WICHITA, Kan. — Federal authorities say a 27-year-old Kansas man pleaded guilty to threatening a Black man with a knife and telling him to get out of his “white town.” Colton Donner pleaded guilty Thursday to a federal hate crime. The U.S. Justice Department said Donner admitted that he saw the victim walking through a residential area in Paola on Sept. 11, 2019. According to court documents, Donner got out of his car, threatened the man with a knife, yelled racial slurs and told him that Paola was a “white town.” Donner faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in…
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WICHITA, Kan. — Police in Wichita say a teenager who accidentally shot himself while handling a gun has died of his injuries. Television station KAKE reports that 14-year-old Forever Latham was shot Saturday in his Wichita home. Police called to the home found the child with a gunshot wound to his body. He was rushed to a Wichita hospital, but later died from his injuries. Police say an investigation showed the teen was handling a gun inside a bedroom of the home when it accidentally fired and hit him. Police say several other family members where home at the time…
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 in the 800 block of Commons Pl. in Manhattan on February 10, 2022, around 8:37 a.m. Officers listed Turbo Construction as the victim when it was reported an…
On Friday’s edition of In Focus we spoke with Flint Hills Breadbasket Executive Director Maribeth Kieffer and Knights of Columbus volunteer Dave Ekart previewed Saturday’s Souper Bowl Food and Fund Drive. We also spoke with Ascension Via Christi President and CEO Bob Copple and Dietitian Britney Petty. In our final segments we spoke with Karen Hibbard – Manhattan CVB.
Standing room is all that remained as community members gathered in the Leonardville Community Building to express their concerns with the current ambulance services in the northern part of Riley County. On Thursday evening, a special commission meeting was held to allow for the public to comment on the matter. Several area residents were present along with school board members, former Riley County police officers, Riley mayor, and even some from outside the county. The podium never got lonely as resident after resident came up to share personal stories of poor ambulance response times and the pain they or a…
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Aggieville leadership says dialogue with Fort Riley about proactive steps to address recent violence in the district are ongoing. The nearly 100-business entertainment district features is the oldest of its kind in Kansas, and has recently experienced two separate shootings in a more than two month span since December. Most recently, Tremelle Montgomery of Fort Riley was charged in the killing of Joshua Wardi in February. A prior incident also involved a man out of Fort Riley, in which Joshua Cummings was arrested in the shooting of KSU football player Reed Godinet in December. KMAN spoke with Aggieville Business Association…
WICHITA, Kan. — Wichita State University and the University of Kansas will split an $11 million gift from a former Wichita resident. Both schools will receive $5.5 million to provide full-ride scholarships through a bequest from the estate of Richard “Dick” Smith, who graduated from Kansas and lived in Wichita for years. Smith, who died in January 2021, founded the Range Oil company in Wichita in 1964. At Wichita State, undergraduates in any field of study will be eligible for the scholarships. At Kansas, the money will be divided between general scholarships and scholarships for students studying geology.
LEAVENWORTH, Kan. — A 38-year-old man has been sentenced in the death of a Leavenworth man who was stabbed more than 25 times. Jeffery Samulczyk was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison with the possibility of parole in 25 years. He pleaded guilty in January to felony murder in the death of Joshua Gilson, whose body was found wrapped in plastic in the basement of his Leavenworth home in October 2020. Investigators found text messages between Samulczyk and Gilson’s wife discussing the murder and how to cover it up. Gilson’s wife, Alexandra, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder last year and…