An almost two hour wait on jury proceedings was needed by Judge David Stutzman and counsels as they wrangled out a legal issue before open court resumed again on Wednesday morning. Christopher Bates is facing 6 counts of sexual assault on two victims in the summer of 2013. According to prosecutors the assaults occurred from mid-summer until Victim A reported the incidents to their mother on 12, August 2013. After the long break at the beginning of the trial Judge Stutzman explained that he must ensure the trial was a fair and legally sound proceeding, and must sometimes make rulings on…
Author: KMAN Staff
On today’s In Focus, Cathy spoke with USD 383 School Board Member, Dave Colburn and Associate Superintendent, Bob Seymour; as well as Manhattan Area Technical College President, Rob Edleston, and Becky Clause on Nursing and Allied Health at MATC.
The City of Wamego received a good grade for its annual audit. At Tuesday’s City Commission meeting, Reese & Novelly’s Carol McCullough went over the 2013 Audit, and said there were no significant reportable corrections and gave the City a ‘clean report’. According to McCullough, there is one area accountants look at, and it’s internal control. She commended City Manager Merl Page and the City staff for having such good internal controls in place. She noted the staff continually challenges her with questions to make sure entries are made in compliance. She concluded by saying it was a good, clean…
Josh Groves, and his daughter Abagayle Groves, 3, wait to cross the road as flash flood waters overrun Skunk Creek through the Sonoran Desert, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014, in northwestern Phoenix. Flooding from heavy rain in the Phoenix area has forced authorities to close several major roads, including a portion of Interstate 17 about 25 miles north of the city.
In this May 27, 2011 file photo American Journalist James Foley, of Rochester, N.H., poses for a photo in Boston. The parents of Foley, kidnapped in Syria more than two years ago. A video purportedly showing him being killed by ISIS militants surfaced on the internet Tuesday. The militants say Foley’s beheadding was in retaliation for recent U.S. airstrikes in Iraq.
DENVER — Ned Yost never has a bad birthday, but a win helps make the occasion much more special. Omar Infante had three doubles and drove in four runs to help the streaking Kansas City Royals beat the Colorado Rockies 7-4 on Tuesday night. It also brought a smile to Yost, who turned 60. The Royals have been celebrating a lot lately. Since dropping two games below .500 on July 21 they have won 22 of 27 to move two games ahead of Detroit in the AL Central. They even won with ace James Shields not having his best stuff. Shields…
The Manhattan City Commission approved the second reading of the 2015 Budget Tuesday, which includes a mill levy rate 43.942, an increase of roughly half-a-mill over the current fiscal year. The vote was not unanimous as two Commissioners expressed their desire to keep the mill levy even, a sentiment not shared by Commissioner, Karen McCulloh. “Flat is not flat. Flat is going backwards, because everything costs more. Asphalt costs more, staff costs more, that kind of thing,” McCulloh said. Mayor, Wynn Butler, on the other hand, said that because Manhattan is experiencing solid growth, raising the property tax rate isn’t…
Tuesday night, multiple first response teams from all over Riley, Geary, and Pottawatomie Counties took part in a cooperative simulation near Manhattan Regional Airport. The simulation included a downed aircraft with “victims”, both living actors and dummies as fatalities, that were strewn across a field. Response teams were tasked to search, assess, and triage victims. Riley County EMS Director Pat Collins was a main facilitator of the simulation. Collins told KMAN’s Mikayla Gentine on-scene that this exercise was meant to bring multiple departments together to practice for a situation that rarely happens. “This is the way we all learn…
Police said they prevented a “horrific tragedy” by arresting two teenage boys who plotted to kill three high school staffers then gun down as many students as possible in a quaint Los Angeles suburb.
The Israeli military says three rockets have been fired from the Gaza Strip, breaking a temporary cease-fire amid negotiations over the war between Israel and Hamas.