Hundreds of furniture pieces found new homes Friday during the 12th annual Furniture Amnesty Day at City Park. The annual event, put on by the City of Manhattan, Hands On K-State, The Staley School of Leadership and Konza United Way, is held every summer as a way for residents to donate old furniture. Many residents, like Brandie Feehan, came out looking for that one missing piece for their own home. Hands on Kansas State program administrator Kait Long says it’s as much about re-purposing furniture, as it is keeping said items off the curbs. Close to 200 households donated their…
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A new school year and new school mean new routes for the buses for Manhattan-Ogden USD 383. Transportation Director Andrea Adams says to have patience with the bus routes for the new year. New changes will be implemented this year, which means they are new to the transportation staff as well. Adams says they plan to have all bus routes out to the parents by Friday, August 13th. A new addition to this year’s transportation is a new phone and web app called “Here Comes the Bus.” Marlatt and Bergman Elementary Schools have had significant changes to their parking lots…
Live performances are returning to McCain Auditorium at Kanas State University. Todd Holmberg, auditorium director, tells KMAN six events are being offered this fall beginning on September 16 with a small-town Midwest girl herself, Sara Evans. “She has a sound that is kind of similar to Faith Hill and Martina McBride, for those of you who really aren’t familiar with Sara Evans,” Holmberg adds. Holmberg says that this event will also be the first event that the community can see the new McCain lobby as well as other completed construction projects at the auditorium. Following the performance from Sara Evans…
MISSION, Kansas — A federal freeze on most evictions that was enacted last year is scheduled to expire Saturday, after the Biden administration extended the original date by a month. The moratorium put in place by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in September has been the only tool keeping millions of tenants in their homes. Many of them lost jobs during the coronavirus pandemic and have fallen months behind on their rent. Landlords successfully challenged the order in court, arguing that they also had bills to pay. They pointed out that tenants could access nearly $47 billion in…
EMPORIA, Kan. — A former maintenance manager at the Tyson Foods plant in Emporia has been sentenced to 27 months in prison for defrauding the company out of more than $416,000. David John Ranger was sentenced Wednesday. He pleaded guilty in April to one count of wire fraud. He was also ordered to pay $410,000 in restitution and serve three years of supervised release when he finishes his jail term. Prosecutors say Ranger used company cards and created a fictitious company in a scheme to pay personal expenses for nearly seven years.
TOPEKA, Kan. — The Kansas Supreme Court says a man who beat an Ottawa woman and then left her to die does not have to register as a sex offender. Korrey Raine White Rinke was sentenced in December 2019 to life in prison with the possibility of parole in 25 years for the 2016 death of Julianna Pappas of Overland Park. He was also ordered to register as a sex offender. On Friday, the state Supreme Court reversed a lower court ruling and said Rinke did not have to register as a sex offender. The court said prosecutors did not…
Officers filed a report for burglary in the 15500 block of Tuttle Creek Blvd. in Randolph on July 29, 2021, around 8:47 a.m. Officers listed a 59-year-old male as the victim when it was reported an unknown suspect stole a 2013 orange and white Polaris Ranger and 2008 red Big Bear ATV. The estimated total loss associated with this case is approximately $9,000. Anyone with information can contact RCPD or the Manhattan Riley County Crime Stoppers. Using the Crime Stoppers service can allow you to remain anonymous and could qualify you for a cash reward of up to $1,000. Officers…
On Friday’s edition of In Focus Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks Game Warden Ben Jedlicka will discuss outdoors information including an upcoming fishing clinic. USD 383 Transportation Director Andrea Adams gives us an update on how the buses are gearing up for the upcoming school year. And in our final segment McCain Auditorium Director Todd Holmberg previews the upcoming fall series.
Kansas State University will require masks to be worn indoors on university property, starting Monday. The mandate comes after CDC recommendations this week for universal masking of all teachers, staff, students and visitors regardless of vaccination status. All three university campuses fall within counties considered to have substantial or high transmission. Lafene Health Center continues to offer COVID-19 vaccines. The changes are a result of the rapid rise in cases due to the delta variant, which is much more transmissible than previous strains of the COVID-19 virus.
Two sisters, a desire to help the community, and a little inspiration from a friend all came together to create Laundry Love MHK. Tahnee Jacobs, co-founder of Laundry Love MHK, tells KMAN she and her sister fell in love with Manhattan after attending Kansas State University so they both decided to stick around. She says after getting involved in the community they wanted to take it a step further. “We had a friend who also went to K-State who had moved off to Hutchinson,” Jacobs says. “So, there she got involved in starting a Laundry Love in Hutchinson. She was…