KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A 20-year-old Kansas City, Kansas, man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for attacking a federal undercover agent during a weapons transaction. The U.S. Attorney’s Office said Wednesday that Nicholas Newman was sentenced this month after pleading guilty in May to one count of forcible assault on a federal officer and using a firearm in a violent crime. Court documents say two agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives met Newman in February 2020 after he contacted them to say he had a weapon for sale. Prosecutors say Newman attacked one…
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BELLE PLAINE, Kan. — Authorities in Kansas say multiple staff members at a juvenile facility engaged in a physical struggle with a 17-year-old youth who was restrained and died two days later at a hospital. Details of the events leading up to Sunday’s in-custody death of Cedric “CJ’ Lofton emerged late Tuesday in a news release from the Kansas Bureau of Investigation that also identified the Wichita teen for the first time. The KBI says an autopsy has been conducted and a cause of death is pending further investigation and toxicology results.
WICHITA, Kan. — Thousands of people filled an arena in Wichita to honor a Kansas priest who died in 1951 as a prisoner of war during the Korean War. Services for Rev. Emil Kapaun were held Wednesday, decades after the priest from Pilsen, Kansas, died while ministering to fellow prisoners of war. After the service, hundreds more lined streets to watch a horse-drawn caisson take Kapaun’s body from Veterans Memorial Park to the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, where he was interred. Kapuan’s remains were identified in March and returned to his Kansas family last week. The Roman Catholic Church…
On Thursday’s edition of In Focus we spoke with Manhattan Broadcasting General Manager Corey Reeves previewed Oztoberfest activities in Wamego. Pottawatomie County game warden Travis Schulte with the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks also joined the program.
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 2400 block of Buttonwood Dr. in Manhattan on September 29, 2021 around 4:26 PM. Officers listed a 60-year-old female as the victim when she reported an…
A process to resettle Afghans displaced by the upheaval when U.S. forces left their country will see the first group arrive in Manhattan in coming weeks. Manhattan-Ogden Schools USD 383 Assistant Superintendent Eric Reid addressing the county’s intergovernmental group earlier this week, as a local organizing group has been working in preparation ahead of refugees moving to the area. Reid said the early number he had been given was that the first group would total 50 in number and be coming the region within two weeks.
The weekly positive rate of coronavirus on campus at Kansas State University has dipped to its lowest point of the fall. According to the school’s weekly testing data dashboard, only nine people on campus tested positive for the virus last week out of 506 who were given tests. That’s a positive rate for the week of one-point-78. KSU Chief of Staff and Director of Community Relations Linda Cook says the school has been able to avoid outbreaks due to being proactive. The decline to the low percentage comes after a peak of an over eight-percent positive rate the week following Labor Day.
Riley County Health officials have confirmed 68 new positive COVID cases in the county. Along with the new positive cases, 139 additional recoveries are being reported since the last report on September 22. Five COVID-positive patients are currently under care at Ascension Via Christi Hospital in Manhattan. Two vaccinated patients are on the medical floor. Three patients are in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), one is vaccinated. The positivity rate for last week was 3.6 percent, down from 5.7 percent the week before. The two week average for the county is 4.78 percent. Riley County Health Department Director Julie Gibbs…
The draft of the first five-year strategic plan for the city of Manhattan will be made public later this week. The city commission got a look at materials tied to it at Tuesday’s work session, weighing in. Part of the discussion included remnants from the recent budget sessions, with Mayor Wynn Butler noting that he was looking for more substance when it comes to fiscal responsibility, including a suggestion that a debt limit be considered. Commissioner Mark Hatesohl was one expressing concern that the “at-a-glance” presentation was full of priorities sought by city staff. Sarah Bongiorno with Planning NEXT, the…