The Manhattan High boys and girls basketball teams began the 2015-16 season on Thursday night in Hays at the Hays Shootout against Thomas More Prep in the first round. The boys were first up and after an 11-11 sluggish first quarter, the Tribe exploded the rest of the way offensively winning 69-53 over the Monarchs to start the season 1-0. SR Gabe Awbrey led the Indians with a team high 20 points on 7 of 14 shooting from the field. JR Tommy Ekart was the only other player in double figures for MHS with 14 points. The boys will play…
Author: KMAN Staff
House leaders have announced bipartisan legislation to tighten rules for a program that allows citizens from 38 countries to travel to the U.S. without a visa.
Police say the attackers who killed 14 people at a banquet in Southern California had more than 1,600 bullets with them when they were gunned down in their SUV.
While it’s pretty smooth sailing for most departments in Riley County as the end of the calendar year reaches its close, that’s not exactly the case for the appraiser’s office. County appraiser Greg McHenry told county commissioners Thursday morning that property values are going through final reviews for 2016 values. McHenry said there are approximately 24,000 properties in Riley County his office sees. “This is a busy time of the year for new construction data collection,” McHenry said. “As you record Jan. 1 is the all-important date for valuations every year, so that means if there are properties under construction,…
Courtesy of USA Today WASHINGTON — All U.S. military combat jobs, including infantry units, will be open to women beginning next year, Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced Thursday. Carter said the decision was part of his commitment to build a force of the future. The ban will be lifted in 30 days, he said, and the services have until April 1 to accommodate women in all roles. “In the 21st Century, that requires drawing strength from the broadest pool” possible, he said, adding that the Pentagon can’t successfully defend the nation by eliminating half of the U.S. population from combat…
MEDICINE LODGE-Two people have been injured in a single-engine plane crash in Barber County. Barber County Sheriff Justin Rugg says the plane went down east of Medicine Lodge on Wednesday around 4:55 p.m. The Kansas Highway Patrol says the crash occurred as the pilot was trying to land the plane. The pilot attempted to pull back when part of the plane caught a fence. It flipped and came to a rest on its top. KWCH-TV reports (http://bit.ly/1RoRxSo ) that the pilot and passenger on the plane were transported to a hospital. The pilot, 71-year-old Gary Wright of Medicine Lodge, could…
OLATHE- A pedestrian has died in a suburban Kansas City crash that shut down southbound lanes of Interstate 35 for nearly four hours. The Kansas City Star (http://bit.ly/1Q2xsBS ) reports that a vehicle struck the pedestrian shortly after 3 a.m. Thursday along the interstate in Olathe. The Kansas Department of Transportation said all lanes of the highway were reopened by 7 a.m.
KMAN’s Cathy Dawes spoke with Governor’s Military Council Executive Director John Armbrust of Manhattan: Also on In Focus was Pottawatomie County Public Works Director Peter Clark:
As KMAN reported earlier Thursday, Officers with the Riley County Police Department arrested Jonathan A. Turner, 25, of Portsmouth VA on a Riley County District Court Warrant for one count of Rape and six counts of Aggravated Criminal Sodomy with a child. Turner’s bond was set at $250,000 by the district court. Turner is currently confined at the Riley County Detention Center. Riley County Attorney Barry Wilkerson told KMAN late in the day the alleged victim was under 14 years of age and the crimes reportedly occurred in 2013 in Riley County. Turner was picked up in Virginia by law enforcement…
San Bernadino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan says the two suspects in the Wednesday morning shooting are named Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik. Both died in a shootout with police.