Riley County Fire Chief Pat Collins announced late Saturday afternoon he shut burning down for three hours during the afternoon when wind was over 15 miles per hour. He tells KMAN burning is open until 10 Saturday night and closed Sunday due to high wind expected on Sunday. Collins adds he may open burning Sunday evening if the wind dies down. Again: Open burning in Riley County–until 10 p.m. Saturday. No open burning Sunday until possibly evening.
Author: KMAN Staff
Relatives of the people killed in the Germanwings crash held a memorial service for their loved ones on Saturday at the village of Le Vernet, near the plane’s crash site in the French Alps.
Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, walk on the tarmac of the Sanaa International Airport in Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, March 28, 2015. Yemen’s President Abed Raboo Mansour Hadi, speaking at the opening session of an Arab summit in Egypt on Saturday, called Shiite rebels who forced him to flee the country “stooges of Iran,” directly blaming the Islamic Republic for the chaos there and demanding airstrikes against rebel positions continue until they surrender.
OLATHE, Kan. (AP) A Missouri white supremacist has pleaded not guilty to charges that he gunned down three people last year at Jewish sites in the Kansas City area. Seventy-four-year-old Frazier Glenn Miller entered the pleas yesterday during a court appearance in Johnson County, Kansas. A judge Friday denied Miller’s request for Internet access while he’s jailed awaiting trial.
On today’s In Focus, Cathy spoke with St. Rep. Tom Phillips of Manhattan, Riley County Police Captain Tim Hegarty and U.S. Congressman Tim Huelskamp of Kansas. Tom Phillips-segment 1 Tom and Tim-segment 2 Tim Hegarty-segment 3 Tim Huelskamp-segment 4
Sunset Zoo’s education center played host to yet another monthly legislative coffee on Saturday morning. The event began at 7:30 and featured four area legislative leaders: Senator, Tom Hawk; Representative of the 66th District, Sydney Carlin; Representative of the 67th District, Tom Phillips; and Representative of the 64th District, Susie Swanson. The first topic addressed by the legislators was revenue enhancements, including the most obvious form: taxes. Phillips commented he only wants to increase taxes if he feels it will be a long term solution. He said he doesn’t want to kick the can down the road by filling gaps…
Amanda Knox says she’s “incredibly grateful” that Italy’s highest court overturned her murder conviction in the slaying of her roommate, Meredith Kercher, in Perugia, Italy, in 2007.
The University of Oklahoma’s president says members of a recently disbanded fraternity apparently learned a racist chant during a cruise four years ago sponsored by the fraternity’s national leadership.
By Chris Kutz, K-State Athletics Communications (Photo Courtesy Kansas State Athletics) Behind a season-high three RBIs by Shane Conlon and five shutout innings from the bullpen, the K-State baseball team knocked off No. 12 Oklahoma State, 4-2, on Friday at Allie P. Reynolds Stadium to pick up its first Big 12 win of the season. K-State (12-12, 1-3 Big 12), which snapped a 12-game losing streak in Big 12 road games with Friday’s win, used four pitchers total in the victory, led by its stable of relievers in Corey Fischer, Jordan Floyd and Bryce Ward backing up starter Colton Kalmus’…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) New federal figures show that Kansas ranked 28th in February among states and the District of Columbia in its percentage of private-sector job growth over the previous year. Seasonally adjusted data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that Kansas had 21,000 more residents employed in private-sector, nonfarm jobs in February than in February 2014. That’s an increase of nearly 1.9 percent, to 1.15 million. Utah had the nation’s best growth rate of more than 4.8 percent. Three neighboring states outperformed Kansas. Colorado experienced growth of 3.7 percent; Texas had 3.6 percent, and Arkansas…