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 600 block of Highland Ridge Dr. in Manhattan on March 11, 2021, at approximately 1:45 p.m. Officers listed a 21-year-old male as the victim when it…
Author: KMAN Staff
On Friday’s edition of In Focus we spoke with Ascension Via Christi Speech Language Pathologist Peggy Wiens. We also spoke with Ascension Via Christi Clinical Dietitian Britney Petty. In our final segments we spoke with Biosecurity Research Institute Director Dr. Stephen Higgs.
A city-wide spring cleanup will take place in Manhattan from March 29 through April 2. “The city will pick up yard waste, tree limbs and branches if they’re properly bagged and stacked at the curb,” Jake Powell, Manhattan Fire Department fire marshall, said. “Yard waste needs to be in paper yard waste bags. [There also needs to be] separate piles of tree limbs and branches.” He says the city will not pick up other items, such as construction scraps and trash. According to Powell, the cleanup is a way of preventing fires during a time that is traditionally considered the…
Riley County has received an invitation by the state Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee on an upcoming hearing. The hearing is not on current legislation, but for a pending bill giving counties the authority to follow their own vaccine pathway. County Counselor Clancy Holeman says this is spawned from recent events involving both Riley and Sedgewick Counties. The issue stems from the vaccination phases currently ongoing in the county. Originally, the county health department believed the guidance coming from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment were just that, and not perceived to be mandates. “There was a webinar…
Riley County high-school-age students gathered at Manhattan High School Wednesday to compete in the fifth annual Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge. The event gave local students an opportunity to show off their business ideas and presentation skills to a panel of judges. “I kind of liken it to Shark Tank for high-school-age students,” John Jobe, K-State Research and Extension agent, said. “Winners can actually take home some prize money.” Cash prizes were awarded to the top-three placers and a “People’s Choice Trade Show Award.” Participants were judged on their executive summary/business plan, formal presentation and trade-show presentation. MHS sophomores Juan Avila and…
TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas House Speaker Ron Ryckman Jr.’s father is now serving in the Kansas Senate. Republican Sen. Ron Ryckman Sr. of Meade took his oath of office during the Senate’s brief Senate session as family members watched, including the House speaker. The elder Ryckman also served in the House from 2011 through 2016, when he decided not to seek reelection. He and his son served together in the House for four years, starting in 2013. The younger Ryckman grew up in western Kansas but lives in Olathe. The elder Ryckman replaces the late Republican Sen. Bud Estes of…
TOPEKA, Kan. — A Republican lawmaker in Kansas outlined a measure Wednesday that would overturn Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s policy of withholding doses of COVID-19 vaccines from counties wanting to move to a new phase of inoculations before the rest of the state. Senate health committee Chair Richard Hilderbrand called the policy “blackmail or extortion.” The state Department of Health and Environment has described withholding vaccine doses as an “enforcement mechanism” and Kelly says the goal is to “keep the train running as smoothly as we possibly can.”
CEDAR POINT, Kan. — A fire fueled by dry grasses and strong winds burned some 7,000 acres of grassland and two homes in east-central Kansas on Wednesday. Several fire departments were called to the area in Marion and Chase counties for what was dubbed the Clover Fire. Marion County Emergency Management Director Randy Frank told station KWCH that two homes were destroyed by the fire, but fire crews were able to save several other homes. The two homes destroyed were described as abandoned, and no injuries from the fire were reported. The fire was first reported around 2:30 p.m. Wednesday…
On Thursday’s edition of In Focus we spoke with Fort Riley Col. Edgar Arroyo, Commander of the Irwin Army Community Hospital. We also spoke with Fort Riley Education Services Supervisory Education Specialist Monica Smith and Guidance Counselor Jennifer Shafer. And in our final 2 segments we spoke with St. Patrick’s Day parade and race are previewed with Aggieville Business Association’s Dennis Cook and race organizer Becky Ballard.