A multiple car accident in Manhattan Sunday morning has left a Topeka man in critical condition. According to Riley County Police reports released Tuesday, 60-year-old Jerome Little of Topeka was southbound on Tuttle Creek Boulevard just after 11 a-m Sunday, when he approached the intersection with Leavenworth Avenue at a high rate of speed. Little failed to stop at the traffic light, slamming into the rear-end of a vehicle driven by Abdelmalik Hussein, 47, of Kansas City, Kansas. Hussein’s vehicle then was propelled into a third vehicle driven by David Stanely, 47, of Kansas City, Missouri. Little’s vehicle then caught…
Author: KMAN Staff
Sewer systems are an essential part of any city, and last night’s Manhattan City Commission work session concerned certain sewer lines that may need to be improved. After years of studying flows and other factors affecting the city’s sanitary sewer lines, improvements are being considered. Among the possible improvements that were discussed were widening some high-capacity sewer lines, and lining others with a fiberglass inlay to prevent leakage and other issues. The Commission also took under consideration a plan to update floodplain maps, in light of last year’s flooding along the Wildcat Creek watershed.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Kansas City Royals owner David Glass says small-market franchises must do whatever it takes to lock up young talent long term, even if it’s a sometimes risky proposition. Glass says he expects General Manager Dayton Moore to begin discussions with first baseman Eric Hosmer and third baseman Mike Moustakas as early as this season. Both are considered cornerstones of the young team after arriving from the minors last season. Glass spoke to The Associated Press during a stop on the Royals’ caravan. The Royals are expected to field the youngest team in baseball this season, though…
Fake Patty’s day in Aggieville continues to generate a lot of discussion, and Tuesday’s Riley County law board was no exception. Jeff Koenig of Big Poppi’s Bicycle and who lives on North 14th street, described a woman getting sick on his porch and a man trying to break into his home during last year’s event, which he describes as mayhem. Koenig was asked what his solution would be, to authorize overwhelming force to shut down the party. Law Board chair Karen McCulloh happens to live in the area near Aggieville, and indicated she’s also experienced problems from partiers in recent years..…
The Riley County Police Department has released more information on the weekend shooting that left one Manhattan man hospitalized. As first reported on KMAN Monday morning, officers with the RCPD responded to the intersection of North Manhattan Avenue and Flint Hills Place, where they discovered Marcus Cooper, 51, of Manhattan with a gun shot wound, with the perpetrator identified as Tyrell Brown, 26, also of Manhattan. According to a press release from RCPD Lieutenant Josh Kyle, Cooper gave Mr. Brown a ride to church earlier that morning. While at the church, Brown began demonstrating bizarre behavior and was asked to…
Garmin International Incorporated is expanding its engineering internship program through the opening of a new software engineering facility at Kansas State University. The facility is designed to support software engineering, as well as semester-long, part-time software engineering internships throughout the school year and full-time software engineering internships during the summer. Students who participate in the internship will have the opportunity to work side-by-side with Garmin engineers and will get hands-on experience developing the next generation of Garmin GPS products. Garmin worked closely with Kansas State University, KSU-IC, The Manhattan Area Chamber of Commerce and KBED to open this facility, which…
A pair of Rock Creek wrestlers placed second as the Mustangs finished fifth as a team at the Wabaunsee Invitational over the weekend. Sam Wilson and Trevor Sutton both made the finals but finished as runners-up. Marc Reiss won his final match for 3rd place, while Shane Schaake and Shilo Schaake each came in 4th. Holton easily won the Wabaunsee Invitational team title. The rest of the top five was separated by five and a half points, with Wamego second, Royal Valley in third, St. Marys fourth, and Rock Creek in fifth.
It was a festive day at the Manhattan Town Center, with the celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. day in full swing. One of the highlights of the day was a quilt put together by Ronna Tyson, a former art teacher at Manhattan high school. Tyson says it took 550 hours to put the quilt together, with many of those going back and re-doing things. Tyson, who has worked with MLK committee chair Jim Spencer for a number of years, says quilting isn’t new to her–but this project was different. Tyson says the technique is described as snippets. In…