TOPEKA, Kan. — Police in Topeka are investigating the city’s latest homicide after finding a man fatally stabbed at a home. Police say officers were called to the home around 9:15 p.m. Tuesday for reports of a fight. Arriving officers found a man with stab wounds at the home. The victim was taken to a local hospital, where he died from his injuries. Police have not yet released the victim’s name, and no arrests have been reported in the case. Police are asking anyone with information on the stabbing to contact detectives or Shawnee County Crime Stoppers.
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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 Scenic Dr. and Fort Riley Blvd. on October 20, 2020 at approximately 8:37 a.m. When officers arrived on scene they found…
USD 383 Assistant Superintendent Eric Reid and board member Brandy Santos spoke with us ahead of the district’s Wednesday meeting about its reopening work session. Fort Riley ghostess Allison Krattiger from the Historical and Archaelogical Society of Fort Riley previews the 24th annual Ghost Tours We also were joined by candidate for the 67th House District seat Mike Dodson.
Election Day is nearing and recently KMAN spoke with Barbara Bollier about her campaign. Bollier currently serves as a member for the Kansas Legislature, but is now running for the vacant US Senate seat caused by the retirement of Sen. Pat Roberts. Bollier says she is running because she believes there needs to be more bipartisanism in Washington. She talks about some of her top priorities. “I am going to Washington to serve the people of Kansas, so the real question is what is Kansans top priorities. The number one issue I’m hearing from Kansans is the affordability of healthcare,…
Manhattan City Manager Ron Fehr and Mayor Usha Reddi joined us for the hour to preview Tuesday’s city commission meeting.
ANDOVER, Kan. — A 46-year-old Kansas man was shot and wounded by a police officer Saturday after he brandished a gun outside a convenience store. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation said the 46-year-old man from Dodge City, Kansas, was shot Saturday afternoon outside a Kwik Shop in Andover in south-central Kansas. Authorities said the man was shot by an Andover police officer after a verbal exchange between officers and the man. The suspect fled after he was shot, but he was arrested at a nearby business after a short foot chase. The man sustained serious injuries but they are not…
INDEPENDENCE, Kan. — Police have arrested an 18-year-old man in the Friday deaths of two men in southwestern Kansas. KSNT reports that the Kansas Bureau of Investigation and Independence police served an arrest warrant Sunday night at the Labette County Jail to 18-year-old James Gofourth, of Independence, who was already in the jail on a separate case. The arrest warrant accuses Gofourth of two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of 27-year-old Tyler Cook and 24-year-old Rodricus Dawson, and one count of attempted first-degree murder for injuring a 27-year-old Independence woman, who remains hospitalized. Officers found all three inside…
TOPEKA, Kan. — Leaders of a high school in Topeka, Kansas, are considering how the community should react to a report that the man the school is named for was a chief officer of the Ku Klux Klan in the early 20th century. The Seaman High School newspaper reported last week that Fred Seaman, a prominent Kansas education figure, was an exalted cyclops in the KKK. Tristan Fangman and Madeline Gearhart, co-editors of The Clipper, said someone provided a newspaper clipping to their history teacher about Seaman. That prompted them to do more research and find other articles detailing his…
TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas is seeing an average of more than 700 new coronavirus cases a day, and a county in the northwestern part of the state had proportionally the nation’s largest increase over two weeks. The state Department of Health and Environment reported Monday that Kansas had 2,113 new confirmed and probable novel coronavirus cases since Friday to bring the pandemic total to 72,968. Kansas had an average of 729 new cases a day for the seven days ending Monday. According to data collected by Johns Hopkins, Norton County had the largest number of new cases per 100,000 residents…
TOPEKA, Kan. — A coronavirus outbreak has killed 10 residents in a nursing home in a northwestern Kansas county that already had proportionally the nation’s largest increase in cases over two weeks. The health department in Norton County reported Monday night that all 62 residents and an unspecified number of employees at the Andbe Home in Norton had tested positive for the novel coronavirus. The nursing home’s outbreak came after more than 100 cases at the state’s prison in Norton. According to data from Johns Hopkins University, Norton County had the largest number of new cases per 100,000 residents of…