On today’s In Focus, Cathy talked to State Senator, Tom Hawk of Manhattan; State Representative, Sydney Carlin of Manhattan; Kansas Farm Bureau Commodities Director, Mark Nelson; Supervisor of T. Russell Reitz Regional Animal Shelter, Willie Davila and Little Apple Pilot club’s annual seminar with Melanie Horton and Jan Elliot. Tom Hawk-segment 1 Carlin and Nelson-segment 1 Willie Davila-segment 1 Horton and Elliot-segment 1
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Saturday was full of events in the Aggieville/City Park area here in Manhattan. The first activity was the “What Would Johnny Do?” event in the park. Manhattan Parks and Recreation staff members hosted the event to answer questions about the City Park Master Plan. This plan was adopted in 2006, but will likely be updated in the coming years. The event concluded with a walking tour of the park. The 37th Annual St. Patrick’s Day Celebration was held in the Aggieville area. This event has historically always been held prior to the actual holiday, which is on Tuesday this year.…
The Rock Creek Mustangs have advanced to the Championship Game of the Class 4A Division II Boys State Basketball Tournament after defeating Wichita Trinity 86-71 Friday night in Semifinal action at Hartman Arena in Park City. The Mustangs will face Holcomb for the State title at 6:15 p.m. Saturday in a game that can be heard on our sister station Hot Country B 104.7. Holcomb was a 77-60 winner over Osawatomie earlier Friday. Elsewhere, the Clay Center Girls came up short in their bid for a Class 4A Division II State title falling to Hugoton 55-36. The Lady Tigers will…
By Chris Kutz, K-State Athletics Communications Led by starting pitcher Nate Griep, who threw seven shutout innings and struck out six, the K-State baseball team blanked Missouri State, 4-0, on Friday in the series opener at Tointon Family Stadium. Pitching into the seventh inning for the fourth time in his five starts this year, Griep scattered four hits and four walks in his quality start for the Wildcats (9-8), stranding seven of nine runners left on base in the game by Missouri State (9-5). Griep, who earned his third win of the season, notched six strikeouts, a mark the redshirt…
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) has been working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) to investigate an outbreak of listeriosis cases in five adult Kansas residents linked to ice cream consumed from Blue Bell Creameries. Listeriosis is a serious infection usually caused by eating food contaminated with the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes. Five people in Kansas have become ill as part of this outbreak and three deaths have been reported. Patients became ill with listeriosis after hospitalizations for unrelated…
SURPRISE, Ariz.(AP)– Edinson Volquez had a shaky start, but Salvador Perez hit a three-run homer to offset a two-run double by former teammate Billy Butler and the Kansas City Royals beat an Oakland Athletics split squad 8-4 Friday. Perez homered to left in the four-run first with Eric Hosmer and Kendrys Morales aboard. Lorenzo Cain doubled and scored on Hosmer’s single. Butler, who played his first eight seasons with the Royals before signing with the A’s as a free agent in November, drove in Billy Burns and Ben Zobrist in the first with his hit off Royals newcomer Volquez. Volquez…
Amid persistent complaints about veterans’ health care, President Barack Obama acknowledged lingering weaknesses Friday in the federal government’s response to the chronic delays and false waiting lists in the VA health system.
A column of ash and smoke erupts from the Turrialba volcano in Turrialba, Costa Rica, Thursday, March 12, 2015. The volcano erupted three times Thursday and state observers recorded a smaller eruption Friday morning. Costa Rican officials have closed the country’s principle airport in the capital of San Jose after the eruption filled the sky with ash. The country’s public education ministry suspended classes Friday at 12 schools near the volcano.
Updated 1:45 p.m. Friday: A woman found dead in a Wamego apartment Thursday afterrnoon has been identified. Traci Lawrence, 38, was found at about 12:30 p.m. Thursday in the 1000 block of 14th Street. A news release Friday afternoon says the preliminary results of the autopsy examination of Lawrence’s body indicates there was no foul play associated with her death. Toxicology results will not be available for several weeks. Officers from the Wamego Police Department and Pottawatomie County Sheriff’s Office first responded to the report of a deceased person at the apartment complext. Upon arrival the adult female, now identified…
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