Riley County health department announced Local Health Order No. 13. This new health order is in place due to the recent increase in positive cases, more hospitalizations, and heightened evidence of community spread. The issue will go into effect at 12:01 a.m. on Wednesday Jun 24 and will remain in effect for 14 days, or until amended, superseded, or rescinded. According to a press release, Local Health Officer Julie Gibbs says the data for the community indicates the need for more restrictions. The community will need to take steps to protect public safety and prevent the healthcare system from being…
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Pottawatomie County Election Deputy Ashley Rice joined us for segment one along with Commission Chair Dee McKee who joined us for the hour.
Riley County commissioners Monday approved a contract for advisory services for dispersing federal coronavirus relief funds. The county will contract with Witt O’Brien’s, a Risk Management and Emergency Response Consulting Firm. Budget and Finance Officer Tami Robison says Riley County’s portion of the governor’s Strengthening People and Revitalizing Kansas (SPARK) spending plan is around $15 million. The county is working on a resolution to be signed by July 15. The county selected this firm based on the magnitude of the dispersal and the firm’s ongoing work with helping Sedgwick County. Robison says neither county administration, nor any entity in the…
Census numbers down in Riley County and Manhattan While response numbers in Kansas for the 2020 United States Census may be up in comparison to the rest of the country, response numbers in Riley County and Manhattan are down. According to Emily Kelly, U.S. Census Bureau partnership coordinator for Kansas and Oklahoma, Riley County has a response rate of 59.2 percent while Manhattan’s response rate currently sits at 61.2 percent, both below Kansas’s response rate of 65.4 percent and the national response rate of 61.6 percent. “A lot of that is because college students who are supposed to be counted…
On Monday’s edition of In Focus we spoke with Emily Kelley with the Census Bureau. We also spoke with Flint Hills Regional Leadership Program Executive Director Jack Lindquist and board member Constance Cooke. And in our final segment we spoke with Marketing Officer Melissa Kirkwood and Jared Bixby with Sunset Zoo.
WICHITA, Kan. — Authorities say five people have been hurt in a shooting at a Wichita hotel, including a woman who was in her room when a bullet went through her wall and hit her. KAKE-TV reports that police responded around around 3 a.m. Saturday to a Super 8 and found shell casings scattered over the parking lot. Police say the shooting stemmed from a disturbance that erupted during a party. Some of the victims have already been discharged from the hospital. Wichita Police Sgt. Paul Kimble says that the victims who remain in medical care are expected to be…
WICHITA, Kan. — A Wichita man has been sentenced to three years of probation in a 2018 crash that killed two women. Prosecutors said 40-year-old Tito Kyando was sentenced Friday for two counts of involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of 21-year-old Uriel Salabao and 20-year-old Miyah Latney. Jurors convicted him of the charges in March. Police found Kyando was driving 88 mph in a 40 mph zone shortly before ramming his sport utility vehicle into the subcompact car in which the women were riding. They had been turning left. If Kyando violates the terms of his probation, he could face…
TOPEKA, Kan. — Authorities are investigating a weekend homicide in Topeka. Police Lt. Jerry Monasmith says officers were called around 5:45 a.m. Saturday to a central Topeka neighborhood, where they found a person had been shot to death. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the victim later was identified as 55-year-old Terry Tignor. No other details were immediately released.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A 31-year-old man from Kansas City, Kansas, was shot and killed Saturday. Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department spokeswoman Nancy Chartrand said officers found 31-year-old Vincent Locke inside a home around 4:30 p.m. Saturday. He was taken to a hospital where he later died. Chartrand said Locke and a 51-year-old man had an argument before the shooting. The older man fled the scene before officers arrived, but he was arrested later. Police detectives were talking to family members, who were home at the time of the shooting, to learn more about what led to the fatal confrontation.
MELVERN, Kan. — Authorities have identified the man killed in an accident at a rock quarry in eastern Kansas. Osage County Sheriff Laurie Dunn said that 68-year-old Frank Rockers Jr. was killed in the incident. Rockers was taking samples at the bottom of a chat pile when it gave way and buried him at the Harshman Construction rock quarry near Melvern. Two workers immediately began to recover Rockers and were joined by fire rescue units. But Rockers didn’t survive. His name wasn’t immediately released.