As a member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) has announced that the Fiscal Year 2015 Homeland Security Appropriations Bill released by the House Appropriations Committee on Jan. 9, 2015 includes $300 million for construction of the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility in Manhattan, Kan. This amount is equal to the funding passed by the Senate Appropriations Committee last year, and builds on the $404 million appropriated for the construction of NBAF in the Fiscal Year 2014 Omnibus Appropriation Bill. “As a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, I am committed to making certain NBAF remains a…
Author: KMAN Staff
The U.S. News & World Report’s latest rankings of the best online degree programs rate two of Kansas State University’s courses in the top-tier. According to the report, K-State ranks No. 20 and No. 86 for the best online graduate engineering and online graduate education programs, respectively. More than 1,200 online programs were surveyed by U.S. News & World Report, with rankings evaluated in five categories, including student engagement, faculty credentials and training, student services and technology, peer reputation, and admissions selectivity. “To have our online graduate program ranked in the Top 20 by U.S. News & World Report is a proud accomplishment…
A police official on the scene of the standoff between two armed brothers suspected in the massacre at the Charlie Hebdo newsroom says the suspects are dead, and their hostage has been freed. Reports also say the man who took hostages at a Kosher Grocery store on the outskirts of Paris is also dead but there are reports that before he was killed he may have killed up to four of his hostages.
Morning hearings were held on Friday in Geary County court for three defendants in a case involving the death of a Junction City woman. Maryssa Middleton, Drexel Woody, and Larry Anderson are facing multiple charges related to what authorities are calling the first degree murder of 24-year-old Amanda Clemons of Junction City. According to Junction City Police reports Clemens was last seen being placed into a silver vehicle with four other occupants in February of 2014. Clemens body was subsequently found by authorities in a remote location in Geary County shortly after Clemens last reported sighting by witnesses. At Friday’s…
A 36-year-old Marysville man waived his preliminary hearing in a Pottawatomie County case Friday that relates to running a vehicle into two Manhattan businesses the day after Christmas. Jason Butler’s arraignment is set for February 19th. Butler’s charges include felony DUI, leaving the scene of an injury accident, abuse of toxic vapors, and driving while suspended. He was arrested later the same Friday morning he allegedly drove into the building housing Short Go and Staples just off Tuttle Creek Boulevard. The ’96 Buick Century he was driving was found a short time after the Staples damage was reported about a block from the…
On In Focus, Cathy talks with Dean Sue Maes with K-State’s Global Campus and Linda Yarrow, Asst. Professor and Registered Dietician regarding a health and wellness online course: Second segment was with U-S Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas: Last two segments were with Lynda Bachelor, Project Coordinator for Staley School of Leadership Studies and Keri Mills, Young Adult Services Librarian in Manhattan on Martin Lutheran King Jr. Day plans:
Riley County Police initiating a traffic stop began investigating illegal drugs Thursday night at approximately 8:00 PM. Jeremy Spaur, 30, of Manhattan was arrested for possession of methamphetamine, possession of drug paraphernalia, and violation of ignition interlock device. Spaur’s bond was set at $7,500. He was arrested in the 600 block of Tuttle Creek Blvd. ### Officers with the Riley County Police Department filed a report investigating a rape that reportedly occurred in the city limits of Manhattan. Police say the victim is a 30-year-old female and the suspect information was not readily available to the public information office at the…
The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled Thursday that state officials aren’t violating the rights of a 17-year-old girl, known only as Cassandra C., by forcing her to undergo cancer chemotherapy she doesn’t want.
French Ambassador to the United States Gerard Araud, left, escorts President Barack Obama after Obama signed a condolences book during a visit to the French Embassy, on Thursday, Jan. 8, 2015, in Washington. Masked gunmen stormed the Paris offices of a weekly newspaper that caricatured the Prophet Muhammad, killing at least 12 people, including the editor, before escaping in a car. It was France’s deadliest postwar terrorist attack.
House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio pauses during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2015. House Republicans began the new Congress with old divisions on display Wednesday, bitter fallout from a failed rebellion against Speaker John Boehner