Passengers aboard a Dynamic Airways jet that caught fire on the tarmac in Fort Lauderdale, Florida described a chaotic scene as people rushed to exit the plane.
Author: KMAN Staff
Jeb Bush emerged from the third Republican debate as a candidate in crisis, with supporters struggling to understand why he keeps under-performing. He campaigned in New Hampshire on Thursday, saying there’s ample time to come back.
KMAN has learned from Fort Riley that a soldier died from a gunshot wound in his residence on post at 5:50 p.m. Wednesday. The name of the soldier is being withheld at this time pending notification of next of kin, according to a press release from Fort Riley. No other individuals were injured and the incident is currently under investigation.
Riley County commissioners opened bids for the long-discussed McDowell Creek Road improvement project Monday morning. The road is located south of Manhattan off Kansas Highway 177 and county public works director Leon Hobson has said previously that improvements will include wider shoulders, better drainage and other safety additions. Work will focus on the first three miles of the road south of K-177. The most expensive bid came from Leavenworth Excavating & Equipment Company of Leavenworth for $7.3 million, while both Ebert Construction of Wamego and Amino Brothers of Kansas City, Kan., both bid $6.7 million for the project. The county’s…
Today’s guests were: Dr. Jeffrey Smith, Associate Professor of Cultural Geography at K-State, who speaks on China’s change to their one child only policy K-State Black Student Union President Muenfa Lewis Dan Kuester, the Roger Trenary Chair and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Economics, and Economics Club member Brady Ryan discuss the latest Student Pricing Index report
LAWRENCE — The National Science Foundation has awarded a $4.2 million grant to research how climate change affects river systems in the U.S. and Mongolia. Half of the money from the five-year grant will support work at the University of Kansas, where ecology and evolutionary biology professor James Thorp is the grant’s lead investigator. He says that North American river systems, with their dams and presence of non-native fauna, could foreshadow the future of rivers in Mongolia. And he says what is observed in Mongolia could indicate changes U.S. rivers will undergo in the future. Also participating are researchers from Ball State…
HUTCHINSON — A man attending a national falcon gathering in Kansas is searching for his white falcon that escaped. The Hutchinson News reports Michael Garcia arrived in Hutchinson early from Illinois for the North American Falconers Association national field meet, scheduled for Nov. 8-13. He was training his bird when it escaped from a leash Tuesday. Police and Garcia are asking for the public’s help in finding the white falcon. Garcia says the bird has escaped twice in the five years Garcia has been raising it. The falcon has a 5-foot wingspan and is nearly all white with black speckles on the…
A Manhattan mas was arrested Wednesday for a probation violation. Joshua Dixon, 26, was arrested while at the Riley County Police Department at approximately 11:15 a.m. Dixon was arrested on a warrant for probation violation from Pottawatomie County and was given “no bond.” At the time of this report Dixon was no longer confined at the Riley County Jail. The RCPD filed two reports Wednesday for theft that listed Target in Manhattan as the victim. One report listed a loss of approximately $4,647 when two white females entered the retail store and left with merchandise they did not purchase. These…
By Chris Kutz, K-State Athletics Communications MORGANTOWN, W. Va. – With double-digit kills by Macy Flowers, Brooke Sassin and Katie Reininger, K-State captured its fourth win over its last five matches by sweeping West Virginia (25-17, 25-20, 25-22) on Wednesday at WVU Coliseum. A career-tying 11 kills by Flowers, on a .476 hitting percentage, paced the offense of the Wildcats (13-8, 5-4 Big 12) that hit .306 as a team – its seventh .300+ attack effort this season. Fellow middle blocker Katie Reininger was errorless on her 16 swings, registering 10 kills with a .625 hitting percentage. Sassin matched Flowers…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP)– Johnny Cueto smothered the New York Mets with another big October outing. And the pesky Kansas City Royals kept fouling off Jacob deGrom’s best pitches, wearing him down with persistence and prowess. Cueto never faltered. And as deGrom wore down, the Royals pounced. Eric Hosmer hit a tiebreaking, two-run single with two outs in a four-run fifth inning that included 14 foul balls, and the Royals rallied to beat the Mets 7-1 Wednesday night and take a 2-0 World Series lead. Nineteen hours after Hosmer’s sacrifice fly won a 14-inning thriller, Cueto pitched a two-hitter, varying…