Today’s guests on In Focus were: Dr. Travis O’Quinn, Assistant Professor and Meat Extension Specialist at Kansas State University–bbq workshops hosted by K-State Extension Military and Veterans’ Affairs at Kansas State University with Art DeGroat and Major Larry Leopold, President of the National Guard Association of Kansas. Manhattan Area Habitat for Humanity with Ex. Dir. Roxann Janes and Office Administrator Melody Sexton
Author: KMAN Staff
TOPEKA — Attorney General Derek Schmidt says a law signed by Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback last week satisfies the state’s constitutional duty to provide equitable funding to public schools. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports Schmidt filed a brief with the state Supreme Court on Friday urging it to withdraw its threat to close the state’s schools. The court ruled in February that the state wasn’t giving its poorest districts their fair share of funding, and the justices threatened to shut down schools statewide if the problem wasn’t fixed by June 30. The new law makes technical changes in how state dollars are distributed.…
A Junction City man and woman connected to Topeka and Riley County burglaries were arrested Sunday. The Junction City Police Department received information Sunday that two subjects wanted in reference to an aggravated assault that had taken place in Topeka on Friday may be located in an apartment on Dreiling Road in Junction City. It was also learned that one of the subjects was wanted for questioning in reference to several burglaries that had taken place in Riley County. On Sunday at approximately 10 a.m., members of the Junction City Police Department began to conduct surveillance on the location and…
The campus of K-State was buzzing Saturday afternoon. The university held its annual Open House day where over 475-plus student organizations and 250-plus majors made themselves available to the public and presumptive students. Click any photo to open gallery There was a bouncy house, a purple-clad cow, entertainment, lots of popcorn, technology displays, more popcorn and all the information one could want about KSU. Bailey Brown, a freshman at K-State, remembered being on campus as a prospective student and being led on tours of the university’s various halls and key places. Saturday, she was the tour guide. “Yes, yes I…
An Ogden man was arrested early Friday morning for an outstanding warrant and drug charges. Dereck J. Williams, 22, of Ogden, was arrested in the 1000 block of Meadowbrook Lane in Manhattan on Friday morning at approximately 1:31 a.m. during a traffic stop. Williams was taken into custody on an outstanding arrest warrant issued by the Geary County District Court for the offense of criminal threat. The incident of criminal threat reportedly occurred on Feb. 10 in Geary County. Williams’ bond for the warrant was set at $5,000. In addition to the warrant, Williams was also placed under arrest for possession…
MCPHERSON — One man is dead after being shot during a physical altercation with two Kansas sheriff’s deputies who were trying to serve an arrest warrant. Kansas Bureau of Investigation spokesman Mark Malik says the man, whose name was not released, physically resisted being arrested at 3 p.m. Thursday before being shot with a Taser without success. Malik says the man repeatedly struck one of the deputies, attacked a second deputy who ordered him to stop, and then resumed striking the first deputy. The second deputy shot the man, who was pronounced dead at McPherson Memorial Hospital. Malik says the incident was…
TOPEKA — Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has a new proposal designed to end his state’s ongoing battle with Missouri to lure businesses across the border in the Kansas City area. But the proposal Brownback outlined Friday would require Missouri to weaken a 2014 law that it enacted in hopes of ending the border war. And Missouri lawmakers are scheduled to end their annual session in mid-May. Brownback’s plan was outlined in a directive to his commerce secretary. It would stop using a Kansas tax incentive program to lure existing jobs from the Missouri side of the metro area unless a company plans…
Friday’s guests were: State Rep. Sydney Carlin of Manhattan Riley County Extension Family and Consumer Sciences Agent Ginny Barnard Debbie Nuss of the Riley County Senior Service Center Executive Director of the Flint Hills Volunteer Center Lori Bishop
KANSAS CITY — A Kansas City, Missouri, law firm says Kansas’ U.S. attorney will join its national team specializing in government investigations and compliance. Polsinelli announced its addition of Barry Grissom on Friday, Grissom’s last day as Kansas’ top federal prosecutor. Grissom announced his resignation from the federal post Monday. Sixty-two-year-old Grissom says in a statement that he’s “particularly excited by Polsinelli’s national footprint, which will enable me to deploy my skillset nationwide.” First Assistant U.S. Attorney Tom Beall will serve as acting U.S. attorney for Kansas. Grissom was nominated by President Barack Obama in 2010 and made civil rights enforcement and…
A local representative has announced she will be running for an eighth consecutive term in the Kansas House of Representatives. Sydney Carlin, Democrat, of Manhattan, made the announcement on KMAN’s “In Focus” on Friday morning. Carlin made remarks about the drawn out nature of the current Presidential campaign, but she will soon be gearing up for a campaign of her own at the conclusion of the current legislative session. Carlin says she has spent much of the legislative break listening to the concerns impacting constituents within the 66th district she represents. Education, taxation, and partisan politics are all problems Carlin says have Kansans dismayed at…