The Riley County-Manhattan Health Department will drop it’s association with the city of Manhattan and become a county agency as of January 1, 2012. This evoked an emotional discussion at the health board meeting held Wednesday. County appointee to the health board Debbie Nuss voiced her opinion on the city’s decision. “My view of the health department is one of consolidated government,” Nuss said. “Are there things that could have been done better? Sure. But the city’s decision to abandon a model that’s been in place for over 50 years is putting the health department in an awkward position going…
Author: KMAN Staff
It was a hot day for a fire, with nine Riley county firefighters responding to a fire at an abandoned mobile home on Harwood Drive near Zeandale road this (Wednesday) afternoon. Assistant Fire Chief Doug Messer indicates the property involved belongs to Dwight Johnson, who lives at 1170 Zeandale Road… Messer adds what makes the fire interesting is it’s the second fire on Johnson’s property in less than a week. Saturday Johnson had a fire in a well house, burning the wel house down. The Saturday fire involved $2500 in damage, but the mobile home fire really didn’t involve any…
A 39-year old woman, Lakeysha Beard, talked for more than half a day while on an Amtrak train going from Oakland, California, to Salem, Oregon. The loud cellphone conversation lasted sixteen hours last Monday, after which police stopped the train for twenty minutes to arrest the woman. According to the British newspaper Daily Mail, Amtrak has no policy forbidding passengers from talking on the phone on a moving train. In the train’s car, a few passengers asked the woman to put the phone away or to stop a few times during the conversation prior to notifying the train staff. Staff…
An imam of a mosque in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, was beaten up by a local man for refusing to chase away an evil spirit from his body, the Emirate Al Youm newspaper said. “The man claimed that he was possessed by a jinn and wanted the imam to exorcise him by reading verses of Quran. The imam refused, saying it was not his duty,” the newspaper quoted the son of the beaten imam as saying. The man attacked the imam after evening prayer. The attacker approached his victim from behind, banged the man’s head against the mosque’s steel door…
Bernardo Hees, the CEO of American fast food chain Burger King was caught insulting British women during a speech to students in Chicago. Hees was talking to the university students about his time at the University of Warwick in England. He compared the United States to Britain by saying “[h]ere the food is good and you are known for your good-looking women.” He then spoke about the UK by saying that “[t]he food is terrible and the women are not very attractive.” A spokesman for Burger King released a statement after Hees’s comments were reported by the US press. “Mr.…
A morbidly obese Ohio man died Wednesday after being found unconscious in his home several days earlier. The man had been sitting in a chair for two years and was physically fused to it when he was discovered by two roommates, one of which was his girlfriend. Authorities who arrived at the house in Bellaire reported seeing the man sitting amidst his own urine and feces, which were infested with maggots. The man’s skin had become attached to the recliner’s cloth, said law enforcement officers, one of whom had to dispose of his uniform after responding to the home. In…
A 13-year-old Norwegian boy avoided being attacked by wolves by playing a heavy metal song on his mobile phone, RIAN reports. The incident took place in the central Norwegian municipality of Rakkestad. Four wolves, who appeared before the boy when he was returning home from school, were scared away by the noise coming from the boy’s mobile phone, the Russian website said. The song that saved the boy’s life was by thrash metal band Megadeth. The boy said he had been told that in order to avoid being attacked by wolves one should not run away from them but attack…
Local British councillors have reported that they have seized ice cream made from the breast milk of human beings that had been placed on sale in a shop located in London, England, United Kingdom. Officials cited concerns relating to health and safety. A Westminster City Council spokeswoman explained that two complaints made by members of the public were being replied to by the council. The Icecreamists, the marketing company involved with the dessert known as ‘Baby Gaga’, are fully co-operating with officials who are carrying out tests that are currently ongoing. According to Brian Connell, an individual from the council,…
An Egyptian man in his early twenties has named his newborn daughter ‘Facebook’ following the 2011 Egyptian Revolution which was almost solely organized on the social-networking site Facebook. The father, Gamal Ibrahim, told the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram that he gave his child the name to “express his joy at the achievements made by the January 25 youth.” The protests, which were largely organized on social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook, began on January 25 and led to the end of Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year reign as president of Egypt. The Al-Ahram report stated that, “The girl’s family, friends, and…
Police in Kent, England, have described a woman who called the emergency services to report the theft of a snowman as “completely irresponsible.” The woman rang 999 after noticing the snowman outside her house had vanished. “There’s been a theft from outside my house,” she told the operator. “I haven’t been out to check on him for five hours but I went outside for a fag and he’s gone.” When asked who had disappeared, the woman said: “my snowman.” Chief inspector Simon Black said that the call “could have cost someone’s life if there was a genuine emergency and they…