Olathe, Kan. — Police in suburban Kansas City, Kansas, say one of its officers shot and wounded a man who pointed a gun at another officer. Olathe police say the shooting happened late Wednesday afternoon when officers were sent to check on an unresponsive man inside a parked vehicle. Police say officers checking on the man spotted a gun inside the vehicle and say the man picked it up and pointed it at an officer. Police say an officer then shot the man, and the man fled the scene on foot. He was found a short distance away and arrested,…
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BENKELMAN, Neb. — The National Weather Service has confirmed strong storms that raked rural areas of southwestern Nebraska and northwestern Kansas spawned at least two tornadoes in mostly uninhabited parts of each state. The service’s office in Goodland, Kansas, says the first tornadoes reported Wednesday hit around 3:30 p.m. in fields north of Benkelman in Nebraska. Two more were reported about an hour later northwest of Herndon in Kansas. Meteorologist Jesse Lundquist says the service received a report of one homestead near Herndon possibly being damaged by a tornado, but has received no reports of injuries. Lundquist says the storms…
TOPEKA, Kan. — Topeka police say officers found a man fatally shot early Thursday morning in the city’s Central Park neighborhood. Police say in a news release that the shooting was reported around 4:45 a.m. Thursday. Officers who responded to the area, which includes a mix of businesses and homes, found the man with gunshot wounds and rushed him by ambulance to a local hospital, where he died. Police did not immediately release the man’s name or announce any suspects or arrests in the case.
State of the General Fund Manhattan officials discussed the state of the General Fund, which is the city’s main operating fund, during the city commission meeting Tuesday. The meeting was the first of several that will be held over the next few months to create the 2022 budget. Despite the pandemic, city manager Ron Fehr says the fund’s cash balance has increased over the past several months. “In our general fund balance, we were able to save substantially because of all those cuts that we made and because of the hiring freeze and vacancies that we had,” Fehr said. “…
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 in the 500 block of Sunset Ave. in Manhattan on May 25, 2021, at approximately 9:56 a.m. Officers listed a 49-year-old male as the victim when it was…
USD 378 Riley County Superintendent Cliff Williams joined us along with USD 384 Blue Valley Superintendent John Cox. We also received an end of year update from USD 475 Geary County Schools Superintendent Dr. Reginald Eggleston.
The K-State marching band is out around $3,000 to $4,000 after a pipe broke in their storage room last week. According to band director Dr. Frank Tracz, the water leak caused damage to instruments and wooden cases. “Some of the cases are pressed wood cases and when you get those soaked, they expand and fall apart so we’re replacing a couple dozen cases, getting a number of horns repaired and cleaned,” he said. However, he says both K-State and the construction company working on McCain Auditorium acted quickly to fix the issue. “They put fans up in there and dehumidifiers…
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — Police in Overland Park are investigating the shooting death of a man early Monday in the parking lot of a condominium building across the street from City Hall. Police say officers were called to the area around 5:20 a.m. for reports of gunshots. Arriving officers found a man on the ground who had been shot and was already dead. He was identified as 35-year-old Jeren Hinton of Overland Park. Witnesses tell police that they saw two to three people run to vehicles in the parking lot following the shooting and flee the area.
WICHITA, Kan. — A jury convicted a 25-year-old Wichita woman of first-degree felony murder after her 2-year-old son died from ingesting methadone. A Sedgwick County jury deliberated about two hours Monday before finding Kimberly Compass guilty in the death of Zayden JayNesahkluah. Zayden died of a methadone overdose in a Wichita motel on May 31, 2019. Prosecutors accused Compass of mishandling three bottles of methadone, which had been prescribed to help her kick a heroin habit. It remains unclear exactly how the boy got ahold of the methadone. Her defense attorney argued throughout the trial that Compass didn’t know the…
MISSION, Kan. — A Kansas woman who alleges consensual sex with a friend in his college dorm room turned into a terrifying sexual assault took matters into her own hands when prosecutors declined to file a rape charge. She called a citizen grand jury, relying on a 134-year-old state law. Twenty-two-year-old Madison Smith collected hundreds of signatures to call the grand jury to bring more serious charges against Jared Stolzenburg, her classmate at Bethany College in Lindsborg. He had pleaded guilty to aggravated battery and received two years’ probation. Kansas is one of six states that allow citizens to petition…