The Wamego City Commission approved items from the last meeting. At Tuesday’s meeting, Building Official Mac Campbell presiding in the absence of City Manager Merl Page, reviewed the request from BG Consultants to establish a benefit district for access off of Highway 24 to the North Ridge Apartment complex Unit 3. Campbell said the City was approached by the developers to approve BG Engineering Consultants of Manhattan as the Engineers on the project. He said this is a City of Wamego project and recommended approval of the request. Approval was given. Also, the Commission approved four Benefit District Petitions filed…
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CARBONDALE, Kan. (AP) An eastern Kansas sheriff says deputies have recovered a large amount of property reported stolen from several cities and counties including Pottawatomie County. The Osage County Sheriff’s Department says in a news release the items were found Monday at a Carbondale property where authorities investigating marijuana cultivation executed a search warrant. No arrests had been made as of Tuesday. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports (http://bit.ly/1iEMARa ) deputies recovered four enclosed trailers and four flatbed trailers along with other stolen items. The stolen goods were connected to burglaries and thefts reported to the Shawnee and Pottawatomie County sheriff’s departments…
Tonight at Sunset Author Joel Greenberg will present a program and sign copies of his book titled “The Passenger Pigeon’s Flight to Extinction. Learn more about this now-extinct species through this video.
Riot Police make their presence known as hundreds of protestors demonstrate in the streets as the World Cup wraps up its first week.
Residents of Baghdad keep a watchful eye as Sunni insurgents make their advance towards the Iraqi capitol after taking over large chunks of Northern Iraq.
The Manhattan City Commission awarded a contract for the construction of a 1 million-gallon elevated water tower that will provide water to the US 24 Corridor/Blue Township area. The roughly $1.7 million contract was awarded to Phoenix Fabricators and Erectors of Avon, Indiana. The project stems from Interim and Inter-local Agreements between the City of Manhattan and Pottawatomie County Rural Water District No. 1. The RWD will be solely responsible for all costs associated with the water storage tank and all associated engineering services. Also Tuesday, the Commission authorized a construction administration contract with Bartlett and West, for an amount not…
Today on “The Game” K-State football signs another linemen for 2015. Royals win their 8th straight game. Audio from Bruce Weber from today’s Big 12 coaches summer teleconference. Get Fit as well
Almost two years after an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Benghazi, Libya that left four Americans dead including Ted Stevens, the U.S. Ambassador to Libya, the first of those suspects was apprehended this weekend in Libya and is currently en route to the United States to stand trial amongst Republican calls that the suspect should be sent to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and locked up with other terrorists there.
Rescue personnel tend to 5-year-old Calista Dixon in Pilger, Neb., after two giant tornadoes bore down on the small town on Monday, June 16, 2014. The girl later died, as did a motorist, David A. Herout, 74, of Clarkson, Neb. At least 19 people were taken to hospitals and most of the buildings in Pilger were heavily damaged or destroyed.
One of the people facing charges after the car chase in Pottawatomie County, earlier this month, appeared in court Tuesday. As KMAN has previously reported, the chase began after a traffic stop by a Pottawatomie County sheriff’s deputy on the Oregon Trail Road, about three miles west of St. Mary’s. The deputy learned at least one of the two occupants had an arrest warrant out of Missouri, but while obtaining this information, the vehicle fled. Jason Gillispie (30), of Higbee, Missouri, was the passenger in the vehicle. Attorney, Sherri Schuck indicates a plea was entered to obstruction and possession…