Dallas’ police chief says a sniper has shot the suspect in an overnight attack on police headquarters and that the department is checking to see if he’s still alive.
Author: KMAN Staff
A defense lawyer has entered a not guilty plea for northern New York prison worker Joyce Mitchell who is accused of helping two killers escape last weekend.
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)…
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…
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…
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
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…
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.
An accident on I-70 in Geary County involving school buses was reported over the noon hour Friday. The accident occurred in the westbound lanes near Exit 301. Traffic slow-downs were being reported, and was down to one lane shortly before 12:30 p.m. An injury appeared to be involved but further details are not available at this time.
Alan LaPolice (Clyde) has announced his intention to run for the First Congressional district seat. LaPolice ran a very ambitious race against incumbent Congressman Tim Huelskamp (Fowler) in the 2014 RepublicanPrimary. Despite being outspent and having declared late in the race, LaPolice pulled off an unexpectedly strong showing for a first time candidate and built a solid foundation of support and good-will in the Big First. “People ask if I was disappointed at the outcome of that race. I have to admit, for me, it was a victory. Against all odds, I held him to single digits and I proved that…