Author: KMAN Staff

Updated Monday morning: Details have been released regarding an accident KMAN first told you about Saturday afternoon on I-70 in Geary County. The Geary County Sheriff’s Department reports at 1:10 p.m. Saturday, Deputies responded to mile marker 301 on Interstate 70 for a report of a two vehicle injury accident. Steven Weber of Junction City, was traveling westbound on Interstate 70 in a 2008 Dodge Ram when he struck a large piece of debris in the roadway and lost control of the vehicle. The pickup left the roadway, went into the median and entered into the eastbound lanes of travel.…

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(Photo by Cathy Dawes) An apparent explosion at a house in the 200 block of North High Street in Riley touched off a fire shortly after 12:30 Saturday afternoon. Firefighters from multiple stations including Riley, Keats, Randolph and Leonardville responded to the scene as well as Riley County Police. According to early reports it appears all occupants made it out of the house safely, however according to Riley County Fire Chief Pat Collins a woman and three children were transported to an area hospital for treatment but the extent of their injuries is unknown. Collins has identified Amber Farnsworth as…

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Riley County Police arrested a Green, Kansas woman Friday evening for a variety of drug and alcohol related crimes. Barbara Crowl (58) was picked up shortly after 6:30 pm Friday and charged with possession of opiates, opium,, or narcotics, illegal use or possession of drug paraphernalia , refusal of an initial drug test, improper driving on a laned highway and transporting an open container. Crowl was confined at the Riley County Jail on a $10 thousand bond. __________________________________________________________________________________ Officers with the Riley County Police Department arrested an Ogden man for a couple of violent offenses Friday afternoon. Eugene Nolley (48)…

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ST. LOUIS (AP)– Jaime Garcia pitched eight innings of four-hit ball and helped himself with an RBI single for the St. Louis Cardinals, who ended the Kansas City Royals’ four-game winning streak with a 4-0 victory in the opener of a high-profile weekend interleague series on Friday night. Jon Jay snapped a 2-for-24 slump this month with a two-out RBI triple in the second off Yordano Ventura (3-6), and Garcia followed with his 12th career RBI on an opposite-field single to left. The Cardinals are 40-21 overall and 23-7 at home, both major league bests. They got a huge outing…

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Kansas legislators have approved increases in sales and cigarette taxes to erase a budget deficit and avert deep spending cuts. The Senate voted 21-19 Friday to approve a bill raising the sales tax to 6.5 percent from 6.15 percent. The House passed it 63-45 early Friday morning, and it goes next to Republican Gov. Sam Brownback. The GOP-dominated Legislature also is sending Brownback a companion bill to increase the cigarette tax by 50 cents a pack to $1.29. The House passed it 63-44 early Friday, after the Senate’s approval Sunday. The two bills together raise $384 million during the fiscal…

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President Barack Obama and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. leave meeting with House Democrats on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, June 12, 2015. The president made an 11th-hour appeal to dubious Democrats on Friday in a tense run-up to a House showdown on legislation to strengthen his hand in global trade talks

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Law enforcement officers walk along Route 3 and Trudeau Road after emerging from the woods during a search for two escapees from Clinton Correctional Facility on Friday, June 12, 2015, near Dannemora, N.Y. Squads of law enforcement officers are searching for David Sweat and Richard Matt, two murderers who escaped from the maximum-security prison in northern New York. Meanwhile, the female prison employee at the center of an investigation into the escape of two killers was arrested Thursday and charged with providing them assistance. The New York State Police said Joyce Mitchell, 51, faced two felony charges related to helping…

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The Bell OH-58, also known as the Kiowa helicopter made it’s final flight this weekend over Fort Riley during Victory Week in a stunning display of Army pride. Pictures of these now retired airborne machines and hundreds more of Victory Week celebrations can be found by following this link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/firstinfantrydivision/collections/72157651955545553/ This Flickr link contains images taken of Victory Week participants from the USO, Fort Riley units, families of soldiers and more. Listen to 1350 KMAN for more post-celebration coverage of the 1st Infantry Division’s birthday, and keep in mind that June 14th is the Army’s 240th birthday as well.

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