Updated 5:30 a.m. Wednesday: As KMAN first reported Tuesday night, one person was arrested and another life-flighted for treatment following a shooting incident in Pottawatomie County. Sheriff Greg Riat indicates just before 5:00 p.m. , Pottawatomie County Sheriff Dispatch received a 911 call of a male walking towards a residence who was bleeding. The caller who lived west of Lake Elbo Road on Mt. Zion Road had also reported hearing what they believed was the sound of a gunshot. Sheriff Deputies as well as emergency medical and fire units responded to the area. Deputies arriving on scene learned the male…
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Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has called in the National Guard to assist with flood-fighting efforts. Roads are closed in nearly 500 locations across the state.
A Texas teenage fugitive and his mom attempted to disguise themselves and disappear among American tourists who flocked to a Mexican resort city, before they were arrested and set for deportation to the U.S., officials said Tuesday.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Authorities in Kansas’ Sedgwick County are asking for the public’s help in finding the person they say stabbed a Wichita man whose body was found in a sport utility vehicle on Christmas Eve. The Wichita Eagle reports that a Park City police officer found 42-year-old Moises Arias-Aranda dead in a maroon, 1994 Ford Explorer shortly before 7 p.m. Dec. 24. Sheriff’s Capt. Greg Pollock says someone in the Wichita-Sedgwick County area knows what happened to Aranda, and that that person needs to come forward to investigators.
DERBY — The police chief in Derby says his department will outfit its four school resource officers with body cameras as part of a pilot project. Derby Police Chief Robert Lee says the department will spend about $7,400 on the cameras, and he anticipates the school resource officers will be equipped by March. The Wichita Eagle reports the pilot project is expected to last a year. Lee says the police department is considering equipping all 47 of its officers with body cameras. He says cameras “are a good thing for law enforcement,” but that there are concerns over costs. According to estimates…
Today was a special episode of In Focus – Cathy Dawes was joined by KMAN Staff Reporters Brady Bauman and Andrew Shores to discuss some of the biggest stories of the year in Manhattan and beyond. Developments on NBAF, the Fort Riley Listening Ceremony, marriage equality, and Riley County affairs were all key issues in 2015.
Due to heightened security at public events nationwide the Riley County Police Department will have an increased presence at some large community functions, those that meet an undisclosed criteria, in the future. This increased police presence is out of an abundance of caution and not a result of direct threats or increased danger to the community, its safety, or future event participants. “A conscious decision has been made by RCPD to provide additional resources at some of these events to include an increase in visible police presence. This increase in personnel at events is intended to improve safety and security…”…
The body of one of the six U.S. troops killed in a suicide attack in Afghanistan last week was returned to New York Monday. Members of the New York Air National Guard, the NYPD and Joseph Lemm’s family were at Stewart Air National Guard Base. (
A grand jury has declined to indict a rookie Cleveland police officer or his partner for their roles in the fatal shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, a black youngster who was holding what turned out to be a pellet gun.
Riley County commissioners spent their last meeting of 2015 on Monday morning discussing an issue that will no doubt carry into 2016: the state of mental health care in the region and state as a whole. After commissioners — minus Ben Wilson who was absent — renewed the county’s contract with Pawnee Mental Health Services for 2016, its director, Robbin Cole, updated them on the struggles her facility and others face, which largely include funding issues from the state and how high demand and inadequate levels of service have combined for a nightmare dilemma. Cole spoke about the recent challenges Osawatomie…