WICHITA, Kan. — One person is dead and another is critically injured after a shooting near Wichita. KSNW-TV reports that the shooting happened after 8 p.m. Tuesday at a home in Sedgwick County, just south of Wichita. Names of the victims and further details about the shooting have not been released.
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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 attempted burglary and criminal damage to property in the 100 block of S. Erpelding Ave. in Leonardville on December 29, 2020, at approximately 10:50 a.m. Officers listed a 74-year-old…
Wednesday’s program featured a conversation with Associate Communications Professor Dr. Timothy Shaffer, Director of the Institute for Civic Discourse and Democracy at Kansas State University. He reflected on 2020 and looked ahead to what the institute is planning in 2021. 51st District House Rep. Ron Highland, of Wamego, joined us in our continuing series of legislative preview interviews to discuss the upcoming legislative session, which begins on Jan. 11.
Free COVID-19 testing was put on pause Tuesday due to weather but resumes today out at CiCo Park. Wellhealth is providing the saliva-based PCR tests through the Riley County Health Department daily except for Sundays and holidays. So far 1,360 patients have been tested this way with 65 positive results recorded. The health department said Tuesday the saliva-based testing will continue through the end of January. Riley County did not report any new COVID data Tuesday, but did confirm 45 new cases Monday with 13 hospitalizations. It’s next report is due out Wednesday. Pottawatomie County confirmed 80 new cases Tuesday…
A Milford woman was trapped in her SUV for several hours before rescuers were able to get to her vehicle Monday. According to the Riley County Police Department the veered off Highway 24 northwest of Manhattan. RCPD was first notified of the accident in the 7 o’clock hour and arrived on the scene at 7:31 a.m. Monday. They located 21-year-old Alyssa Johnson inside the vehicle and determined she’d crashed around 11:30 p.m. Sunday near Tuttle Creek Blvd. and North 48th Street. An investigation revealed Johnson failed to negotiate a curve, flipped the vehicle and ended up in a ditch. She…
Release from the Kansas Bureau of Investigation. FINNEY COUNTY – The Garden City Police Department requested that the Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) issue a statewide Silver Alert for a missing Garden City man. The whereabouts of 93-year-old Donald Hertel are unknown, and the public’s assistance is requested to help locate him. Hertel is a white male, 5 ft. 8 in. tall, weighing 170 lbs. He has gray hair, blue eyes and wears glasses. Hertel was last seen around 8 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 29 at his residence in Garden City. He is likely driving a dark blue 4-door 1994…
According to one Kansas House of Representatives member, the Kansas Legislature is unlikely to approve Medicaid expansion in 2021. Sydney Carlin (D), 66th District representative, says changes to the legislature’s political makeup have made the outlook for expansion bleak. “We lost two members and they took out all the moderates that we had that voted with us, so I don’t think we have the votes for Medicaid expansion,” Carlin said. “Some of the new members of the Republican Party might be inclined to do that, but I have not met them.” Kansas is one of just a few Midwestern states…
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 responded to the report of an injury crash near the intersection of Tuttle Creek Blvd. and N. 48th St. in Manhattan on December 28, 2020, at approximately 7:31 a.m. When officers arrived on…
Riley County commissioners approved the final agreement for the Riley County Police Department firing range. Craig Cox, Deputy County Counselor, told the commission Monday that this is the final matter for the firing range. The county negotiated a water line easement through the adjacent properties to bring water to the range. “The two settlement agreements are there,” Cox says. “The Mertz’s settled for $10,000 and Mr. Akin’s settled for $1,250. They signed the agreements last week and I also, at the same time they signed the agreements, had them sign the water line easements.” Cox says the Mertz property was…
RCHD Director Julie Gibbs joined KMAN in the 7am hour to provide our COVID-19 update.