Paul Meyer, 19, of Manhattan was arrested while at the Riley County Police Department on March 23, 2016 at approximately 11:50 AM. Meyer was arrested on a warrant for failure to appear with an original offense of aggravated assault. He was given a bond of $12,000.00 and at the time of this report was no longer confined at the Riley County Jail. Officers with the Riley County Police Department arrested Tyrell Scott, 23, of Wichita, Kansas on several warrants for probation violation (X4) and failure to appear (original offenses included no drivers license, aggravated escape from custody, possession of…
Author: KMAN Staff
Lacee Sell has been named the Executive Director of Teaching and Learning for Manhattan-Ogden USD 383. Sell currently serves as the Superintendent of USD 473 in Chapman, KS. She has served in that position since 2011. Prior to that, she was Superintendent of Schools for Clinton County School District in Plattsburg, MO. She has also served as an assistant superintendent, principal and assistant principal for Oak Grove School District in Oak Grove, MO. She started her career as a special education teacher and coach in DeSoto and Prairie Village, KS. She has a B.S. in Education (K-12 SPED and K-12 PE) from Emporia State University, a M.S.…
KIOWA, Kan. (AP) Authorities say a wildfire in south-central Kansas still poses a threat but conditions are improving in the two counties most affected. Ben Bauman, director of public affairs for the Kansas Department of the Adjutant General, said in a statement early Thursday that the fires in Comanche County were under control. Fires in adjacent Barber County have improved but are still being monitored. Bauman says the fire went around the town of Medicine Lodge, where authorities had said earlier that up to 1,000 structures were threatened. One home and outbuilding were destroyed on the outskirts of town. The…
Two women were injured in a Wednesday evening accident in Riley County. Bonnie Turner, 53, of Joplin, Missouri and Bethany Thurston, 23, of Pittsburg, Kansas were both taken to Via Christi Hospital in Manhattan following the five p.m. accident on westbound I-70 near the Riley-Wabaunsee county line. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, Turner was driving a 2005 GMC Envoy westbound in the right lane when the vehicle left the north side of the roadway and overturned. Both women had seat belts on.
A Kansas Department of Corrections inmate serving more than 40 years in prison for Riley County convictions of second degree murder and rape has apparently been passed over for parole. 67 year old Danny Lee Sprecker, 67, was up for public comment sessions in January, but his current status just updated on the KDOC website indicates his earliest possible release date now is March first of 2021. Sprecker is being held at El Dorado. His crimes in Riley County occurred in May of 1973 for the murder and December of 1968 for the rape.
It was only fitting that on a night where blizzards and wildfires plagued Kansas that the Manhattan-Ogden Board of Education would choose to discuss something as volatile as the budget for the upcoming fiscal year. June 30th is approaching, and USD 383 is trying to figure out how the bills will be paid. Lew Faust, Director of Business Services, addressed the board for more than an hour and begin his presentation by asking the board about the various expenses a district has, and why they are all necessary. After 15 minutes of tossing ideas around, it is apparent there are…
OLATHE, Kan. (AP) A man has been sentenced to nearly 13 years in prison in connection to a fatal crash at a northeast Kansas intersection. The Kansas City Star reports 33-year-old Souksavanh Chamnongchith was sentenced Monday to 12 years and 10 months in prison. He had pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the November 2014 death of 31-year-old Idir Lounes. Prosecutors said that Chamnongchith was driving under the influence when his vehicle collided with a vehicle being driven by Lounes, who was traveling north on U.S. 56 in Olathe. Lounes was taken to a hospital, where he later died. Chamnongchith…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas lawmakers are taking up a new education funding proposal that’s designed to help poor school districts without increasing the state’s total spending significantly. The Senate Ways and Means Committee and the House Appropriations Committee were having separate hearings Wednesday on the plan. It was drafted by the two committee chairmen. They are Republican Sen. Ty Masterson of Andover and GOP Rep. Ron Ryckman Jr. of Olathe. The plan redistributes $83 million of the state’s $4 billion-plus a year in aid to its 286 school districts. It increases the state’s overall spending by a few million dollars…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A 22-year-old man has pleaded guilty in the shooting deaths of a man and woman at a Topeka apartment. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Nicholas Storm Phillips, of Topeka, admitted Tuesday to two counts of reckless second-degree murder. Prosecutors said he fired multiple shots through an apartment door in December, killing 20-year-old Daquhan S. Jackson and 29-year-old Mary E. Thomas, both of Topeka. Phillips told a detective he was upset because the victims were stealing his clothes, which had been thrown into a grassy area after he fought with a girlfriend. Phillips also pleaded guilty to one…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas Senate has declined to debate a proposed constitutional amendment that would phase out the state sales tax on food over the next three years. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that Democratic state Sen. Tom Holland proposed the amendment earlier this year. It didn’t receive a committee hearing and was in danger of dying as the 2016 session is coming to a close. Holland made a motion on the Senate floor Tuesday to force the bill to the top of the calendar for immediate debate and vote. His motion fell six votes short of the two-thirds majority…