Mrs. Angela Messer has been named Manhattan High School Assistant Principal. She currently has been serving as an assistant principal for Junction City Middle School since 2009. Messer is a graduate of Kansas State University and has also taught mathematics at Manhattan High school previously. Messer commented, “I am very excited to accept the position. I am eager to return to where I began my educational career and to take the next step in achieving my professional goals”. The position has been vacant for three years. Messer will begin her position on July 29th.
Author: KMAN Staff
(Update) Earlier reports of a third explosion at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston have proven to be false. Reports say there was a fire in a mechanical room at the Library, there were no injuries. As far as the marathon explosions, three individuals are reported dead, one of whom is an eight year old child. Around 130 wounded. Cell phones had been disabled in downtown Boston to prevent remote detonations of explosions. KMAN News has received word there were runners from Manhattan competing in the race. In fact, Erinn Barcomb-Peterson with Kansas State Communications tells KMAN her office knows…
Captain Jeff Hooper announced that the Riley County Police Department has joined the national Volunteers in Police Service Program. Throughout the country, thousands of law enforcement agencies are utilizing volunteers for supplementing public safety and crime prevention efforts. The volunteers do not, by any means, replace the employees, but offer support to allow agencies to provide additional services and maintain positive relationships with the public. Currently there are more than 2,000 registered VIP programs with more than 250,000 volunteers representing agencies in all 50 states. Volunteers working in the department will experience a number of responsibilities, including- performing administrative /clerical maintenance,…
The Riley County police department has joined the national Volunteers in Police Service program. Thousands of law enforcement agencies around the country and internationally, are using volunteers to suppliment public safety and crime prevention efforts. Volunteers never replace employees. Rather they offer support to allow agencies to provide additional services, maintain positive relationships with the public, and free up employee’s time for higher duties. RCPD volunteers will perform administrative, maintanence, janitorial, language interpretation, and other duties as needs arise. The program will be focused on administrative support for the department. Volunteers will be required to pass a criminal background check,…
The Geary County sheriff’s department is reporting a law enforcement pursuit in Junction City this past weekend. Matthew Hunter of Junction city was arrested following the pursuit, reported at about 5:30 Saturday evening. Deputies attempted to stop Hunter when he failed to stop at a stop sign at the intersection of eighth street and Whitney Road. He finally was apprehended in the 500 block of North East Street. Charges include felony fleeing and eluding, reckless driving, seven counts of failure to stop at a stop sign and a variety of other counts.
Two people were injured in a three vehicle accident, two of which were motorcycles. Tory Peoples (39) of Manhattan and Carl Davis Hendricks Jr. (27) of Alma were both taken to hospitals following the accident, reported shortly before four Sunday afternoon in Clay County. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, a 2005 Ford Pickup driven by 93 year old Lester Elsasser of Wakefield was westbound on K-82, about a half mile west of Wakefield, when Elsasser did a u-turn at the intersection of Sunflower road. Hendrick’s 2012 Harley-Davidson motorcycle struck the pickup, and then People’s 2010 Honda motorcycle struck Hendricks cycle. Hendricks was taken…
The Popocatepetl volcano on Saturday vented a dense cloud of ash over the central Mexico state of Puebla, with ash falling to the ground in several towns. In San Andres Cholula, residents were worried about ash contaminating the water.
The United States and Japan offered new talks with North Korea to resolve the over its nuclear and missile programs, but said the reclusive communist government first must lower tensions and honor previous agreements.
Jared King collected four hits and drove in a pair of runs and Blake McFadden won for the fourth time in five decisions as Kansas State knocked off Iowa 5-3 Sunday afternoon in Iowa City to take two out of three games in their non-conference weekend series with the Hawkeyes. The Cats outhit the Hawkeyes 14-5 as they recorded their second straight victory after Friday’s series-opening loss and their eighth win in their last nine games. McFadden gave up three runs on four hits in his six innings of work while registering five strikeouts and Jared Matthys and Tanner Witt…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) Nearly 7,000 eastern Kansas residents were without electricity after a transformer went out and knocked out power in one of the utility’s main lines. The Board of Public Utilities website says power went out around 9:10 a.m. Sunday at a substation in Kansas City, Kan. Service was restored in the area by late Sunday morning. BPU spokesman David Mehlhoff says the utility was trying to figure out what happened to cause the outage.