Not many details, but traffic was disrupted by a serious accident for about an hour at Ft. Riley Boulevard and South Scenic Drive. The accident was reported at about 2:30 p.m. RCPD reported the roadway was opened back up by 3:30. Preliminary reports indicate at least two vehicles, with a t-bone type of accident at a high rate of speed. Multiple injuries are being reported, with several people being transported to the hospital. KMAN news will provide more details as they become available.
Author: KMAN Staff
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) A hotel development project in downtown Lawrence might solve a historical mystery dating to the early 1900s. City officials say they are likely to ask for test excavations at a proposed hotel site to look for evidence that several black soldiers killed in Quantrill’s Raid are buried there. The Lawrence Journal-World reports a 1903 master’s thesis by a University of Kansas student contends the soldiers were buried there, but historians haven’t been able to corroborate the claim. Kansas state archaeologist Robert Hoard asked City Manager David Corliss in March to consider allowing him to do test excavations…
SALINA, Kan. (AP) A Salina man is jailed after being accused of starting a fire that forced more than a dozen people to evacuate their apartments. Salina police say the 38-year-old man set the fire in a bed and trash can while visiting an acquaintance Wednesday night. He allegedly used a blow torch found in the apartment to start the fire. The Salina Journal reports the apartment resident, Paul J. Smith, suffered minor injuries while trying to extinguish the fire. No one else was injured. The fire caused an estimated $35,000 damage. The Red Cross says 14 other apartment residents…
EL DORADO, Kan. (AP) The Butler County Sheriff’s Office says two men were killed in separate traffic accidents within hours of each other. The first accident occurred Thursday night south of Augusta on Highway 77. Sheriff Lt. Mike Holton says a passerby found a man dead outside a vehicle that had gone into a ditch. KFDI reports the man’s two young daughters were taken to a Wichita hospital. The family is from Douglas. The second accident was discovered about 1:30 Friday morning. A passerby found a wrecked car on Kansas 254 just east of Benton. The driver, a man believed…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) A Johnson County man has been sentenced to about six years in prison after pleading guilty to federal charges of bank fraud and money laundering. The U.S. Attorney’s office for Kansas says in a release that Paul L. Hartfield, 56, was also ordered this week to pay about $2.6 million in restitution. In charges filed against Hartfield in 2010, prosecutors said he owned Hart Investments and Diamond Mortgage and obtained $4.9 million in loans to rehabilitate more than 40 homes in the Kansas City metro area. But he stopped rehabilitating the homes in October 2006 and…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas Supreme Court is considering the appeal of a man sentenced to die over the killings of a Great Bend couple in 2004. The justices were hearing arguments Friday in the case of Sidney Gleason. He is challenging his convictions for capital murder and other crimes and his death sentence. The murder victims were Miki Martinez and boyfriend Darren Wornkey. Their deaths were days after the robbery of a 76-year-old man in February 2004. Prosecutors say Gleason and cousin Damien Thompson worried about what Martinez would tell police about the robbery. Workney was shot while he…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A northeastern Kansas woman is expected to admit to stealing from the credit union where she once worked as manager. A court notation entered Thursday sets a change-of-plea hearing for 47-year-old Pamela Emig of Solomon for Nov. 6 in federal court in Topeka. Emig is charged in one count of embezzlement for allegedly stealing $817,167 from April 2005 to August 2011 from Enterprise Credit in Enterprise. Her defense attorney, Christopher Joseph, has said his client is a good person who found herself in a difficult financial situation and made a series of bad decisions to save her…
A string of daytime burglaries have hit Pottawatomie County over the past month with the most recent happening on Thursday. The Pottawatomie County Sheriff’s office has reported that the incident occurred on Moody Road. Detective Gerald Schmidt, with the sheriff’s office, said that a report earlier in the day, however, has brought interest to a vehicle when a woman told detectives that a man in his mid 20s stopped by asking if a person lived there and then said he had the wrong address. Upon further observation, the woman noticed the car was backed up in her driveway. The vehicle is described as…
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A Manhattan man was taken into custody late Wednesday on a failure to appear charge. Tony Kolterman was originally charged with criminal deprivation of property. He remains confined on a $5,000 bond. ______________________________________________________________________________________ Early Thursday morning around 1:40, Riley County Police responded to Kites bar, located in Aggieville on north 12th street. Kites employee, 35 year old Jonathan Mitton of Manhattan had asked a patron, 23 year old Cade Hutchinson to leave the premise. Hutchinson refused and proceeded to threaten Mitton with a knife. Hutichinson was charged with aggravated assault, and remains confined on a $5,000 bond. ________________________________________________________________________________________ An unknown…