his storied career as the only press secretary in U.S. history appointed by two different presidents. Hale Library on the campus of Kansas State University might as well have been on 1600 Pennsylvania Blvd. in Washington, D.C. Fitzwater — Abilene born and K-State educated — captured the room with candor and enthusiasm. He seemed 23 minutes removed from his old job, instead of 23 years. “At the beginning I didn’t really think I could do it, or…
Updated Wednesday evening: A Manhattan man who is a K-State student now faces a murder charge in connection with a Wichita shooting reported Monday. Dane Thomas Owens, 27, was originally charged with attempted murder in the shooting which left a 22-year-old woman in critical condition. She has since died. Booking reports indicate on Wednesday, that charge has been upgraded to intentional first-degree murder. Earlier reports were that the unidentified victim and Owens were in a relationship but had broken up a few weeks ago. The victim’s mother found her at her home in northeast Wichita. ### Earlier report: (much of…
Updated noon 10/5: A 1st Infantry Division Soldier who had been missing for several days has been located. Pvt. Solomon Yoseph Grice, a fire control repairer with 101st Brigade Support Battalion, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Inf. Div., went missing Oct. 2 and was found by local law authorities in Nevada Oct. 4. The 1st Inf. Div. and Fort Riley thanks the public for their assistance in this matter. ### (earlier report) The 1st Infantry Division and Fort Riley are seeking the public’s help in locating a soldier who has been missing for several days. Pvt. Solomon Yoseph Grice, a…