Three major theft incidents turned into one significant arrest. The Riley County Police Department received a 9-1-1 call from Richard Rothfuss (69) of Junction City around 4:15 Sunday afternoon. He reported that he was confronted by an armed male in the 3100 block of Anderson Avenue, and forced to drive to the 4100 block of Marlatt Avenure, where his personal property was taken from him. The suspect then left in Rothfuss’s 2014 black Chevy Silverado valued around $30,000. He also obtained other items including a bank card and a cell phone. Rothfuss walked to a nearby home and reported the…
Author: KMAN Staff
On today’s In Focus, Cathy spoke about Big Blue River Flood Plain Project with Brian Rast, Senior Planner and Senior Project Manager and Silver Jackets Coordinator for Kansas & Missouri with U-S Army Corps of Engineers, Brian McNulty Operations Manager with U-S Army Corps of Engineers at Tuttle Creek Lake and Chad Bunger, Senior Planner with City of Manhattan, as well as Executive Director of Manhattan Area Habitat for Humanity, Roxann Janes and Chair of Chocolate and Tea fund-raiser,Carol Bredesen.
Ships searching the Indian Ocean are trying to track down signals heard from deep under water. Officials say the signals are consistent with black-box transmissions.
Actor Mickey Rooney, a Hollywood legend whose career spanned more than 80 years, has died. He was 93.
Updated Noon Monday: Further details were released late Monday morning regarding a two vehicle fatal accident in Pottawatomie County Sunday afternoon. Sheriff Greg Riat has announced Don Collette, 69, of Clay Center died as a result of the accident, reported just after two p.m. on highway 16, east of Lincoln Road in rural Onaga. The accident occurred when a 2000 Ford Windstar being driven by Collette was Westbound on K-16 and crossed into the East bound lane of K-16. It then struck an Eastbound vehicle also on K-16, a 2011 Chevrolet pickup being driven by Timothy Taylor, 65, of Trimble, Missouri.…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) House and Senate negotiators have reached an agreement on a Kansas school funding measure, setting the stage for an evening vote to satisfy a court order. The deal reached Saturday would increase state spending in an effort to address unconstitutional funding levels flagged by the Kansas Supreme Court in its March 7th ruling. Several dozen teachers converged on the Statehouse on Saturday to lobby legislators on the tenure issue.
Nate Griep pitched eight-plus strong innings for Kansas State but Frank Duncan of Kansas was just a little bit better in a much-anticipated match-up between two of the best pitchers on the respective teams as the Jayhawks held on for a 2-1 over the Wildcats before 3,470 Sunday afternoon in Big 12 action at Tointon Family Stadium, Tucker Tharp, one of the hitting heroes for KU in Saturday’s 6-3 Jayhawk win greeted Griep in the second inning with a towering first-pitch home run to left field. Kansas added to its lead in the top of the fifth on a sacrifice…
Searchers of the missing Malaysia jet raced toward a patch of the southern Indian Ocean on Sunday to see if sounds picked up by underwater equipment came from the plane’s black boxes, whose battery-operated pingers are on the verge of dying out.
NASA released a spectacular video on Sunday from its Solar Dynamics Observatory of a flare erupting from the sun.
Tucker Tharp, Colby Wright and Michael Suiter had two hits apiece and Robert Kahana held Kansas State to three hits over six innings as Kansas evened a Big 12 Series in the second game of the Sunflower Showdown by holding on for a 6-3 victory before a sellout crowd of 3,847 Saturday afternoon at Tointon Family Stadium. K-State won Game 1 of the series 10-0 on Friday night. KU strung together four hits in the top of the first inning, two of them on bunts to jump out to a 2-0 lead against K-State starting pitcher Jared Moore (5-2). The…