On Monday’s edition of In Focus we spoke with Melissa Kirkwood with Sunset Zoo. Dr. Reginald Eggleston with USD 475 Geary Co. Schools also joined the program.
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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 criminal damage to property in the 700 block of College Heights Cir. in Manhattan on March 19, 2021, at approximately 7:21 a.m. Officers listed a 58-year-old male as the victim…
TOPEKA, Kan. — A motorcyclist and a passenger on the motorcycle have died after an accident involving a truck in Topeka. Police say the accident happened shortly after 10 p.m. Saturday on Highway 24 at Meriden Road. The motorcycle’s driver was taken to a hospital and later died. The passenger was pronounced dead at the scene. Their names have not been released. The two people in the truck were not hurt. The investigation continues.
WICHITA, Kan. — Wichita police say an 18-year-old driver was killed while racing another teenager on the street. The accident happened about 11 p.m. Saturday. As police were investigating, a pickup truck slammed into two police vehicles. The teenager killed was 18-year-old Brennan Peshek of Wichita. Police say Peshek and a 19-year-old driver were racing. The lane Greenwich was driving in ended and the Mustang struck a curb, then a tree and a pole. While police were investigating, a pickup truck approached at a high rate of speed and struck an occupied police truck and an unoccupied police SUV. The…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Police in Kansas City, Kansas say a man was fatally shot outside a business, and detectives are searching for clues in the case. Police say the shooting happened around 7:30 p.m. Sunday, when officers were called to 47th Street and Parallel Parkway. Arriving officers found a man in his late 50s who had been shot. The man was taken to a hospital, where he later died. Police have not released the man’s name and have not said whether they have any leads on a suspect. Police have asked anyone with information about the shooting to call…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Officials say three people including a firefighter were injured in a two-alarm fire that destroyed an apartment building in Kansas City, Kansas. The fire broke out Sunday morning in a two-story home that had been converted into four apartments on North 14th Street. When firefighters arrived, flames were visible coming from the home, and two people jumped from the second story to escape the fire. Both were taken to a hospital with minor burns and are expected to recover. Officials say a firefighter was injured when a porch collapsed. He was taken to a hospital for…
Fort Riley Museum Director Bob Smith allowed local media on Friday to tour the main museum building, which has been under renovation since spring 2018 and is planned for a spring or summer 2022 reopening. Museum officials took over control of the main building earlier this year after the body of the building underwent a complete renovation and restoration. Officials say it will bring the museum on par with the likes of the Eisenhower Presidential Library in Abilene, the World War I museum in Kansas City and the Flint Hills Discovery Center in Manhattan. Instead of one building, the museum…
The City of Manhattan will host a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Thursday, March 25, to celebrate the opening of the new Douglass Activity Center. The ceremony, which will happen about one year after construction began, will begin at 3:30 p.m. at 925 Yuma St. and feature a number of speakers. Among the speakers who will be at the event are Manhattan Mayor Wynn Butler, city manager Ron Fehr, chair of the Douglass Center Advisory Board Deb Nuss and assistant director of Manhattan Parks and Recreation Wyatt Thompson. Following the ceremony, visitors can tour the building, interview city officials and watch the…
One year after partially closing, Meadowlark Hills Retirement Community is officially reopening its Kimball Ave. entrance and suspending the use of the Tuttle Creek Blvd. check-point station. It will also begin allowing visitors on campus who do not have a current or suspected positive COVID-19 diagnosis, are not showing illness symptoms and are not a current COVID-19 close contact. People visiting Meadowlark’s Community Center will be allowed in common and public areas, such as the Prairie Star Restaurant and the Courtyard. These are not the first restrictions that have been lifted for the facility. Independent-living-area residents have been allowed to…
The Kansas Senate has given approval to Senate Bill 267. If it passes both chambers, the bill would rely on federal COVID-19 funding rather than Kansas tax dollars to cover up to $568 million of public education obligations in the proposed two-year budget. Tom Hawk, state senator, says disputes have arose surrounding this bill. He adds that the intentions his fellow colleague had while introducing the bill aren’t as bad as they seem. “What she was hoping to do by cutting that was to be able to use the new federal funds, the new recovery funds called ARP, the latest…