On Friday’s edition of In Focus we spoke with RCPD Director Dennis Butler. We also spoke with National Weather Service Warning Coordination Meteorologist Chad Omitt.
Author: KMAN Staff
The Flint Hills Wellness Coalition is asking Manhattan and Riley County residents to respond to an online survey. The survey is to share the community’s perceptions about three behaviors that reduce risk for serious health conditions; physical activity, healthy eating, and commercial tobacco control. Pathways to a Healthy Kansas Co-Coordinator Debbie Nuss says the survey is part of a grant from Blue Cross Blue Shield. “One of the first things that we are required to do is a survey of the community to ask community members to share their perceptions about how well the community already addresses those issues.” Nuss…
SALINA, Kan. (AP) – Salina police are investigating the shooting death of a 36-year-old woman. Police said officers responded Tuesday to a call about gunfire and someone screaming. They found a woman identified as Courtney Ann Hoffman, of Salina, dead inside a vehicle. The case is being investigated as a homicide. No other information was released.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – Kansas lawmakers are moving ahead with two measures that are a response to issues arising during the COVID-19 pandemic. One measure considered Wednesday is designed to help courts and prosecutors deal with a backlog of criminal cases. Another is a proposal to limit state and local officials’ power in setting restrictions in future pandemics. The House gave first-round approval to a bill that would suspend until May 2024 a law that sets deadlines for criminal trials to protect defendants’ constitutional right to a speedy resolution of their cases. The Senate Judiciary Committee had a hearing on…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) – Police in Kansas City, Kansas, say officers found the body of a man at the site of a wrecked car that had likely crashed days earlier. Police say officers were called Wednesday morning to investigate a report of a vehicle lying in a creek bed along Riverview Avenue. Arriving officers found the body of a man in his 60s. Police say an investigation led them to believe the man had been driving the vehicle Sunday night when it left the road, hit an embankment and landed in the partially frozen creek bed. Police say the…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – A legislative audit says Kansas may have paid $600 million worth of bogus claims for unemployment benefits last year. The report released Wednesday by the GOP-controlled Legislature’s nonpartisan auditing division gave a figure that’s more than double the state Department of Labor’s estimate. The report suggested that nearly one in four unemployment claims paid last year could have been fraudulent amid a surge in filings during the COVID-19 pandemic. The department on Tuesday estimated last year’s fraudulent claims as worth $290 million. The department strongly disputed the audit’s figure and said in a written response but…
In the month of February, the nation reflects on African American history, the Riley County Historical Museum however sheds light on the historical impacts locally with their own self-guided driving tour. Director Cheryl Collins says this self-guided tour allows the community to start anywhere along the route, and go at their own pace, to visit locations instrumental to this community and beyond like the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, built on the corner of 4th and Yuma St., in 1879. Collins points out that this was an extremely important date in Riley County history, because that’s the year that the…
As we enter into March, tis’ the season of severe weather. The first week of March (March 1-5) marks “Severe Weather Awareness Week.” Chad Omitt, Warning Coordination Meteorologist of the National Weather Service in Topeka, says we need to be ready because severe weather can really sneak up on us. “As we transition from winter to spring, we can go quickly from a situation where we aren’t even thinking about severe weather to experiencing it, and having to think about putting a plan together and sheltering, and things like that,” Omitt says. “We’ve had severe weather events in March in…
K-State Department of Communications professor and Director of the Institute for Civic Discourse and Democracy Dr. Timothy Shaffer joined us. Pawnee Mental Health Executive Director Robbin Cole recapped Pancakes for Pawnee and highlighted federal funding for certified community behavioral health centers, additional COVID-19 funding for KDADS and addition addiction treatment funding recently bestowed onto Pawnee.