Author: KMAN Staff

Updated 10:30 a.m. Tuesday: The 45-year-old female who died in Pottawatomie County at Macy Place Drive and Elm Slough Road, has been identified as Shannon Chebultz, with a last known address of Blaine. Sheriff Greg Riat released that information Tuesday morning, indicating the investigation continues into this matter and that no further information is available at this time. As KMAN first announced Monday, on Sunday afternoon at approximately 4:04 p.m. the Office received a 911 call alerting authorities about a woman found lying in the road bleeding from the head. Pottawatomie County Sheriff Deputies along with Emergency Services responded to…

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For most people, it takes around two minutes to drive east on Kimball Avenue from CiCo Park to the Vanier Football Complex. For Deante Burton and Winston Dimel, it took two years. The pair took almost identical routes. In 2011, they were teammates at Manhattan High School, with Burton a standout senior and Dimel a hungry sophomore. The league-champion Indians went 10-1 that season, and Burton accepted a scholarship with the Wildcats. He redshirted in 2012, helped on special teams in 2013, and finally entered the mix at wide receiver last season. By that time, after helping MHS to two more…

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It took exactly one play for Kansas State to lose its flexibility at the quarterback position. On the first play of the 2015 season, sophomore starter Jesse Ertz sustained a knee injury that will keep him out “for quite some time,” coach Bill Snyder said on the weekly Big 12 teleconference Monday. Joe Hubener will take his place when K-State visits Texas-San Antonio this week. Ertz ran the ball for five yards to lead off K-State’s 34-0 victory over South Dakota, and was on the field for one more play before limping to the sideline. After several minutes, he was taken…

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP)– It is probably too late for the Chicago White Sox, but they are back on a hot streak. Adam Eaton homered and scored three times, and the White Sox beat the Kansas City Royals 7-5 on Sunday for their fourth straight win. “Yeah, it’s good to win in general, but Kansas City’s a high-quality baseball team,” Eaton said. “It’s good to take three from a very, very good team.” The White Sox had lost their first six games at Kauffman Stadium before sweeping the Royals. “It shows kind of our inconsistency this year,” Eaton said. “This…

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Officers with the Riley County Police Department arrested 19-year old Cody Michael Jones of Leonardville around 4:50 p.m. on Saturday afternoon in the 7400 Block of Tuttle Creek Road. Jones was charged with aggravated battery and causing great physical harm along with criminal damage to property between $1,000 and $25,000. His bond was set at $23,000. He was confined at the Riley County Jail at the time of this report.

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A Manhattan man died in a rollover accident just east of Tuttle Creek Lake at 4 a.m. Sunday. Colby Scott Mathies, 27, was ejected from his 1993 Chevy pickup. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol crash log, Mathies was traveling southbound on Carnahan Road from Wildflower Road when it left the roadway toward the east and rolled, ejecting him. The crash report said there was no safety restraint used by Mathies. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

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