Around 500 Pakistanis who were evacuated from Yemen arrived in Karachi airport on Sunday evening.
Author: KMAN Staff
Emergency workers found two bodies Sunday in the mass of rubble left behind when three apartment buildings collapsed during an apparent gas explosion and fire in lower Manhattan.
By Chris Kutz, K-State Athletics Communications STILLWATER, Okla. – The K-State baseball team was held to two hits on Sunday by Oklahoma State starting pitcher Michael Freeman, who carried a no-hitter into the ninth inning, as the Wildcats fell to the No. 12 Cowboys, 4-1, to lose the Big 12 series at Allie P. Reynolds Stadium. Despite being no-hit for 8 1/3 innings, the Wildcats (12-14, 1-5 Big 12) jumped out to a lead over Oklahoma State (19-8, 4-2 Big 12) in the sixth inning. Jake Wodtke led off the frame by reaching on an error by Cowboy second baseman…
Seven of the eleven candidates vying for a spot on the Riley County USD 378 Board of Education made statements on a variety of issues the district will face in the coming year at the candidates forum on Sunday, March 29. The League of Women Voters of Manhattan/Riley County sponsored the forum and The Riley Countian was the co-sponsor. One of the immediate tasks the new school board will be faced with is appointing a new superintendent, and candidates were asked to describe what characteristics they were looking for in a potential hire for the spot. Glen Hawkins said he believes the…
Updated Monday morning: More details have been released regarding a Sunday afternoon fire at Willard Hall on Mid Campus Drive, on the K-State campus. Manhattan Fire Department authorities indicate upon arrival crews found room 318 full of smoke with an acetylene torch that was on fire on the floor. Crews extinguished the fire with an extinguisher and the building was ventilated. The cause was determined to be accidental due to a faulty torch head. Fire loss is listed as $150 to the torch and no loss to the structure. As earlier reported a minor injury was reported, with one individual…
Tens of thousands of Tunisians attended a march in their country’s capital, Tunis, on Sunday to denounce extremist violence following the attack on the National Bardo Museum.
An Air Canada jet skidded off a runway while landing at Halifax airport in Nova Scotia, Canada, early Sunday, causing injuries to about two dozen people on board. The airport says 25 passengers on the flight from Toronto went to the hospital.
Hundreds of people, some carrying signs and flags, gathered Saturday outside the Indiana Statehouse for a rally against a new state law that opponents say could sanction discrimination against gay people.
Iraqi troops continued the fight against IS militants in the northern Iraqi city of Tikrit on Saturday. The militants seized it last summer during their advance across northern and western Iraq.
By Chris Kutz, K-State Athletics Communications STILLWATER, Okla. – The K-State baseball team was unable to overcome six two-out runs in the first inning by No. 12 Oklahoma State on Saturday as the Wildcats lost to the Cowboys, 12-3, at Allie P. Reynolds Stadium. After holding Oklahoma State (18-8, 3-2 Big 12) to two runs and seven hits in the series opener on Friday, K-State (12-13, 1-4 Big 12) surrendered seven hits in Saturday’s first inning alone, with six coming on two outs. Wildcat starting pitcher Kyle Halbohn, making his Big 12 debut, sandwiched a double with a groundout and…