TOPEKA, Kan. — At least 89 coronavirus cases have been reported at the Topeka Correctional Facility since Jan. 8 to make the prison the largest current hotspot in the state. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment says no other school, day care, long-term care facility, business, sport or religious gathering had as many coronavirus cases as the Topeka prison had in the past two weeks. The next largest outbreaks in the state were reported at two long-term care facilities that each reported 25 cases.
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KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Police in Kansas City, Kansas, say they are investigating the death of a man whose body was found inside an apartment. Police say officers were sent to the apartment complex along Orville Street on Saturday morning to check on the welfare of a man. Arriving officers discovered the body of the man, believed to be in his 70s, inside the apartment. His name has not yet been released. Police say the department’s Major Case Unit is investigating the death and have asked the public for any information to help in the investigation.
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Fire officials say a Hutchinson resident who used a lighter as a flashlight accidently lit the underside of the bed, starting a fire that heavily damaged the house. The Hutchinson News reports that firefighters responding to a call at 5:20 p.m. Sunday found heavy smoke and fire coming from a window on the front of the single-story home, The two adults and child who were in the home got out unharmed. Crews were able to contain the fire to the room where it started, but the two-bedroom home sustained smoke and heat damage throughout. Red Cross is…
WICHITA, Kan. — Two doctors who treated a Kansas election commissioner who was fired for accessing a voter database when working from home while battling cancer say she faced a one-in-four chance or more of dying if she got COVID-19. The Wichita Eagle reports it talked to Sedgwick County Election Commissioner Tabitha Lehman’s oncologist, Dr. Dennis Moore and her infectious disease specialist, Dr. Tom Moore, with her consent. The doctors, who are brothers, said she would have been unnecessarily risking her life if she worked in the office during the election. Lehman at the time was on a very aggressive…
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 for aggravated intimidation of a witness or victim and harassment by a telecom device in Manhattan on January 22, 2021, at approximately 9:22 a.m. Officers listed a 14-year-old female as…
Riley County Historical Museum Director Cheryl Collins joined us for the hour as we learned about the history of Manhattan city street names. Some of the streets we learned about included Casement Road, Kimball Avenue, Anderson Avenue, Juliette Avenue, and Poyntz Avenue.
Manhattan city buildings including City Hall, Municipal Court, the Flint Hills Discovery Center, the Douglass Centers and the T. Russel Reitz Animal Shelter are all closed Monday due to inclement weather. City services will still be available online and over the phone at 785-587-2480. This extends to Municipal Court, which will continue its operations remotely and by phone at 785-587-2450. Additional details can be found at cityofmhk.com. For details about flight information out of Manhattan Regional Airport, residents are encouraged to visit the American Airlines website. The City says operations staff, including roads and other public works crews, park crews,…
Rick Wright, head coach of the Manhattan Christian College men’s soccer team, will be inducted into the National Christian College Athletic Association Hall of Fame as part of the class of 2021. Wright began coaching at MCC in 1992 and has since led the team to three national championships, 19-straight NCCAA regional championships from 1997 to 2016, been named the NCCAA Coach of the Year four times and coached 20 NCCAA All-Americans. He currently has a record of 388 wins, 118 losses and 11 ties. Several MCC staff members, including president Kevin Ingram, wrote letters of nomination in support of…
The installation of roundabouts on US-24 at K-13 and K-113 is likely a ways off. Stephanie Peterson, Flint Hills Metropolitan Planning Organization director, says that the Kansas Department of Transportation has yet to identify a funding source for those projects. “KDOT does have a construction, if you want to call it, timeline, I guess, for the K-13 intersection,” Peterson said. “They have it programmed right now for 2021. For K-113 and US-24, they have it programmed again for 2021.” She did express that KDOT’s timelines might be a bit ambitious due to the current lack of funding. Robert Ott, City…
GARDEN CITY, Kan. — A rare black rhinoceros has been born in captivity at the Lee Richardson Zoo in Garden City. The zoo says in a news release that the male rhino was born Wednesday to 10-year-old Johari and her 7-year-old mate Jabari. The pair were moved from zoos in Cleveland and Atlanta in 2016 as part of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums’ Eastern Black Rhinoceros Species Survival Plan. A news release from the zoo says mother and baby will be kept indoors for bonding and until weather conditions are appropriate for them to venture outside. Eastern black rhinos…