The Manhattan High boys basketball team dropped their first game of the season in the semi finals of the Dodge City Tournament of Champions with a 57-53 OT loss to the defending 6A state champs in Wichita East. The Indians drop to 10-1 overall while the Aces move onto the championship game on Saturday to face Wichita Heights. Manhattan will play Maize for 3rd place. Manhattan had multiple eight point leads early on but couldn’t pull away any more. Elijah Kelly for the Aces drained a three with under ten seconds left in the fourth quarter to tie the game.…
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Team Scores 1. Manhattan Indians 127.0 2. Blue Valley Tigers 97.5 3. BV Northwest Huskies 88.5 4. Andover Trojans 79.0 5. Olathe Northwest Ravens 78.0 6. Marion Indians 69.5 7. Hutchinson Salthawks 68.0 8. Turner Bears 62.0 9. Raytown South Cardinals 58.0 10. Bonner Springs Braves 49.5 10. Olathe South Falcons 49.5 12. Osawatomie Trojans, KS 38.0 13. Lawrence Lions 36.0 13. SM West Vikings 36.0 15. Topeka High Trojans 33.0 16. BV West Jaguars 32.0 16. Olathe East Hawks 32.0 18. BV North Mustangs 30.5 19. SM Northwest Cougars 28.0 20. Jayhawk Linn Jayhawis 22.0 Varsity Results: BVNW Husky…
By Josh Brunner, K-State Athletics Communications (Photo Courtesy Kansas State Athletics) Senior Akela Jones broke school and Ahearn Field House records in the pentathlon as she won the first-ever DeLoss Dodds Invitational pentathlon with a total score of 4,643 points on Friday. Eyeing the NCAA pentathlon record during the meet, Jones fought until the last event before ultimately coming up just 35 points short of the record of 4,678 points, set by Georgia’s Kendell Williams at last year’s NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships. Jones started the event off strong, recording a first-place finish in the 60 meter hurdles with…
Marines remember those who died when two helicopters crashed during a training mission off Hawaii. The ceremony comes after the Coast Guard announced earlier in the week they were halting their search without having found any of those on board
Before a massive blizzard began dumping snow on the nation’s capital Friday, many flights were already delayed or canceled. Meanwhile, commuters were working around the Metro rail shut down that went into effect Friday evening.
TOPEKA — The Kansas Court of Appeals has refused to allow the state’s first-in-the-nation ban on a common second-trimester abortion method to take effect. The court released the ruling Friday, the anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision. A lower court put the law on hold last year. The state’s second-highest court upheld that decision Friday, though an appeal to the Kansas Supreme Court is expected. The case comes in a lawsuit filed by two abortion providers who say the 2015 law unconstitutionally burdens women seeking abortions. The law prohibits doctors from using forceps or similar instruments on a…
TOPEKA — The highest court in Kansas has struck down a Wichita voter-approved ordinance that reduces penalties for possessing small amounts of marijuana. The Kansas Supreme Court issued its ruling Friday. The case has been closely watched by activists in other Kansas communities who are considering similar voter-led initiatives if state lawmakers continue to block reform of marijuana laws. Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt argued the ordinance conflicts with state law. Wichita voters approved the ordinance in April, with 54 percent in favor. The city council says it put the measure on the ballot because 3,000 people signed a petition for it.…
Captain Josh Kyle with the Riley County Police Department spoke on Friday’s InFocus: And State Representative Tom Phillips of Manhattan paid the KMAN studio a visit as well:
As a massive winter storm looms, states of emergency have been declared in five states and Washington, D.C. Forecasters warned residents on the East Coast to prepare for a potentially historic snowfall starting Friday.
A bank president was fatally shot during a robbery Thursday in eastern Oklahoma and the suspected gunman was killed after an ensuing car chase, authorities said. Two people were wounded.