One Boston Marathon runner who witnessed Monday’s bombings shortly after finishing the race says ‘everyone said you need to run.’ The bombing killed at least three people and injured at least 140.
Author: KMAN Staff
Cathy and Tom tag team today’s InFocus. Cathy begins the show with Dave Colburn, with Pathfinder, followed by Tom talking with Emily Lehning and Adrienne Besler on K-State’s Open House. [mp3-jplayer]
Public hearings took up some time at Monday’s Pottawatomie County Commission meeting, but so did bids. The commission opened bids for the Whispering Meadows Unit 2 and after some review from Leu Lowery, Public Works Director, the commission will decide upon the recommendation. The opening for temporary notes were on the agenda as well, and the commission approved the low bid from St. Mary’s State Bank with an interest rate of .48375%. The commission also had updates from a couple of departments including from Dustin Trego, Management Assistant of Operations, Christ Trudo, with Emergency Management, Bruce Brazzle, Fire Supervisor, and Lois Schlegel, county appraiser.…
Owner of the Dara’s Fast Lane businesses in Manhattan, Chris Darrah, came before the Riley County Commission during their Monday meeting. Darrah recently spoke with numerous local retailers, and wanted to voice his concerns about high commercial property taxes in Manhattan. Darrah, along with other business owners, including Radio Shack Owner- Frank Beer, are considering closing the doors on their businesses in the future if the commercial property tax trend continues. Parkwood Hotel previously paid $7,000/year on property taxes and is now paying $156,000/year now, according to Darrah. “I have two properties I want to develop now, and now I’m…
Mrs. Angela Messer has been named Manhattan High School Assistant Principal. She currently has been serving as an assistant principal for Junction City Middle School since 2009. Messer is a graduate of Kansas State University and has also taught mathematics at Manhattan High school previously. Messer commented, “I am very excited to accept the position. I am eager to return to where I began my educational career and to take the next step in achieving my professional goals”. The position has been vacant for three years. Messer will begin her position on July 29th.
(Update) Earlier reports of a third explosion at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston have proven to be false. Reports say there was a fire in a mechanical room at the Library, there were no injuries. As far as the marathon explosions, three individuals are reported dead, one of whom is an eight year old child. Around 130 wounded. Cell phones had been disabled in downtown Boston to prevent remote detonations of explosions. KMAN News has received word there were runners from Manhattan competing in the race. In fact, Erinn Barcomb-Peterson with Kansas State Communications tells KMAN her office knows…
Captain Jeff Hooper announced that the Riley County Police Department has joined the national Volunteers in Police Service Program. Throughout the country, thousands of law enforcement agencies are utilizing volunteers for supplementing public safety and crime prevention efforts. The volunteers do not, by any means, replace the employees, but offer support to allow agencies to provide additional services and maintain positive relationships with the public. Currently there are more than 2,000 registered VIP programs with more than 250,000 volunteers representing agencies in all 50 states. Volunteers working in the department will experience a number of responsibilities, including- performing administrative /clerical maintenance,…
The Riley County police department has joined the national Volunteers in Police Service program. Thousands of law enforcement agencies around the country and internationally, are using volunteers to suppliment public safety and crime prevention efforts. Volunteers never replace employees. Rather they offer support to allow agencies to provide additional services, maintain positive relationships with the public, and free up employee’s time for higher duties. RCPD volunteers will perform administrative, maintanence, janitorial, language interpretation, and other duties as needs arise. The program will be focused on administrative support for the department. Volunteers will be required to pass a criminal background check,…
The Geary County sheriff’s department is reporting a law enforcement pursuit in Junction City this past weekend. Matthew Hunter of Junction city was arrested following the pursuit, reported at about 5:30 Saturday evening. Deputies attempted to stop Hunter when he failed to stop at a stop sign at the intersection of eighth street and Whitney Road. He finally was apprehended in the 500 block of North East Street. Charges include felony fleeing and eluding, reckless driving, seven counts of failure to stop at a stop sign and a variety of other counts.
Two people were injured in a three vehicle accident, two of which were motorcycles. Tory Peoples (39) of Manhattan and Carl Davis Hendricks Jr. (27) of Alma were both taken to hospitals following the accident, reported shortly before four Sunday afternoon in Clay County. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, a 2005 Ford Pickup driven by 93 year old Lester Elsasser of Wakefield was westbound on K-82, about a half mile west of Wakefield, when Elsasser did a u-turn at the intersection of Sunflower road. Hendrick’s 2012 Harley-Davidson motorcycle struck the pickup, and then People’s 2010 Honda motorcycle struck Hendricks cycle. Hendricks was taken…