MANHATTAN — The Manhattan Parks & Recreation Department is hoping folks don’t let the winter blues keep them from staying active. A number of new programs were presented during a recent segment of KMAN’s In Focus. Lindsay Sparlin, Arts and Humanities Coordinator noted a couple of those new programs, including one that begins at the [...]

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MANHATTAN — While there may currently be no end in sight for the federal government shutdown, things are progressing at the National Bio and Agro Defense facility. During KMAN’s In Focus, Dr. Ken Burton, NBAF Coordinator for USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) noted some good planning by both the U.S. Department of [...]

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MANHATTAN — Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) announced plans for his future during a news conference Friday morning at the Kansas Department of Agriculture headquarters in Manhattan. The 82-year-old Republican chairs the Senate Agriculture Committee and has been known by some of his colleagues of reaching across the aisle to get things done. Roberts credited the bipartisan [...]

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Scott Alexander, 25, of Manhattan was arrested while in the 400 block of Fremont St. in Manhattan on January 3, 2019 at approximately 8:55 AM. Alexander was arrested on offenses of distribute opiate/narcotic/certain stimulant, distribute or possess with the intent to distribute marijuana within 1000′ of a school, and possession of paraphernalia (x2). Alexander was [...]

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MANHATTAN — Flu season is here and local health officials are re-emphasizing the need to get your flu shot. During KMAN’s In Focus Wednesday, Riley County Health Department Clinic Supervisor Leslie Campbell says while a vaccination doesn’t guarantee you won’t get sick, it is better than the alternative. Flu season generally begins in September and [...]

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Junction City’s government will see a small change in personnel after a recent leadership vote. The City Commission unanimously voted for current Mayor Pat Landes to stay on for another year in the position while Jeff Underhill was chosen to replace Phyllis Fitzgerald as vice mayor. Landes was first elected to the commission in 2011 [...]

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Update 1:30 p.m. 1/7/19 The murder of a Junction City woman is being handled as a contract killing, according to a release by Geary County Attorney Krista Blaisdell on Monday. Mashaun Baker, 33, is charged with first degree murder and is suspected of hiring Dion Green to kill 31-year-old Jenna Schafer. Green, 33, is charged [...]

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“Police, at all times, should maintain a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the [...]

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MANHATTAN — Baby watch 2019 officially came to an end in Manhattan Wednesday. Via Christi Hospital announced that baby Vincent was born at 11:22 a.m. Jan. 2 to mother Cheyenne Russell of Junction City. The baby was the first delivered at the hospital in 2019. Vincent came in weighing 7 pounds, 11 ounces and was [...]

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MANHATTAN — A Manhattan man is in custody after Riley County Police say he violated the terms of his offender registration. Samuel Sargent Kempf, 42, was arrested Wednesday in the 1100 block of Vattier on a charge of violating offender registration, second conviction. A search of the Kansas Offender Registry finds that Kempf was convicted [...]

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