Ambulances line up a site of a trolleybus explosion, background, in Volgograd, Russia Monday, Dec. 30, 2013. A bomb blast tore through the trolleybus in the city Volgograd on Monday morning, killing at least 10 people a day after a suicide bombing that killed at 17 at the city’s main railway station.
Author: KMAN Staff
Recovery efforts to locate last week’s drowning victim in Geary County continue. Thomas Hedrick, the victim of the drowning that occurred at Milford Lake on Tuesday Christmas Eve, has still not been located. Previous attempts had been hampered by unfavorable weather conditions. Geary County Sheriff Tony Wolf hosted a meeting Monday morning with agencies that continue to be involved with the recovery effort. Those groups include the Geary County Sheriff’s Department personnel, Geary County Emergency Management, Kansas Department of Emergency Management, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Kansas State Park’s Department, Kansas State Wildlife and Parks, Ft. Riley D-E-S, Ft. Riley P-D, and…
A Chinese scientist, accused of taking seeds from a private Kansas research facility and passing them off to a visiting delegation from China, appeared in court Monday. Weiqiang Zhang, an agricultural seed breeder at a bio-pharmaceutical production facility in Junction City, was charged with conspiracy to steal trade secrets. He has been accused of taking proprietary seeds from the facility and giving them to visiting Chinese agriculture officials this summer. According to U.S. Attorney, Barry Grissom, Zhang did not offer the judge a proposal for his release at Monday’s hearing. The next hearing will be a scheduling conference, which the federal judge in…
SAN DIEGO (AP) Nick Novak kicked a 36-yard field goal with 5:30 left in overtime and the San Diego Chargers, who trailed by 10 points in the fourth quarter, beat the Kansas Chiefs 27-24 to claim the AFC’s final playoff spot. The Chargers (9-7) ended a three-year postseason drought. The winning drive was kept alive by a 2-yard gain by Pro Bowl safety Eric Weddle on a fake punt on fourth-and-2 from the Chargers 28. The game ended when Kansas City couldn’t convert on fourth-and-15 from the San Diego 41 with 3:16 left. With the Chargers on the verge of…
City Manager Ron Fehr announced Monday that Public Works Director Dale Houdeshell will be leaving his position with the City of Manhattan to become the Director of Public Works for the City of Clayton, Missouri. Houdeshell will continue in his current capacity with the City of Manhattan through January 31, 2014. “I want to thank Dale for the service he has provided to the City of Manhattan as Director of Public Works,” Fehr said. “Dale’s experience in a period of major expansion of community infrastructure during his tenure is appreciated, and we wish him and his spouse, Judy, well in…
The Manhattan Fire Department was dispatched to 820 Colorado Street, around 9:45 p.m. Sunday, for a report of a structure fire. Upon arrival, crews found a two story apartment building with smoke and fire visible in the rear. The fire reached a second alarm before it was contained within 20 minutes. There were five fire apparatus and 17 firefighters that responded to the fire. The last units cleared the scene at around 2:15 a.m. Despite temperatures being just above zero, no injuries or weather related issues were reported. The building was a two story single family residence that had been…
Update 11 a.m. Monday: As earlier reported on KMAN Sunday evening at approximately 5:35 PM, the Riley County Police Department filed a report for aggravated battery and aggravated assault in the 800 block of Colorado Street in Manhattan. Additional details were released Monday. Luke Johnson, 50, of Manhattan reported he was battered and suffered a cut to one of his fingers in the process of attempting to take a knife away from the suspect. Lee Smith, 49, of Manhattan also suffered a cut to his thumb while attempting to take the knife away. Arrested for these crimes was Tobin Spriggs,53, of Manhattan. Spriggs was…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas Court of Appeal has ruled that the state’s top water regulator doesn’t have power to reduce a landowner’s water rights once a permit has been issue. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that this month’s decision could limit the state’s ability to conserve water resources in the dwindling Ogallala Aquifer. In the ruling, the appeals court also found that the chief engineer of the Division of Water Resources may require farm irrigators to install costly metering equipment on their wells to ensure compliance with their permits. The case involved one of the largest family-owned farming corporations in…
Update-Monday morning News of power outages in Manhattan caused a panic for local residents, as the problem began just before the K-State football team kicked off for the bowl game in Arizona. The problem seemed to be an underground switch, but residents woke up on Sunday morning to find their power was out yet again. Westar Representative, Gina Penzig explained the reasoning behind the second outage involved a failing breaker at a sub station. Service was transferred for those customers so that Westar could fix the problem, and power was restored. —————— More than 2,000 Westar Energy Customers in Riley County…
SALINA, Kan. (AP) A man and woman have been arrested in the death of a 3-month-old baby boy at a Salina home. The Salina Journal reports that officers were called to the home Thursday night to investigate a report of an unresponsive child. Police Lt. Sean Morton said the child was pronounced dead, and a man and woman were taken into custody for questioning. He wouldn’t say if the adults were the child’s parents. A police news release says the results of an autopsy conducted Friday are pending, but police are investigating the death as a homicide.