Author: KMAN Staff

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 rape in Manhattan on October 25, 2019. Officers listed a 27-year-old female as the victim and a male known to her as the suspect. Due to the nature of…

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On Monday’s edition of In Focus we spoke with K-State Provost Dr. Charles Taber. We also spoke with Cathy Scroggs, Judy Regehr and Lucy Williams with Manhattan Fairy Godmothers.

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K-State’s Institute for Civil Discourse and Democracy and the 4-H Department of Youth Development partnered to host the 4-H Community Conversations Youth Citizen Open Forum at the Staley School of Leadership Saturday. The four-hour event featured trained moderators facilitating conversations among groups of high school and middle school students about a topic predetermined by youth involved in 4-H. Participants were to explore different approaches to solving the predetermined issue, which was gun violence, and then gather at the end of the forum to discuss ways in which they could create positive change, or a call-to-action. “There was a lot of…

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Manhattan, KAN. – All was normal two Oklahoma drives into their game at Kansas State on Saturday. The Sooners were 2/2 on scoring and up double digits, but don’t count your eggs before they hatch. K-State would drive down the field many times in the game, it all started with an 88-yard touchdown drive that ended with Skylar Thompson walking into the endzone. A common theme for the K-State junior quarterback on Saturday. Thompson would score four rushing touchdowns in the game and James Gilbert and Josh Youngblood would add one each. The six touchdowns were a part of eight…

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The return of Jordy Nelson to Manhattan, and several creative floats highlighted the 2019 K-State Home Coming Parade on Friday. The annual parade was rallying Wildcat fans before the big game against Oklahoma on Saturday. Manhattan residents watched on from the sidewalks of Poyntz Avenue as the floats drove down the street. Also participating K-State students tossed candy to children. Former NFL and K-State Football standout Jordy Nelson led the Disney themed parade as the Grand Marshall. The Parade was preceded by a trick or treat in Aggieville and followed by a pep rally at City Park where the parade…

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GEARY CO. — A rollover accident involving a Toyota Land Cruiser driven by Alexander Zbarsky, 69, from California, on I-70 just east of the K-177 exit, shortly after 5 p.m. Friday resulted in injuries to two people. Alexander Zbarsky was west bound on I-70, when he lost control of the vehicle and over corrected. The vehicle then over turned and came to rest in the north ditch. Renata Zbarsky, 36, a passenger,  was life-flighted to Stormont Vail in Topeka with an injury thought to be serious, and Alexander Zbarsky, the driver, was taken away in an ambulance to Via Christi…

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Leonardville is now the home of a brand-new fire station. The Riley County Fire Department celebrated the opening of Station 6 in Leonardville with a ribbon cutting Friday morning. Among those in attendance was Andrew Tripp, a volunteer firefighter in Leonardville, who expressed gratitude for those who played a role in the creation of the new station. “We’ve been needing a new station for quite a while now,” Tripp said. “I just appreciate everybody who put in for this.” One upgrade Station 6 has over the previous fire station, which was built in the late 1960s, is space to accommodate…

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WICHITA, Kan. — A Kansas police officer who fatally shot an unarmed man while responding to a bogus emergency call is suing over wages. The Wichita Eagle reports that Justin Rapp alleges in the lawsuit filed Thursday that he wasn’t allowed to resume his usual jobs “in a reasonable amount of time” after fatally shooting 28-year-old Andrew Finch in December 2017. He says that caused him to lose out on $31,000 from his regular police duties in Wichita and a city-approved off-duty security job. Rapp wasn’t charged. He said he feared Finch was reaching for a firearm when he fired,…

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LAWRENCE, Kan. — A judge has denied a new trial for a Kansas home day care worker who was convicted in the death of a 9-month-old baby. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that the sentencing for 44-year-old Carrody Buchhorn is now set for Nov. 18. She faces nine to 10 years in prison. Her sentencing had been delayed while she argued that she deserved a new trial. She got new attorneys after she was convicted last year of unintentionally but recklessly causing the death of Oliver Ortiz in 2016 in Eudora. Her new attorneys challenged the work of her trial attorneys…

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WICHITA, Kan. — A Wichita man has been sentenced to three life terms for 25 felony sex crimes with six children. The Wichita Eagle reports that 41-year-old Damian Isaac Hallacy is appealing the sentence ordered Wednesday. The investigation started in 2017 after a man found sexual messages from Hallacy on his wife’s phone. The probable cause affidavit says the woman sexually abused her 8-year-old daughter at Hallacy’s request, and investigators found photos of the abuse on her phone. The woman is expected to be sentenced next month. Her plea agreement called for her to testify against Hallacy and receive a…

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