Ever had an interest in working with the police department? Thursday marks the beginning of the Riley County Police Department’s Citizen’s Academy. “We take applicants from citizens the police department serves,” Scott Hegemeister, Community Relations Officer with the RCPD, told Riley County Commissioners on Monday. “So not just citizen’s of Riley county or the City of Manhattan, but anyone who’s interested in how our department provides services for our community.” The presentations are held mainly at the Riley County Law Enforcement Center, though a few of the sessions will take place off site. Among the topics covered during the ll-week academy…
Author: KMAN Staff
Members of the Little Apple Chorus stopped by KMAN’s Morning News for Valentine’s Day!
KMAN’s Cathy Dawes had an opportunity to speak with Karen Davis, the City of Manhattan Community Development Director, about the Housing Rehabilitation Program.
A Riley County Jail inmate has entered a plea of no contest to battery of a corrections officer. Daniel Weaver, 25, was charged last year in connection with an incident at the Riley county jail in December of 2010, involving the battery of a corrections officer at the jail, while being held on another charge. Weaver entered the plea in Riley County district court Monday. Weaver’s sentencing is set for March 26th.
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) Kansas retailers say they’ll have plenty of helium on hand to blow up those heart-shaped Valentine’s Day balloons despite tight supplies across the country. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that retailers have been stockpiling helium for months to meet Tuesday’s expected demand. Marty Fish, head of the Wichita-based International Balloon Association, says that stores around the country have been coping with the helium squeeze. The nation’s helium supply has been reduced in recent years because the gas is used in industries that take priority over retailing. Helium is used in hospitals to cool MRI machines and for other…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A farm equipment trade group says January sales of combines in the United States were down 50 percent from the same month a year ago. A report released Monday by the Association of Equipment Manufacturers shows 445 combines were sold in January, compared with 890 sold in January 2011. But tractor sales were up. The association says that slightly more than 9,300 tractors were sold nationwide last month, an increase of 3.5 percent from January of last year.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A gay rights group is mobilizing against a bill before a Kansas House committee that supporters say is an attempt to preserve religious freedom. The House Judiciary Committee scheduled a hearing on the measure Tuesday afternoon. The bill would declare that state and local government policies shall not “substantially burden” people’s right to exercise their religious beliefs without showing a compelling interest and imposing the burden in the least restrictive way possible. The measure also would allow people to sue state and local government agencies if they feel their religious freedoms have been abridged The Equality Kansas…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas Board of Education is receiving one more update about the state’s proposal for seeking a waiver from some provisions of the federal No Child Left Behind education law. The update is planned for Wednesday during the second day of the board’s two-day meeting in Topeka. Kansas officials plan to submit the request by Feb. 28, the deadline for the second round of requests. Ten states were granted waivers last week from the first round of requests. States excused from following the law no longer have to meet a 2014 deadline for ensuring that 100 percent…