Today’s guests on In Focus were Manhattan/Ogden USD 383 School Board member Pat Hudgins and Assistant Superintendent Eric Reid. We also had Manhattan Area Technical College President JIm Genandt.
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A man has been arrested for attempted murder in Wamego, according to a press release faxed to KMAN from the Wamego Police Department Wednesday morning. Police arrested Terry Schroeder of Wamego. He was booked into the Pottawatomie County Jail on a $1 million bond. On Oct. 13 just after 8 p.m., officers received a call in reference to a domestic situation in the 600 block of Vine Street in Wamego. Police arrived on the scene to find an unresponsive female. She was transported to a Topeka hospital with what they believed to be life threatening injuries. KMAN will have more…
TOPEKA — Kansas students’ performance on the annual state math test essentially stayed flat from 2016 to 2017, while performance on the English and language arts portion decreased slightly. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the Kansas State Board of Education reviewed data Tuesday on students’ performance on the statewide assessment exams. The board says that in 2016, the percentage of students performing at what’s considered below or just meeting grade level in math was 65.5 percent. The rate was 65.8 percent in 2017. In English and language arts, a combined 58.6 percent of students in 2016 performed at or below…
TONGANOXIE — Police have released a man who was considered a person of interest after three sisters who disappeared in August from their Kansas foster home were found safe. Authorities did not release details about where the 12-, 14- and 15-year old girls were found but police said they were safe. The 48-year-old man was taken into custody in Kansas City, Missouri. Police had said the girls might be in danger if they were with him. Kansas City police released him Tuesday morning after Tonganoxie officials said they didn’t have enough evidence to charge him. KCTV5 reports police said the…
LAWRENCE — Authorities say two people have been arrested in a shooting that killed three people and wounded two others in a popular downtown area of a Kansas college town. The Lawrence Police Department said early Tuesday in a tweet that a 22-year-old is being held on suspicion of attempted second-degree murder and being a felon in possession of a firearm. A 19-year-old is suspected of aggravated assault and battery. The shooting happened early on Oct. 1 in an area crowded with people from concerts, bars and events at the nearby University of Kansas. Police have said it stemmed from…
Budget cuts are being implemented at KSU, according to a letter posted in K-State Today Tuesday morning by Vice President for Administration and Finance Cindy Bontrager. The university, citing lower tuition revenue, will be implementing a one-time callback of $12 million from administrative and academic funds. On Sept. 29, K-State announced a Fall enrollment decrease of about 1,000 students. “Kansas State University is working to address the enrollment and budget situation,” Bontrager wrote. “As President Myers mentioned in a recent K-State Today article, the university is in the process of hiring a strategic enrollment management consultant. The consultant will review our…
Manhattan City Commission members approved a motion to allow Kansas State University to purchase the Innovation Center from the city. The university has leased the building for the last ten years. The purchase total of $5.645 million will be paid out over 15 years. The money, as Commissioner Wynn Butler explained, will return to the city’s Economic Development Fund. “It’s important to know that the money will go back into the old Economic Development Fund.” The Commission also heard from consultant Tony Peterman from the Jones Lang LaSalle research group about a potential expansion at the Manhattan Convention Center. Given…
The 2017 Kansas Association of Broadcasters Convention ended honoring one of its founders Tuesday afternoon. Following the convention’s closing lunch at the Manhattan Conference Center, family, friends and colleagues of Grover Cobb gathered on the campus of Kansas State University to rededicate the redesigned memorial in Cobb’s name. Cobb was one of founding members of the KAB 66 years ago and eventually joined the National Association of Broadcasters as its senior executive vice president after broadcasting careers in Great Bend and Salina. He died at the age of 53 in 1975 and his memorial at K-State was built a year…
Today’s guests on In Focus were Manhattan Mayor Linda Morse and City Manager Ron Fehr.
Today’s guests on In Focus were Daryn Soldan and Jeff Wick from Pottawatomie County, and Regents Distinguished Professor at K-State and DVM Juergen Richt.