Riley County property valuations will soon be arriving in the mail. The Appraisers Office has mailed the 2022 Change of Value Notices to each of the roughly 26,000 real estate parcels in Riley County. Those CVNs reflect changes in property values due to fluctuations in the local real estate market and/or changes made to individual properties. During Monday’s county commission meeting, Appraiser Analyst Allen Todd says valuations are expected to increase due to decreasing sales ratios. The sales ratio for the county is around 90%, with 83% of sales last year selling for more than what they were valued at. …
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SHAWNEE, Kan. — The father of an infant killed in a house fire in suburban Kansas City, Kansas, has been charged with first-degree murder and other crimes in the case. The fire was reported around 1 a.m. Sunday in Shawnee. Firefighters battling the flames found the body of the infant inside home. Television station Fox4 reports that police later arrested 28-year-old Nicholas Adam Ecker. Ecker was charged Monday in Johnson County Court with first-degree murder and aggravated arson. Ecker is also charged with felony stalking, domestic aggravated assault and illegal possession of a firearm. He is being held on $1…
The following summary of calls for service/reports filed by the Riley County Police Department is a portion of those received by police. Some names, addresses, and case details are withheld to follow local, state, and federal law as well as in an attempt to protect community members from being victimized further. Those arrested are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. MANHATTAN, KAN. – Officers filed a report for rape and criminal restraint in Manhattan on February 14, 2022, around 3:00 p.m. Officer listed a 22-year-old female as the victim. Due to the nature of this crime, no…
On Tuesday’s edition of In Focus we spoke with Manhattan City Manager Ron Fehr and Commissioner Mark Hatesohl.
MANHATTAN, Kan. (Kansas State Athletics) – Kansas State rallied from a double-digit second-half deficit for the second consecutive game, as the Wildcats scored 11 straight points during a larger 18-2 run to flip the momentum en route to a 78-73 win over West Virginia on Monday night before a crowd of 5,401 fans at Bramlage Coliseum. K-State (14-11, 6-7 Big 12) made yet the improbable comeback by getting multiple players involved, as junior Markquis Nowell led four players in double figures with 21 points on 7-of-11 field goals, including 4-of-6 from 3-point range, as the Wildcats moved to 6-1 this season when at…
Ochai Agbaji scored 20 points and No. 6 Kansas saw all five starters score in double figures in a 76-62 victory over Oklahoma State. Kansas, which wore throwback jerseys from the 1921-22 season, the year the Jayhawks won their first Helms Foundation national championship, pulled away late in the first half and never was threatened in the second half. Joining Agbaji in double figures for Kansas (21-4, 10-2 Big 12) was Christian Braun with 16 points, Dajuan Harris and David McCormack with 12 points each, and Jalen Wilson with 11. McCormack also had 12 rebounds for his sixth double-double of…
Large volumes of mis- and disinformation in social media is an inherent structural flaw according to sociologist Mark Smith, one which he says requires the development of new technologies to address. “When Henry Ford rolled out the Model T — it was a car and it did car things, you could get in it and drive it and it would take you places,” Smith says. “But it was flawed. It was not done and he didn’t know it; he did not have an airbag, he did not have safety belts. “For many of us, social media really started somewhere in…
OLATHE, Kan. — Authorities say a California man was killed when the small plane he was piloting crashed at a suburban Kansas City, Kansas, airport. Television station KSHB reports that the Kansas Highway Patrol identified the pilot as 51-year-old Robert Douglas Ming, of Laguna Niguel, California. Officials say the crash happened as the single-engine Piper Aircraft attempted to take off around 10:30 a.m. Sunday at the Johnson County Executive Airport in Olathe, headed for Albuquerque, New Mexico. Witnesses say the plane crashed and erupted in flames. Ming was the only person aboard the plane.
SHAWNEE, Kan. — Officials say an infant has died in a house fire in suburban Kansas City, Kansas. Fire officials say the fire was reported around 1 a.m. Sunday in Shawnee. Arriving Shawnee Fire Department fire crews found the house fulling engulfed in flames and called for assistance from surrounding departments to help extinguish the blaze. Firefighters later found an infant boy dead inside the home. Authorities have not released the baby’s name. Officials are investigating the cause of the fire.
TOPEKA, Kan. — Democrats have sued Kansas officials over a Republican redistricting law. The lawsuit filed Monday challenges a map that costs the state’s only Democrat in Congress some of the territory in her Kansas City-area district that she carries by wide margins in elections. A team of attorneys led by prominent Democratic attorney Marc Elias filed the lawsuit in Wyandotte County District Court in the Kansas City area. The Republican-controlled Legislature overrode Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of the plan Wednesday. Democrats argue that the map is unacceptable because it splits Kansas City, Kansas, and decreases the number of…