Riley County Police have re-released a press release involving two missing persons from the 80s. Stevie Hammerle and Joseph Grashner went missing on August 22nd, 1981, and were last seen leaving a birthday party in the 1000 block of Poyntz Avenue here in Manhattan. They left the party with two additional individuals as well. The investigation into Hammerle and Grashner’s disappearance is actively being investigated by the department and police are asking that those with any information in regards to the disappearance of these two men to contact Detective Steel at 785-537-2112 ext. 3077. You can also send a web…
Author: KMAN Staff
After registering their best win total in 24 years, the Kansas City Royals are looking to make a splash in free agency. According to a tweet from ESPN’s Buster Olney, other teams in the majors are becoming convinced that Carlos Beltran is going to land with the Royals, on a possible deal of three years and $48 million. The New York Post is reporting that Beltran met with the Royals in Kansas City on Tuesday. Beltran hit .294 with 24 homers and 84 RBI with the National League champion St. Louis Cardinals last season. He will turn 37 years old…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) A former Kansas City Chiefs linebacker says he was never told that he would have severe disabilities later in life for continuing to play in games after sustaining a concussion. Chris Martin is one of five former Chiefs players who filed a lawsuit in Jackson County on Tuesday against the Chiefs organization for failing to disclose the dangers of competing after suffering head injuries. Suburban Kansas City attorney Ken McClain is representing the players. McClain says a proposed $765 million settlement by the NFL to compensate former players with brain injuries is insufficient and doesn’t…
U.S. Senator Pat Roberts addressed over 1000 Kansas Farm Bureau members during an evening banquet Tuesday, which concluded the second day of the 95th annual meeting. “I always look forward to the opportunity to visit and listen to producers and their families about how to work and what we should do in the Congress, and to be working for the betterment of your lives and your businesses.” Senator Roberts discussed the latest news regarding the Farm Bill and said progress has been very slow. “In some respects, we are closer to signing a bill into law than a year ago, but…
In a unanimous decision on Tuesday night the Manhattan city commission approved a 1.7% increase to all city employee’s cost of living allowance. Local fire fighters were on hand to present their case for what they called a “wage increase” of 2.1% after an impasse was reached on the issue of COLA earlier this year. The commission stressed their desire to maintain equality throughout the city, but stated they desired city administrators to conduct an investigation on further solutions to a possible wage gap between top and bottom earners. City manager Ron Fehr said his staff will begin working on…
Wamego’s 911 system is taking a new direction. At Tuesday’s City Commission meeting, City Manager Merl Page said the earlier plan of action has changed. At the last meeting, the Governing Body approved a temporary patch to the current system to allow more time to evaluate the appropriate equipment upgrade. Police Chief Mike Baker and Assistant Chief Paul Schliffke announced at this meeting, the patch would not work with the City”s system and offered a solution. According to Schliffke, for a cost of $47,000, a satellite could be installed in Westmoreland, which would enable call transmission to Wamego’s Dispatch Center.…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A Wichita woman says she feels sorry for whoever stole an aluminum wheelchair ramp from outside her ground-floor apartment. KWCH-TV reports the theft happened in late November but wasn’t reported until Monday, when a caretaker noticed the ramp was missing from outside a sliding glass door. Brenda Stoneley, 62, has multiple sclerosis and spends most of her time in a motorized wheelchair. She says the ramp had cost her $450, about two-thirds of her monthly income. Police believe the ramp was taken to be sold as scrap metal. Stoneley says she was angry at first, but now…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A 22-year-old man has yet to be charged in connection with the deaths of a southeast Kansas mother and her three children a week after being jailed. The Kansas attorney general’s office declined to say Tuesday what charges it was contemplating against David Cornell Bennett Jr., of Cherryvale. Labette County District Judge Robert Fleming set a Dec. 10 deadline for filing charges, and Bennett has a court appearance scheduled that day. Fleming last week found probable cause to hold Bennett over the deaths of Cami Umbarger, 29, and her children. Their bodies were found in their Parsons…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Topeka police say a fourth victim has died from gunshot wounds suffered in two related shootings over the weekend. Police spokeswoman Kristen Veverka says Carla Jean Avery, 45, died Tuesday at a hospital where she was taken Sunday after being found with a gunshot wound behind a restaurant. The investigation of that shooting led to Avery’s home a half-mile away, where two men and a woman were also found shot to death. Authorities have released few details about the shootings, which Veverka described as the first quadruple homicide in Topeka’s history. The victims in Avery’s home were…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A 50-year-old Texas man has been sentenced in Kansas to 21 months in federal prison for cattle fraud. The U.S. Attorney’s office says William P. Cadle, of DeKalb, Texas, was sentenced Monday in federal court in Wichita, where he pleaded guilty earlier to one count each of loan fraud and criminal conversion. Cadle admitted defrauding First National Bank in Independence, Kan., in February 2012 by lying on a loan application about the number of cattle he owned as collateral. He also claimed to have bought Angus cattle with a Farm Service Agency loan. Those cattle had actually…