Updated 3:30 p.m. Tuesday by Cathy Dawes: The defense attorneys in the Howard Barrett second degree murder trial in Riley County District Court began calling witnesses Tuesday afternoon. Leonardville State Bank Executive Vice President Anita Bassett was the first witness called by the defense, and talked about the approximate four years she had known Barrett, whose apartment was near their bank. She described him as different, recounting his allegations he was with the Kansas Highway Patrol and had been a child opera star the first time she met him. Bassett also recounted Barrett later being mad at the Highway Patrol,…
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Riley County Police executed a search warrant and made an arrest related to drugs in the 1300 block of Yuma Street in Manhattan on Monday at approximately 9:30 AM. Richard Smith, 40, of Wichita, Kansas was arrested for possession of methamphetamine, possession of marijuana, and possession of drug paraphernalia. Bond wasset at $7,500. ### Also taken into custody Monday was Anthony Murphy, 49, of Manhattan on a probation violation, with no bond set. While the original offense is not listed, KMAN records indicate Murphy was arrested more than a year ago in an aggravated robbery and battery case. According to…
The K-State women’s basketball team opened up 2014 with a sluggish win against Emporia State 54-50. Emporia State led at the half 22-21 but the Wildcats would outscore ESU 33-28 in the second half. Bre Lewis was the only Wildcat in double figures with 14 points on 5 of 12 from the field. She also had eight rebounds, three blocks and three steals. Ashia Woods provided eight points and three steals. K-State will host its final exhibition game on Monday as the Wildcats welcome in Newman for a 7:00 p.m. tip off. The K-State men will open up their season…
Voters are heading to the polls as election day is underway. The big prize up for grabs is control of the US Senate.
Federal accident investigators have an early sense of what went wrong before an experimental spaceship broke apart during a test flight. But they still don’t know why the craft prematurely shifted its shape prior to the deadly crash.
COLUMBUS, Kan. (AP) The state Highway Patrol says a southeast Kansas teenager has died after crashing a car while being chased by law enforcement. Four other teens were injured when they were thrown from the car. The patrol says the crash occurred just after 8 a.m. Monday near the Cherokee County town of Columbus while officers were chasing a car driven by 17-year-old Noah Kirsch, of Pittsburg. The car went off the road and rolled over several times. It was not immediately clear why Kirsch was being chased. His injured passengers were identified as two boys and two girls, all…
This Oct. 28, 2014, photo provided by the U.S. Geological Survey with the permission of the Sato family, shows the Sato headstone still standing in a sea of black lava in a cemetery in Pahoa, Hawaii. As the slow-moving lava got closer to the Pahoa Japanese Cemetery, officials provided Aiko Sato an opportunity to visit. When she placed flowers at the headstone last week, she thought it would be the last time she would see it. But after lava flowed over the cemetery, Sato’s aunt was given a photograph taken by a geologist documenting the lava’s advancement, showing the Sato…
Sen. Mark Warner holds his hands up during a rally at his headquarters in Richmond, Va., Monday, Nov. 3, 2014. Warner faces Republican Ed Gillespie in Tuesday’s election.
Wildcat Insider with Wyatt Thompson and John Kurtz. Hour 1 https://1350kman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/1.mp3 K-State rolls Oklahoma State https://1350kman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/2.mp3 TCU could be the toughest game of the season/ Gundy-reporter interaction https://1350kman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/3.mp3 KSU Women’s Basketball opens the season tonight/ Volleyball beats Texas Tech/ Big weekend in college football https://1350kman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/4.mp3 Jake Waters is a semifinalist for the Maxwell award/ Is Joe Hubener the QB of the future Hour 2 https://1350kman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/5.mp3 KSU shuts down OSU after the first drive/ Trevone Boykin has been great this season https://1350kman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/6.mp3 TCU made a lot of mistakes at WV/ DJ Johnson might redshirt this season https://1350kman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/7.mp3 Notes on the K-State…
Advanced voting polls closed at noon on Monday, and numbers had already surpassed the previous gubernatorial election statistics. Riley County Clerk, Rich Vargo reported during Monday’s county commission meeting that 3,145 county residents had participated in advanced voting in person as of Saturday. 892 ballots had also been received in the mail at that point. Vargo said, “with those figures, we are at 4,037 so far that have participated, which has exceeded the 2010 numbers. We had 3,250 that year. So we’ll beat 2010’s numbers by over a thousand easily”. Election day polls will be open from 7 a.m.-7 p.m.…