A suburban St. Louis police chief on Friday identified the officer whose fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager ignited days of heated protests. Ferguson police also released surveillance video showing a robbery prior to the shooting.
Author: KMAN Staff
Today is Mitch’s 24th birthday! K-State gets a new commitment for 2015. Big weekend for the Royals and Chiefs. ISU Powercat Gameday Reporter joins the show. Wyatt Thompson and Travis Tannahill join the show. You Can’t Be Serious wraps up the week!
No arrests have been made as an investigation continues into aggravated indecent liberties with a child. This crime occurred between a 15-year-old and 18-year-old who knew each other. Riley County Police were made aware of the crime that took place in Manhattan between May and August of this year, on Thursday (August 14) at approximately 4:00 PM. Due to the nature of this crime, no further information has been released. ### A report of robbery was filed in the 700 block of N. Manhattan Avenue on Friday at approximately 1:00 AM. The incident occurred approximately 24 hours prior. Fredrick McGee,…
K-State has it’s ninth known commitment for the 2015 recruiting class in the form of Mill Valley (KS) offensive tackle Evan Applegate. Applegate tweeted his commitment Friday afternoon: @big_apple55 · 2h I just committed to be a KSU WILDCAT!!! Thank you to all the coaches who have recruited me. The 6-foot-6, 270 pound Applegate is listed as a three-star prospect by rivals.com and is the seventh best prospect in the state of Kansas. He has listed offers from Arkansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma State and many others. Applegate becomes the fourth K-State commitment from the state of Kansas in 2015, joining Lawrence Free State…
UPDATE 8:20 pm: The Riley County Police Department announced via Twitter that officers are still on the look out for the man wanted for raping a woman in her mid-twenties. RCPD’s Tweet states there is “No evidence that public is in danger” and that the incident “appears to be isolated.” UPDATE 2:40: Suspect in 12:45 report is in his mid-twenties, and is said to be wearing black sweat pants. Victim is in her mid-twenties as well. Suspect fled the scene on foot, where RCPD, Kansas Highway Patrol and Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism disptached to a heavily wooded area.…
The 2014-15 Manhattan High boys won’t have their leading scorer and rebounder from a season ago. Payton Stephens, who averaged nearly 14 points and six rebounds per game as a junior, is transferring from MHS. Stephens is a 6-foot-4 forward who has been a three-year varsity player for the Indians and was expected to be a force once again. New Manhattan High head coach Benji George was “blindsided” by the decision and still hasn’t spoken directly with Stephens. “I was around Payton almost every day this summer,” George said. “My relationship with him couldn’t have been better.” George first became aware of…
Retired Col. Susan Myers, right, is comforted by her children, 1st Lt. Matthew Greene, second from right, and Amelia Greene, during a burial service for her husband, Army Maj. Gen. Harold Greene, at Arlington National Cemetery, on Thursday, Aug. 14, 2014, in Arlington, Va. Greene was killed when a gunman dressed as an Afghan soldier turned on ISAF troops, wounding about 15 including a German general and two Afghan generals. He is the highest-ranking U.S. military officer to be killed in either of America’s post-9/11 wars.
In this photo provided by Kerri L. Berney, people gather in New York’s Times Square, Thursday, Aug. 14, 2014, in New York. Thousands of people peacefully gathered in Manhattan’s Times Square and Union Square Thursday, invoking the rallying cries “hands up, don’t shoot” and “I can’t breathe,” alluding to the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Garner, 43, who was arrested on suspicion of selling loose, untaxed cigarettes and was placed in an officer’s chokehold in New York.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Royals didn’t let Jarrod Dyson’s defensive miscue slow them down on Thursday. Dyson drove in the tying run in a five-run seventh, while Nori Aoki and Billy Butler each drove in two runs and the surging Kansas City Royals rallied to defeat the Oakland Athletics 7-3. The Royals have won 18 of 22 to move 12 games above .500 for the first time since July 20, 2003. The Royals took the season series, winning five of seven against the Athletics, who have the best record in the majors. Aoki’s two-run triple put the…
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) A bicyclist who was struck and killed by a pickup truck in northeast Kansas has been identified as a 66-year-old university librarian. The Douglas County sheriff’s office says the collision happened Wednesday afternoon south of Clinton Lake, near Lawrence. WIBW-TV reports the bicyclist was identified Thursday as Lawrence resident Cal Melick, who worked as a public services librarian at Washburn University in Topeka. Deputies said Melick was riding eastbound when he was hit by a westbound pickup truck that was trying to pass another vehicle. The 69-year-old pickup driver was taken to a hospital with minor injuries.