On Monday afternoon a Manhattan man who recently fired his defense lawyer was before Riley County court for a pretrial hearing. 30-year-old Jerred Snyder appeared with his new defense lawyer Jillian Waesche-Seaton before Judge John Bosch, and requested a continuance in his case. Waesche-Seaton informed the court that Snyder had agreed to allow her more time to catch up on the case, and enable her to mount a better defense against the charges facing Snyder. Snyder voiced his agreement to the Judge to affirm the decision to waive a speedy trial. Snyder is accused of kidnapping, aggravated robbery, and other…
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Garden City Community College head coach Matt Miller tells KMAN that linebacker D’Vonta Derricott has now graduated from Garden City, is eligible to play for K-State and should be headed to Manhattan late Monday or Tuesday. Derricott is the final of four junior college recruits that K-State has been waiting on since the start of fall camp. Linebacker Isaiah Riddle, offensive tackle A.J. Allen and defensive tackle Terrell Clinkscales arrived late last week. Derricott was a four-star recruit according to Rivals.com who picked the Wildcats over offers from Miami (FL), West Virginia, Wisconsin and many others. K-State opens the season…
The Pottawatomie County Sheriff’s Office is investigating what appears to be another attempted theft/scam. In this incident, the reporting party received two phone calls that showed up on their caller ID as being from the St.Marys State Bank. One of these calls came in on August 5th at about 2:40 p.m. The reporting party in this incident answered the call and heard a recording stating “there is not a problem with your account” and “to stay on the line so that someone could speak to you about lowering their credit card interest rate”. The reporting party believed this call was…
On today’s In Focus, Cathy spoke with Professor of Production Medicine and Director of the Beef Cattle Institute, Doctor Dan Thompson. She also talked to Konza District Executive, Ryan Pickett. Lastly, KMAN’s Laura Monsanto joined Flint Hills Discovery Center Director, Fred Goss in the studio for a Flint Hills Focus segment. They both spoke with Curator at the Eisenhower Library, Museum and boyhood home, William Snyder.
For a fifth straight season, K-State’s game against Kansas in Manhattan will be featured on ESPN’s “Big Monday.” The game will tip off at 8:00 P.M. on February 23rd, 2015. It’s the only game this season that the Wildcats will have on Big Monday. It will be the 11th Big Monday game that K-State has hosted at Bramlage Coliseum. The Wildcats beat Kansas 85-82 in overtime last season on Big Monday in Manhattan. Full Big Monday Schedule: Jan. 5 – Oklahoma at Texas Jan. 19 – Oklahoma at Kansas Jan. 26 – Texas at Iowa State Feb. 2 – Iowa…
The Riley County Police Department has released the report on results from a saturation patrol that occurred over Saturday night into the early morning hours on Sunday. According to reports the patrol resulted in three driving under the influence arrests, and one of those arrests also netted a drug possession charge. RCPD further thanked the Kansas Department of Transportation for funding the operation which involved four RCPD officers.
According to Riley County police reports a Council Grove man was arrested on Saturday for failure to appear. Malcolm Wotten was arrested by RCPD in Ogden on Saturday morning near 12th and Elm Street. Wooten is being held without bond. A manhattan woman was arrested early Saturday morning by police for driving under the influence. Riley County police reports indicate that around 2 a.m. on Saturday Lori Haynes was arrested for DUI near the 1200 block of Laramie Street. Haynes’s bond amount was set at $7,000. Riley County police arrested a Manhattan man on Friday evening on an outstanding warrant.…
The Islamic State group in Iraq is a “threat to the civilized world” US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel said on Monday. Hagel said the Islamic State group was a threat to US interests, Europe and Australia.
In this Sunday, Aug. 10, 2014 photo, a U.S. flag waves while displaced Iraqis from the Yazidi community cross the Syria-Iraq border on Feeshkhabour bridge over Tigris River at Feeshkhabour border point, northern Iraq. Kurdish authorities at the border believe some 45,000 Yazidis passed the river crossing in the past week and thousands more are still stranded in the mountains.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Alex Gordon is eager for another marketing gimmick. Gordon and Salvador Perez homered, Danny Duffy pitched into the seventh inning and the Kansas City Royals beat the San Francisco Giants 7-4 Sunday for their seventh consecutive victory. The Royals gave out 10,000 Gordon bobbleheads for the series finale against San Francisco. Gordon, who played his college ball at Nebraska, also homered on Husker Night on Saturday. “We’ve got to think of a promotion for tomorrow to keep it going,” Gordon said. The big weekend is part of a nice roll for Gordon, who is batting…