People coming away from the dress rehearsal for Friday’s Olympic opening ceremony were excited and impressed. Certain key details remained a secret with just over a day to go
Author: KMAN Staff
Thousands of dollars worth of damage were reported from a pasture fire Wednesday evening on West 69th Avenue, west of Manhattan near Keats. The fire began about 6:30 in the evening when a hay baler caught fire for an unknown reason, while out in a field with a hay bale attached. While one individual was treated by Riley County EMS on the scene, no one required hospitalization. Riley County Fire Chief Pat Collins indicates 35-40 acres on the William Smith farm were involved in the fire, amounting to a thousand dollars worth of hay , a haybaler, and a power pole being…
Governor Sam Brownback has updated all 105 counties to the Emergency Drought Status. With this declaration, the Kansas Water Office and the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism have issued a Memorandum of Understanding, or MOU, for emergency use of state fishing lake storage. “This MOU would allow small communities and producers to pump water from certain state fishing lakes to provide some relief if they are in dire need of water,” said Tracy Streeter, director of the Kansas Water Office and Chair of the Governor’s Drought Response Team. Atchison, Barber, Brown, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Clark, Crawford, Goodman, Jewell, Kingman,…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Drought-stricken Kansas is asking the Corps of Engineers to halt releases of water from three of its small reservoirs for downstream navigation. During a drought conference Wednesday, Gov. Sam Brownback asked U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts to help get the Corps to stop releases from the Milford, Perry and Tuttle Creek reservoirs while some upstream reservoirs remain at flood stage. The governor also asked Roberts to support expanding the Kanopolis reservoir to hold 2 more feet of storage, which could help central Kansas during a future drought. Brownback says he has allowed pumping from all of the state’s…
LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) A northeastern Kansas man who stole a neighbor’s purse after finding her dead in her home has been sentenced to two years in prison. KCTV reports that 38-year-old Bryan Keylon, of Leavenworth, was sentenced Wednesday for burglary. He pleaded guilty to the charge in June. Keylon admitted breaking into the 54-year-old woman’s home in January 2012 and finding the body in a bedroom. He took her purse, then called 911. Leavenworth County Attorney Todd Thompson said the woman was found to have suffered a massive heart attack, and Keylon had nothing to do with the death. Keylon…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) A Kansas woman’s victory in a religious freedom case came too late for her to get a life-saving liver transplant. Mary Stinemetz of Hill City is terminally ill with chronic liver disease. The 65-year-old woman is a Jehovah’s Witness, a religion that forbids blood transfusions. She won a legal battle last year that forced the state to pay for a transplant in Nebraska that did not require a blood transfusion. Kansas officials had argued that a bloodless transplant was not a medical necessity, and Steinmetz’s religion should not determine insurance coverage. The Kansas City Star reported…
SALINA, Kan. (AP) A Salina man admits he spanked his fiance’s 14-month-old son with a 10-inch piece of board but insists he did not kill the child. Antonio M. Brown pleaded not guilty Tuesday to the October 2011 death of Clayden Lee Urbanek. He is charged with first-degree murder, child abuse and interference with law enforcement. The Salina Journal reports Brown admitted in an interview with police that he caused severe bruising on the boy’s bottom by spanking him with a board. But he insisted he didn’t know how the boy suffered fatal injuries to his abdomen or bruises covering…
MERRIAM, Kan. (AP) Police say a train ran over a man in Johnson County early Wednesday. Merriam, Kan., police say the train conductor saw the man lying on the tracks but wasn’t able to stop the train before striking him. Drivers are being diverted near the scene of the man’s death, along a busy Johnson County street. The empty train was on Burlington Northern Santa Fe tracks.
GARDEN CITY, Kan. (AP) A Finney County jury found that a Garden City police officer didn’t use excessive force when a police dog was used to subdue a man during a traffic stop. The jury deliberated only 45 minutes Tuesday before reaching a verdict in the lawsuit filed by former Garden City resident Jack Nemechek against Garden City and police officer David Wheet. The Garden City Telegram reports Nemechek was stopped in February 2004 by three police officers for a traffic violation. Police say Nemechek was combative and the officers eventually released the police dog to help subdue him. Wheet…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas Corporation Commission says it needs more time to investigate a house explosion that killed a Topeka woman. WIBW reports the KCC was to present its findings Tuesday in the January blast that killed 81-year-old Lucinia Tolliver. But the corporation says it needs additional time to complete the investigation. Investigators have said digging in a yard west of Tolliver’s home caused a natural gas service line to separate from the main line underground. The natural gas migrated into Tolliver’s home, which exploded. She suffered severe burns and died about a week after the explosion.