MANHATTAN, Kansas (Randy Peterson) – Kansas State women’s basketball will enter its 2016-17 season with high expectations, as the Big 12 Preseason Coaches Poll has ranked the team with a fifth place finish in an announcement by the league office on Wednesday. This is the highest preseason ranking for the program since the 2004-05 season when the Wildcats were slotted in third. Entering the 2016-17 season, K-State head coach Jeff Mittie returns nine letter winners from the 2015-16 squad that recorded a 19-13 overall record and reached the second round of the 2016 NCAA Tournament. K-State was slotted for a…
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DEXTER, Kan. (AP) Kansas floodwaters have destroyed an historic stone bridge in Cowley County. The Wichita Eagle reports that flooding over the weekend caused the 105-year-old Fox Bridge over Grouse Creek to collapse. The county says on its Facebook page that the bridge was weakened by the creek’s cresting over it and heavy currents slamming against it. The area is known for its stone bridges, which were built by Russian and German artisans from around 1890 to 1917. The bridges range from one to three arches. Steve Tredway, who is working on a book about the stone bridges of Cowley…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Kansas farmers are harvesting what are expected to be record corn and soybean crops. The National Agricultural Statistics Service reported Wednesday that the 713 million bushels of corn forecast in Kansas is a 23 percent increase compared to last year’s production. Kansas is harvesting corn from 4.85 million acres this season, up 24 percent from last year’s acreage. Average corn yields are down a bushel to 147 bushels per acre. The agency is also projecting a record soybean production of 180 million bushels in Kansas. That is up 21 percent more than last year. Sorghum production is…
EMPORIA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas Court of Appeals has ordered that an Emporia man be tried in the shooting of his brother, reversing a lower court’s decision ruling that he was protected from prosecution by the state’s self-defense law. The court’s ruling last week reverses a Lyon County District Court decision in May 2015 dismissing an attempted voluntary manslaughter charge against Sony Uk. Prosecutors say Uk shot his brother, Viseth Ear, because Ear was attacking their mother. The appeals court ruled that no evidence existed that Uk knew his mother was facing imminent death or great bodily harm, which is…
(Oct. 12, 2016) Hospital employees, Fort Riley soldiers, military families and state government leaders took their seats for the ribbon cutting ceremony of Irwin Army Community Hospital on Wednesday afternoon. After years of legal controversy surrounding the the hospital, the new state-of-the-art facility was opened, ready to take in patients on Monday, Oct. 17. Commander of Irwin Army Community Hospital, Colonel John Melton said the facility will staff about 1,100 personnel. These personnel will operate in the several departments taking up five levels of the hospital. Some units are unique to military operations, such as a traumatic brain injury department located…
Updated Thursday morning: As K-MAN first reported at about two Wednesday afternoon, Riley County Police, Hazmat, and other emergency crews responded to an accident involving a propane truck in the 8200 block of Tuttle Creek Boulevard. Thursday morning there’s a traffic advisory with U.S. 77/Tuttle Creek Boulevard from Madison Road or 4-Mile Turnoff to Barton Road NOW OPEN to traffic. However there will be a SHORT-TERM FULL ROAD CLOSURE for propane truck removal work Thursday between 9:30 a.m. and 12 p.m., weather permitting. Traffic will detour via Green Randolph Road during the short-term full road closure. The Kansas…
A KDOC inmate serving time on drug-related charges from Riley County has apparently been passed over for parole. Shawn McDiffett, 47, was set for a parole hearing last month but his KDOC status now indicates his earliest possible release date is September of 2018. In addition to drug-related manufacturing, possession and distribution charges in Riley County from 1989, McDiffett was also convicted in 1991 for indecent liberties with a child in Lyon County, an ’89 conviction in Sedgwick County for driving with a cancelled, suspended or revoked license. and traffic in contraband in a penal institution in 1992 in Butler…
A 22-year-old man was arrested by Riley County Police Tuesday for making a false writing. Chanceton Brown of Webb City, Missouri and was taken into custody with a bond of $5,000. ### Narianna Williams, 18, of Manhattan, was taken into custody Tuesday and charged with making false writing and possession of stolen property. Her bond was listed at $5,000. ### Riley County Police made two arrests for failure to appear, including a 56-year-old Manhattan man. John Thompson’s bond was set at $10,000. Kelsey Maurice Wilson Jr., 22, of Manhattan was taken into custody Tuesday for failure to appear. Their bond was…
Manhattan City Commissioners had both a special meeting and work session Tuesday, with the former K-MART location on the east side of Manhattan on the special meeting agenda. As earlier announced that area is going to be built into a new with Academy Sports as its biggest store tenant. Eric Cattell, the Assistant Director for Planning with the City of Manhattan told commissioners there are three other retail spots. The proposal is to replace everything out there as new including the building, parking, and landscaping. This new development will be known as Plaza De Maria. There will be a new…
A former K-State student who made national headlines last month for a Snapchat photo that went viral has been arrested in Geary County. Saturday’s arrest report from the Geary County Sheriff’s office indicates Paige Shoemaker was taken into custody Friday evening shortly after 5:30 for theft. Shoemaker’s name was incorrectly spelled on the original report which delayed the connection. Shoemaker apologized for what’s been described as a racist picture but not before the photo went viral, drawing responses from K-State officials and the Black Student Union at K-State. Shoemaker was expelled from K-State in 2015.