Aggieville will have to wait for the 42nd St. Patrick’s Day Parade as two annual Manhattan events were canceled Thursday due to novel coronavirus concerns. The Manhattan City Commission in a special session voted 4 to 1 to revoke previously approved special events permits for the parade as well as the St. Patrick’s Day 10k and 2 mile races. The move is an effort to reduce large public gatherings amid the COVID-19 outbreak the World Health Organization has labeled a global pandemic. Only four cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in Kansas, all in Johnson County. One Wyandotte County man…
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Updated 6 a.m. Friday AP reporters John Hanna and Heather Hollingsworth contributed to this story. TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas City-area nursing home resident has become Kansas’ first COVID-19-related death, and health officials said Thursday that his case, the state’s fifth, means that the coronavirus has now spread locally. Gov. Laura Kelly announced the death of a man in his 70s who lived in Wyandotte County hours after state and local health officials announced three other new coronavirus cases in neighboring Johnson County, also in the Kansas City metropolitan area. Kansas reported its first case, also from Johnson County,…
LEON, Kan. (AP) — Emergency crews are searching for the body of a 2-year-old Kansas girl who disappeared after her father drove them both into a river. Butler County Sheriff Kelly Herzet says the man’s body was recovered from the Walnut River near Leon Wednesday night but that the girl has not been found. Herzet says the father drove into the river after Leon officers tried to take the girl from him because he was drinking. The truck went off an embankment and into the river, landing on its top. Officers began looking for the man Wednesday afternoon after the…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say two Kansas men were charged Thursday with first-degree murder and other crimes connected to the death of an 83-year-old Vermillion man. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation said in a news release that the murder charges stem from the Jan. 24 death of Donald E. McLaughlin at his home. The Marshall County attorney filed charges against 18-year-old Jeremy M. Penix II of Melvern and 47-year-old Jefferson S. Goad of Waverly. Both men also face charges of conspiracy, aggravated robbery, aggravated burglary, arson and interference with a law enforcement officer.
SALINA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say one person has been found dead inside a Salina home after a standoff and fire. Salina police said in a Facebook post that the standoff started Wednesday after an officer saw a man with an arrest warrant for burglary riding a bicycle. When the officer approached, the man rode off and went into a home. Several hours later, police noticed a fire in the home and heard several shots. Firefighters found a body inside after extinguishing the flames. The name of the person wasn’t immediately released.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Wichita police say a man died after his motorcycle crashed into a school bus. Police spokesman Charley Davidson says 22-year-old Tyler Bins died Wednesday afternoon after being pinned under the bus. A 49-year-old man who was riding a different motorcycle with Bins was seriously injured. Davidson says the men collided with the bus after it entered an intersection. He says speed was believed to be a factor in the crash. One of four students on the bus for McLean Magnet Elementary school suffered minor injuries.
Thursday’s program featured a conversation with Fort Riley officials Kali Orrick with Child and Youth Services, Carolyn Tolliver-Lee with the Family Advocacy Program and Monica Smith, Education Services Specialist discussing April being Month of the Military Child and National Child Abuse Prevention Month and Fort Riley’s combined graduation. K-State Vice President of Communications and Marketing Jeff Morris also discussed K-State’s announcement to cancel in-person classes March 16-20.
TOPEKA — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly has named an attorney who said he’s similar in temperament to former Chief Justice Lawton Nuss to replace Nuss as a Kansas Supreme Court justice. Lawrence attorney K.J. Wall also formerly worked for the state’s highest court overseeing special projects and research for justices in death penalty cases. The 49-year-old Wall was most recently a partner in law firm that represents rural Kansas hospitals and previously worked as an attorney for a Minnesota-based insurance company. He will join a seven-member court that has faced criticism from conservative Republican legislators over abortion, school funding and…
A small plane went off the runway while landing Wednesday morning at Manhattan Regional Airport. The plane, a Piper PA-28 Cherokee with two passengers, came to rest near a ditch after taking down a runway sign and damaging a wing. Damage estimates are pending. No injuries were reported. Manhattan Regional Airport Director Jesse Romo says the cause is still unknown and there will be no impact to airport operations though runway 3 was shutdown for a period. First responders are working the scene and the FAA has been contacted. The aircraft is registered as the property of Versa Air Services…
USD 323 Rock Creek Superintendent Kevin Logan joined us for our monthly visit with Pottawatomie County Schools, with discussion on the new middle school construction project, spring activities and a school board proposal to expand preschool services. The 42nd annual St. Patrick’s Day Road Races and parade was previewed with Ben Sigle from Manhattan Running Company. U.S. Census Bureau Partnership Coordinator for Kansas and Oklahoma Emily Kelley joined us to talk about the importance of filling out the 2020 U.S. Census.