On May 23 at approximately 5:23 pm, the 9-1-1 Center received several calls concerning lightning striking an apartment complex in Grandview Plaza. The complex is located at 1103-1111 Cannon View. There is a total of 36 apartments in this complex. Grandview Plaza Fire responded and along with law enforcement evacuated all the apartments. They also requested Mutual Aid of ladder/aerial trucks from both Junction City Fire and Ft. Riley Fire Departments. Once Junction City Fire ladder truck arrived on scene, the ladder was raised and firefighters checked the roof area for damages. They were able to locate several spots where…
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A line of storms caused major flooding and dangerous tornado winds for Corpus Christi where a preschool center was badly damaged.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP)– When Michael Wacha is on the mound, Matt Carpenter and the St. Louis Cardinals like their chances. For good reason, too. Wacha pitched seven sparkling innings for his seventh straight win, and the Cardinals stopped a three-game losing streak with a 6-1 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Sunday. Carpenter, who hit a two-run homer off Yordano Ventura (3-4) in the sixth, said the NL Central leaders believe they are going to win when Wacha (7-0) takes the mound. Wacha appreciated the vote of confidence from the All-Star infielder. “That’s nice for him to say,”…
Army veteran Bernie Klemanek, of Mineral, Va., stops to salute his fallen comrades on Memorial Day during an early morning visit to “The Wall” at the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, Monday, May 25, 2015.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) The Kansas City, Kansas, police department says it’s investigating after photos surfaced of two officers posing with their rifles in front of a vandalized stop sign. The Kansas City Star reports the photographs show lettering had been added to a stop sign to read, “Cops STOP murder’n.” The two officers posed for photos in front of the sign with their patrol rifles. Police spokeswoman Amber Hickerson says the department learned of the photos after a neighbor saw the officers and posted pictures of them on social media. Hickerson did not know where the sign was located…
At about 3:30 pm Saturday, the Riley County Police Department received a 911 call from a passerby who reported a one vehicle rollover accident with entrapment in the 3200 block of Stagg Hill Road, Manhattan, KS. Responding officers found that the vehicle had three occupants at the time of the accident. One of the passengers was pronounced deceased at the scene and was identfied as 18-year old Cheyanne Higgins, of Junction City. A second passenger was transported to Stormont Vail in Topeka, and his current condition is unknown at the time of this release. The driver of the vehicle is…
KANSAS CITY, Mo.(AP)– Expecting some rain, the Kansas City Royals tried to rush their way through five innings to make it an official game, and came away with a shortened win. Alex Gordon hit a two-run homer, Edinson Volquez pitched six solid innings and the Royals beat the St. Louis Cardinals 3-2 Saturday night in a game called in the sixth inning due to rain. Volquez acknowledged he was rushing his throws with rain looming. “I was kind of hurrying my throws a little bit,” Volquez said. “I knew the rain was coming. I was trying to get past the…
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has scheduled a last-minute session to consider retaining the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of domestic phone records.
Michael Brelo, center, listens to the judge reading his verdict during his trial Saturday, May 23, 2015, in Cleveland. Brelo, a patrolman charged in the shooting deaths of two unarmed suspects during a 137-shot barrage of gunfire was acquitted Saturday in a case that helped prompt the U.S. Department of Justice determine the city police department had a history of using excessive force and violating civil rights. Seated next to Brelo is attorney Patrick D’Angelo, left, and attorney Fernando Mack.
On today’s In Focus, KMAN’s Erik Stone talked to St. Rep. Tom Phillips of Manhattan; U-S Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas; Operations Project Manager at Tuttle Creek Lake, Brian McNulty; and Dam Safety Program Manager,U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Kansas City District, John Benson Tom Phillips-segment 1 Pat Roberts-segment 1 Tuttle Creek Lake-segment 1 Tuttle Creek Lake-segment 2