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 criminal damage to property near mile marker 194 on Tuttle Creek Blvd. in Randolph on April 30, 2021, at approximately 12:29 p.m. Officers listed a 42-year-old female as the…
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Flint Hills Veterans Coalition members including President Chuck Sexton and his wife publicity director Melody Sexton, Past President Janet Nichols and Christine Benne. Manhattan Parks & Recreation – From the Flint Hills Discovery Center, Event Supervisor Jonathan Mertz and Recreation Director Randi Clifford.
Developing individual plans and studies to give students the chance to acquire the skills to investigate the careers and employ strategies to attune to their future career goals, the Pottawatomie County Economic Development Corporation has recognized the efforts of counselors in Wamego High School and elsewhere in the community to network, mentor, job shadow, and coordinate internships that 50 out of the 95 in the senior class participated in. Executive Director Jack Allston highlights that developing that individual plan of study is the real key, as students take the Work Keys test in February of their junior year, and then…
Business is starting to pick up at Manhattan Regional Airport. Manhattan Regional Airport is seeing a relatively significant increase in enplanements when compared to last year. Enplanement numbers at Manhattan Regional Airport this year during the month of April are 785 percent higher than in 2020. However, numbers are still down from where they were at pre-covid in 2019. “In ’19, we had 6,000 people fly and so, even in ’21, with 2,400 people flying, we’re still not quite to our ’19 pre-covid numbers,” Romo said. “We’re down 61 percent compared to that.” Wherever the numbers may be, Romo says…
LAWRENCE, Kan. — Evergy officials say the utility plans to close two coal-fired plants in the next nine years as part of its effort to reduce its use of fossil fuels. The company said in a report to regulators filed Friday that it will close its coal-fired plant near Lawrence by the end of 2023. The plant is the utility’s oldest, with some units dating back to the 1960s. Evergy also will close Unit 3 of the Jeffrey Energy Center near St. Marys, Kansas, in 2030, rather than 2039 as originally expected. Evergy’s plan is to reduce its carbon emissions…
PAULINE, Kan. — Authorities say a woman was abducted by her former boyfriend before she was killed earlier this week. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that 61-year-old Jon Ewing, of Scranton, is charged with premeditated first-degree murder, first-degree felony murder, aggravated kidnapping, aggravated burglary, making a criminal threat and interfering with law enforcement. He is jailed on a $1 million bond. The investigation began Tuesday after the body of 58-year-old Deborah Ann Stephens was found by law enforcement officers at a mobile home park in the unincorporated community of Pauline, south of Topeka. Authorities said she had trauma wounds to her…
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — A Kansas City-area high school athletic director is pleading with families to take pandemic safety protocols seriously after instructing about 200 students to quarantine this week. The Kansas City Star reports that Shawnee Mission South High School Athletic Director John Johnson said in a message to parents and athletes that “there are more students with positive tests, and that is causing an extreme domino effect of COVID transmission concerns.” Health officials in Johnson County, which is the state’s largest, have warned that while the number of new coronavirus cases is down, the drop in testing makes…
COFFEYVILLE, Kan. — Police in southeastern Kansas say a request to check on the welfare of a person in Coffeyville led officers to discover the body of a man inside a home. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation says in a news release that Coffeyville officers went to the home Wednesday evening and discovered the man’s body. Officials say the victim was not immediately identified because of the advanced state of decomposition of the body. An autopsy is scheduled for Friday to help identify the man and determine his cause of death. The KBI was asked to help following the discovery…
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — A newly released report says an Overland Park police officer fired at a minivan because he thought the teenager driver was going to hit him. Officer Clayton Jennison told investigators that 17-year-old John Albers did not listen to his commands in the moments before Jennison shot and killed him in January 2018 as Albers backed out of his family’s driveway. Overland Park officials released a nearly 500-page report on the shooting Thursday. Jennison was not charged in the shooting and has left the police force. Albers’ mother, who fought for years to get the report released,…
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 aggravated assault in Manhattan on April 29, 2021, at approximately 12:35 p.m. Officers listed a 34-year-old female as the victim when it was reported a 40-year-old male suspect threatened…