Update: 911 service in Pottwatomie County was back up and running shortly after midnight Tuesday. ### Earlier story: As of now, the 911 line for Pottawatomie county is temporarily out of service. For the time being, if there are any emergencies, please call (785)457-3353 to speak with the sheriff. KMAN will let you know as soon as the 911 line in functioning again.
Author: KMAN Staff
On today’s InFocus, Cathy talks with Rob Ott, Manhattan City Engineer. [mp3-jplayer]
Various items on Monday’s Riley County Commission agenda required approval or consensus. The first item needing approval involved the vacation of a sewer and water easement. County Planner, Bob Isaac came forward during a public hearing to make a request in regards to the easement owned by John and Rosa Jones. Owners of lots two and seven on the Oakshore Addition, near Tuttle Creek Lake, have agreed to split the Jones’s property (lot 3) down the middle. Isaac mentioned a few obstacles he ran into when he looked into this possibility, including the house that is direct center on the…
Riley County Police are investigating a string of vehicle burglaries that took place sometime before Friday morning in three different locations in Manhattan On Friday morning around 7:13, police responded to calls at the 2900th block of Northwing Drive. Five different victims reported that their cars had been entered and miscellaneous items had been removed, with one victim reporting that her front passenger window had been damaged. Total loss from these burglaries totaled $727 On the same morning, around 8:30, two victims, located at the 2600 block of Butterfield reported that their vehicles had been rummaged through, with one having their divers…
GTM Sportswear in Manhattan, has agreed to pay 133 workers a total of $97,762 in back wages following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division. The investigation found violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act’s overtime and record-keeping provisions when inside sales representatives were found to be improperly classified as exempt from overtime requirements. It’s described as one of the most common violations in the sales industry with improperly classifying workers as being exempt from overtime. That’s according to Patricia Preston, the division’s district director in Kansas City, Mo. She adds The criteria for exemption from…
A winter ice storm is approaching East Coast cities from New York to Washington Monday morning, after freezing over parts of the Midwest.
Egypt’s president declared on Sunday a 30-day state of emergency and night curfew in the three Suez Canal provinces hit hardest by the wave of violence that has left more than 50 dead in three days.
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) The son of a woman whose cancerous cervix led to an immortal cell line for medical research is speaking next month at Johnson County Community College. David “Sonny” Lacks will talk Feb. 21 about what it meant to find out decades after the fact about his late mother’s contribution to science. Henrietta Lacks was a poor black woman who died of cervical cancer in 1951. Without her consent, pieces of the tumor that killed her were removed and used for medical exploration and to build a billion-dollar research industry. The story of her life was told…
HAYS, Kan. (AP) A western Kansas teen has died after a sport utility vehicle collided with a deer and overturned. The Kansas Highway Patrol identified the victim as 16-year-old Hope James of Dighton. She was a passenger in a SUV whose driver swerved Friday night in an attempt to miss a deer. The driver hit the deer anyway and drove off the shoulder of Interstate 70 in Ellis County. The driver then over corrected and rolled. The vehicle landed on its top, hitting a fence. The patrol says four other people in the SUV were injured. Everyone was wearing a seat belt.
On Saturday Kansas State University campus was bustling with activity as kids from all over the great plains gathered for the final stage of the 2013 Future City Competition in Rathbone Hall. The competition was held in five parts including an essay portion, design, a narrative describing the city, and the final presentation before a panel of experts. Assistant Dean for the Kansas State College of Engineering Tom Roberts says the event is a great opportunity for young folks to engage in engineering, and was impressed with the presentations. This year’s competition was based on storm water and pollution control,…