Author: KMAN Staff

Today’s guests on In Focus were: State Legislators including Sen. Tom Hawk, Rep. Tom Phillips, Sydney Carlin, Susie Swanson Brian McNulty, Melissa Bean and Todd Lovin with Tuttle Creek Lake and Dam

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Officers with the Riley County Police Department arrested Leron McElveen, 34, of Fordland, Missouri on January 7, 2016 at approximately 7:00 PM. McElveen was arrested while at the Riley County Police Department on the offense of probation violation listed on a warrant with an original offense of theft. At the time of this report he was confined at the Riley County Jail on “no bond.”

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A Junction City woman was taken to the hospital following a two vehicle accident in Shawnee county Thursday afternoon. The Kansas Highway Patrol reports Ashley Wright, 22, was taken to Stormont Vail in Topeka for a possible injury, following the accident on I-70 eastbound at Carlson Road. KHP indicates Wright was driving a 2001 Honda in the right lane and for an unknown reason struck the rear of a 2014 Freightliner Semi driven by 45 year old Jody Juhl of Missouri, who was not injured. Both vehicles came to rest on the right shoulder. The accident was reported shortly after…

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The Riley County Appraiser’s Office has begun the annual 2016 Final Review process for property values. County appraiser Greg McHenry told county commissioners Thursday morning he hopes to complete those values by Feburary. During the Final Review process, values are chosen for all the approximately 24,000 real estate parcels in the county. McHenry said appraisers will be choosing 2016 values based on each property’s Jan. 1 status and that his office is scheduled to mail the Change of Value Notices on Feb. 12. “March 1 is the mandated deadline to mail those and as you all know, we try to mail those…

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A Manhattan man has been arrested in the case of his wife’s stabbing death in Mississippi. Riley County police took 34-year-old Edward Alexander Broom, into custody Tuesday on a warrant for extradition to Leflore County, Mississippi. Broom was indicted there Monday on a capital murder charge in the death of his wife, 29-year-old Lakeyla Broom who was found dead in her Greenwood, Mississippi when a man called 911 saying that he had been tied up and stabbed. Police then found Broom tied up in a bedroom, his wife’s body in another. Greenwood Police Chief Ray Moore says authorities believe the…

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Governor’s Military Council Executive Director of Manhattan John Armburst Area Ministers on LGBT Discussion Barbara Crabul Gehring of the Manhattan Mennonite Church Paul Allen from the First Christian Church

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