South Korea has resumed its border broadcasts of anti-Pyongyang propaganda. The country uses loudspeakers to broadcast messages and music into its neighbors’ territory.
Author: KMAN Staff
The armed protesters occupying an Oregon wildlife refuge vowed that they want to have a peaceful protest on Thursday, the seventh day of the occupation.
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…
Stocks and oil prices plunged again on more worries about a slowdown in China, giving the market its worst drop in three months.
The mother of Ethan Couch, the fugitive teen who used a defense of ‘affluenza’ after killing four people in a drunken car wreck arrived in Dallas Thursday after being deported from Mexico last week.
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…
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…
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
We’ve been telling you lately about a scam that’s been running in both Riley and Pottawatomie Counties where a caller tells a victim that a family member has been kidnapped and another incident took place this morning in Pottawatomie County. Sherriff Greg Riat tells KMAN a victim received multiple calls this morning that a family member had been kidnapped which begain an investigation. Because the calls were placed in an area that was close to St. George Elementary School, the Sheriff’s Department notified the school of what’s happening and the building was placed on lockdown for a short time. Authorities…
Senator Tom Hawk says he’s running for re-election. According to a press release, the senator from Manhattan filed with the Kansas Secretary of State’s Office for re-election to the 22nd District of the Senate, on Thursday. In the release, Hawk says, “It is a privilege to serve the people of the 22nd district in the Kansas Senate.” Prior to becoming a senator, Hawk spent 33 years working in the Manhattan-Ogden school district, working his way up from a junior high math teacher to superintendent. In seeking re-election, Hawk notes that education is one of his main priorities, saying, “Unfortunately, the mismanagement of the…