Author: KMAN Staff
As the seasons change, Tuttle Creek State Park has plenty to offer patrons for the month of October. Park Manager Todd Lovin, told KMAN there are several events coming up. He said that one event that he is excited for is the Fall Foliage Wilderness Walk. “I’ll be guiding this and there really isn’t a trail that we’re following. There’ll be some great vistas of the surrounding area and we should see some good foliage fully changing,” said Lovin. “Then we’re just going to hike through some stuff. That’s native Prairie, some hilly, some steep, some Rocky stuff. We’re going…
Kansas State University will begin offering all enrolled students free asymptomatic testing for COVID-19 on a voluntary basis at on Oct. 5. Testing will be offered by appointment only Monday through Friday from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Lafene Health Center. Participants will be entered into a drawing for a chance to win either a $500 scholarship, 30-minute massage at Lafene Health Center, or other prizes. Each test will consist of a 10-second nasal swab that students must perform on themselves. Results will be delivered through the myLafene+ patient portal or via a phone call for a positive test…
On Wednesday’s edition of In Focus we spoke with Ben Jedlicka with Kansas Department of Wildlife and Tourism. We also spoke with Todd Lovin with Tuttle Creek State Park.
TOPEKA, Kan. — Gov. Laura Kelly says she supports new federal guidelines detailing how nursing homes can begin allowing visits to patients. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services last week said nursing homes should continue to follow COVID-19 related protocols, such as social distancing and temperature screening. But it said indoor visitations can be allowed at facilities that take Medicare and Medicaid if they have not had any new COVID-19 cases for 14 days and are not conducting active outbreak testing. State officials said Tuesday that it will take some time to implement the new guidance because each facility…
BELLE PLAINE, Kan. — A lawsuit says a Kansas woman who was shot and killed by a sheriff’s deputy after refusing to pull over was unarmed and posed no danger to him or the public. The court filing Tuesday paints a different picture to that recounted by authorities following the fatal shooting in Wichita of 51-year-old Debra Arbuckle by Sedgwick County Deputy Kaleb Dailey on Dec. 30, 2019. An attorney representing Arbuckle’s family says multiple law enforcement videos show the deputy and his colleagues were not in any danger when he killed her. The lawsuit, filed by Arbuckle’s son, seeks…
WICHITA, Kan. — Wichita police are looking for a man suspected of posing as a police officer to pull over a driver. The Wichita Eagle reports that a police impersonator, driving a dark-colored car with red and blue emergency lights in the windshield, pulled over a driver Monday night. Police say the man was wearing a blue or black uniform and was armed with a handgun. Police say the impostor asked the driver for license and insurance, looked at the documents, gave them back, and left. Police spokesman Charley Davidson says anyone questioning the legitimacy of an officer should call…
WICHITA, Kan. — A Kansas woman has been sentenced to life in prison for decapitating her ex-boyfriend’s mother with a pair of kitchen knives. The Wichita Eagle reports that 38-year-old Rachael Hilyard of Wichita was sentenced Tuesday in the 2017 death of 63-year-old Micki Davis. Hilyard apologized at the hearing. Authorities say Davis was attacked after going to Hilyard’s home to pick up some of her son’s property on April 9, 2017. Prosecutors said Hilyard had planned the killing. Hilyard claimed that Davis fell during a struggle over a painting and that she carried out the decapitation because she thought…
WASHINGTON (AP) President Donald Trump unleashed a torrent of fabrications and fear-mongering in a belligerent debate with Joe Biden, at one point claiming the U.S. death toll would have been 10 times higher under the Democrat because he wanted open borders in the pandemic. Biden preached no such thing. Trump barreled into the debate Tuesday night as unconstrained by the facts as at his rallies, but this time having his campaign opponent and frequently the Fox News moderator, Chris Wallace, calling him out in real time, or trying. Biden stumbled on the record at times as the angry words flew…
A Pottawatomie County official is expecting an increased voter turnout for the 2020 general election, which will take place on Tuesday, Nov. 3. According to Nancy McCarter, Pottawatomie County clerk, they are already seeing increased mail-in ballot requests. “It’s going to be a good turnout,” McCarter said. “I’m projecting at least 80 to 85 percent. Our last presidential (election) was 78 percent.” McCarter also expects to see more in-person voters in 2020 than she did in the last presidential election, which saw about 1,300 Pottawatomie County residents show up to vote in person. The Pottawatomie County Clerk’s Office will mail…