As Manhattan moves toward redeveloping Aggieville, some business owners asked the city to be cautious about the placement of the proposed parking garage. Bill Varney with Varney’s Inc. urged city commissioners to table the motion. He questioned how the 489 stall garage would impact traffic to businesses like Goodcents if there were no space between the structure and existing buildings to the south. “You would be standing there right after you got out of the building and looking up 50 feet,” he told the commission Tuesday night. Aggieville Business Association Director Dennis Cook told commissioners 95 percent of business owners…
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EMPORIA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a tractor-trailer hauling cattle overturned south of Emporia, killing two dozen of the animals. Kansas Highway Patrol Trooper Justin Wallace says the driver was transporting the cattle to Arkansas City to be slaughtered when he fell asleep just after midnight Wednesday and went off the side of Interstate 35. Besides the 24 cattle that died when the rig overturned, 13 were pulled from the wreckage alive. Wallace says the surviving cattle are in a pen waiting to resume their journey. Wallace says the driver was taken to a hospital with minor injuries. No one else…
Education was the focus of Wednesday’s program. The first two segments featured USD 383 Manhattan/Ogden Assistant Superintendent Eric Reid and Board Member Jurdene Coleman previewing the Aug. 21 school board meeting, talking about ongoing construction and adjustments being made in the new school year so far, in particular with bus routes. Manhattan Area Technical College President Jim Genandt joined us to preview events happening at the college over the next month including the Aug. 28 Chamber Business Showcase and 4th annual Car Show happening Sept. 21.
The Riley County Police Department budget will be underfunded by about $125,000 due to a cost of living adjustment miscalculation. When the calculations were prepared in a spreadsheet, RCPD Director Dennis Butler says the 1.9 percent COLA — up from 1.7 percent in 2019 — was only entered in the field for non-sworn staff under a false belief that the field would also run the adjustment for sworn officer salaries. Butler says the accountability for the error falls on him. “I didn’t expect something like this to happen so early in my tenure and I’m terribly embarrassed personally to be standing up here explaining this to you. It is…
KANSAS CITY- Authorities say two men in their 20s have been killed in separate weekend shootings in Kansas City. The Kansas City Star reports that police identified the men Monday as 25-year-old Melvin James Jr. and 22-year-old Charles Morris Jr. Morris’ body was discovered shortly before 8 a.m. Saturday. And police say James was killed early Sunday at the Forest Glen Estates Town Homes and Apartments in a double shooting that critically injured another man. No motive or suspect information has been released in either killing.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — The struggling Kansas City T-Bones baseball team is being evicted from its stadium in Kansas because of unpaid debts. The Unified Government of Wyandotte County/Kansas City Kansas announced Monday it is ending its management agreement with the T-Bones and has given the team until Sept. 13 to remove all its property from the publicly-owned stadium in Kansas City, Kansas. The government said in a news release the T-Bones owed a total of nearly $763,000 in current and past due utility bills, and past due payments for use of the stadium. The Unified Government said it…
ANDOVER, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas police dog named Thor has died just a few weeks before he was to retire. The Andover Police Department said in a Facebook post that officers will wear black armbands through Saturday in honor of the Belgian Malinois. He had a brief illness and died over the weekend, just short of his 10th birthday. Thor was trained to detect drugs, as well as in tracking and trailing. He often went to schools and community events to perform demonstrations. Chief Mike Keller described Thor in the post as a “phenomenal dog.” A memorial event also…
Tuesday’s In Focus guests were Manhattan City Manager Ron Fehr and Mayor Mike Dodson previewing Tuesday’s legislative meeting. We also discussed ongoing road construction projects and a proposed $50 million development near K-State that may be coming to city planners in the near future.
Riley County Historical Museum Director Cheryl Collins joined Dave Lewis Monday for a trip down memory lane of Manhattan area restaurants that are no longer in existence.
TOPEKA — The families of several hundred Kansas inmates who are being sent to a private prison in Arizona worry about how often they’ll be able to see their loved ones after the move. Leoti Masterson says she treasures her weekly visits with her son even though she has to drive about two hours each way every time. Masterson says it’s hard to imagine being able to visit the CoreCivic prison in Arizona as often. Masterson says she wants to be part of her son’s rehabilitation as he serves his sentence for sexual exploitation of a child. Kansas prison officials…