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 of aggravated battery, criminal damage to property, and criminal restraint in Manhattan on October 32, 2020, at approximately 1:16 a.m. Officers listed a 24-year-old female as the victim when she…
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Riley County Police Department Director Dennis Butler joined us for his monthly update. We also continued our series of local candidate interviews with District 67 Democratic candidate Cheryl Arthur of Manhattan. U.S. Senator Jerry Moran joined us prior to In Focus for an exclusive interview on News Radio KMAN’s morning show.
An emergency school board meeting is planned Friday at USD 475 Geary County Schools. The district, in a statement Thursday, said the meeting will take place at 4 p.m. and while it will be open to the public, it will not be live streamed. The only agenda item is an executive session to discuss non-elected personnel. Earlier this week the district began investigating after a Junction City High student was told to remove her Islamic head scarf, known as a hijab, prompting other students to stage a walkout Wednesday. The high school principal met with students to discuss their concerns…
AUSTIN, Texas — Authorities say the former president of Blue Bell Creameries has been charged with wire fraud for allegedly trying to cover up a 2015 listeria outbreak linked to the company’s ice cream that killed three people in Kansas and sickened several others. Federal prosecutors said Wednesday that a federal grand jury in Austin, Texas, returned a seven-count indictment charging Kruse with six counts of wire fraud and one count to commit wire fraud. This comes a little more than three months after a judge threw out previous charges against Kruse because prosecutors didn’t present them to a grand…
WICHITA, Kan. — Police are investigating a shooting that left one man dead outside a Wichita sports stadium where a youth football game was being played. Wichita police say the shooting happened around 10 p.m. Wednesday inside the Stryker Sports Complex near a parking lot, but outside the stadium where the game was being played. Officers called to the scene for a report of a disturbance heard several gunshots and saw people leaving the scene. Police say a man injured in the shooting was taken to a hospital, where he died. His name has not been released. Police Capt. Kevin…
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — Federal prosecutors say a 54-year-old man made holes in drywall to enter an Overland Park pawn shop and steal 22 firearms. U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said in a news release that Darrin Taylor, who was homeless, was indicted Wednesday on one count of theft from a federally licensed firearms dealer. The weapons were taken in September from the Penguin Pawn & Gun shop in Overland Park. Charging documents say employees reported the thief entered a business next door through a shattered glass window and then made several holes in the drywall between the businesses to get…
MISSION, Kan. — Kansas’ coronavirus positivity rate has topped 20%, even as one GOP lawmaker pushed back against Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s call for a statewide mask mandate. Kansas Senate President Susan Wagle said Thursday that a “one-size-fits-all COVID solution doesn’t work for our diverse state.“ More than 90 of the state’s 105 counties have opted out of the mask order. Kelly said Wednesday that she will speak with House and Senate leaders to develop a bipartisan mask requirement with more teeth. According to The COVID Tracking Project, the seven-day rolling average of the positivity rate in Kansas rose from…
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 responded to the report of an injury crash near the intersection of Anderson Ave. and Anneberg Dr. on October 21, 2020, at approximately 4:29 p.m. When officers arrived on scene they found a…
K-State Associate Communications Professor and Director of the K-State Institute for Civic Discourse and Democracy Dr. Timothy Shaffer joined us to discuss his involvement with KSUnite and the ongoing confirmations of new US Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett. Pawnee Mental Health Services Executive Director Robbin Cole joined us to discuss the latest happenings with the Crisis Stabilization Center and more.
The Pottawatomie County Economic Development Corporation has received three awards from the International Economic Development Council. The awards were presented to the organization at the International Economic Development Council Annual Conference on Oct. 12. Jack Allston, Pott. County EcoDevo executive director, says the first award his organization received was for a video series highlighting nine small businesses in Pottawatomie County. “It also includes not only the work with those companies, but our work in youth entrepreneurship, Destination BootCamp, Kansas Ice House and other activities that we have for small business and growing entrepreneurs,” Allston said. Allston credits some of the…