Wednesday’s show featured a preview of the USD 383 Manhattan/Ogden School Board meeting as well as a preview of next month’s Manhattan MLK Committee Celebration to honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Guests from USD 383 included Assistant Superintendent Eric Reid and board president Karla Hagemeister. Guests from the Manhattan MLK Committee included: Rachel Shivers, Paulicia Williams, Kevin Bryant, Dr. Zelia Wiley and Reagan Stonestreet, a student coordinator for HandsOn K-State.
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he 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 aggravated domestic battery in Manhattan on December 14, 2020, at approximately 4:58 p.m. Officers listed a 23-year-old female as the victim when it was reported a known 23-year-old male…
Manhattan City Manager Ron Fehr and Mayor Usha Reddi joined us for the hour ahead of the City Commission legislative meeting Tuesday evening.
Gov. Laura Kelly (D) has announced that David Toland, Secretary for the Kansas Department of Commerce, will become Kansas’s newest Lieutenant Governor. Toland will take over for Lynn Rogers (D), who will leave the position in January to become the Kansas State Treasurer. “Replacing Lynn Rogers is no small task, but of all the candidates I considered, David is ready to hit the ground running in his new role,” Kelly said. “I have been impressed throughout his tenure as Commerce Secretary by his enthusiasm, energy, and commitment to economic development and business recruitment. I look forward to our continued partnership…
Vaccine Shipments Kansas hospitals are beginning to receive COVID-19 vaccine shipments this week. Leslie Campbell, Pottawatomie County health director, says hospital staff will have up to five days to receive the vaccination. “Once they get their 24,000 doses, they’ll be able to give it to all the hospital personnel,” Campbell said. “Any hospital personnel; it doesn’t have to be nurses.” The first dose of the vaccine will be followed by a second dose about three to four weeks later. Campbell says certain county employees will begin receiving vaccines during the last week of December. “That will be for health department personnel, EMS…
A trial for a Manhattan man accused of multiple sex crimes against three minors won’t happen until at least the summer. Riley County District Judge Kendra Lewison said Monday she’ll aim for a June trial in the case of Robert Iacobellis, who faces 26 counts including allegations of rape and aggravated indecent liberties. No specific date was set was because the calendar has not been set out that far and there are still uncertainties about how juror selection will be conducted, under COVID-19 restrictions. Defense Attorney Brenda Jordan stated the defense is also awaiting a redacted report from the Kansas…
Riley County saw two more COVID-19 related deaths over the weekend. One of the deaths was a 76 year old male who tested positive on Nov. 28. He had been in the hospital when he passed away on Saturday. The other patient was a 102 year old woman from Meadowlark who tested positive on Dec. 1 and passed away Sunday. There have been 18 COVID related deaths in Riley County since March. The county also confirmed 71 new positive cases over the weekend, with 341 active cases. That brings the county’s total of positive cases since March to 4,341. The…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Authorities are investigating a deadly shooting in Kansas City, Kansas. Police said officers responded around 5:30 a.m. Saturday and found a man in his late 20s dead inside a vehicle with apparent gunshot wounds. The name of the man wasn’t immediately released. The killing is Kansas City, Kansas’, 53rd homicide of the year, according to data tracked by The Kansas City Star, which includes fatal law enforcement shootings.
TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas residents who need a place to isolate themselves after being exposed to or testing positive for COVID-19 may be able to stay for free in a hotel rented out by the state of Kansas with help from the federal government. The goal of the program is to provide people who have no other place to stay with an option, so they don’t spread the virus. Devan Tucking-Strickler of the Kansas Division of Emergency Management in Topeka said she didn’t know how much the state has spent so far on the rooms but renting out an entire…