Travis Tritt, the final act of the weekend event, was ready to play. “We are gonna have a blast tonight”, he said, before tearing through a high-energy set featuring most of his hits. And then it was done. The curtain closed on this 20th anniversary edition of the Country Stampede. While the Sunday crowd was a little smaller than it was Friday and Saturday, Tritt came to entertain. From the opening notes of “Put Some Drive In Your Country” to the final strains of “T-R-O-U-B-L-E”, the 25 year music veteran kept the crowd on their feet and singing along to…
Author: KMAN Staff
photo by Kathy Suppes The 2015 Country Stampede has wrapped up at Tuttle Creek State Park, and it appears that the weekend was a safe one for all those who attended. Pottawatomie County Sheriff Greg Riat was pleased with the weekend. “Considering how the weather was looking when we came into this, I think overall things went pretty well”, said Riat. “We had a couple of incidents we’re looking into, we had some underage drinking that we dealt with”. Keeping the thousands of fans who attend the Stampede safe is a massive assignment, and Sheriff Riat acknowledged the many…
The second of two convicted murderers who staged a brazen escape three weeks ago from a maximum-security prison in northern New York was shot and captured near the Canadian border on Sunday.
People lined up at bank machines in Athens on Sunday in a rush to withdraw cash after the Greek parliament voted in favor of a snap referendum.
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP)– Jeremy Guthrie and Salvador Perez delivered a milestone win for the Kansas City Royals. Guthrie struck out a season-high seven batters to top 1,000 for his career and Perez homered for his 500th career hit to help Kansas City complete a three-game sweep of the Oakland Athletics with a 5-3 victory on Sunday. “We had two big milestones today, which I think are big,” manager Ned Yost said. “So they got that behind them and now they just keep moving forward.” Omar Infante hit a tiebreaking single in a three-run sixth inning for the Royals, who have…
On Sunday afternoon Topeka’s Oakland Church of the Nazarene was on lockdown after someone had threatened to bring a gun to the church. Police arrived to the church at 939 Northeast Oakland at 1 p.m. after hearing reports of a possible threat to the facility, but the lockdown ended shortly after 2:15 p.m. after officers concluded there was no threat. During the lockdown, occupants of the church were relocated to the basement. No suspects were taken into custody, but the investigation is ongoing
The army of officers searching for a surviving escaped killer continued their work under steady rainfall Sunday, keeping their focus on the woods of upstate New York where his fellow fugitive was fatally shot two days earlier.
An unmanned SpaceX rocket carrying supplies and the first-of-its-kind docking port to the International Space Station broke apart Sunday shortly after liftoff.
You’ve heard the old saying about how does one get to Carnegie Hall. But how does a young girl from North Dakota end up on stage with one of country music’s biggest stars? Well…it certainly helps to have “The Voice”. Gwen Sebastian can trace her love of music to her early childhood. “I thought I wanted to do that (singing) when I was about five”, said Sebastian. “That’s how I grew up…singing with my parents”. After spending some time on her back-up plan (nursing school), the talented singer/songwriter moved to Nashville and began to enjoy a successful career; four albums…
US Senator Jerry Moran was at the Country Stampede on Saturday night, and not just for the music entertainment. He was on hand to honor veterans of the Vietnam War, with 2015 being the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the conflict. “We’re going to do something tonight that wasn’t done when many of these veterans returned home”, said the Senator, referring to the general resentment felt by so many who served in the region during the late sixties and early seventies. Once on stage, Senator Moran was joined by two individuals who he said are spearheading the effort…