The 4th Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, will hold a ceremony to uncase the unit colors following the unit’s return from a deployment to Afghanistan. The ceremony will be at 9 a.m. Friday at Building 727 on Fort Riley’s Marshall Army Airfield. The uncasing of the colors represents the unit’s readiness to train for future missions after successfully completing its mission in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. The “Pale Riders” supported Operation Enduring Freedom as part of Combined Task Force Strike and Combined Task Force Spartan, while partnered with the 2nd Kandak, 3rd…
Author: KMAN Staff
A Manhattan woman’s ID was stolen and used in Las Vegas. Riley County Police reports show a credit card was taken out from Chase Bank Services in the name of Wilasini Kanchai, 59, sometime between the first of the year and Feb. 13. The card was used for various goods and services in Las Vegas over that time, with the total loss valued at $4,967. The investigation is ongoing.
Riley County Police are investigating a reported rape from over the weekend. RCPD Lieutenant Josh Kyle says the rape was reported Saturday morning around 8:15 a.m. and involved a 22-year-old female victim and a suspect known to her. The rape allegedly occurred in the northwestern portion of Manhattan. No arrests have yet been made.
Riley County Police were called to a tattoo parlor in Aggieville early Saturday morning after two men were threatened with a gun. RCPD Lieutenant Josh Kyle tells KMAN Adam Beauman, 22, of Manhattan and Gabriel Wickham, 22, of Hastings, Nebraska became involved in an altercation with a third man outside of the Twisted Apple tattoo parlor on North Manhattan Avenue around 1:45 a.m. Saturday. Kyle says the suspect brandished a firearm and made verbal threats towards the pair. No suspects have been named and the case remains under investigation.
Four face drug charges after a Friday morning bust by the Riley County Police Department. RCPD Lieutenant Josh Kyle tells KMAN the bust occurred Friday morning just after 7:30 in the 500 block of North Manhattan. A total of 12.5 ounces of marijuana was seized as a result of the search warrant with an approximate street value of $5,500. Arrested were Phillip Malcaluso, 19, Maxwell Zinser, 19, and Katherine Kearns, 19, all of Manhattan. Also picked up was Nicholas Fraken, 19, of Roeland Park, Kansas. Malcaluso, Zinser, and Kearns were all charged with conspiracy to distribute marijuana, possession with intent to distribute,…
A brush fire meant a lot of work for Riley county firefighters Sunday. The fire started on Corps of engineers property in northern Riley County spread to private property belonging to Junior Nelson of Randolph. Riley County Assistant Fire chief Doug Messer indicates it was in a difficult area for his firefighters to reach. “It’s about 175 acres,” Messer says. “It took us about four hours to contain it.” The fire was still burning when KMAN News talked to Messer Monday morning just before 8 a.m. He assured listeners the areas still burning were in no danger. “It was mainly…
FORT RILEY, Kan. (AP) The 1st Infantry Division’s headquarters is getting ready to leave Fort Riley and Kansas for a year in Afghanistan. The deployment marks the second overseas duty for the headquarters unit since the division’s flag returned to Fort Riley from Germany in 2006. The division staff spent a year in Iraq in 2010. A ceremony is scheduled for March 7 at Fort Riley for a formal casing of the division’s flag, signifying that it is deploying to combat. Staff and soldiers will be leaving Fort Riley in the following weeks. The headquarters staff recently completed a readiness…
The sales tax receipts from the end of the holiday season are in and counted. Manhattan Finance Director Bernie Hayen, announced the end of last week that “nearly all major retailer, auto dealers, and Manhattan Mall stores remained up compared to the same February period a year ago.” Also, because of these strong retail sales, Hayen continued by stating that the budget is $250,000 ahead of the budget projections. Nearly $924,000 was collected for the February reporting period, with an adjusted rate of nearly $846,000. That’s up about $43,000 from the same time last year, and well over the $740,000 budgeted amount.…
WICHITA, Kan. – Manhattan High School took top honors at the Class 6A State Wrestling Tournament by capturing the school’s third state title at Hartman Arena on Saturday night. After holding a 36-point lead heading into day two, the Tribe held off a furious charge by Wichita Heights as Manhattan edged out the second place finishers by 13 points. Manhattan’s score was 165.5, Wichita Heights registered a score of 152.5, while Lawrence was a distant third at 118.5. Manhattan sent four wrestlers to the finals with Ty Suggs winning the crown at 195 lbs. Finishing second were Jase Stone at…