KMAN Sports Director John Kurtz recorded his thoughts on former K-State basketball coach Frank Martin Monday. Martin, who took over the reigns of the Wildcats after Bob Huggins left Manhattan for West Virginia after one year in the Little Apple, has South Carolina in the Final Four following the Gamecocks’ defeat of Florida in the Elite 8 Sunday. Martin took K-State to the Elite 8 in 2011, but left for South Carolina after the next season. Excerpts of Kurtz’s thoughts on Martin include: “The wound has always been there, but it was scabbed.” “It is ripping that scab off, that is…
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TOPEKA — Kansas’ Republican-controlled Legislature has approved an expansion of the state’s Medicaid program under the federal Affordable Care Act. The state Senate voted 25-14 on Tuesday for legislation that would expand state health coverage to thousands of poor adults. The House approved it last month on an 81-44 vote, meaning the measure now goes to conservative Republican Gov. Sam Brownback. Brownback has been a vocal critic of the federal health care law championed by former President Barack Obama. Brownback hasn’t said he would veto the bill, but lawmakers expect it. The bill’s supporters would need 27 of 40 votes in…
Today’s guests were Pottawatomie County Commission Chair Pat Weixelman, Emergency Management Director Chris Trudo and Fire Supervisor Jared Barnes, as well as Jo Maseberg-Tomlinson and Terri McCants with K-State’s Global Campus.
Riley County Law Board members began budget discussion at their Monday meeting with much talk about personnel–but prior to that discussion Brian Johnson with the Local Fraternal Order of Police reminded the board of the difficult cases police deal with daily such as infant autopsies, suicide calls, rape victims they try to console. Johnson encouraged the board to carefully consider adequate pay and consideration of shift differential and educational pay when dealing with the personnel aspect of this next year’s budget. Riley County Police Asst. Director John Doehling told the board four options are recommended for personnel, with an increase for…
TOPEKA — Legislators and advocates in Kansas pushing to expand the state’s health coverage for the poor and disabled to thousands of adults are buoyed by events in Washington. They see it as a plus that Republicans in Congress have failed to repeal former President Barack Obama’s signature health care law. The GOP-controlled Kansas Legislature already was more receptive this year to expanding the state’s Medicaid program under the Affordable Care Act. The state Senate was debating a bill Monday and could send it to Republican Gov. Sam Brownback later this week. But Brownback spokeswoman Melika Willoughby said Monday in an…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A man wounded while trying to intervene in an apparently racially motivated shooting at a suburban Kansas City bar has received a $100,000 check. The Kansas City Star reports that Ian Grillot was surprised with the check Saturday at a Houston gala. The India House, which hosted the gala, and three donors teamed to give Grillot the money, to be used toward buying a house. His mother, Debra Grillot described the evening as “impressive.” Last month’s shooting in Olathe left Srinivas Kuchibhotla dead and his friend, Alok Madasani, wounded. Both Kuchibhotla and Madasani were natives of India…
Today on In Focus, Cathy and Dave discussed current events with KMAN listeners on an edition of Open Phones Monday.
A Junction City woman died in a two vehicle crash in Wabaunsee County Sunday night that closed a stretch of eastbound lanes of I-70 near the Paxico Rest Area for two hours. Tammy Patterson, 41, died in the accident, reported shortly after 7:30 p.m. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, the vehicle Patterson was in had run out of fuel and was stopped partially in the left lane of eastbound I-70, two miles east of Paxico. Another occupant in that vehicle was attempting to push it out of the roadway, when a 2013 Toyota Prius driven by Madison Connally, 23, of Ellsworth struck the vehicle from…
Commuters walked away without injury Friday afternoon following a three-vehicle accident at the intersection of Seth Child Road and Southwind Road in Manhattan. One of the vehicles rested in a steep ditch. Witnesses at the scene told KMAN no injuries were suffered and the Riley County Police Department later confirmed those claims. KMAN will have more information as it becomes available.
OLATHE — An affluent suburban Kansas City woman with a history of shoplifting has been ordered to spend a year and seven months in prison for the thefts. Forty-seven-year-old Kelli Jo Bauer of Overland Park also was ordered Friday in Johnson County to pay more than $22,000 in restitution to merchants. Bauer has admitted she stole tens of thousands of dollars of clothing and merchandise she was peddling out of her nearly $1 million home. Bauer had two prior Johnson County theft convictions when she was charged in 2015 with felony theft. That was after police who searched her home found…