A Manhattan man was transported to Mercy Regional Health Center with unknown injuries following an accident late Friday night. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol 62-year old Jesse Wilhoite Jr. of Manhattan was traveling westbound in the 5500 block of Mc Dowell Creek road approximately a mile and a half north of I-70 when he swerved to avoid two deer in the roadway. Wilhoite’s 2006 Hyundai Elantra left the roadway and went into a ditch and jumped a field entrance before returning to the highway. Wilhoite was wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash. There is no…
Author: KMAN Staff
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney told a crowd in Florida Friday that the Obama campaign has been reduced to ‘silly word games’, a reference to President Barack Obama saying Romney has a condition known as “Romnesia.” <iframe width=”425″ height=”239″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/F2Wb-xf-AvE” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe>
A high school football game in Spokane, Washington went to overtime thanks to a 67-yard field goal by Central Valley kicker Austin Rehkow. Central Valley went on to win in overtime. <iframe width=”425″ height=”239″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/z3hGTfyyJ3o” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe>
The fourth-ranked K-State Football team will take their undefeated record on the road for the second straight week as they travel to Morgantown to play the #13 West Virginia Mountaineers. The Mountaineers are coming off a 49-14 loss at Texas Tech last week, but are averaging 45.7 points per game and K-State Head Coach Bill Snyder says his team will have to slow down that facet of West Virginia’s game. Snyder adds that Mountaineer Head Coach Dana Holgerson’s offense is nothing new to the Big 12, with teams like Texas Tech, Baylor, and Oklahoma State running a lot of the…
SALINA, Kan. (AP) A new arena football team is coming to Salina and local folks are being asked to give it a name. Salina officials announced Thursday the new team will play six weekend home games at the city’s Bicentennial Center, starting in March. KWCH-TV reports the team will compete in the new Champions Professional Indoor Football League, which also includes the Wichita Wild. The Bicentennial Center is holding an online team-naming contest that will run through next Thursday. Three finalists will be selected, with the winner to be announced Nov. 1. Those with name suggestions can submit them…
An indecent liberties with a child report has been made to the Riley County Police Department on Friday. The 11 year old female told her parent that a person known to her made inappropriate contact with her, which led to the report. RCPD said that the person being accused is a caretaker of the child. — Two individuals were victims of a burglary. Andrew Bradford, 22, and Kevin Dawson, 23, both of Manhattan, had items taken from their place of residence. An unknown suspected entered the residence and removed a laptop and cash totally in $600. The investigation is still on…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A young Topeka driver distracted by balloons lost control of her vehicle and crashed into a hotel, narrowly missing a woman inside one of the hotel’s rooms. Topeka police say the helium balloons inside the car were obstructing 17-year-old Kelli Young’s vision while she drove Thursday night. When she tried to push them out of the way, her SUV crashed through a perimeter fence, a fire hydrant and hit two vehicles in the parking lot of the Value Place hotel. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports Young’s vehicle eventually ended up halfway into hotel room. Michelle Williams, 28, of El…
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) An appeals court has revived a school finance lawsuit filed by some northeast Kansas parents. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver on Thursday reversed a lower court dismissal of a lawsuit filed by parents in the Shawnee Mission School District. The parents want a judge to lift a state cap on local option school budgets so district patrons can raise their taxes to support local schools. U.S. District Judge John Lungstrum dismissed the lawsuit in March 2011. He agreed with state officials, who argued that ending the cap on local option taxes would…
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) A 31-year-old Lawrence man has been found not guilty of sexually abusing the 5-year-old son of a woman with whom he was living. The Lawrence Journal-World reports a Douglas County jury acquitted the man Thursday of aggravated criminal sodomy. He could have faced up to life in prison if convicted. A prosecution witness testified the boy’s DNA was found on the man’s genitals, which were swabbed by police shortly after the alleged incident in April. But the man told police the boy had touched him while he was using a toilet next to a tub where the…
ABILENE, Kan. (AP) Two experts on Dwight Eisenhower and Harry Truman will speak next week in Kansas about the paths the two Midwesterners took to the White House and their legacies as president. Tim Rives is deputy director of the Eisenhower Presidential Library in Abilene. Sam Rushay is the supervisory archivist at the Truman Presidential Library in Independence, Mo. They’ll speak Tuesday night at the Eisenhower Library about the lives and times and legacies of the two presidents. Truman, a Democrat, was president in the final months of World War II while Eisenhower was serving as Allied commander in Europe.…