PITTSBURG, Kan. — Hundreds are quarantined at several Kansas universities as a growing number of students test positive for the coronavirus heading into a holiday weekend. At Pittsburg State, 600 students are in quarantine. At Emporia State University, officials announced Wednesday that all athletic activities were temporarily suspended. At the University of Kansas, the number of positive cases resulting from compulsory testing of students arriving on campus had grown to 546. And at Benedictine College in Atchison, health officials in the county want to put all of the school’s 2,000 students in quarantine for 14 days.
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TOPEKA, Kan. — The FBI says an assistant boys high school basketball coach in Topeka posed as a teenage girl on social media to get explicit photos from other teenagers. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the FBI is seeking tips from anyone who may have been contacted by 40-year-old Jeffrey Pierce on Instagram, Snapchat, Kik and Grindr. The usernames he is alleged to have used included Addie Strode and Kennedy. Pierce was suspended from his job at Seaman High School because of the investigation that resulted in two federal counts of producing child pornography and one count of possessing it.…
HAYS, Kan. — Authorities have identified a college student from South Carolina as the victim of a drowning earlier this week at a Kansas lake. The Hays Post reports 18-year-old Khalil Fulton of Lake City, South Carolina, drowned Wednesday after doing a flip off the dock at State Lake in Montgomery County. The sheriff says witnesses told deputies Fulton resurfaced after going into the water then went back under once again and never resurfaced a second time. Fulton was a student at Independence Community College, which is located four miles from the lake.
TOPEKA, Kan. — Four Kansas cities have submitted proposals for the new U.S. Space Command headquarters. The governor’s office said Friday that Wichita, Derby, Leavenworth and Kansas City, Kansas, responded to requests from the federal government with proposed development sites in their communities. Gov. Laura Kelly says she has directed her Cabinet to use all resources necessary to support the selection of Kansas as the headquarters for U.S. Space Command, which is responsible for military operations in outer space.
SHAWNEE, Kan. — The family of an 11-year-old Black girl who was injured in what they say was a racially-motivated attack in Kansas says it is important to talk to children about racism. The family and their attorney spoke out Thursday at a news conference. KCUR-FM reports Nevaeh Thomas was visiting friends in Shawnee when a 12-year-old white boy started calling them racial slurs. The boy allegedly threatened them with a knife and hit Thomas on the head with a blunt object, leaving her unconscious. The girl received eight stitches and spent the night in a hospital. She is still…
Kansas State University is urging students, staff and faculty to stay close to their respective campuses over Labor Day weekend. The message, which went out to students, staff and faculty at K-State campuses in Manhattan, Salina and Johnson County, is in response to rising COVID-19 case numbers across the state of Kansas. While most young people who test positive for COVID-19 are experiencing mild symptoms, not traveling around Labor Day is meant to prevent older friends and family and those with weaker immune systems from being exposed to the virus. K-State published a set of tips from the Centers for…
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. – There is nothing to report on September 4, 2020. Those with information about crimes in our area are encouraged to contact RCPD or the Manhattan Riley County Crime Stoppers.
On Friday’s edition of In Focus we spoke with K-State Riley County Extension Agricultural Agent Greg McClure. We also spoke with Manhattan CVB Director Karen Hibbard. And in our final segment Riley County Commission candidate Fanny Fang joined the program.
Riley County commissioners on Thursday accepted a $132,000 grant from the Kansas Department of Commerce to be used to assist businesses in the county, but not within Manhattan city limits. The Community Development Block Grant-COVID provides funding to help local businesses retain jobs, for low to moderate income persons, which may be lost as a result of the pandemic. Planning and Development Director Monty Wedel says they are proposing $5,000 per job retained. “There’s a $13,200 maximum per business. With the money we’ve been allocated, that would allow us to help at least 10 businesses,” he said. While commissioners ultimately…
The Manhattan City Commission Tuesday approved the establishment of a Benefit District and paving the alleyway located in the 1200 block between Kearney Street and Vattier Street. This alley was previously identified by Public Works in the bottom three conditioned alleys from 2018 assessments, prior to the redevelopment of this block from several small rental properties to larger apartment facilities. Public Works developed a conceptual idea that would both repave the alley, and install storm sewer inlets in the alley to capture storm runoff from adjacent properties and direct the overflow underground. This is the second alley to be reviewed…