It was a somber autumn morning at the Riley County Courthouse as a Rossville man was sentenced to jail time after striking and killing a Manhattan bicyclist. On the evening of June 26, 2014, 32-year-old Derik Kesler was driving southbound on K-177 when he struck 49-year-old Mark Jilka from behind. Jilka, an avid bicyclist, was […]
A Belvue man who requested a jury trial had a change of heart Monday morning. Christopher Arand, who is accused of murdering his uncle, Larry Arand, last November, entered a plea to premeditated first degree murder. The Pottawatomie County District Court also dismissed a cruelty to animals charge. Sentencing is set for Nov. 19 at 9 […]
Officers with the Riley County Police Department responded to a single vehicle collision near the intersection of Engineer Road and Harris Road on Oct. 2, at approximately 11:30 a.m. Police found a 2003 Ford Focus driven by a 16-year-old female (with an 18-year-old and 16-year-old passenger) that was involved in a collision when it lost […]
1991 Marky Mark & the Funky Bunch had the number one song in the U.S. Good Vibrations. Who would've thought this guy would go on the be a fantastic actor! 2001 Barry Bonds broke Mark McGwire's single season home run record with his 71st home run of the season He broke the broke record when he hit his 71st and [...]
A 94-page petition has been filed by Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt’s office with the U-S Supreme Court in the Luis Aguirre murder case, involving the 2009 murders of Tanya and Juan Maldonado. The Petition for Writ of Certiorari asks two main questions–Whether a request to temporarily cease questioning is a clear and unequivocal assertion of the […]
An adaptive athlete from Belarus ran for faith, hope, and love in the C. Clyde Run 5K on Saturday. It was in first receiving those things however, that now has her sharing them with others Tanya Khvitsko met C. Clyde Jones, the first dean of the Kansas State College of Business, when she was 5 years […]
The atmosphere was solemn Friday as the clock struck noon and rang out on the Riley County Courthouse Plaza. The clock’s bells reverberated off the metal of a dozen red silhouettes of domestic violence victims, each with a plaque around their necks describing why they’re represented by art instead of their living physical bodies. For years […]
A Thursday accident in Pottawatomie County sent two people to the hospital, including one who was life-flighted to a Topeka facility. Sheriff Greg Riat announced Friday afternoon that at about 6:45 p.m. Thursday, the Pottawatomie County Sheriff’s Office, EMS, and Fire and Rescue responded to a two vehicle motor vehicle accident just east of the […]
Officers with the Riley County Police Department filed a report for theft of a motor vehicle in the 1000 block of Humboldt Street in Manhattan on October 1, 2015 at approximately 7:20 AM. Police found that a 1997 red Honda Civic valued at approximately $2,000.00 was removed from an apartment complex parking lot without the […]
1928 Eight songs were recorded at Victor Record Studios in Nashville, Tennessee These were first songs to be recorded in Music City, USA 1950 The Peanuts comic strip, by Charles M. Schultz, first appeared in newspapers There's nothing quite like Charlie Brown & the gang 1995 O.J. Simpson trial jurors stunned the courtroom and the nation by [...]
