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…
Author: KMAN Staff
A Manhattan man has been arrested in connection to a series of burglaries that took place in July. Trenton Paul Juenemann, 20, of Manhattan, was arrested on September 1 following an investigation by the Pottowatomie County Sheriff’s Office into a series of burglaries that took place in new-home construction sites near Green Valley Rd.. The burglaries took place between July 6 and July 21 and involved about $5,000 in tools, some of which have been recovered. Juenemann is currently being held in the Pottawatomie County Jail on a $50,000 bond. The investigation is ongoing and anyone with information on the…
WICHITA, Kan. — Wichita police say a 56-year-old man died after he was hit by a vehicle that didn’t stop. Police say Harold Long was crossing a street Wednesday night when he was struck. The vehicle involved is believed to be a dark-colored Chevy Tahoe. The city had two other hit-and-run reports this week but this is the first fatality. A woman was hit by a car Monday evening and a bicyclist was hit early Wednesday.
PITTSBURG, Kan. — Hundreds are quarantined at several Kansas universities as a growing number of students test positive for the coronavirus heading into a holiday weekend. At Pittsburg State, 600 students are in quarantine. At Emporia State University, officials announced Wednesday that all athletic activities were temporarily suspended. At the University of Kansas, the number of positive cases resulting from compulsory testing of students arriving on campus had grown to 546. And at Benedictine College in Atchison, health officials in the county want to put all of the school’s 2,000 students in quarantine for 14 days.
TOPEKA, Kan. — The FBI says an assistant boys high school basketball coach in Topeka posed as a teenage girl on social media to get explicit photos from other teenagers. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the FBI is seeking tips from anyone who may have been contacted by 40-year-old Jeffrey Pierce on Instagram, Snapchat, Kik and Grindr. The usernames he is alleged to have used included Addie Strode and Kennedy. Pierce was suspended from his job at Seaman High School because of the investigation that resulted in two federal counts of producing child pornography and one count of possessing it.…
HAYS, Kan. — Authorities have identified a college student from South Carolina as the victim of a drowning earlier this week at a Kansas lake. The Hays Post reports 18-year-old Khalil Fulton of Lake City, South Carolina, drowned Wednesday after doing a flip off the dock at State Lake in Montgomery County. The sheriff says witnesses told deputies Fulton resurfaced after going into the water then went back under once again and never resurfaced a second time. Fulton was a student at Independence Community College, which is located four miles from the lake.
TOPEKA, Kan. — Four Kansas cities have submitted proposals for the new U.S. Space Command headquarters. The governor’s office said Friday that Wichita, Derby, Leavenworth and Kansas City, Kansas, responded to requests from the federal government with proposed development sites in their communities. Gov. Laura Kelly says she has directed her Cabinet to use all resources necessary to support the selection of Kansas as the headquarters for U.S. Space Command, which is responsible for military operations in outer space.
SHAWNEE, Kan. — The family of an 11-year-old Black girl who was injured in what they say was a racially-motivated attack in Kansas says it is important to talk to children about racism. The family and their attorney spoke out Thursday at a news conference. KCUR-FM reports Nevaeh Thomas was visiting friends in Shawnee when a 12-year-old white boy started calling them racial slurs. The boy allegedly threatened them with a knife and hit Thomas on the head with a blunt object, leaving her unconscious. The girl received eight stitches and spent the night in a hospital. She is still…
Kansas State University is urging students, staff and faculty to stay close to their respective campuses over Labor Day weekend. The message, which went out to students, staff and faculty at K-State campuses in Manhattan, Salina and Johnson County, is in response to rising COVID-19 case numbers across the state of Kansas. While most young people who test positive for COVID-19 are experiencing mild symptoms, not traveling around Labor Day is meant to prevent older friends and family and those with weaker immune systems from being exposed to the virus. K-State published a set of tips from the Centers for…
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. – There is nothing to report on September 4, 2020. Those with information about crimes in our area are encouraged to contact RCPD or the Manhattan Riley County Crime Stoppers.