The City of Manhattan hosted a stakeholder meeting to discuss K-State’s North Campus Corridor Master plan, Wednesday. the master plan will lay-out what types of space and infrastructure requirements will be needed to accommodate future growth along North Manhattan Avenue, Claflin Road and Kimball Avenue. The planning process began late last fall when K-State hired Perkins and Will as its lead design firm. According to Hilgers, the master plan will be complete in early summer, but major infrastructure improvements are not likely until NBAF is completed in 5-7 years.
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The 20 year old Frank Bergman Elementary roof will finally be replaced after Manhattan Ogden USD 383 school board members approved unanimously to accept a bid of $347,488 for the project, during their Wednesday night meeting. This item has been discussed during previous meetings, but the large chunk of change necessary for the project caused it to be delayed. School board members shared comments after the bid was approved. They mentioned they know this is a large amount of money to allocate to a project, especially during budget shortfalls. However, these dollars have to be specifically used for building improvement…
By Chris Kutz, K-State Athletics Communications Due to rain in the Manhattan area, tonight’s baseball game between K-State and Omaha at Tointon Family Stadium has been postponed. A makeup date has not been announced. K-State (11-12, 0-3 Big 12) will now play its next game on Friday, March 27, opening a three-game series at No. 12 Oklahoma State in Stillwater. First pitch for the series opener is set for 7 p.m.
Levi Pettit, the Oklahoma University Student that was expelled amid public outcry apologized for his role in a racist chant that he led aboard a fraternity bus, which later leaked online.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, French President Francois Hollande, centre, and Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy pay respect to victims in front of the mountain where a Germanwings jetliner crashed Tuesday, in Le Vernet, France, French Alps, Wednesday,March 25, 2015. French investigators cracked open the badly damaged cockpit voice recorder black box of the German jetliner on Wednesday and sealed off the rugged Alpine crash site where 150 people died when their plane on a flight from Barcelona, Spain, to Duesseldorf slammed into a mountain.
While accounts vary on how many shots were fired, an affidavit for warrant application released by Riley County District Court Wednesday morning in a voluntary manslaughter case indicates the victim was shot in the center of the forehead. Casey Lindley, 27, of Ogden later died from the early March 10th shooting near Ogden, with Tierre Wall, 26, of Fort Riley arrested in Georgia a couple days later. The affidavit provides a detailed account of law enforcement and emergency personnell responding to Skyway Drive and K-114 Highway, to find Lindley being tended to by an unidentified woman, with an open wound in the center of…
On today’s In Focus, Cathy spoke with Riley County USD 378 Superintendent, Brad Starnes and Blue Valley/Randolph USD 384 Superintendent, Brady Burton, as well as Dean Tim DeNoble with K-State’s College of Architecture,Planning and Design. Starnes and Burton-segment 1 Starnes and Burton-segment 2 Tim DeNoble-segment 1 Tim DeNoble-segment 2
A jury trial that was supposed to be held early next month will no longer take place, as a plea agreement regarding the case was presented in Riley County District Court Wednesday morning. Kaywaun Washington faces charges stemming from an October of 2014 incident, where he reportedly held two women at gunpoint. He appeared in court alongside his attorney, Britian Stites. Stites informed Chief Judge, Meryl Wilson a plea agreement had been reached. Washington pled no contest to two counts of kidnapping, as the other charges were dismissed during the motion’s hearing. Wilson found Washington guilty on both charges, and set sentencing…
Authorities in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin say a state trooper was shot and killed in an exchange of gunfire with a person who matched the description of a bank robbery suspect. Police said the suspect also was killed.
While distracted driving is not a new problem for teens, new research from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety says it’s much more serious than previously thought.