A defiant Ben Carson on Friday rejected the idea his past descriptions of receiving a scholarship offer to attend West Point were inaccurate, and called questions about the veracity of the story irrelevant to his campaign for president.
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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A magistrate judge has released on $25,000 bond the passenger who allegedly threatened to bring down an American Airlines flight after being refused a beer. Thirty-eight-year-old Jason Baroletti of Holbrook, New York, was ordered on Friday as one of his release conditions not to travel by commercial airline. He is also is not to use alcohol while he awaits trial on one count of interfering with the performance of a flight crew. The disruption caused American Airlines to divert a Phoenix-to-New York flight Tuesday evening to Wichita, Kansas. An FBI affidavit contends an inflight dispute escalated after…
President Obama’s decision to reject the Keystone XL pipeline Friday drew applause from environmental groups, but others were disappointed in the decision, saying it will hurt American consumers.
France’s top financial prosecutor says that the corruption within the IAAF had “the complicity of the highest-ranking leaders,” including its then-president Lamine Diack.
FORT RILEY — Memories resurfaced on Friday morning as over 100 veterans from all branches marched through the hangar doors at Marshall Army Airfield to cheers, applause, and patriotic music. The scene was much different than what these men experienced nearly 50 years ago when they returned home from the Vietnam War. Due to political tensions in regards to the war, veterans were at best antagonized, and at worst neglected and isolated from the care they needed. Now, there’s a push to redeem them. A recent initiative by the U.S. Army aims to thank and recognize Vietnam War veterans who…
A couple of Kansas Department of Corrections inmates serving time on Riley County convictions are up for public comment sessions in January. Danny Lee Sprecker, 66, was sentenced in 1973 for second degree murder and in 1969 for rape. He’s currently being held at El Dorado. Anthony Juan Murphy, 50, has been in prison on several charges, with the most recent a 2013 case involving aggravated sexual battery and other sexual related counts. Prior to that he had convictions for criminal threat and driving under the influence in Riley County and theft, burglary, and drug-related charges in Geary County. Murphy most…
TOPEKA — The Kansas Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence for a convicted serial killer who stuffed several of the bodies of his female victims into barrels. The ruling Friday in the case of John E. Robinson Sr. marks the first time justices have upheld a death sentence since Kansas reinstated capital punishment in 1994. Robinson was sentenced to death for killing two women in Kansas, in 1999 and 2000. The justices upheld his death sentence in a 415-page ruling that also addressed numerous technical arguments raised by Robinson’s attorneys. Robinson also was convicted for the 1985 death of a third…
Guests on Friday’s “In Focus” were: Riley County Extension Horticulture Agent Gregg Eyestone on general gardening topics Maxine and Ray Coffey and Kristi Ingalls on “Keep the Drive Alive”– a large blood drive in memory of their son Brent Sigman and Dave Walsh with the Manhattan Arts Center
A Manhattan man was arrested for criminal possession of a weapon. Denzel Leonard, 22, was arrested on Thursday at approximately 2:30 p.m. while at his home in the 2000 block of Tecumseh Road. Leonard was arrested for the offense of criminal possession of a weapon by a felon after officers found him to be in possession of a firearm. He was given a bond of $5,000 and at the time of this report he was confined at the Riley County Jail. Those with information about crimes in our area are encouraged to contact RCPD or the Manhattan Riley County Crime Stoppers.
TOPEKA — State officials are preparing to issue a new fiscal forecast and it could leave the state with a projected deficit in its current budget again. University officials, legislative researchers and officials in Republican Gov. Sam Brownback’s administration were meeting Friday to draft revised projections for tax collections through June 2017. The new forecast was coming the same day the Kansas Supreme Court was hearing arguments about whether a school funding law enacted earlier this year complies with the state constitution and whether the state immediately owes school districts another $54 million. Since the current fiscal year began in July, tax…