HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) A woman has been arrested in connection to the death of a Hutchinson woman whose body was found in a creek bed in Reno County. According to the Reno County Sheriff’s Office, a 27-year-old woman was arrested Wednesday afternoon. Authorities say the body of 38-year-old Mary Ann Arnett was found June 22 in a shallow creek south of Nickerson. The suspect faces charges of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder. She is being held in the Reno County Correctional Facility on a bond of $500,000.
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Updated 2p.m. -Courtesy of KAIR Radio, Atchison (Former KMAN Reporter Joel Hardy is News Director): The suspect accused of pulling the trigger that left an Atchison man dead is now in custody. That word from Atchison Police Chief Mike Wilson, who tells MSC News 19-year-old Terell Dixon was arrested in Henry County, Missouri mid-day Thursday. He remains jailed in that jurisdiction, held on an Atchison County District Court Warrant charging him with 2nd degree murder. Police allege Dixon was the gunman who shot to death 24-year-old Winston Downing around 6:00 Wednesday evening outside the King Super Store at 912 Division…
AP-KS–Wichita-Marijuana WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Kansas’s highest court is considering the legality of Wichita’s marijuana ordinance next week. Oral arguments are set for Sept. 17 in Topeka in the legal challenge brought by Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt. At issue is the state’s effort to invalidate a voter-approved ordinance in Wichita lessening criminal penalties for possessing small amounts of marijuana. Among the issues the Kansas Supreme Court will consider is whether the ordinance conflicts with state law. Also at issue is whether the ordinance was filed properly. The ordinance imposes no more than a $50 fine for first-time possession of a…
KMAN’s Cathy Dawes speaks with Fort Riley Fall Apple Day Festival Pie Queen Danielle Alch and Public Affairs Specialist Eric Zenk: FR 1 Apple Day In Focus 9 10 15 FR 2Apple Festival In Focus 9 10 15 Cathy visits with C. Clyde Jones, Emeritus Dean with K-State’s College of Business Administration, and Asst. to the Dean Melanie Horton regarding C. Clyde Run for Shepherd’s Crossing: C Clyde 1 In Focus 9-10-15 C Clyde 2-In Focus 9-10-15
Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt visited the KMAN Studio Thursday morning and visited with News Director Cathy Dawes: derekschmdit9-10-15
(A separate release is listed in a different report regarding aggravated robbery arrest) ### The Riley County Police Department responded to a report of an aggravated burglary and aggravated robbery which had just occurred early Thursday morning in the 3000 block of Tuttle Creek Boulevard. Derek Macy, 45, of Manhattan reported that a suspect, who was not known to him, had entered his residence at about 12:20 a.m. and demanded items. The suspect was reportedly armed with a knife and exited the residence a short time later without taking anything. The suspect was described as a white male, approximately 20 years…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP)– The longer Miguel Sano stayed in the batter’s box, the more confident Twins manager Paul Molitor felt that his big pinch-hitter would come through in the 12th inning Wednesday night. Sano delivered with a two-out homer over the bullpen in left field, boosting Minnesota to a 3-2 victory over the AL Central-leading Kansas City Royals and a series win in their three-game set. “Sano had a really good at-bat,” Molitor said. “He did what he can do, put a run up quickly.” Sano was stuck in an 0-for-14 slump that included 11 strikeouts when he stepped…
Military helicopters plucked residents from the top floors of their homes on Thursday after raging floodwaters poured in and inundated a wide swath of a city north of Tokyo.
A new $26 million visitor center complex at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Pennsylvania will be dedicated and opened to the public on Thursday.
Updated 10:45 a.m.: A Manhattan man arrested Wednesday night is apparently connected with the series of robberies announced by Riley County Police last Friday. As KMAN announced earlier Thursday morning, Sean Johnson, 20, was taken into custody at about seven p.m. Wednesday while at the Riley County Police Department. Johnson’s bond has been set at 150-thousand dollars. A news release from RCPD from Thursday morning reminds us in the early morning hours Friday, a series of Robberies and a Theft were reported in the central portion of Manhattan. In two of these incidents the suspects were armed with a handgun.…