Updated Monday afternoon: Police have identified the deceased 44 year old male found on a front porch in the 27-hundred block of Elm Creek Drive. Jay Henning was the deceased subject in the shooting. An autopsy is scheduled for Tuesday in Topeka. No foul play is suspected at this time. As previously reported, shortly after 5:30 Sunday night, the Junction City Police Department responded in reference to a subject with a gunshot wound to the head. #### (Posted 5:30 a.m. Monday) The Junction City Police Department is investigating the death of a 44-year-old man, reported shortly after 5:30…
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Updated 6:50 p.m. Sunday: At 4:21 p.m. on Sunday, June 14th, the Manhattan Fire Department was dispatched to 421 Brookridge Drive for a report of a structure fire. Upon arrival, crews found a single family dwelling with light smoke showing from the structure. The fire reached a second alarm, due to weather in the area causing other emergency calls, before it was contained within 20 minutes. A total of 15 firefighters responded on 5 fire apparatus with the last units still on scene at the time of this release. The single story single family dwelling was unoccupied at the…
The final game of a three-game series between the Kansas City Royals and St. Louis Cardinals was postponed by rain on Sunday following a two hour and 35 minute delay. No makeup date has been announced at this time. The Royals will open a two-game series Monday night in Milwaukee against the Brewers before the teams play another two games later this week at Kauffman Stadium.
Hillary Clinton spoke to voters in Iowa pushing her ‘basic bargain’ ideology on an economy for all Americans, as well as how she would handle the Trans Pacific Partnership deal.
A law enforcement helicopter aids in the search for escaped prisoners David Sweat and Richard Matt on Sunday, June 14, 2015, in Saranac, N.Y. Law enforcement personnel are in the ninth day of searching Sweat and Matt, two killers who used power tools to cut their way out of Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora in northern New York.
DODGE CITY, Kan. (AP) Questions have arisen after a zero was dropped from one version of a Dodge City school district bond issue ballot. The Hutchinson News reports that the ballot explains that the bond amount isn’t to exceed $85.6 million. The English version is fine, but in the Spanish translation, the last zero is dropped. Ballots for the mail election began arriving in voters’ mailboxes last week. They are due back in the Ford County Clerk’s office June 25. An official in the secretary of state’s office says the typo doesn’t necessarily invalidate the election. But the election could…
By Anthony Meier, K-State Athletics Communications EUGENE, Ore. – Kim Williamson and the K-State Track and Field women capped off a stellar showing at the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships with Williamson taking second in the high jump and the women tying for ninth overall to earn their first top-10 finish outdoors since 2002. Williamson’s scoring performance, along with Akela Jones’ fourth-place finish also in the high jump tallied 13 points for the women on the day, boosting their total to 28 points overall. The ninth-place finish marked the women’s first finish in the national top-10 since…
ST. LOUIS (AP)– Jason Heyward closed his eyes in the bright glare of the sun, dropped slowly to the turf on his backside, and hoped for the best. The St. Louis Cardinals right fielder made the key defensive play against the cross-state rival Kansas City Royals strictly by feel, preserving an eighth-inning lead by snaring a sinking liner by Kendrys Morales. “I saw it off the bat and that was the last time I saw it until I went to throw it in,” Heyward said after the 3-2 victory on Saturday. “I felt it hit my glove and I was…
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.…
(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…