Author: KMAN Staff
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP)– Edinson Volquez and John Danks have known each other for a while, rooming in the minors. They are very familiar with each other this season squaring off for the fourth time this year. Volquez and the Kansas City Royals came out victors Friday night, beating Danks and the Chicago White Sox 3-2. “I’ve known him for a long time in the minor leagues with Texas,” Volquez said. “We were roommates three years in a row. He was the first guy to let me drive his car in the United States. “It was like a four-hour drive…
A plume of orange muck from a large mine waste spill in Colorado has drifted about 55 miles downriver and is closing in on New Mexico, prompting communities to take precautions until the sludge passes.
US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday that the US would have come under pressure to act militarily against Iran if the Iran nuclear deal was rejected.
On today’s In Focus, Cathy spoke with Riley County 4H Extension Agent John Jobe. Later in the program we heard from Dr. Stephen Higgs, Associate Vice President for Research and Research Director for the Biosecurity reserach Institute, and Jeff Morris, Vice President for communications and Marketing at K-State. In the last segment, Angie Cartwright joined the program to talk about her work as a motivational speaker and grief specialist.
A Junction City man was arrested Thursday afternoon by Riley County Police for probation violation. RCPD indicates at about 1:20 PM officers with the Riley County Police Department arrested Frank Cooper Jr., 43, on the warrant for probation violation with an original offense of domestic battery. Cooper’s bond was set at $3,000. A total bond of $8,000 was given as a result of a second warrant for failure to appear. ### A Manhattan man faces a $5,000 bond following his arrest at 12:43 a.m. Friday. Derek Pfizenmaier, 33, was taken into custody in the 3,000 block of Tuttle Creek Boulevard.…
The well-known four-legged former Riley County Police K-9 Officer Dino has died. Riley County Police Friday morning announced in a news release,” with a heavy heart the Riley County Police Department announces the passing of K9 Dino after he experienced deteriorating health issues due to his age.” KMAN did a story at the time when Dino retired in December of last year after a career of 11 years serving the Manhattan and Riley County community. He spent his retirement at home with his handler, Officer Aaron Wright and family. Dino, alongside Officer Wright, was a key part of numerous drug investigations and…
Some viewers called Thursday’s night’s Republican debate ‘entertaining,’ but had doubts about how much they had learned. GOP Chairman Reince Priebus said the candidates’ attacks on each other did not go ‘out of bounds.’
A combative Donald Trump, the billionaire businessman-turned-presidential candidate, jolted the first Republican debate of the 2016 campaign, leaving his onstage rivals to compete for attention.
The seven presidential candidates that did not make the first prime time Republican debate in Cleveland spoke with reporters after they participated in an earlier debate at The Quicken Loans Arena.