“The Game” on Thursday breaks down the Sweet 16 games that feature KU and Oklahoma out of the Big 12. Ken Corbitt from the Topeka Capitol Journal joins the show from Louisville to break down the Big 12 team’s remaining in the field. K-State baseball gets Oklahoma State to open up Big 12 play. RGIII signs with Cleveland. You’ll also hear former K-State WR Tyler Lockett who was on the Dan Patrick Show. You Can’t Be serious to close the show. All that and much more on “The Game” on KMAN. https://1350kman.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/1-Sweet-16-match-ups.mp3 https://1350kman.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/2-Ken-Corbitt-Topeka-Cap-Journal.mp3 https://1350kman.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/3-Cover-5-NCAA-Tourney-edition.mp3 https://1350kman.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/4-Tyler-Lockett-on-Dan-Patrick.mp3 …
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TOPEKA — Kansas legislators have sent Gov. Sam Brownback an education funding plan designed to meet a state Supreme Court order to help poor districts and prevent the justices from shutting down public schools in July. The House approved the bill Thursday on a 93-31 vote. The Senate approved the bill hours earlier on a 32-5 vote. The bill redistributes $83 million of the state’s $4 billion-plus in annual aid to its 286 school districts. Total spending on schools would not increase, but no district would lose any of the aid it was promised for the next school year. The court…
A vehicle burglary investigation that took several months has resulted in an arrest. The Pottawatomie County Sheriff’s office has told KMAN a St. George juvenile has been taken into custody in connection to approximately 17 reported vehicle burglaries. The burglaries occurred in St. George and around the rural St. George area. Victims reported the thefts of many items including firearms and a ladies ring valued at over $10,000. Pottawatomie County Sheriff Detectives aided by a tip from the public developed a suspect, and on Wednesday were allowed to conduct a consent search of the juvenile’s home in St. George. As a…
TOPEKA — The Kansas Senate has passed legislation that would require teachers to vote every three years in order to maintain their local union. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the bill passed the chamber with a 22-18 vote after more than two hours of debate Wednesday. The measure would direct the Kansas Department of Labor to hold elections for teachers to weigh in on whether or not to keep their union every three years. Unions would continue to have negotiating power as long as more than 50 percent of employees who vote in the election are in favor of the union. The…
A Junction City man facing 34 child pornography counts in Geary County has been assigned a public defender with a status hearing set for April seventh. As announced last week by KMAN, Dale Holvorson, 49, was arrested Thursday on 14 counts of distribution of child pornography and 20 counts of possession of child porn. The Junction City Police Department was assisted by the Kansas Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force and the Wichita Police Department, with a search warrant served in the 1400 block of West 11th Street in Junction City. Numerous computers and other electronic evidence were seized.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Reports of shots fired at a Kansas sheriff’s deputy brings 30 squad cars to the scene where investigators discover the sound was actually an electrical transformer blowing. The Wichita Eagle reports dozens of officers responded to a call about a Sedgwick County deputy in trouble in west Wichita on Wednesday afternoon. Police set up a perimeter and closed parts of two streets in their search for a shooting suspect. Sedgwick County Sheriff Jeff Easter says the deputy was standing with her back to a transformer at 3:06 p.m. and felt a concussion after hearing what sounded like…
KIOWA, Kan. (AP) – Authorities estimate that a wildfire has burned 625 square miles in Oklahoma and Kansas. Preliminary estimates from the Oklahoma Forestry Services say about 220 square miles have burned in Oklahoma and 405 square miles in Kansas. The worst damage in Kansas is in Barber and Comanche counties, where the fire continues to burn Thursday. Forestry Services spokeswoman Michelle Finch-Walker says crews are surveying the wildfire by aircraft Thursday morning and more concrete numbers will be available once that’s complete. An emergency management official said earlier Thursday that the fire had burned more than 300 square miles in southern Kansas.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Top Republican lawmakers hope to pass a school funding plan that would avoid an increase in state spending while attempting to satisfy a Kansas Supreme Court order to help poor school districts. The Senate planned to debate a bill Thursday that redistributes about $83 million of the state’s $4 billion-plus in annual aid to its 286 school districts. If the measure passes the GOP-dominated Senate, the Republican-controlled House was expected to schedule a vote later Thursday. The measure shifts some of the $83 million to poor districts but also guarantees that no district sees a reduction in…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) A Kansas City, Kansas, man has admitted that he fatally shot a man who answered an online sex ad. The Kansas City Star reports that 24-year-old Ladarrious White pleaded guilty Tuesday in Wyandotte County to intentional second-degree murder. Prosecutors say White shot 31-year-old Jose Solis-Robles last October after the victim responded to an ad placed by White’s female companion, 25-year-old Kimberly Winn of Kansas City, Kansas. Winn pleaded no contest Tuesday and was found guilty of aggravated battery and promoting the sale of sexual relations. Charges of attempted aggravated robbery and a conspiracy count against White…
In this edition of In Focus, Cathy Dawes chats with Executive Director of Pawnee Mental Health, Robbin Cole; along with Lieutenant Colonel Robert Parish, Clinical Neuropsychologist and the Chief of the Traumatic Brain Injury clinic at Irwin Army Community Hospital.