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…
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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.
Today’s guests on In Focus were Flint Hills Volunteers Center with Lori Bishop and Janet Nichols and Flint Hills Veterans Coalition Parade entry coordinator Chuck Tannehill. We also had Geary County USD 475 Executive Dir. of Communications Matthew Droge and Riley County Police Captain Tim Hegarty and Manhattan City Commissioner Karen McCulloh on drug take back day.
Manhattan citizen Johnathan Cole was one of many to address the Riley County Law Board inside Manhattan’s City Hall Monday afternoon. Marijuana and perceived racial bias in the policing of it dominated the meeting. “It’s not the fact that the crime is happening,” Cole, a young white male said. “It’s the fact that the stops and arrests are increasing significantly for people of color. And that’s the issue.” Law board member and Riley County commissioner, Marvin Rodriguez, answered Cole’s remarks. “Well sir, I have lots of black friends,” Rodriguez began. “They’ve never been stopped.” Laughter mixed with uncomfortable groans filled…
HUTCHINSON — After years of being considered a risk not worth taking, western Kansas farmers are planting more acres of dryland corn. The Kansas Agricultural Statistics Service says farmers in southwest Kansas planted 149,000 acres of dryland corn in 2016 up 133 percent from 2015. West-central Kansas was up 59 percent in that time period. The Hutchinson News reports figures aren’t available for this year’s acreage of the corn, which is not irrigated by water sources like the Ogallala aquifer. Timely rains and full underground moisture have contributed to the increase. The increase in corn and soybean acres across the…
TOPEKA — Kansas State University researchers say a dominant forage grass in the Great Plains could be diminished by climate change to less than half of its current stature during the next 75 years. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that studies involving K-State faculty indicated that changes would potentially shrink the plant size of big bluestem grass by 60 percent. The grass covers millions of acres in the region. That kind of transformation would disrupt the region’s livestock economy. Researchers say big bluestem would be a shorter kind that’s common in eastern Colorado. Loretta Johnson, biology professor, says climate change could…