KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Emergency crews from Kansas City, Kansas, continue to search the Kansas River for an 11-year-old girl who went missing in the river this weekend and is presumed to have drowned. The Kansas City Star reports that several boats and at least 10 firefighters searched the river Sunday, a day after witnesses say the girl was pulled under the water while trying to retrieve a beach ball. Officials say a family had been playing with the ball near a sand bar when the incident happened. Officials say an adult and two other minors tried to save the…
Author: KMAN Staff
On Monday’s edition of In Focus, Flint Hills Veterans Coalition President Chuck Sexton and wife Melody Sexton, Military Relations Coordinator for the Manhattan Chamber Janet Nichols previewed Veterans Day activities happening Nov. 11. We also spoke with Sunset Zoo Marketing and Development Officer Melissa Kirkwood.
KVC Kansas and Remnant Church partnered up to put on a food drive in City Park Friday. A line of cars stretched from the middle of City Park, where volunteers were loading boxes of produce and dairy products into car trunks, out to 14th St. and around to Poyntz Ave. from about 9 a.m. til just passed noon as local residents waited their turn. The event was part of the Farms to Families program, which is a multibillion-dollar effort announced by the the United States Department of Agriculture in April. “The Farms to Families program provides grants through the USDA…
A national survey has ranked Kansas State University students as the happiest college students in the nation. The Princeton Review, which puts out an annual ranking called “The 386 Best Colleges,” gave K-State students the number-one ranking in the Happiest Students category while also placing K-State students as second in the nation for the Their Students Love These Colleges category. K-State was also ranked third for Best Quality of Life and Best Health Services, fourth for Great Town-Gown Relations, seventh for Best Counseling Services, ninth for Best Athletic Facilities and tenth for Best Career Services. The list is based on…
Riley County Friday reports 33 new positive COVID-19 tests and 1 recovery since Wednesday’s report. Despite the increased numbers of newly identified positive cases, that has not translated to increased hospitalizations at this point. Manhattan’s Ascension Via Christi Hospital as of 1 p.m. reported no positive or suspected positive patients in their care. Overall, the county reports 185 active cases as of Friday — a net increase of 65 cases since the prior Friday. Additionally, 375 patients have recovered since the pandemic began in March. Since last Friday, 5 people have been reported as recovered. No local patients have died…
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 aggravated domestic battery and duty of driver to report accident in Manhattan on August 19, 2020, at approximately 10:28 AM. Officers listed a 32-year-old male as the victim…
LAWRENCE, Kan. — University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod is seeking permission to obtain a $20 million, short-term line of credit in case the coronavirus pandemic significantly modifies the 2020 football and basketball seasons. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that Girod said in an email calling an emergency meeting of the governing board that oversees Kansas Athletics that the line of credit is just to provide “emergency liquidity.” Girod said the credit would also allow Kansas Athletics to continue its operations in such a scenario without having to ask the university for financial assistance. The university is facing a budgeting shortfall…
KANORADO, Kan. — Kansas officials and a granddaughter of President Dwight Eisenhower are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the completion of Interstate 70 across the state. Mary Eisenhower joined state Transportation Secretary Julie Lorenz and other dignitaries Thursday in unveiling a new highway sign for east-bound I-70 as it leaves Colorado during an event near the border. The sign welcomes motorists to Kansas, notes that it was President Eisenhower’s home and commemorates the June 17, 1970 completion of I-70. President Eisenhower pushed for construction of the interstate highway system in the 1950s. The first stretch of I-70 just west of…
LAWRENCE, Kan. — The University of Kansas says early testing as students and staff return to the campus has turned up 89 coronavirus cases, with a large majority involving fraternities and sororities. KMBC-TV reports that 87 students and two faculty or staff members tested positive. Entry testing upon return to campus before the beginning of activities and classes showed a positivity rate of 1.25% for the 7,088 tests conducted so far. Testing is mandatory for students, faculty, and staff who plan to be on the university’s campuses in Lawrence or Overland Park before Sept. 7. The university plans to do…
MAYETTA, Kan. — The Kansas Bureau of Investigation says it’s investigating an officer-involved shooting of a man accused of wielding a knife in a confrontation with officers in northeastern Kansas. A KBI news release says the shooting happened Wednesday evening near Mayetta, after a Jackson County Sheriff’s deputy tried to stop a car and a chase ensued. The car crashed a short time later, and officials say the driver, 41-year-old Shanon Wren of Topeka, and a woman fled on foot. The Kansas Highway Patrol and deputies later found the pair after a search, and officials say a trooper shot Wren…