Riley County Police saw a couple of people in jail for failure to appear. Jeffrey Hughes, 39, of Manhattan was being held on an $8,000 bond for two counts of failure to appear. These stemmed from original charges of forgery and criminal use of a financial card. —- An Odgen woman remains confined after not just one, but three separate failure to appear charges. Rhonda Rand, 42, was arrested for three counts of failure to appear with original charges being for two DUI charges and driving while suspended. Rand’s bond is $3,250. —- A report came to the Riley County…
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In an announcement posted Friday morning on the team’s website, the Kansas City Chiefs and general manager Scott Pioli have “mutually agreed to part ways.” Pioli took control of the Chiefs’ player personnel decisions on January 13th, 2009 and was named NFL Executive of the Year in 2010 after Kansas City won the AFC West title. However, after an abyssmal 2012 season with just two wins in 16 games, coach Romeo Crennel was fired and then the public outcry turned towards Pioli. “After several productive conversations, we made the difficult decision to part ways with Scott Pioli and allow him…
Updated Friday afternoon: An accident KMAN news first told you about early Friday resulted in a possible injury to a Wamego man. Jamie Douglass, 27, reportedly an officer with the Riley County Police Department, was taken to Mercy Regional Health Center following the accident on K-18, about five miles west of Manhattan. The Kansas Highway patrol reports Douglass was injured when the 2013 Fort Taurus he was in was parked on the westbound side of K-18 on a traffic stop. Another vehicle, a 2005 Toyota Sequoia driven by Kasi Roberts, 32, of Tennessee was travelling westbound and sideswiped Douglass’s car. A Mercy…
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — De’Anthony Thomas caught the opening kickoff, raced past Oregon’s sideline and leaned his head into the end zone like a sprinter crossing the finish line. The track meet had started and the fifth-ranked Ducks barely looked back after that. Triggered by Thomas’ 94-yard return, Oregon bolted by No. 7 Kansas State 35-17 Thursday night at the Fiesta Bowl in what may have been coach Chip Kelly’s final game with the Ducks. ”I felt like my role in this game was to be a momentum-builder and a game-changer,” Thomas said. ”Once I saw that edge, I wanted…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A man who gained the trust of clerks at a Topeka jewelry store by posing for weeks as a shopper turned out to be a thief. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the owners of Calhoun’s Jewelers posted a $1,500 reward on Thursday, one day after the suspect bolted from the store with $32,000 worth of earrings. One pair alone was valued at $12,000. Co-owner Curt Calhoun says the man began visiting the store before the holidays and even came in on New Year’s Day. On Wednesday, Calhoun says, a clerk was showing the man several sets of earrings…
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) Bardo the Clown, a longtime fixture at the Kansas State Fair, has died. State Fair General Manager Denney Stoecklein says Bardo, also known as J.B. Holdren, was found dead in his trailer on the fairgrounds Tuesday evening. He was 93 years old. The Hutchinson News reports that Holdren was a sign painter, clown and artist at the fair for 67 years. For years, Holdren drove his camper to Arizona after the fair and did sign work at the Pima County Fairgrounds. But he had lived and worked year-round at the Kansas fair for the last decade. Stoecklin…
SALINA, Kan. (AP) A Saline County man is the fourth person sentenced to prison for a methamphetamine distribution ring. Thirty-three-year-old Shane Curtis Sheets of New Cambria was sentenced Wednesday to more than 11 years in federal prison for methamphetamine trafficking. Sheets pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. The Wichita Eagle reports investigators discovered that another co-defendant, Kevin Dale Ashcraft, regularly gave a quarter pound of methamphetamine to Sheets, who sold it to other dealers and users. Ashcraft and two other defendants are already in prison, with sentences ranging from 54 months to 240 months.
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) A Hutchinson man who came within eight votes of winning a primary election for the Kansas House of Representatives has been charged with domestic battery. Erich Bishop is in the Reno County jail on charges that include battery against a Hutchinson police officer. Bishop pleaded not guilty during a court appearance last week. A pre-trial hearing is set for Jan. 16. The 28-year-old Bishop nearly unseated Democratic Rep. Jan Pauls, D-Hutchinson, in the August primary. She won re-election in November. The Hutchinson News reported Wednesday that police responded to a domestic violence call involving a man and…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Trials for a mother and son charged in the death of the man’s wife will start on the same day in different Topeka courtrooms. Thirty-two-year-old Manuel Campos Alcala of Topeka was bound over Wednesday on first-degree murder and other charges tied to the Oct. 18 shooting death of his wife, 34-year-old Ashley Alcala, at her Topeka home. His trial was scheduled to start March 25. That’s the same day his mother, Manuela Alcala, of El Paso, Texas, is scheduled for trial on the same charges. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports prosecutors said they would shuttle witnesses from one…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) The University of Kansas Hospital has transplanted its 1,000th liver followed soon after by the 1,001st transplant. The hospital announced Wednesday the recipient of the 1,000th transplant was 60-year-old Brenda Higgins of Kansas City. Thirty-nine-year-old Deborah Ellerbusch of Newton received the 1,001st liver. The hospital’s liver transplant program started in 1990. Hospital officials say the program is among the 25 largest in the nation.