Arrests Michael Joshua Bartle, 23, 1106 Garden Way, Apartment A, for driving under the influence and unlawful possession of hallucinogens. Released on $1,500 bond. Jessica Ann Cantrell, 23, 720 Kearney St., for driving under the influence. Released on $750 bond. Robert John Edleston II, 33, 3448 Dempsey Rd., for failure to appear. Released on $1,000 bond. Jay Thomas Jernigan, 31, 2000 Green Ave., for driving under the influence. Released on $1,000. Danyelle Marie Lamb, 22, 2500 Farm Bureau Rd., No. 250, for probation violation. Released no bond. Jermaine Tyrell Patton, 24, Junction City, Kan., for failure to register as an…
Author: KMAN Staff
The Riley County Commission continued making tweaks to the 2013 budget during a Thursday’s work session. The commission finalized its appropriation to the Health Department, which will receive $639,331 in the upcoming fiscal year. “This amount ($639,331) is required as a local match to KDHE’s state formula funding,” budget and finance officer Johnette Shepek said. That was the only adjustment that needed to be made to the county’s projected expenses; however, modifications were made to the county’s unencumbered cash balance. “One of the things we didn’t take into account (last week) was the commission’s approval for the expenditure of HVAC…
The City of Manhattan has reached the urbanized area classification by the U.S. Census Bureau in the 2010 Census. With this classification, a federal mandate has been made that a Metropolitan Planning Organization, or MPO, must be created. At Thursday’s, joint City of Manhattan, Riley County and Pottawatomie County meeting, a presentation was made by the Kansas Department of Transportation as to what the MPO will consist of and what they will be responsible for. The MPO will be made up of a policy board with elected officials from the designated planning area, a technical advisory committee and the director and staff. The funding for…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger says the state shouldn’t wait until after November’s presidential election to move toward complying with a key part of the federal health care law. Praeger’s comments Thursday about the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision upholding the federal law put her at odds with Gov. Sam Brownback, a fellow Republican. Brownback said he wants to wait until after the election to decide what Kansas will do about setting up an online health insurance marketplace. The health care law requires each state to have one operating in 2014. The governor predicted that if GOP presidential…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A state board has approved a $30,000 payment to a former Topeka Correctional Facility inmate who was forced by a guard to engage in sexual activity. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the payment settles a federal lawsuit filed against the state by parolee Rebecca Fleetwood. Fleetwood accused corrections officer Nathan VanDyke of driving her to a cemetery in September 2008 and forcing her to perform a sexual act. VanDyke later pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual relations and was placed on probation. The payment to Fleetwood was endorsed by the State Finance Council, a bipartisan board made up of…
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) Police in Hutchinson are investigating a series of break-ins at churches, but so far they’re not sure if the burglaries are connected. The latest incident occurred this week, when someone broke into Our Redeemer Lutheran Church at night and stole money, electronics and two fire extinguishers. The Hutchinson News reports the church was the fifth to be burglarized since late March. Pastor Chad Trunkhill says he’s grateful that whoever broke windows to get inside didn’t use the fire extinguishers to do more damage. During a late-April break-in at Eastwood Church of Christ, someone sprayed fire extinguishers over…
HOLTON, Kan. (AP) The superintendent of the Holton school district says unpredictable state funding contributed to a dispute with the district’s teachers. Earlier this week, Holton teachers returned 69 unsigned contracts to the district to protest a lack of negotiations and another year without a pay raise. Superintendent Nancy Meyer says the district offered the teachers one-time bonuses last August rather than raises. She says the district took that action in part because the state has reduced funding for public schools and it’s difficult to predict when that trend might end. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports Meyer said the Legislature cut…
COLUMBUS, Kan. (AP) A man who escaped from the Cherokee County jail Sunday has been arrested and returned to jail. But authorities allege Jimmy Dale Sluder committed a residential burglary before he was arrested Tuesday in Pittsburg. The Joplin Globe reports Sluder was part of an inmate work program when he ran away while taking out trash early Sunday. He was in jail on theft charges. He was arrested at a Pittsburg apartment after officers received a tip about his whereabouts. Cherokee County Sheriff David Groves says Sluder is suspected of breaking into a Columbus house Tuesday afternoon. He allegedly…