Agricultural producers are being encouraged to sign up for a 2018 Farm Bill program, which actually accounts for 2019-2023, with the deadline to do so coming up on March 15th. K-State Research and Extension Agriculture Agent Greg McClure explains the different program choices. According to McClure, the program each producer should sign up for is dependent on historical base acres. There are a few differences between this Farm Bill and the previous one. The first difference is that both the land owner and the tenant must decide on a program as opposed to just the land owner. McClure says the…
Author: KMAN Staff
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 burglary in the 500 block of Denison Avenue on January 2, 2020, at approximately 6:50 AM. Officers listed a 35-year-old male as the victim when he reported an unknown…
Riley County commissioners took the next steps necessary to begin construction on the Riley County Police Department firing range project. County Counselor Clancy Holeman walked the commissioners through what a design/build and design-bid built process would look like in comparison. The public works department recommended the design/build concept. “You can use design/build on some projects, but you cannot use it for most of what public works does,” says Holeman, “You can use it for certain facilities and improvements to real property.” Holeman says the project qualifies for the design/build process based on statute. Those requirements include: Likelihood” Design/Build “method of…
K-State Riley County Extension Ag Agent Greg McClure highlighted the upcoming Women In Agriculture farm financial management success series as well as information related to the 2018 Farm Bill. Manhattan Convention and Visitors Bureau Director Karen Hibbard also joined the program for a decade reflection on conference space and other related items with a look ahead to 2020 expansion of the Manhattan Conference Center.
With construction of the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility on schedule for completion in December 2020, and the plan to reach full operational capability in December 2022, people have already been hard at work for a couple of years establishing a security system for the facility. John Moes, the NBAF Security Director who spent over 20 years in the Air Force in various security and leadership roles, says one strategy used for security is keeping the facility closed to visitors. He says after that, there are multiple layers of security as you move further into the facility. Moes has also…
WICHITA, Kan. — Authorities are investigating the deadly shooting of a man and woman at a hotel near downtown Wichita. Police Capt. Wendell Nicholson says officers responded around 12:20 a.m. Thursday and found the victims suffering from gunshot wounds at the Hotel at WaterWalk. Both victims died at the scene. They were in their 30s, but their names weren’t immediately released. Police don’t have any suspects, although investigators are talking to witnesses who saw someone running away from the scene. No motive has been released.
EMPORIA, Kan. — A chiropractor who was accused of sexual misconduct with patients has surrendered his Kansas medical license. The Kansas Board of Healing Arts wrote in the order filed Tuesday that Eric Hawkins exploited his relationship with patients through “acts of sexual misconduct and/or improper sexual contact.” The board ordered him to pay $1,246 in costs associated with the proceedings. Hawkins had his license suspended in July 2018 shortly before he was formally charged with sexually assaulting three women. He was ultimately acquitted of raping a then-16-year-old girl in 2015 and committing aggravated sexual battery against a then-22-year-old woman…
WICHITA, Kan. — A convicted Kansas killer has been charged with another homicide just months after he was released on parole. The Wichita Eagle reports that 39-year-old Ahmad Khaasanouva Bey was charged Tuesday in Sedgwick County District Court with first-degree murder in the death of 41-year-old Melinda Sprague, whom police said he had dated. Bey is also charged with criminal possession of a weapon by a convicted felon. Another suspect, 34-year-old Vanessa Lynne Waner, is charged with interference with law enforcement. Her body was found Dec. 26 in an abandoned vehicle, two days after she was reported missing.
Ascension Via Christi hospital welcomed Hudson Mattis Cox as the first baby born in Manhattan in 2020 Wednesday morning. Hudson Mattis Cox was born at 2:10 a.m. to Derek and Bethany Cox and weighed eight pounds. Bethany says that while the due date was January 10th, they knew there was a possibility Hudson could be born around New Years Day. Leading up to Hudson’s birth, Bethany says they began to gradually realize he could be the first baby born in Manhattan in 2020. After Hudson was born, Ascension Via Christi gave the Cox family a gift basket containing various baby…
Thursday’s guests included National Bio and Agro Defense Facility Security Director John Moes, along with Director for USDA APHIS Dr. Ken Burton and Director of the National Agricultural Biosecurity Dr. Marty Vanier with an update on security at the NBAF campus. Governor’s Military Council Executive Director Perry Wiggins joined us during the second half of the program.