Manhattan Broadcasting Company has your fall sports fix covered Friday. K-State football opens its season on the road at Stanford tonight at 8 p.m. Powercat Gameday will kickoff coverage this afternoon at 4 p.m. live from the The Old Pro in Palo Alto, Calif., on News Radio KMAN (1350 AM/93.3, 93.7 FM) and on 101.5 K-Rock. The Powercat Gameday crew will take listeners right into the 8 p.m. kickoff with Wyatt Thompson and Stan Weber. The K-State volleyball team is also in action today. The Volleycats are home in Bramlage Coliseum this afternoon against Michigan with first serve at 4:45 p.m.…
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A 24-year-old man was arrested Thursday. Miles Corbin of Manhattan was arrested on a warrant for the offense of failure to appear that originated in Atchison County. At the time of this report Corbin was confined at the Riley County Jail on “no bond.”
Ginny Barnard, Riley County Extension Health, Nutrition, and Food Safety Agent: Marcia Hornung, Katie Meek, Mike Finnegan with Snyder Leadership Legacy Fellows, a program of the Staley School of Leadership Studies: Jurgen Richt, director of Center of Excellence for Emerging and Zoonotic Animal Diseases at K-State:
One of Manhattan’s largest businesses is changing hands at the end of the month. GTM Sportswear, which specializes in team warm-ups and uniforms and does business nationwide, came to a purchase agreement with apparel giant HanesBrands, Inc. on Wednesday night. GTM opened its doors in 1989 and employs more than 650 people at its headquarters on McCall Road. Founder and CEO Dave Dreiling told KMAN the decision to sell his company was inspired, in large part, by the belief that this deal will take GTM to new heights. “Knowing how strong (Hanes is) in this market, and knowing the strategic…
Property owners typically want high values if they plan to sell, according to county officials. But that’s not the case when it comes to tax time. Those two very different wants have made life difficult for county appraisers across the state, and the Kansas County Appraisers Association wants to address those competing views from property owners when the legislature reconvenes in January. Thursday morning, Riley County commissioners signed a letter of support for the KCAA’s 2017 legislative proposals. County appraisers have been critical of Topeka lawmakers in recent years, especially when the state revamped its valuation appeals process in 2014.…
TOPEKA — Kansas is reporting that its tax collections in August fell $10 million short of expectations. It was the fourth consecutive month that the state has failed to hit its revenue projections. Tax collections also have been lower than anticipated 10 of the past 12 months. The state Department of Revenue reported Thursday that the state collected about $427 million in taxes last month, when a fiscal forecast made in April predicted that the state would take in more than $437 million. The shortfall is 2.3 percent. Since the state’s fiscal year began on July 1, it has collected $23 million…
U.S. Senator Jerry Moran’s staff notified Manhattan Area Technical College (MATC) that the institution has been selected to receive funding under the Strengthening Institutions Program (i.e., Title III), through the U.S. Department of Education. The grant can run for up to five years, and the funding for the first year (October 1, 2016-September 30, 2017) is $449,986.00. Strengthening Institutions Programs is designed to help eligible institutions of higher education become self-sufficient and expand capacity to serve at risk students, often through improving the academic quality, institutional management, and fiscal stability of the institution. For MATC the grant project will provide…
ELLIS — A 3.2 magnitude earthquake has shaken part of northern Kansas. The Kansas Geological Survey says the quake struck Wednesday about 15 miles northwest of Hays. No damage has been reported. Scientists say damage is not likely in earthquakes below magnitude 4.0. It was centered about 150 miles away from the quake-prone Kansas counties of Harper and Sumner.
A local transportation official received some state recognition recently. Flint Hills Area Transportation Agency Director Anne Smith was presented the Willie M Murry Award at the annual Kansas Public Transit Association (KPTA) meeting. The award is presented to an individual who has distinguished himself or herself in serving public transit in Kansas. It is named after Rev. Willie M Murry who was a dedicated pioneer for transit in the State of Kansas. Smith has thirteen years of experience writing Federal, State, and Local transportation grants and budget requests, including a $2 million American Recovery Reinvestment Act (ARRA) grant for the…
Today’s guests on In Focus were: Marty Vanier, Director of Partnership Development with Homeland Security and NBAF Tom Tavtigan with Wounded Warrior United Cindy Bontrager, K-State Vice President for Administration and Finance and Ronnie Grice, Assistant Vice President for Public Safety and University Police