Today’s guests on In Focus were: Pawnee Mental Health Executive Director Robbin Cole Maribeth Kieffer Executive Director with Flint Hills Breadbasket Open Phones
Author: KMAN Staff
LAWRENCE — Racial tensions are growing at the University of Kansas with a call for three top Student Senate leaders to resign and a recent graduate initiating a hunger strike. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that the Senate’s Student Executive Committee is demanding that Student Body President Jessie Pringle, Student Body Vice President Zach George and Chief of Staff Adam Moon step down by Wednesday. The committee took up the issue Friday, voting 6-3 that it had no confidence in the three leaders. One member abstained from the vote. The three embattled leaders released a statement Saturday, saying they plan to continue serving…
LAWRENCE — Two Kansas lawmakers who voted against school funding changes have been removed from a Kansas House committee that oversees education. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that Reps. Diana Dierks, of Salina, and John Ewy, of Jetmore, were notified this week that they had been taken off the committee. Their replacements voted in favor of the bill that replaced the state’s per-pupil formula for distributing aid to districts with stable “block grants” based on what districts received previously. The plan is to use the block grants for two years while the system for funding public schools is revamped. Dierks says that when…
SALINA, Kan. (AP) Authorities in east-central Kansas say they suspect someone set a series of weekend grass fires. Saline Rural Fire District No. 1 Fire Chief Rod Ade told The Salina Journal the six fires that spread out over 80 acres in Saline and Dickinson counties on Sunday appear to have been set. No injuries were reported, and the damage was limited to grass and hay bales. Saline County Sheriff’s Lt. Stan Fruits says authorities were notified of the the fires by hunters arriving at fields for the second day of pheasant and quail season.
In the wake of last week’s attacks in France, KMAN consulted with a K-State’s Carla Martinez Machain, Assistant Professor of Political Science, to gather what the attacks carried out by the Islamic State mean for France, the United States, and the fight against ISIS.
DENVER (AP)– Peyton Manning is hurt — and he’s sorry he hurt his team. “I thought I felt good enough to play,” Manning said Sunday after the worst performance of his career in Denver’s 29-13 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs. Manning knew the Broncos (7-2) were already missing stars DeMarcus Ware and Aqib Talib and that Emmanuel Sanders was hurting. So he gutted it out, telling his coach and athletic trainer he felt fine even though he’s been dealing with a sore right foot, throbbing ribs and aching right shoulder. “By going out there and trying to help the…
By Tom Gilbert, K-State Ahtletics Communications Kansas State head coach Bruce Weber announced the signing of high school standout James Love III (Fort Lauderdale, Fla./American Heritage) to a National Letter of Intent on Sunday. A 6-foot-10, 220-pound power forward from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., James becomes the Wildcats’ second signee in men’s basketball this signing period, following the announcement of Rivals150 player Xavier Sneed (Florissant, Mo./Hazelwood Central) on Nov. 11. The two-man signing class adds significant height to the K-State roster as Love’s 6-foot, 10-inch frame will give the Wildcats five players at least 6-foot-9 or taller for the 2016-17 season.…
President Barack Obama and other G20 leaders are discussing how to respond to the terror strikes in Paris that Obama calls an attack on the civilized world. Leaders opened Sunday’s session by observing a moment of silence for the victims.
Arenas across the US are heightening security just days after a deadly attack in Paris left at least 129 dead and wounded hundreds.
The deadly attacks in Paris cast a somber mood at the start of the second Democratic presidential debate in Des Moines, Iowa, where candidates sparred over Midle East policy and how to deal with the threat of radical extremists.