Wamego’s USD 320 Board of Education approved a new financial literacy class for the 2017-18 school year. At Monday’s meeting, Principal Tim Winter introduced Teacher Travis Graber who developed the class for the Business Department. The proposed Financial Literacy class will be required for graduation and offered to Junior’s and Senior’s in years 2017-18. Graber said the Financial Literacy class was created to educate high school students about sound money management skills and the financial planning process, and help teens begin to develop positive behaviors that are necessary to attaining financial maturity and achieving a secure future. According to the…
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Corey Dean and Wyatt Thompson break down the K-State basketball weekend. The men upset #1 Oklahoma at Bramlage, 80-69. What does that mean going forward for the Wildcats? The women picked up their third straight loss losing at West Virginia over the weekend. The women get Oklahoma next while the men have Baylor. They’ll break down the rest of the Big 12 hoops weekend and what lies ahead this week. K-State baseball is fast approaching plus more on K-State football on the recruiting trail. All that and much more on “Wildcat Insider” on KMAN. https://1350kman.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/1-MBB-upsets-OU.mp3 https://1350kman.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/2-Wade-Big-12-POW.mp3 https://1350kman.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/3-FB-recruiting.mp3…
One of the men responsible for a string of September 2015 robberies which sent the K-State campus into lockdown was to be sentenced Monday morning; however, things did not go as planned. Jonathon Ryan Elliot, 20, pleaded no contest in January to one count of aggravated robbery after admitting he participated the robberies in September by providing transportation and keeping stolen goods. Elliot was to be sentenced Monday, but pending an evaluation by the courts he will be sentenced on March second. Prosecutors are seeking the standard sentence for the crime, which ranges between 5 and 19 years. Elliot’s sentencing delay follows the sentencing…
Riley County commission chairman Ben Wilson opted out of signing on to two letters from the board that expresses written disagreement of the state-imposed property tax lid. Wilson said last week that while he disagreed with the tax lid law as written, he differed from commissioners Ron Wilson and Robert Boyd when it came to the degree of his problems with the law set to take effect January 2018. Wilson said Thursday that he wasn’t willing to sign on to anything that expressed disagreement with the lid “in principle.” The letters take aim at House Bill 2609 and Senate Bill…
A Manhattan man pleaded no contest to drug charges in Riley County District Court on Monday morning. As KMAN reported last summer, Andre Quinton, Jr. was arrested in July of 2015 for a long list of drug-related offenses including intent to distribute within 1000 feet of a school, possession of narcotics, and domestic battery. Police raided Quinton’s home and found more than 38 grams of methamphetamine packaged to be sold. Quinton was facing a minimum of 46 months in prison and up to $300,000 in fees for his Level Three drug felony. In Judge David Stutzman’s courtroom, Quinton and his attorney submitted an agreement resulting in Quinton serving 74 months and paying $10,000.…
Monday’s guests on In Focus were: Dr. Justin Thomason, K-State Veteran on “Heart Month” Executive Director Lori Bishop with Flint Hills Volunteer Center John White, Kansas Farm Bureau’s “Young Farmers and Ranchers” David Yocum with Bellus Academy
It was a big day for bid openings at the Pottawatomie County Commission meeting Monday. Commissioners and County Administrators were pleased with the bids they received, which were described as “really good prices” by Pottawatomie County Public Works Director Peter Clark. Clark and his staff will consider the bids more closely Thursday before commissioners take action. Commissioners are holding a special meeting Thursday to vote on the bids due to the President’s’ Holiday on Monday. Bayer Construction had the apparent low bid of $2,627,208.95 dollars but Amino Brothers of Kansas City had the shortest time period of seven to eight months…
TOPEKA — The state’s mental hospital in eastern Kansas would receive an additional $2.4 million in its current budget to help boost its staffing under a proposal from a legislative committee. The Senate Ways and Means Committee added the money Monday for Osawatomie State Hospital as it debated other proposals for keeping the budget balanced through June 2017. The Department on Aging and Disability Services reported last month that 187 of the 483 positions at the hospital were vacant. The federal government decertified the Osawatomie hospital in December after a critical survey found that the hospital failed to protect suicidal…
TOPEKA — A Kansas Senate committee has approved a bill that would balance the state budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1. The measure approved Monday by the Ways and Means Committee would eliminate a projected deficit of nearly $200 million in the $16.1 billion budget for the next fiscal year. The committee’s 9-2 vote sends the bill to the full Senate for a debate that could occur by the end of this week. The bill includes many of Republican Gov. Sam Brownback’s proposals to help close the budget gap by juggling funds and capturing unanticipated savings. The GOP-dominated…
TOPEKA –The executive director of Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback’s Council of Economic Advisors has been arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated. Shawnee County jail records show that Stanley Ahlerich, executive director of the Kansas Governor’s Council of Economic Advisors, was arrested early Saturday on suspicion of driving while intoxicated. Ahlerich was released about an hour later on $1,000 bond. A Brownback spokeswoman declined comment Sunday. A message left at a home phone listing under Ahlerich’s name Sunday wasn’t immediately returned. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Ahlerich, of Winfield, has led the Governor’s Council of Economic Advisors since Brownback…