Due to the high winds sweeping through the area, there will be no prescribed burning allowed in Riley County or Pottawatomie County today.
Author: KMAN Staff
The Phillips 66 Men’s Basketball Tournament gets underway on Wednesday night in Kansas City, and K-State will lead off the action as they take on Oklahoma State in a 6pm tilt. The Wildcats finished 16-15 overall, and their 5-13 conference mark puts them into the tournament as the #8 seed. The Cowboys ended the regular season with a 12-19 mark, and won just three times in Big 12 action, making them the #9 seed. K-State and Oklahoma State split their regular season series, with each team winning on it’s home court. The Cats beat the Cowboys 89-73 in Manhattan on…
Both caucus sites in Manhattan reported higher-than-anticipated turnouts Saturday as Democratic and Republican voters picked their preferred candidates for president. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders was the choice at Anthony Middle School in Manhattan, besting former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton 1,078 to 517 for the Democratic nod. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas was the choice of Riley County Republicans with 624 votes. Ohio Gov. John Kasich was second with 352 votes. Both Sanders and Cruz dominated the state overall. Riley County GOP chair Eileen King said she had to print out 600 more ballots to meet demand at Manhattan…
A 21-year-old male sustained a “critical head injury” as a result of an apparent fall from several feet, according to a news release from the Riley County Police Department Saturday night. At approximately 5:20 p.m. officers with the RCPD along with emergency medical professionals with Riley County EMS were dispatched to the 1800 block of Leavenworth Street in Manhattan for a report of a fall which led to a serious injury. Riley County EMS Director Larry Couchman said it was a Fake Patty’s Day house party and that the individual jumped off an elevated surface — such as a porch…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Gov. Sam Brownback has vetoed measures to block a major economic development project and to protect a government office building near the Kansas Statehouse. The governor on Friday vetoed a provision in a budget bill preventing his administration from authorizing bonds backed by state sales tax revenues to lure the American Royal horse and livestock exhibition to Kansas from Kansas City, Missouri. Most of the rest of the bill will become law. Brownback also vetoed a separate bill preventing the state from tearing down the Docking State Office Building. Legislators passed the bill after Brownback canceled a…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt is asking the state Supreme Court to delay formally issuing rulings on drunken-driving laws. The court ruled last week that a law punishing drivers who refuse a breath test is unconstitutional. Schmidt said Friday that the U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to decide a case from other states that present the same constitutional issues as the Kansas case. A decision is expected by June. He said in a news release the national case would either confirm or call into question the Kansas ruling, so it is a better use of everyone’s time…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Both Democrats and Republicans are wondering whether their presidential caucuses in Kansas will be rocky soils for their front-runners. GOP leader Donald Trump was making an appearance Saturday in Wichita just before voting started there. Challenger and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz also was visiting and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio had three campaign events Friday. In Kansas, the billionaire businessman seemed more the insurgent. Most of the state GOP’s top elected officials and rank-and-file activists also were split between Cruz and Rubio. Clinton had a different challenge. The former U.S. secretary of state is the choice of former…
Friday’s guests on In Focus were: State Representative Ron Highland of rural Wamego Riley County Extension Agriculture Agent Greg McClure Kristen Mulready Stone, Associate Professor of History at K-State Jim Foster, Manhattan Area Amateur Radio Society, and Laurie Harrison, Riley County Emergency Management Director, on storm spotter training.
Unemployment numbers for the Manhattan area are up just a bit–although still relatively low when compared to the rest of the state. The Manhattan metropolitan area including Riley and Pottawatomie counties had a 3.5 percent rate in January, up from 2.8 in December. The Manhattan/Junction City combined area had 4.1 compared to 3.2 in December. Manhattan by itself and with Riley County showed a 2.9 percent number and Junction City had a 6.3 percent rate. Area county numbers were 3.3 percent for Riley County, Pottawatomie county with an even four percent, 6.4 in Geary County, and 4.9 in Clay County.…
A 39-year-old Riley man has been bound over (Friday) for second degree murder, with an alternative count of involuntary manslaughter while DUI in connection with the death of his six year old daughter last October. A variety of witnesses took the stand during Joshua Mall’s preliminary hearing which took up most of the morning, including witnesses at the scene, law enforcement, and medical personnel. Testimony included confimation of a blood alochol count of 0.13 and accounts of the smell of alcohol at the scene and on Mall’s person following the accident–as well as descriptions of Mall’s truck as fast-moving, aggressive, and cutting people off…