Updated Thursday afternoon: More details have been provided regarding a motorcycle/deer accident in far eastern Pottawatomie county early Thursday morning. James Leonard, 33, with a last known address of Duluth in Pottawatomie county, was driving his Harley at about 5:15 a.m., when he hit a deer at the intersection of highway 63 and McDonald Road. Leonard reportedly suffered some severe road rash and was transported to Onaga Community hospital. Pottawatomie county authorities indicate he was not wearing a helmet. He was observed talking and walking around the accident site shortly after the accident. The roadway was blocked for less than…
Author: KMAN Staff
Passengers on the Asiana plane that crashed in San Francisco called 911, begged for help, and said ambulances weren’t coming fast enough. San Francisco officials say ambulances could not come too close to the plane out of concern that the plane would explode.
Country music star Randy Travis is out of surgery but remains in critical condition after suffering a stroke while at a Texas hospital, the singer’s publicist said late Wednesday.
The surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, pleaded not guilty in Boston on Wednesday. The seven-minute proceeding was Tsarnaev’s first public appearance since he was caught in April.
After taking less than a week to call 18 witnesses, George Zimmerman’s defense attorneys rested their case Wednesday in the neighborhood watch volunteer’s second-degree murder trial.
On Friday, July 12, 2013, from approximately 8:00 am until noon, the Linear Trail at the Anderson Avenue entrance will be temporarily closed to facilitate water service and the installation of electrical conduit.
All lanes of eastbound and westbound K-18 from east of Scenic Drive to west of K-113 (Seth Child Road) will be CLOSED for bridge work overnight on Tuesday-Friday, July 16-19, with closures beginning at 7:00 p.m. and reopening to all traffic at 5:00 a.m. the next morning.This closure is needed for the setting of the steel bridge beams over the westbound lanes of K-18 which is currently carrying head-to-head traffic for eastbound and westbound K-18 traffic. The project work is scheduled to be completed and the highway reopened to unrestricted traffic at 5:00 a.m. on Saturday, July 20. Eastbound I-70…
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) A 27-year-old Hutchinson man who sexually assaulted a 4-month-old girl has attacked a Reno County prosecutor while appealing his life sentence. The attack happened Wednesday while Michael Sherman was objecting to being sentenced under Jessica’s Law. The statute mandates a life sentence with no possibility of parole for 25 years for adults convicted of certain sex crimes against children younger than 14. Sherman had performed oral sodomy on the infant and then turned himself in. Reno County Sheriff Randy Henderson says that after the judge upheld the original sentence, Sherman jumped on top of prosecutor Keith Schroeder.…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A police SWAT team has surrounded an apartment complex where the suspect in a shooting at Kmart store in south Wichita is believed to be holed up. Early reports indicate the man went to the pharmacy and demanded prescription drugs before pulling out a gun. Police say the robbery suspect fired some shots in the store and then fired back toward the building as he fled the scene Lt. Doug Nolte says authorities believe a woman who was in the store fainted, but she was not shot. KWCH-TV reports that witnesses described panic as customers and employees…
GARDEN CITY, Kan. (AP) Finney County authorities say a freelance photographer working for National Geographic was arrested and briefly detained after he shot pictures of a feedlot near Garden City while on a paraglider. George Steinmetz, of Glenn Ridge, N.J., and his paraglider instructor, Wei Zhang, of Beijing, China, were arrested for misdemeanor criminal trespass on June 28 after flying over the feedlot. The Hutchinson News reports they were held briefly in the Finney County jail before each paid a $270 bond and were released. Finney County Sheriff Kevin Bascue says Steinmetz and Zhang didn’t have permission to launch their…