DENVER (AP) The U.S. Olympic Committee will not bid for the 2022 Winter Games, but instead explore possible bids for either the 2024 Summer or 2026 Winter Olympics. In a meeting Tuesday, the USOC board decided to hold off on bidding for the next available Olympics because going for the 2022 Games would put the federation on a fast timeline. A bid for those games would be due in the fall of 2013. Last week, an exploratory committee in Denver recommended the city move forward on plans for a 2022 bid. Earlier this year, the USOC removed a major…
Author: KMAN Staff
The Pottawatomie County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a reported arson that occurred at the city park in Belvue on June 29th around 6:52 p.m. Deputies responded to the report of a loud explosion in the area of the city park. When the Deputies arrived, they found the mens rest-room had been damaged by an apparent explosion. The damage is estimated to be $400. A witnesses described a vehicle of interest leaving the area as a white or cream colored newer passenger car with two male juveniles. Anyone with information regarding this or any other crime are urged to contact the…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Six men have been arrested in connection with an early morning brawl at a Sedgwick County lake that sent three people to the hospital with serious injuries. The Wichita Eagle reports the arrested men range in age from 18 to 25 years old. The Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office says more than a dozen people took part in the brawl that started after 2 a.m. Tuesday at a campground on the southeast side of Lake Afton. Six people were hurt, including three of them seriously. Two men were taken to Via Christi Hospital and a woman was taken…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) A second former Kansas City, Kan., police officer has been sentenced to federal prison for stealing electronics from houses where his special unit served search warrants. U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom says 34-year-old Jeffrey M. Bell was sentenced Tuesday to eight months behind bars for violating a federal civil rights law. He and two other members of the Police Department’s Selective Crime Occurrence Reduction Enforcement Unit were charged after a sting operation in January 2011. Thirty-two-year-old Darrell M. Forrest was sentenced last month to 12 months and a day in prison, and 34-year-old Dustin Sillings is to…
GREENSBURG, Kan. (AP) A southwestern Kansas family has lost a beloved pet, but it should be easy to spot. After all, how many 130-pound tortoises could be on the loose in the area at one time? Tony Lowery tells KWCH-TV that Leona an African sulcata tortoise and her male partner Puck broke out of their enclosure near Greensburg about a week ago. Puck turned up quickly, but Leona remains on the run. The tortoises were about the size of hockey pucks when the family got them nearly 20 years ago. The African sulcata is one of the largest species of…
EMPORIA, Kan. (AP) An eastern Kansas woman has been found guilty of trying to kill her newborn son by putting him in a bag and leaving it in the trash. KVOE-AM reports a jury deliberated about six hours Monday before convicting 26-year-old Emporia resident Christina Devine of attempted first-degree murder. Devine was charged after maintenance workers at an apartment complex found the 7-pound, 10-ounce baby alive in the trash in October 2010. Authorities said Devine’s route to the apartment complex took her past several places where she could have left her son, including Emporia’s police and fire stations. Devine will…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Nearly half of all Kansas counties have declared burn bans until further notice because of hot and dry conditions. The Kansas adjunct general’s office on Monday said 45 of the state’s 105 counties have bans in place, while one other has instituted a “strong restrictions” ban, meaning burning is allowed only if a fire department has deemed the site safe for burning. Counties with burn bans include Anderson, Atchison, Barton, Bourbon, Cherokee, Cheyenne, Clark, Clay, Decatur, Edwards, Ellsworth, Ford, Franklin, Graham, Grant, Greenwood, Gove, Hodgeman, Johnson, Lane, Lincoln and Logan. Others are Marshall, Meade, Miami, Mitchell, Morton,…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) The latest government report is painting a deteriorating portrait of the Kansas corn crop. Kansas Agricultural Statistics Service reported Monday that 31 percent of the Kansas corn crop was in poor to very poor condition. It rated 43 percent as fair while 24 was considered in good and 2 percent in excellent condition. The agency noted that average weekly temperatures in Kansas were 7 to 15 degrees above normal. On top of the heat, just five of the 53 weather reporting stations had more than one-half inch of rain this past week. More than 90 percent of…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback will lead a delegation of state and local officials heading overseas to promote aircraft built in the state. The Republican governor will be joined by Commerce Secretary Pat George and representatives from the Greater Wichita Economic Development Coalition in attending the Farnborough International Airshow in England from July 9 through July 15. The delegation will be seeking to expand export markets for Kansas aircraft. The state exports more than $2 billion in aircraft, accounting for more than 18 percent of all exports coming from Kansas. Brownback says officials will be promoting the Kansas…
Representatives from the Kansas Department of Transportation briefed Pottawatomie County commissioners Monday on the Manhattan Metropolitan Planning Organization. Stephanie Watts, MPO transportation coordinator for KDOT, spent much of her time explaining the basic function of the organization. “It’s an organization that has various jurisdictions,” Watts said. “Whether it’s the county or the city, they come together to form this unified vision of what the transportation network should look like for this region.” The MPO’s region is expected to be clarified by the end of the calendar year. “At a minimum it has to be the city of Manhattan, part of Riley…