Author: KMAN Staff
With winter approaching quickly, it is time to start thinking about weaning cattle. Greg McClure, Riley County K-State Extension Ag Agent, tells KMAN that traditionally cattle are weaned in October or early November, but more people are beginning to wean their cattle a little earlier. He says that weaning your cattle early has many benefits. “Calves don’t gain a whole lot of weight in the last month or month and a half on pasture, but at the same time those calves are out there on the cows, and those calves are five months old and they’re big enough to wean,…
TOPEKA, Kan. — Authorities say a downtown Topeka building sustained about $1,000 in damage when a fire was apparently intentionally set in a pile of debris behind it spread to the rear of the building. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports no one was hurt. Firefighters responding to the 7:30 p.m. Sunday call arrived to find smoke and flames coming from the rear of the two-story building. No working smoke detectors were found in the building.
WICHITA, Kan. — An 18-year-old black rhinoceros named Klyde has died unexpectedly at Wichita’s Sedgwick County Zoo. The zoo said in a Facebook post that the zookeepers reported that Klyde appeared healthy when he went on exhibit Saturday but then collapsed. Staff was not able to be revive him. The veterinary team plans to perform a necropsy to learn more about Klyde’s health and a potential cause of death. The zoo post described Klyde as having a “gentle demeanor and sweet personality.” The zoo also posted a video that showed guests hand-feeding Klyde.
WICHITA, Kan. — The Kansas Appeals Court has upheld the theft conviction of a man who repeatedly returned to a Walmart self-checkout machine that was mistakenly spitting out $20 bills instead of $1s, eventually receiving nearly $500 in extra change. The Wichita Eagle report that a three-judge panel wrote Friday in its ruling rejecting Nicholas Ryan Morris’ appeal that “Sometimes, things are too good to be true.” Morris’ conviction for theft of property delivered by mistake stems from a January 2019 shopping trip in which he discovered a self-checkout machine at the Walmart in Wellington was giving incorrect change.
WICHITA, Kan. — Investigators are examining the city of Wichita’s handling of records after a complaint by a founder of a group seeking to save the Century II Convention and Performing Arts Center. The Wichita Eagle reports that group’s leader says she’s gotten what she believes to be incorrect and incomplete information in response to requests she’s filed in her campaign to save the facility from potential demolition as part of a redevelopment project. City Treasurer Mark Manning acknowledged there are errors, but said they were inadvertent clerical mistakes and the money actually went where it was supposed to go.
After running unopposed in the Democratic primary for the District 2 seat of the Riley County commission, Fanny Fang is ready for November. Fang says she was motivated to run after Commissioner Marvin Rodriguez’s controversial comments on the coronavirus and Chinese people back in March. As a Chinese American herself, Fang says not only were these comments hurtful, but opened her eyes. “This showed me that there is an elected official who is not really there to represent all of his people,” says Fang. “There’s also seems to be this lack of care and compassion for people from the commission.”…
A rural Riley County family lost their home to a fire over the weekend. No injuries were reported in the Saturday afternoon fire, which caused over $30,000 in damage to a mobile home, located northwest of Manhattan. Riley County firefighters were dispatched shortly after 5 p.m. to the 6300 block of North 52nd Street to a partially involved mobile home fire. The fire was brought under control within 45 minutes, thanks to the help of more than two dozen volunteer firefighters. Extensive damage prevented fire crews from determining an exact cause, but it’s believed to have started at or near…
UPDATE 9/08/20: Correction to the cause of arrest. RCPD sent out an email saying the cause for the arrest was Probation Violation, not Parole Violation which was the cause in their original arrest report from Monday. ORIGINAL: A Manhattan man was treated for a medical emergency after being arrested by Riley County Police Officers on Sunday. Early Sunday morning, RCPD Officers came in contact with 31-year-old Joshua Stepney around the 1200 block of Moro St. He had an active arrest warrant through the Riley County District Court for Probation Violation. Stepney physically resisted the officers when they attempted to arrest…
St. Isidore’s Catholic Church and the Food and Farm Council of Riley County and the City of Manhattan are teaming up to fight food insecurity among K-State students. The two organizations will host the Konza Student Table in front of Saint Isidore’s every Wednesday beginning at 5:30 p.m. starting Sept. 9 as a way of providing free one free dinner and one free breakfast per week for K-State students. “The intent is that if they are already feeling a lot of pressure about school, about the stress of COVID, job issues, that this is one night and then the next…