The Secret Service arrested an Iowa man Wednesday afternoon after finding a hunting rifle, dozens of rounds of ammunition and a knife in the trunk of his car parked near the White House.
Author: KMAN Staff
FORT CARSON, Colo. (AP) A Fort Carson, Colorado soldier has been convicted of premeditated murder in the Valentine’s Day 2013 slaying of his soldier-girlfriend who was stationed at Fort Riley. A military jury returned the verdict Wednesday night against Sergeant Montrell Lamar Mayo of Greenville, South Carolina. Mayo’s girlfriend, 28-year-old Sergeant Kimberly Walker of Cincinnati, Ohio was found dead on a bed sprinkled with rose petals at a motel in Colorado Springs near Fort Carson. Mayo was stationed at Fort Carson and Walker was visiting from Fort Riley. Prosecutors said Mayo hit Walker three times with a drinking glass and…
Updated 5:30 a.m. Thursday: A 57-year-old Manhattan man was injured in an accident in the 68-hundred block of Anderson Avenue, about eight miles west of Manhattan, shortly after nine Wednesday night. The accident resulted in the closing of that stretch of road for about three hours. Michael Perry was taken to the University of Kansas Hospital by Life Star following the accident. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, Perry was driving a 2008 Ford F-350 westbound on Anderson Avenue when the vehicle drifted across double yellow lines into a south ditch and then vaulted over a creek bed and…
General psychology and introduction to sociology are headed to Manhattan High School for the 2015-2016 school year. These courses were unanimously approved during Wednesday evening’s Manhattan Ogden USD 383 School Board meeting. Both of the new courses involve a partnership with Manhattan Area Technical College and will be transferable college credits. Besides the two additional courses, one course was deleted from the list-plane college trigonometry. Executive Director of Teaching and Learning, Carol Adams, who presented this agenda item, mentioned the course experienced two years of high attendance, but since that time “it has ceased to draw students”. Several courses will also…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) A 29-year-old Missouri man is sentenced to 18 years in federal prison for selling crack cocaine near a playground across the river in Kansas. U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom says Arrick Warren of Kansas City, Missouri, pleaded guilty to two counts of distributing crack within 1,000 feet of Bethany Park playground in Kansas City, Kansas. He also pleaded guilty to possessing crack cocaine with the intent to distribute it near the playground, and one count of maintaining a residence near the playground in furtherance of drug trafficking. Prosecutors say Warren was charged in June 2013 in federal…
President Barack Obama on Thursday will announce on national television go-it-alone steps he will take to shield up to 5 million immigrants illegally in the United States from deportation.
The Game is live from Fat Daddys in Morgantown, West Virginia.
A plane negotiates its way through the snow at the Buffalo Niagara International Airport in Buffalo, N.Y., as a lake-effect snowstorm with freezing temperatures hit the area Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014. Temperatures fell to freezing or below at recording stations in all 50 states on Tuesday morning, from the highest elevations in the mountains of Hawaii to the snow-paralyzed Buffalo area in New York.
Tempe, Ariz. (AP)-One of the men accused of alcohol-related violations in connection with the fatal fall of an Arizona State University student from Kansas has been sentenced. A Maricopa County Superior Court spokeswoman says David Siegal received 18 months of probation with a deferred jail term of 45 days. 18-year old Naomi McClendon of Manhattan plunged to her death March 30 from an apartment complex after attending a fraternity party.
A Manhattan case has resulted in a charge at the U-S Attorney level in Topeka. Daeshawn Lavar Bryant, 19, who is in custody in the Riley County Jail, is charged with one count of being an accessory after the fact to a robbery of a commercial business. The indictment alleges that on April 16, 2014, he provided assistance to a person who committed a robbery. In September, Christopher James Wilhoite pleaded guilty to two counts of commercial robbery and one count of unlawful possession of a firearm in furtherance of a robbery. It is alleged Bryant aided and abetted Wilhoite in…