*Courtesy of K-State Sports Information* FORT WORTH, Texas – K-State allowed three unanswered runs, including the decisive one on a squeeze play in the seventh, to fall to No. 11 TCU, 3-2, on Thursday at Lupton Stadium. The Wildcats (26-27, 8-14 Big 12) dropped its ninth one-run game of the season, including six in conference action, despite taking a 2-0 lead after the top of the fourth. Two-out RBI singles by Tyler Wolfe and Brooks Zimmerman off TCU starting pitcher Brian Howard staked the Wildcats to their two-run advantage, but a two-out, two-run single by Dane Steinhagen in the fourth…
Author: KMAN Staff
The Flint Hills Regional Council is undertaking a joint land use study of Fort Riley and surrounding communities. “What it is looking at is the compatibility and issues around a large military installation coexisting with residential communities and that they’re both able to prosper equally without the harm of the other,” said Jennifer Jordan, regional planning manager with the Flint Hills Regional Council. Jordan told local leaders at Thursday’s joint City/County/County meeting that a technical advisory committee and a policy committee, comprised of local elected officials, will steer the project to completion. “Then hopefully we will wind up with some concrete…
WICHITA — The Wichita school board has voted to eliminate more than 100 district positions, close a high school and stop bus transportation for thousands of students. The Wichita Eagle reports that these and other cuts will trim about $18 million from the district’s budget. Six board members voted unanimously to approve superintendent John Allison’s first three phases of budget cuts for the upcoming school year. Board member Sheril Logan was absent. Allison says the district will need to trim an additional $5 million to make up for projected cost increases. Wichita schools have projected nearly $23 million in cost increases next…
Riley County commissioners were updated Thursday with the latest revenue numbers from the Register of Deeds office and the news wasn’t bright. “Good morning commissioners,” Riley County Register of Deeds Debbie Regester opened, “Don’t have very good news. Our revenue is down, two-fold.” Regester said the numbers are the result of a combination of the continuing phase-out of the mortgage registration fee and decreasing mortgages. “We’re losing money on that, as well as recordings and mortgages are down,” she added. The state began the five-year phase-out of the mortgage registration fee after Gov. Sam Brownback signed the legislation in 2014…
A teen suspect who had entered a no contest plea to attempted second degree murder in Pottawatomie County is now requesting a hearing to withdraw that plea. Dakota Fair is currently set for a status hearing June 23rd. Fair’s attorney also filed a motion to withdraw, which was granted. In early April Fair entered the no contest plea–also to discharge of a firearm into an occupied vehicle and felon in possession of a firearm in connection with the late December shooting of Tyrel Britton, 23, on Mt. Zion Road in rural St. George. Britton was flown to Topeka for medical treatment…
ENTERPRISE — Authorities say a 29-year-old woman has been arrested in the death of her toddler in central Kansas. The Salina Journal reports that the Enterprise woman is jailed in Dickinson County. Sheriff Gareth Hoffman says the injured 13-month-old was brought Monday night to a hospital in Abilene after the mother reported finding the child unresponsive. The toddler died a short time later. The sheriff’s office began investigating after determining that the toddler’s death was suspicious. The investigation included an autopsy and several interviews.
WICHITA — Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has told a federal court he is changing interagency policies that will improve the state’s ability to verify proof of citizenship for people who register to vote at motor vehicle offices. The notice filed shortly before midnight Wednesday comes a day after a federal court ruled thousands of Kansans who did not provide such documents must be added to voter rolls for federal elections. The judge stayed her ruling until May 31 so the state could appeal. Kobach contends the new policies were being implemented prior to that ruling. Motor vehicle offices now accept…
An arrest was made in the 100 block of E. Poyntz Ave. and caused Courtney Vieyra, 30, of Junction City, Kansas to become confined. Vieyra was arrested on the offenses of aggravated failure to appear (listed on a warrant from Riley County) and failure to appear (listed on a warrant from Ogden, Kansas). Also arrested on May 18, 2016 at approximately 7:30 AM was Billy Womack, 31, of Ogden, Kansas. Womack was arrested on offenses unrelated to Vieyra which included distribution of a stimulant, possession of opiates, opium, or narcotic drugs, unlawful possession of marijuana, use or possession with intent…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – Kansas’ state universities including K-State are calling for tuition increases of up to 5 percent, at least for now. The schools submitted their tuition proposals Wednesday to the governing Kansas Board of Regents. But those came before Gov. Sam Brownback signed a budget bill Wednesday afternoon that cuts higher education funding by 4 percent – one percent more than the universities had expected. Kansas State University, Wichita State, Fort Hays State and Pittsburg State each propose a 5 percent increase for the academic year that begins this fall. The University of Kansas and Emporia State seek a…
The Manhattan-Ogden Board of Education made its’ stance on hazing clear at Wednesday night’s board meeting. Superintendent Dr. Bob Shannon presented a new hazing policy to the board which would make the district safer for students and also prevent future lawsuits against the district. Shannon spoke passionately against hazing, and said introducing the hazing policy is merely a preventative measure. No recent hazing has taken place in the district. “From time to time there are unfortunate events on college campuses or high schools across the country. Sometimes someone gets injured, sometimes someone loses their life. No one wants that,” Shannon…