On Thursday’s edition of In Focus we spoke with Manhattan Area Chamber of Commerce President & CEO Jason Smith.
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The Kansas Bureau of Investigation and the Junction City Police Department have identified the employee who died after an incident Tuesday morning in the parking lot of the Junction City Police Department. Mark Roberts, 58, of Junction City, died Tuesday morning outside the police department. Roberts was a retired Junction City police officer, who since retirement had also worked in a civilian position for the police department. He served the department and community for 27 years. At around 9:10 a.m. on Tuesday, a JCPD officer exited the police department and discovered the body of Roberts, who had suffered a fatal…
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Manhattan Tuesday rejected a request to rezone a 15,000 square foot property in the southeast of town to permit light industrial land use. The request to rezone the land to I-3 zoning was made by the owner of the property, Devon Ojeda of BigKat Development, LLC. Located at 922 Riley Lane — just south of Howie’s Recycling Center and the railroad tracks — the property contains a vacant single-family home that’s fallen into disrepair and is located in a residential zoning district that is slated to remain so in the city’s comprehensive land use plan. “Although there is that impact…
TOPEKA — Kansas lawmakers are considering measures to require the public disclosure of information from investigations when a law enforcement officer kills someone and isn’t charged with a crime over the death. But law enforcement officials expressed strong reservations about two disclosure bills during a House Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday. Critics said requiring disclosure could endanger witnesses or make them less likely to cooperate fully and could allow private or embarrassing information about the deceased or their families to circulate. The bills were inspired by the fatal shooting by police of a Kansas City-area teenager in January 2018 and his…
WICHITA — An effort to have a Kansas priest who died in a North Korean prison camp reach sainthood could take an important step forward next month. The Wichita Eagle reports that a panel of archbishops and cardinals will meet March 10 to vote on whether Emil Kapaun is worthy of the title of “Venerable,“ which is the second step in the process toward sainthood in the Catholic Church. Pope Francis will make the final determination. Kapaun was named a “Servant of God,” the first step towards canonization, by the church in 1993. If the Venerable title is bestowed, the…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A federal judge in Kansas who was publicly reprimanded for sexually harassing female employees and having an extramarital affair with an offender has resigned. U.S. District Judge Carlos Murguia submitted his resignation letter Tuesday. He said the resignation will be effective April 1. In his letter, Murguia, who is based in Kansas City, Kansas, said it has become clear that he could no longer serve effectively on the federal court. He was reprimanded in September for his sexual improprieties, as well as for being habitually late to court proceedings and meetings. He was appointed to the…
LAWRENCE — A Kansas man accused of selling fake Tide laundry detergent has been fined $1,000 and sentenced to a year of probation. The Kansas attorney general’s office say 44-year-old Brian Glenn, of Baldwin City, was sentenced after pleading guilty last week to one misdemeanor county of counterfeiting. The state previously dismissed a felony counterfeiting charge just before the case was set to go to trial, citing the need for further testing of the laundry soap. In 2016, law enforcement agents and Procter & Gamble representatives raided Glenn’s home.
Manhattan Tuesday took the first step toward conducting a housing market analysis, approved funds for increased costs related to the planned middle school recreation centers and residents showed up in numbers to support the updated bicycle and pedestrian systems plan. Bicycle and Pedestrian Systems Plan Community members filled the Manhattan City Commission chamber not only to support an updated bicycle and pedestrian systems plan, but to urge commissioners to follow through with it. The plan updates a circa-1998 predecessor, laying out potential future projects to improve biking and walking around Manhattan. The plan prioritizes projects to be initiated over a…
On Wednesday’s edition of In Focus we spoke with USD 383 Manhattan/Ogden Assistant Superintendent Eric Reid and board member Kristin Brighton. We also spoke with Tina Rockhold with Mercy Community Health Foundation and Wamego Health Center Lead Radiology Technologist Emily Schraderpreviewing the 3D mammography unveiling at the Wamego Health Center.