The Rock Creek boys basketball team capped off another great season on Saturday afternoon with an 85-74 win over top seeded Girard in the third place game at the 4A-II State Tournament in Emporia. The Mustangs finish the year at 22-3 while Girard caps their year at 23-2. The ball game saw 51 total fouls and 69 free throw attempts. Rock Creek was plus-23 in free throws made as they were 34 of 47 from the charity stripe in the ball game. Rock Creek shot 54.5% from the floor and hit three of eight from three point range. Three in…
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The 38th Annual Aggieville St. Patrick’s Day Parade made its way through Moro Street Saturday afternoon. This year’s parade titled, “The Emerald March on Moro,” followed the annual 10K and 2 mile runs. Click any photo to open the entire gallery in a larger format Staff photos by Brady Bauman
A Manhattan man was sentenced to 59 months in the Department of Corrections for aggravated robbery charges Friday afternoon in the Riley County District Courthouse. Jonathon Elliot, 20, made a motion of departure through his defense attorney, Brenda Jordan, and hoped for probation, but Judge David Stutzman sided with the state. Elliot was one of the men responsible for a string of September 2015 robberies which sent the K-State campus into lockdown during that time. Elliot admitted he provided transportation and involvement with the stolen goods. One of Elliot’s co-conspirators, 17-year-old Janir Vega was sentenced to 59 months in prison in February after reaching…
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) received confirmation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of the first person in the state to test positive for Zika virus, according to a press release sent from Topeka to KMAN. The individual is an adult from southwest Kansas and has travel history to a country with local Zika virus transmission. The person subsequently developed an illness consistent with Zika virus infection and was tested per guidance from CDC and KDHE. “Kansas is prepared for the Zika virus, and we are working with health care providers across the state…
TOPEKA — Kansas would stop observing daylight savings time after this year under a bill being pushed by a prominent Republican legislator. The Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee heard testimony Thursday from Republican Sen. Ty Masterson of Andover in favor of his bill. Masterson said there’s little evidence that moving clocks forward an hour each spring saves energy or increases productivity, and it interrupts people’s sleep cycles and could cause health problems. Lawmakers in other states also are considering proposals to move away from the twice-a-year ritual of changing clocks. Daylight savings time begins this weekend. Masterson is chairman of the…
Today’s guests on In Focus were Senator Pat Roberts, Representative Sydney Carlin, and Pottawatomie County Sheriff Greg Riat and Undersheriff Shane Jager.
Riley County Police arrested Delilah Britt, 73, of Manhattan on a warrant while in the 2500 block of Farm Bureau Road on March 10, 2016 at approximately 4:15 PM. Britt was arrested on the offenses of distribution of opiates, opium, narcotics, or stimulants/heroin, endangering a child, and distribution with intent to distribute a controlled substance (X2). She was given a total bond of $25,000.00 and at the time of this report was confined at the Riley County Jail. This warrant stems from investigation in July, August, and December of 2015. Dustin Molden, 43, of St. George, Kansas was arrested…
A new sign welcoming all to Manhattan was finished on Thursday afternoon on one of the old bridge piers at the Highway 177 entrance to town. The powder coated letters were attached to the pier in the warm weather on Thursday, with donated work from three different sign companies in Manhattan and a fundraising effort lead by Phil Anderson and Jim Williams. “It is a thrill to finally get those letters up on that bridge pier,” Anderson said on Friday morning. “It’s like building a house: it starts with a budget but ends up becoming a wishlist.” He says getting the city…
A memorial service for Joye Gordon will be from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, March 26, at the K-State Alumni Center. Gordon, who died March 7, was a professor of public relations in the A.Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications. Memorial donations may be sent to The Irvin Parkview Funeral Home, 1317 Poyntz Ave, Manhattan. Gordon was one of the nation’s leading scholars in risk communication, the study of messages designed to warn the public about potential risks related to health and personal safety. Gordon taught a graduate seminar in risk communication, and she taught undergraduate classes, including…
Former U.S. Sen. Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker will be the speaker for the annual Kansas State University Women’s Studies Advisory Board Lecture Series. The event, which includes a dinner, will be Thursday, March 31, at the Manhattan Country Club, 1531 N. 10th St. A social hour will be at 5:30 p.m. followed by the dinner and Kassebaum Baker’s talk, “The Challenge of Change,” at 6:30 p.m. The dinner is open to the public. Tickets cost $50; student tickets are $40. To RSVP and purchase a ticket, call Kim Garver at 785-532-5738 by Wednesday, March 23. In 1978, Kassebaum Baker, then…