Riley County COVID cases continue to trend downwards, however the county has reported a new death. A 74 year-old, unvaccinated male tested positive for COVID-19 on January 24 and passed away on February 9 at Ascension Via Christi Hospital in Manhattan. His passing represents the 73rd COVID-19-related death in Riley County. The County has identified 469 new COVID-19 cases and 713 additional recoveries since the last report. There are currently 394 active cases in Riley County, which represents a decrease of 297 active cases since last week. However, the two-week percent positivity rate rose from 17.84% to 22.34%. Ascension Via…
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TOPEKA, Kan. — Shawnee County Sheriff Brian Hill says a deputy shot and killed a man in Topeka as the suspect drove his vehicle toward the deputy. The man, 38-year-old Jason D. Ickler, was killed Sunday. Hill said in a news release that deputies went to a Topeka Quality Inn to arrest Ickler on fleeing and other charges from an incident that happened Friday. Ickler jumped out of a window at the hotel and got into a car. Hill says when a deputy approached, Ickler accelerated the vehicle toward the deputy, who fired. Ickler died at the scene. The deputy’s…
TOPEKA, Kan. — Fellow conservative Republicans are rallying behind a Kansas physician-legislator being investigated by the state medical board. They did so Tuesday by advancing state Sen. Mark Steffen’s measures to protect doctors pursuing potentially dangerous treatments for COVID-19 and to weaken state childhood vaccination requirements. Steffen is a member of the Senate’s health committee and persuaded it to approve a requirement for pharmacists to fill prescriptions of the anti-worm medication ivermectin to treat COVID-19. He also persuaded the committee to add a proposal to make it easy for parents to claim religious exemptions from childhood immunization requirements. The bill…
TOPEKA, Kan. — The Kansas Corporation Commission has approved a settlement that will require customers of Kansas Gas Service to pay an estimated $5 to $7 a month for five to 10 years because of a deep freeze last February. The added costs is the customers’ share of $366 million in extra natural gas costs that spiked in February 2021. It will be several months before customers see the added costs on their bills. The costs come as Kansas Gas Service plans to issue bonds to spread the costs of last year’s freeze to its 640,000 customers. The exact cost…
LEAVENWORTH, Kan. — A Kansas man has pleaded no contest to second-degree murder for the shooting death last year of a 12-year-old boy outside a Leavenworth pharmacy. The Kansas City Star reports that 26-year-old Darvon Deshawn Thomas entered the plea Tuesday in Leavenworth County District Court, admitting to his role in the April death of 12-year-old Brian Henderson, of Kansas City, Missouri. Prosecutors say the boy was not the intended target, but simply in the backseat of a car with someone meeting Thomas to sell a gun when the deal went bad and someone with Thomas began shooting. Two teens…
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 burglary near the intersection of Fourteenth st. and S. Oak St. in Ogden on February 8, 2022, around 11:04 a.m. Officers listed a 24-year-old female as the victim when…
On Wednesday’s edition of In Focus we spoke with Pottawatomie County Schools: USD 320 Wamego Interim Superintendent Greg Mann and USD 323 Rock Creek Superintendent Kevin Logan. We also spoke with Manhattan Area Technical College President Jim Genandt.
USD 475 School Board members have voted to sell the site of the former Junction City High School to the city. During a school board meeting on Monday, Jason Butler, board member, made a motion to give the land to the city for $1 after agreements, including a memorandum of understanding that would detail the obligations of the city, were made. “This allows us to say to the city, ‘We are ready to move forward, but we want to make sure that we are all in agreement with what the details of this look like.’ Otherwise I think we are…
Manhattan has no plans to further explore annexing the Green Valley area for the time being. A majority of city commissioners Tuesday voiced opposition to pursuing a contract for an extension of services study that would be required of Manhattan as a next step before considering a unilateral annexation of the community. That study would have more specifically analyzed the necessary infrastructure and service expansions required to serve the city if expanded eastward further into Pottawatomie County. “I’m just not seeing the justification just to do it to do it right at this point in time,” says Commissioner John Matta.…
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