This undated photo released by the FBI on April 19, 2013 shows Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. On Friday, May 15, 2015, Tsarnaev was sentenced to death by lethal injection for the 2013 Boston Marathon terror attack.
Author: KMAN Staff
A New Jersey Transit train, back, rolls by as workers labor at the site where a deadly train derailment occurred earlier in the week, Friday, May 15, 2015, in Philadelphia. Amtrak is working to restore Northeast Corridor rail service between New York City and Philadelphia. Service was suspended after a train derailed in Philadelphia on Tuesday night, killing eight passengers and injuring more than 200.
Graduate students and their families gathered in Bramlage Coliseum Friday afternoon for their commencement ceremony. This commencement was one of several ceremonies at K-State Manhattan and K-State Salina campuses. During this Graduate School Commencement, former U.S. Senator and Kansas native Nancy Kassebaum Baker received an honorary doctorate degree before her commencement address to the graduating class of 2015. Kassebaum received her education at Topeka High School, graduated from the University of Kansas in 1954 and received her Master of Arts in diplomatic history from the University of Michigan. Kassebaum was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1978, and has had ties…
In an interview given on Friday state representative Sydney Carlin told KMAN that the legislature was unable to come up with a tax solution to fund shortfalls, and now has only one day left in the regular session. Representative Carlin believes the house will go into “overtime” to correct the issue, but warns her constituents that the funds won’t be available to pay the members of the house for the extra sessions. Kansas has been lauded and ridiculed for its continued budget maneuvers, and national attention is now on the state to see if the situation is resolved in the…
Today, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey met with ROTC candidates at Kansas State University to discuss the future of the military. He also served as the featured speaker at their graduation/commissioning ceremony today and is slated to make a presentation later this evening. General Dempsey has vast experience in training and warfighting on the modern battlefield as former commander of TRADOC and U.S. Central Command. General Dempsey received his commission in 1974.
A brutal double murder led to a trial which convicted Luis Aguirre of murdering his ex-girlfriend Tonya Maldonado and their 13-month-old son Juan in August of 2012. Now the Kansas Supreme Court may be ordering a retrial in the case. In 2012 Riley County district attorney Barry Wilkerson expressed his belief that justice had been served over the conviction, and life sentence without parole received by Aguirre at the conclusion of the trial. In light of the recent activity in the case Wilkerson released this statement to the press,”I have the utmost respect for the Kansas Supreme Court and the dedicated Justices who…
One hundred and thirty eight students from Manhattan Area Technical College graduated on Friday morning at the Hilton Garden Inn.
When a Manhattan man saw an area near his neighborhood overrun by weeds and trash, he decided to take matters into his own hands. Andy Deckert has planted around three thousand irises in the area between Miller Parkway Circle and the water tower. In the two years since the project began, Deckert has invested thousands of hours in the iris planting. The project started after Deckert received a bulb from his daughter. He planted it in the area, and decided to plant a few more. The whole area became occupied and Deckert set his sights on filling the whole area along the sidewalk.…
On Thursday at approximately 10:15 a.m. officers with the Riley County Police Department arrested Darius Williams, 21, of Manhattan on a warrant for motion to revoke probation violations. The warrant originated out of Geary County. Williams was arrested in the 100 block of Court House Plaza. His bond was set at $5,000.
Sunset Zoo joins national effort to emphasize to visitors why saving animals from extinction is important. Today is the 10th Anniversary of Endangered Species Day, and to highlight the growing importance of working on saving endangered species from extinction, Sunset Zoo is “blacking out” public viewing to its cheetah exhibit. The big cats will be making a return to Manhattan’s Sunset Zoo on June 5, but for the next few weeks, community members will be asked to consider what life would be like if these animals truly vanished from our planet. “Since last fall, our cheetah exhibit has been empty due…