Officials say that approximately 170 Kansas National Guard Soldiers from the 891st Engineer Battalion Headquarters, Headquarters Company and Field Support Company, based in Iola, will deploy to West Africa next spring. Kansas was notified by the Department of Defense that the Kansas National Guard will be deployed to support West Africa’s fight against Ebola as part of the U.S. military’s ongoing efforts in the area and under the executive order of President Obama signed Oct. 16 authorizing National Guard troops to augment active duty forces in Operation United Assistance. “Our highest priority is the safety of our soldiers while they are deployed…
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According to Kansas Highway Patrol reports an early Sunday morning crash on I-70 mile-marker 301 westbound or 2 miles west of K18 resulted in four people being taken to Geary County Hospital. KHP authorities indicate a Chevrolet Heritage High Roof, or HHR, driven by Randy Irvin of Kansas City was involved with an accident that involved a Subaru Impreza driven by Tristan Alexander of Colorado Springs, Colorado. Emergency personnel evacuated Randy and Damon Irvin to the Geary Community Hospital. Tristan and Alyssa Alexander were also listed as injured in the incident, and taken to the same facility. Another passenger in Irvin’s…
On Saturday afternoon the Riley County Police Department arrested a Manhattan man for sexual exploitation of a child. According to police reports 32-year-old Nicklas Zeilenga was arrested for multiple alleged criminal acts. The reports cites domestic battery, sexual exploitation of a child, and breach of privacy as being associated with the arrest. Zeilenga was given a $50,000 bond.
Photo Courtesy Kansas State Athletics By Chris Kutz, K-State Athletics Communications WACO, Texas – The No. 23 K-State volleyball team overcame a 2-0 set deficit for the second time this season on Saturday as the Wildcats came back to beat Baylor, 3-2 (22-25, 16-25, 25-18, 25-19, 15-9), in the Ferrell Center on Saturday to snap their three-match losing streak. The win by the Wildcats (21-6, 8-5 Big 12) avenged their five-set loss to Baylor (14-14, 4-9 Big 12) earlier this season in Manhattan. K-State, which is 22-2 in five-set matches since 2011, improved to 6-1 in five-set contests this season.…
Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell visited an enrollment center in Virginia on Saturday as the second enrollment period under President Barack Obama’s health care law begins.
A surgeon who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone landed in Omaha on Saturday, where he’ll be treated at Nebraska Medical Center.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) A new report shows that Kansas consumers seeking health insurance on the federally-run online marketplace will pay about the same next year as they did in 2014. The Kansas Health Institute, a nonpartisan health policy and research organization, released a report Saturday as the second sign up period got underway. It showed that the average premium for plans offered in the marketplace changed very little an increase of just 0.1 percent from 2014 to 2015. The number of Kansas plans for individuals and small groups on the federal exchange was growing from 72 in 2014 to…
Postal services and military affairs seemed to be the two major topics of discussion during Saturday morning’s town hall meeting. U.S. Senator, Jerry Moran, of Manhattan, visited the Riley Centre in Riley for the town hall meeting. The event was set up in a question-and-answer format, which allowed many of the residents in attendance to share their concerns. Moran spoke about the importance of taking local issues to local government entities, instead of taking them straight to Washington D.C. In reference to the postal services, many local individuals expressed concern about losing their post office all together. Moran commented on…
A Manhattan man has been sentenced in Geary County District Court on two counts of aggravated indecent solicitation of a child. Trevor Triffet was sentenced to 64 months with the Kansas Department of Corrections, but suspended to 36 months probation with sex offender treatment. Triffet entered a plea in late August in connection with the case. He was arrested in May, with the victim identified as a 12-year-old female. And Michael Hall, 47, was sentenced to the maximum Friday in Geary County District Court in a felony animal cruelty case. Judge Steven Hornbaker sentenced Hall to 12 months in the…
The Riley County Police Department issued an emergency accident reporting phase Saturday morning around 9:00 a.m.. This was in effect until around 11:40 a.m.