Manhattan High’s girls wrestling team proved it belongs among the state’s elite Saturday, punching 13 tickets to state and finishing runner-up at the Class 6A West Regional at Wichita South. The Indians totaled 239 points, finishing just 8.5 behind team champion Garden City (247.5) in one of the toughest regionals in the state. “It actually taught us a lot,” head coach Shawn Bammes said. “We were closer than we thought at the beginning of the year to running Garden City down. So we learned a lot from it.” The West Regional featured over half of the top 10 teams in…
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On today’s episode of Wildcat Insider, Jerome Tang is out at K-State, with AD Gene Taylor citing his comments following blowout home loss to Cincinnati as the reason. KSU MBB is off to a 1-11 start in Big 12 play for the 2025-26 season. https://www.youtube.com/live/JJiNNL2UoXI?si=dt37aSUHd1bY-RLN Hour 1 Segment 1 – Tang fired for cause Segment 2 – Why Tang has a case for firing for “cause”
By Nathan Gaddie Manhattan residents braved the rain Saturday to take the plunge for Special Olympics Kansas. Event coordinator Katelyn Andrist said the Polar Plunge is one of the organization’s biggest fundraisers of the year. “I think for people, it is very overwhelming, but you’re jumping in for our athletes,” she said. “You’re showing them that at the end of the day, we can all be comfortable or uncomfortable together. It’s breaking the ice, literally, of inclusion, of trying to come together and find something that really allows us to just bridge that gap and build community.” To view the…
By Lewis Marien JUNCTION CITY — A Geary County airport is hoping to achieve new heights with federal resources. U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, a Kansas Republican, announced to local officials on Friday a $4,038,000 grant to support Freeman Field in Junction City. The funding is part of more than $26 million to repairs and safety improvements at six regional airports around the state, included in a five-bill appropriations package approved by Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump earlier this month. Moran, who chairs the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Aviation, Space and Innovation, said airports are among the…
By Ned Seaton K-State offered Jerome Tang the chance to coach out the rest of this basketball season and then resign with a negotiated payout at the end, but he turned down that offer and instead got fired for cause. Athletics director Gene Taylor confirmed to The Mercury Monday that when he met with Tang Sunday morning, he offered Tang a choice: coach the rest of the season and then resign, or else be terminated immediately for cause. If Tang chose the former, there would be some kind of financial package offered to him in lieu of a buyout, at…
By Toby Hammes Kansas State has started its search for a new men’s basketball head coach following the firing of Jerome Tang on Sunday. Here are eight names to look out for over the next several weeks as athletics director Gene Taylor begins his hunt for the 26th K-State men’s basketball coach in school history. “One of the things that we’ll probably focus on is head coaching experience,” athletics director Gene Taylor said of the coaching search on Sunday. “What kind of program they’ve had and what kind of success they’ve had as a head coach. That doesn’t mean those…
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A Junction City woman was injured late Sunday night in a crash on the county line between Dickinson and Geary counties. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 70-year-old Colleen Taylor was traveling northbound on Union Road, when her vehicle crossed the roadway, near North Dietrich and Kansas Highway 244. The vehicle then entered a ditch and collided with a line of trees. Taylor sustained serious injuries. The crash report indicated she was not wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash. The Geary County Sheriff’s Office said Taylor was transported by Life Star helicopter to KU Medical Center.
By Ned Seaton and Tim Everson Kansas State on Sunday fired Jerome Tang, deciding to part ways with a basketball coach whose tenure began with enormous promise and ended with fans wearing bags on their heads. In doing so, K-State said the firing was “for cause,” claiming that Tang had violated the terms of his employment contract by publicly criticizing his players for lackluster effort in a home loss to Cincinnati. Such a tactic, if it stands, would allow K-State to avoid paying Tang an $18.7 million buyout that he would be due if the firing were based solely on…
A Manhattan man was arrested Saturday morning on multiple felony charges, including aggravated kidnapping, according to the Riley County Police Department. Tyrell Demond Harper, 29, was taken into custody at approximately 9:25 a.m. on Saturday near Applebee’s, located at 100 Manhattan Town Center. Harper was arrested on charges of aggravated kidnapping, aggravated domestic battery, theft of property or services, aggravated intimidation of a witness or victim, criminal damage to property, battery and endangering a child. According to arrest records, the aggravated domestic battery charge alleges choking a family member or person in a dating relationship in a rude manner. The…