WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a teenager was shot and killed at a Wichita park during an ongoing social media dispute. Police Capt. Brent Allred said 15-year-old Marion Wheaton was shot Wednesday night as he and two other teenagers walked to the park to a fight. Allred said the dispute was between them and another 15-year-old boy. The Wichita Eagle reports Allred said when that boy arrived at the park with others in a car, one person from the car fired several shots, hitting Wheaton. He died later at a hospital. Allred said no one is in custody. He…
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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 theft in the 1600 block of Hill Valley Dr. in Manhattan on November 6, 2019, at approximately 12:00 PM. Officers listed a 54-year-old male as the victim when he…
Thursday’s program featured NBAF representatives including Coordinator Dr. Ken Burton and new NBAF Director Dr. Alfonso Clavijo. Thrive Flint Hills Director Jayme Morris-Hardeman and Thrive coach Tana Warner discussed a need for volunteers. Lastly, we were joined by K-State Biosecurity Research Institute Director Dr. Stephen Higgs who spoke about ongoing research and facility maintenance at the institute.
The cost of the Manhattan Conference Center expansion has risen from originally planned, but city commissioners Tuesday approved a contract amendment to avoid impacting property taxes. The city agreed to a $3.5 million, 14,000 square foot expansion in January of 2019, but HCW-Manhattan LLC says demand on subcontractors in the region due to various ongoing projects including NBAF increased the costs to a $4.99 million price tag. To reduce the impact of the costs, the city will commit an additional $500,000 of sales tax-funded Economic Development money and four years of Transient Guest Tax revenue to reduce the principal cost…
Education was the focus of Wednesday’s program which featured USD 383 Manhattan/Ogden Superintendent Dr. Marvin Wade and school board president Curt Herrman. UFM Community Learning Center Executive Director Linda Teener joined us alongside Education Coordinator Kayla Savage for a preview of events including Crafternoon on Nov. 16 and classes upcoming for all ages in November and December.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a woman found dead under “suspicious circumstances” in a natural-gas filled Topeka home was a Shawnee County Department of Corrections employee. Police identified the woman Monday as 36-year-old Brandi Prchal. Her cause of death is under investigation. Officers investigating reports of a gas leak in a central Topeka home found her dead inside. Topeka police say a man found ill inside the home, 36-year-old Jeremy Lardner, of Topeka, was treated and released from a hospital and then booked into jail. He faces possible charges of first-degree murder and criminal threat. Police have released no…
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 aggravated indecent liberties with a child and electronic solicitation of a child in Manhattan on November 5, 2019, at approximately 1:25 PM. Officers listed multiple female juveniles as victims…
MARYSVILLE, Kan. (AP) — The former clerk of a northeast Kansas county has admitted to spending more than $100,000 of taxpayer money for personal use. Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt said in a news release that 44-year-old Sonya Laurette Stohs, of Marysville, pleaded guilty Tuesday in Marshall County District Court to felony misuse of public funds. Sentencing was scheduled for Jan. 7. A Kansas Bureau of Investigation and U.S. Secret Service investigation found that Stohs used more than $100,000 in county funds to pay for various personal items between May 2013 and April 2019.
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Kansas has ended an unusual practice for redrawing the lines of legislative districts that has cost university communities political clout. Voters on Tuesday approved an amendment to the Kansas Constitution eliminating a requirement for the state to adjust federal census figures when the Legislature redistricts itself every 10 years. The adjustment counts college students and military personnel not where they’re living but in a “permanent” home elsewhere. For thousands of people, that’s outside Kansas. Kansas is among only a few states that adjust federal census figures for redistricting, and before the practice started in the 1990s,…
Manhattan businesswoman Kristin Brighton received the most votes in Tuesday’s election for the USD 383 Manhattan/Ogden school board race with 6,172. Incumbents Curt Herman and Darell Edie placed 2nd and 3rd. and newcomer Brandy Santos bested Joseph Dasenbrock for the 4th seat on the board. Brighton spoke with KMAN after the election about some of the goals she hopes to accomplish when she takes office in the new year. “There’s so much going on between all the construction projects that we’re going to get to help see their way through over the next couple of years and then all the…