Green Break, better known as Fake Patty’s Day, took place Saturday in Aggieville and the surrounding neighborhoods. With the combination of the rain and the early K-State basketball game, the day got off to a slow start. During Monday’s Riley County Commission meeting, Riley County Police Director, Brad Schoen shared some of the statistics calculated from the event. While many of the numbers stayed pretty consistent, the major drop was in disorderly conduct calls. Schoen said 31 calls were reported during last year’s event, and this year, the department only received 13. Unfortunately, as part of that report, four battery…
Author: KMAN Staff
A burglary in February is under investigation. Riley County Police told reporters on Monday that a burglary report was filed with them on Friday afternoon. The victim, Sirui Zhao (23) told police that sometime between February 6th and March 6th of this year, a person unknown to him entered his home located in the 800 block of Sunset Ave and removed at 55 inch television and a X box game system. The total loss in this case is $1,000 and police are investigating. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Police responding to a call at a house party make a drug arrest. At around 1:15 Saturday…
Riley County Police have released the statistics regarding how many arrests were made, how many citations were issued, and how many reports were filed this past weekend in connection with Fake Paddys day. Citizens call for service amounted to 279, which is up slightly from last year’s amount of 275. The total number of arrests was 115, which is higher than last year’s total of 107. There were 225 open container citations issued, which is a large jump from last year’s 161. There were also 86 minor in possession of alcohol citations, higher than the 75 issued in 2012.
A northeast Ohio community is grieving after an SUV carrying eight teens hit a guardrail, and crashed into a pond, killing five boys and a girl. The state highway patrol is investigating the accident.
On Sunday, the League of Women’s Voters invited candidates for Manhattan’s City Commission to a forum. The Candidates were asked several questions, including their opinion of Manhattan relying too much on sales tax, especially after the recent drop in sales tax revenues. Regarding the topic, Rich Jankovich said Manhattan may be relying on sales tax revenues too much, but a lowered rate would cause higher taxation in other areas in an attempt to make up for the lost revenues. John Ball agrees with Manhattan’s over-reliance of sales tax revenues, and says he is worried the money made through sales tax may not…
In his first season on the bench, Bruce Weber and the K-State Wildcats won the school’s first Big 12 championship in 36 years with a 14-4 mark and a 25-6 overall record. On Sunday night, Weber was named by his peers as the Big 12 coach of the year. He becomes the sixth K-State coach to win conference coach of the year honors, joining Tex Winter (1958, 1959, 1960), Cotton Fitzsimmons (1970), Jack Hartman (1975, 1977), Dana Altman (1993) and Frank Martin (2010). Senior guard Rodney McGruder is now the third Wildcat in the Big 12 era to earn first team…
Home care and Hospice put on its 14th annual Flint Hills Festival of Wines over the weekend. The event included a Dinner and Live Auction on Friday, and two separate tastings on Saturday, followed by a Silent Auction. Christina Nolte, Home Care and Hospice Director of Development, calls the event a great success. The Grand Tasting on Saturday featured over 200 different wines and spirits available for tasting, while a private tasting room featured 9 highly rated wines, a champagne, a well aged single malt scotch, and a cognac. According to Nolte, Friday’s Live Auction brought in close to $20,000 which…
Sunday gave the Manhattan community a chance to listen, as the candidates for the Manhattan Ogden school board were invited to the League of Women’s voters candidate forum. Each candidate had a chance to answer a number of questions, including whether the district should consider armed guards or other protection for the schools, the legislation concerning negotiations and the 3rd grade reading level, also there was questions about moving digital at the high school and middle school. On to topic of having armed guards at the schools, Pat Hudgins said she believes no one can be on guard all the time,…
The League of Women’s Voters School Board Candidate Forum [mp3-jplayer]
The League of Women’s Voters City Commission Candidate Forum [mp3-jplayer]