TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Both Democrats and Republicans are wondering whether their presidential caucuses in Kansas will be rocky soils for their front-runners. GOP leader Donald Trump was making an appearance Saturday in Wichita just before voting started there. Challenger and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz also was visiting and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio had three campaign events Friday. In Kansas, the billionaire businessman seemed more the insurgent. Most of the state GOP’s top elected officials and rank-and-file activists also were split between Cruz and Rubio. Clinton had a different challenge. The former U.S. secretary of state is the choice of former…
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Friday’s guests on In Focus were: State Representative Ron Highland of rural Wamego Riley County Extension Agriculture Agent Greg McClure Kristen Mulready Stone, Associate Professor of History at K-State Jim Foster, Manhattan Area Amateur Radio Society, and Laurie Harrison, Riley County Emergency Management Director, on storm spotter training.
Unemployment numbers for the Manhattan area are up just a bit–although still relatively low when compared to the rest of the state. The Manhattan metropolitan area including Riley and Pottawatomie counties had a 3.5 percent rate in January, up from 2.8 in December. The Manhattan/Junction City combined area had 4.1 compared to 3.2 in December. Manhattan by itself and with Riley County showed a 2.9 percent number and Junction City had a 6.3 percent rate. Area county numbers were 3.3 percent for Riley County, Pottawatomie county with an even four percent, 6.4 in Geary County, and 4.9 in Clay County.…
A 39-year-old Riley man has been bound over (Friday) for second degree murder, with an alternative count of involuntary manslaughter while DUI in connection with the death of his six year old daughter last October. A variety of witnesses took the stand during Joshua Mall’s preliminary hearing which took up most of the morning, including witnesses at the scene, law enforcement, and medical personnel. Testimony included confimation of a blood alochol count of 0.13 and accounts of the smell of alcohol at the scene and on Mall’s person following the accident–as well as descriptions of Mall’s truck as fast-moving, aggressive, and cutting people off…
The Kansas Legislature’s property tax lid has local governments wondering how to adjust for a potential funding squeeze. The Riley County Law Enforcement Agency Law Board met Thursday to discuss how the lid would impact the Riley County Police Department. President of the local Fraternal Order of Police, Detective, Brian Johnson, says his main concern is that the Tax Lid, passed by the State Legislature last year, would negatively affect pay for RCPD officers.President of the Fraternal Order of Police, Detective, Brian Johnson, says RCPD has done a good job of recruiting quality officers, but he’s concerned the State’s property…
The improper design of an entry way at Tuttle Creek Fire Station, has Riley county officials looking for answers. Riley County Emergency Management Director and Fire Chief, Pat Collins talked with county commissioners about the issue Thursday. The south wall of a training room, where the front entry way is located, wasn’t designed properly to show as a finished wall. County commissioners denied a change order in the matter, questioning why B&G consultants is requesting additional funds to fix the problem, when it was the result of poor design. Another discussion point of a Thursday meeting, Riley County Emergency Management…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Boeing is suing the federal government over pollution at the company’s old aircraft plant in Wichita. A lawsuit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Kansas seeks to recover unspecified past and future costs for cleaning up soil and groundwater contamination at the facility. The Justice Department had no immediate comment on the litigation. Boeing contends it is entitled to recover costs for pollution associated with a period when the government owned the site, as well as a time between 1940 and 1979 when the government was actively involved in manufacturing activities. Its lawsuit argues the government…
The 2016 Kansas Presidential Caucuses will be held around the state of Kansas, on March 5th. The Democratic Party will hold caucuses in over 40 locations while the Republican Party will hold caucuses in each Kansas county. Those planning to exercise their right to vote can do so at the following locations: Democratic Caucus Information: Per Pottawatomie County Democratic Party Pottawatomie county is divided into three State Senatorial Districts. Participants must attend the caucus location associated with their senatorial district. District 1 has the most counties and an area that includes all or parts of Marshal, Nemaha, Brown, Dophinian, Atchison and Jackson…
Once again, Kansas State University’s Black Student Union, or BSU, is the best in the Big 12 Conference. For the eighth time in 11 years, the university’s Black Student Union was awarded the Clarence Wine Award for Outstanding Big 12 Council of the Year at the 39th annual Big 12 Conference on Black Student Government, Feb. 25-27, at the University of Kansas. “Our BSU has consistently been one of the top BSUs in the country,” said Brandon Clark, who was named the Most Outstanding Black Student Union Adviser in the Big 12 at the conference. “Eight awards in 11 years…
Marcia Locke, Communications and Outreach Coordinator with Johnson Cancer Research Center at Kansas State University: Flint Hills Area Builders’ Association Executive Officer Brad Hartenstein and President Sean Ruth: