Clashes erupted as protests continued in Cairo on Saturday evening against President Mohammed Morsi’s decision to grant himself new powers.
Author: KMAN Staff
An arrest followed a more than six hour stand-off north of Manhattan Sunday. Riley County Police say they received a domestic disturbance call at approximately 1:42pm on Sunday at 6030 Tuttle Terrace mobile home park. The preliminary call indicated a firearm might be involved in the incident. Preliminary police reports indicate an injured female was able to make the phone call to police, saying the suspect was still inside the residence they shared at Lot 23. RCPD Captain Tim Hegarty says police made contact with the victim and attempted to make contact with the suspect. Since reports indicated the…
Update: New information has been released regarding an accident that occurred Saturday evening. More details were released today (Monday) on a two vehicle accident that was first reported by KMAN Saturday night. Riley County Police told reporters that around 6:25 P.m. Saturday, a 2011 Toyota Prius driven by Ginger Reeves (75)of Ogden, failed to yield at a left turn and cut in front of a 2001 Ford F250 driven by Michael Schurte of Wamego, which was traveling south on Seth Child Road. Schurte then collided with Reeves. Schurte was unharmed, but Reeves and her three passengers were all injured and required…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) One teenager is dead and two others are in custody following an attempted holdup at a Wichita convenience store. KWCH-TV reports a 16-year-old boy was shot and killed by a clerk shortly after 7 p.m. Thursday at KC Gas Groceries on North Broadway. Police say two or three teens entered the store and tried to rob the clerk at gunpoint. The clerk fired several times, hitting the 16-year-old. The boy died at a hospital. His name had not been released Friday. Two 19-year-olds fled but were later arrested. The same store had also been robbed last weekend.…
BROUSSARD, La. (AP) The long fellow has a tall lady friend. After two years of saving for a mate for Gabriel the giraffe, the Zoo of Acadiana has brought him Evangeline. They’re named for the couple separated by the Acadian expulsion in the epic poem “Evangeline” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. But zoo officials foresee a happy ending to this story. Zoo spokeswoman Lea Loftin tells The Daily Iberian that the zoo bought 9-year-old Evangeline from the Tanganyika Wildlife Park in Wichita, Kan. for nearly $70,000. Loftin says the zoo plans an “engagement party” in the spring, and a later wedding…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach says fewer than expected registered voters cast provisional ballots in the Nov. 6 general election in response to the new state photo identification law. The law requires voters to show a valid photo identification in order to receive a ballot and cast their vote. This was the first general election to require such proof of identity since the law was enacted in 2011. Kobach says only 717 provisional ballots were cast because of photo ID issues out of the more than 1.11 million votes cast. That equates to about 0.6 percent…
HAYDEN, Kan. (AP) A Topeka high school has started a group that encourages its students to serve as pallbearers at funerals where they’re needed. The St. Joseph of Arimathea Society was started in fall 2011 at Hayden High School after Deacon Dan Ondracek, of Most Pure Heart of Mary Catholic Church, read an article about a similar group at an all-boys high school in Cleveland. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Ondracek approached a longtime Topeka funeral director who told him that when a person dies and doesn’t have pallbearers, the Knights of Columbus or American Legion sends people out. But…
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) Douglas County commissioners are expected to consider a request next week for a permit for a new sand pit mining operation. The application is from William Penny, owner of Penny’s Concrete, which has a dredging operation next to the site on the Kansas River, and Van LLC, co-owners of the property. They’re expected to ask the commission Wednesday to approve the permit for a new 434-acre sand pit mining operation near Eudora. Staff members from the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Department are recommending approval of the permit with conditions. The Lawrence Journal-World reports the proposal has generated concern…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A husband and wife were walking their dog along a gravel road in Sedgwick County when a truck hit the woman and the dog, killing them both. Sgt. Jeff Ohmart, of the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Department, says the 28-year-old driver was headed south Wednesday night when he saw man and woman walking south in the middle of the road. The driver told authorities he tried to swerve to miss them. The Wichita Eagle reports that the 52-year-old woman and the animal were killed instantly. The woman’s husband and the driver were unhurt. Their identities have not been…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A Wichita convenience store robbery turns deadly after a clerk shoots one of the suspects. The Wichita Eagle reports two armed men entered KC Gas Groceries shortly after 7 p.m. Thursday and encountered an armed clerk, who shot one of them. Police arrived to find a man lying on the floor of the store. He was pronounced dead at a local hospital at 7:43 p.m. The same store was robbed less than a week before, but police aren’t saying whether it was related to the one Thursday. In the earlier robbery, the store’s clerk had just closed up…