On Tuesday’s edition of In Focus we spoke with Manhattan City Manager Ron Fehr and City Commissioner Mark Hatesohl.
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Among the biggest annual celebrations in numerous East and Southeast Asian cultures, Lunar New Year will be commemorated on the K-State campus with a Saturday celebration. Lunar New Year coincides with the first new moon of the 354-day-long lunar calendar, this year falling on February 1. Festivities vary and can be observed for multiple days, in some cases lasting 15 days until the full moon. This year marks the transition to the Year of the Tiger, part of the 12-year cycle of the Chinese Zodiac. The holiday has numerous names across cultures, including the Spring Festival or Chūn jié (春節 /…
Gov. Laura Kelly discussed her budget proposal to boost state funding for moderate income housing support, calling it a ‘down payment on the future of our state’ during a Monday stop in Alma. Kelly toured living spaces developed from funds provided by grants and loans from the state Moderate Income Housing Program that afternoon, which she has proposed be allocated an additional $20 million in Kansas’ budget. “The ability to take a building like this and to be able to refurbish it for a different purpose,” says Kelly. “But one that will bring people into the downtown area and […]…
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ANDALE, Kan. — A Kansas community is mourning the loss of a longtime basketball coach who died hours after coaching his last game. Ted Anderson coached the girls team at Andale High School and taught middle school. An email from the district’s superintendent said Anderson died Thursday night. No cause of death was given. He was 53. He had coach the team to a win hours before his death. On Friday, the team took to the court in honor of their coach and beat Garden Plain to advance to a tournament final.
FALLS CHURCH, Va. — A woman who once lived in Kansas has been arrested after federal prosecutors charged her with joining the Islamic State group and leading an all-female battalion of AK-47 wielding militants. The U.S. Attorney in Alexandria, Virginia, announced Saturday that 42-year-old Allison Fluke-Ekren has been charged with providing material support to a terrorist organization. Prosecutors say Fluke-Ekren wanted to recruit operatives to attack a college campus in the U.S. and discussed a terrorist attack on a shopping mall. An FBI affidavit also alleges that Fluke-Ekren became leader of an Islamic State unit called “Khatiba Nusaybah” in the…
WASHINGTON — A Kansas man is being held in Maryland on charges that he threatened President Joe Biden. A court filing says Scott Merryman made the threats to multiple Secret Service agents and called the police in Independence, Kansas, to let them know he was traveling to Washington to see the president. According to the court document, Merryman said he was going to cut off “the head of the serpent in the heart of the nation,” and posted on Facebook that Biden is the “AntiChrist.” An official with the Washington County Detention Center in Hagerstown, Maryland, says Merryman is being…
WICHITA, Kan. — More than 1,000 staff members in the state’s largest school district are in quarantine because of COVID-19, but currently all Wichita schools are open. The Wichita Eagle reports that district records show that nearly 14% of the school district’s staff some 1,033 people were off because of COVID-19 illnesses or exposure as of Friday. That is up from 912 and 646 in the previous two weeks. Earlier this month, the district had to temporarily close three elementary schools because of staff shortages as the highly contagious omicron variant of the virus spread across the state.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A teenager was shot and killed Saturday night in Kansas City, Kansas. Police said the shooting was reported around 10:30 p.m. Saturday in the 200 block of South 14th Street. Officers found a boy who was in its early teens with a gunshot wound inside a home. Paramedics said the boy died at the scene. The victim’s name and age were not immediately released. No arrests were announced Sunday morning.
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 theft and criminal damage to property in the 400 block of 3rd Pl. in Manhattan on January 28, 2022, around 6:18 p.m. Officers listed Walmart and a 23-year-old male…