Manhattan Fire Department water rescue team deploying to the Kansas river with Kansas Wildlife, Parks & Tourism and Fort Riley Fire Department for a boater in distress Monday afternoon. Three adults and three children were safely rescued by firefighters after their canoe became tangled in nearby trees. Also Monday, K-18 between Manhattan and K-99 junction (Mile Markers 197-198 in Riley County) was REDUCED TO ONE OPEN LANE for both directions due to high flood waters over part of the roadway, with KDOT maintenance crews flagging traffic through the area beginning about six p.m. The highway was re-opened at about 10:30…
Author: KMAN Staff
The South Carolina Senate voted 37-3 Monday to remove the Confederate flag from a pole on Statehouse grounds. The bill now goes to the House, where it must pass a two-thirds vote, likely to be held Tuesday.
In a release from U.S. attorney Barry Grissom: A former Ft. Riley soldier was sentenced Monday to 10 years in federal prison for aggravated sexual abuse of a child, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said. James Duke, 52, who is in federal custody, pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated sexual abuse. In his plea, he admitted he began sexually assaulting a female child starting when she was four or five years old. Most of the assaults occurred while he was stationed at Ft. Riley and living in military housing. He was stationed there from October 1996 to October 2001. …
Riley County Commissioner Ben Wilson isn’t like most 22-year olds. For one, few are county commissioners, and two, he campaigned on a conservative platform that goes against where the majority of Americans his age tend to lean. In June, Wilson — a freshman commissioner and just a couple years removed from being a college freshman — raised concerns about the county’s funding of certain healthcare services. Because of that, a chunk of Monday morning’s county commission meeting was spent going over a little bit of sex ed. Counties across the state are in the middle of crafting their budgets for 2016…
Further details were released Monday morning regarding the Riley County Police arrest of Jeremiah Tibbs, 22, of Manhattan for the offense of aggravated robbery on Saturday at approximately 12:50 AM. The arrest stemmed from an incident which was reported on Friday, the 3rd of July, at approximately 3:15 AM in the 1300 block of Laramie Street. Police found that Seth Rodriguez, 18, of Fort Riley was the victim of aggravated battery and Jessie Allen, 19, also of Fort Riley had become the victim of aggravated robbery after a small group of otherwise unknown males accosted them and demanded that Allen relinquish his wrist…
Dr. David Stone, Pickett Professor of Military History and Director of Institute for Military History and 20th Century Studies at Kansas State University with the latest on Greece, Russia: Manhattan Deputy Fire Chief Ryan Almes on Fourth of July aftermath: Ruth Nicolaus, publicist for Wild Bill Hickock Rodeo in Abilene and open phones:
An early morning fire has engulfed a commercial building filled with paper products south of Cleveland. There is no word of any injuries.
A deck collapsed at a North Carolina beach house as a family got set to take a group photo, leaving at least 23 people injured with two of those in critical condition, authorities said.