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…
Author: KMAN Staff
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…
Tyler Lockett tied a K-State bowl record with three receiving touchdowns to lead K-State to a 31-14 win over Michigan in the 25th Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl. The win snapped a five game bowl losing streak for the Wildcats, who hadn’t won a bowl game since the 2002 Holiday Bowl. Lockett ended the night with 10 catches for 116 yards and the three TD’s, all of which came in the first half when K-State built a 21-6 lead, and quarterback Jake Waters completed 21 of 27 passes for 271 yards. “Looking at everybody’s faces from 12:00 in the afternoon to…
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.
NEW YORK (AP) Shane Southwell matched his career high with 19 points and Kansas State won its seventh straight, cruising past Tulane 72-41 on Saturday night in the Brooklyn Hoops Winter Festival at Barclays Center. The Wildcats (9-3) continued their fine defensive play of late. In the first six games of the winning streak they held opponents to 52.8 points on 38.0 percent shooting from the field and those numbers improved Saturday. Tulane (7-7), which had won its last two games, had plenty of trouble with Kansas State, finishing with a season low in points (the previous was 52 in…
GARDEN CITY, Kan. (AP) Kansas health officials are investigating an outbreak of gastrointestinal illness among patrons of a Garden City restaurant. The state and Finney County health departments said more than 110 cases of the illness were reported as of Friday among people who ate food from a Jimmy John’s Gourmet Sandwiches restaurant. Authorities are asking anyone who ate food from the Garden City Jimmy John’s between Dec. 10 and Dec. 24 to complete a survey, even if they did not get sick. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment says officials believe the outbreak was caused by norovirus. The…
An enrollment cap and increased tuition could be the future of Kansas State University. According to President Kirk Schulz, the lack of funding from the state level could be heading the school in just that direction. “Investment in high education is going to yield a lot more in the state in the long run, but you have to put in those dollars,” said Schulz. Because of the lack of funding moving forward, K-State is moving ever closer to an enrollment cap. “We’re coming very close to the point where we need to say this is the number of students that we…
Matt Walters and John Kurtz are live from the Tilted Kilt in Phoenix Arizona on a finally Friday edition of “The Game” on KMAN. They get you ready for the Buffalo Wild Wings bowl as the game is just over one day away. What can we expect to see from both teams and how will the Wildcat offense attack the Michigan defense. Other Big 12 teams will be in action and they will take a look at some of the other bowls around the conference. K-State hoops this weekend as the K-State men are off their best win of the season against Gonzaga last Saturday. How will the team respond against Tulane and what affect will Jevon Thomas have on the team as he will make his debut. Chiefs closing out the season in San Diego as they prepare for their playoff run. All that and much more on a finally Friday edition of “The Game” on KMAN.