HAVEN, Kan. (AP) Students at Haven High School will have to look at each other while dancing next school year. The south-central Kansas school district says a type of dancing known as grinding will be banned at school functions. During a grinding dance, the students dance back-to-front with the person in back making a grinding motion. School board member Bobbie Rohling says the dancing is “X-rated” and too much of it is occurring at school dances. The Hutchinson News reports several other Kansas schools have banned the dance in recent years, including Inman, Goddard and McPherson.
Author: KMAN Staff
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Tuttle Creek Lake Friday announced the closing of the swim beach and boat ramp at Tuttle Creek Cove Park due to flooding. All non-utility sites are closed, however, several utility sites remain available for tent camping. Other closures include the campground and boat ramps at Stockdale. All closed boat ramps, campgrounds and the swim beach will reopen when flooding recedes and the lake returns to a safe level. Visitors should use caution when around the lake during this period of high water. Many obstructions are invisible under the water’s surface. Remember to file…
On today’s In Focus, Cathy spoke with: Serita Blankenship, Safety and Ag Education Manager for Kansas Farm Bureau Lynda Bachelor, Project Coordinator for the Staley School of Leadership Studies, Zev Allen, Student Program Coordinator for Hands-On Kansas, LeeAnn Desper, Executive Director for Konza United Way Furniture Amnesty Day: U.S. Congressman Tim Huelskamp of Kansas:
As first reported Thursday afternoon by KMAN, officers with the Riley County Police Department responded to a report of aggravated burglary and theft in the 700 block of Yuma involving elderly adult victims. Approximately $2,000 in US currency belonging to 3 elderly adult victims, ages 91, 96, and 95, was removed from a home after an unknown white male suspect described as approximately 6 feet tall and 185 pounds entered the home under false pretense. The suspect told victims he was an employee of a gas company and was checking for gas leaks prior to taking possession of the money…
Coast Guard rescues four crew members from sinking fishing boat in Alaska.
A Cleveland judge has ruled that enough evidence exists to charge two officers involved in the November shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice.
By The Associated Press 5:30 a.m. (CDT) The Kansas Senate will determine whether a plan for raising sales and cigarette taxes to erase a budget deficit will clear the Republican-dominated Legislature and go to GOP Gov. Sam Brownback. Two bills contained parts of the tax plan. The measures together would raise $384 million during the fiscal year that begins July 1. The Senate was expected to vote Friday on a bill increasing the state’s sales tax to 6.5 percent from 6.15 percent. The House approved it early Friday morning, 63-44. The Senate approved the other part of the package…
By Anthony Meier, K-State Athletics Communications EUGENE, Ore. – Akela Jones registered a performance of historic proportions, notching K-State Track and Field’s first individual national title by a women’s athlete since 2011 in the heptathlon and breaking the school record in the process. Tallying a gaudy 6,371 points, Jones broke Austra Skujyte’s school record of 6,275 points set in 2002, as well as became the sixth Wildcat women’s athlete ever to win an NCAA title outdoors. Her record-setting performance came thanks to personal best showings in all but one of the heptathlon’s seven events. Jones dominated competition, leading the field…
By Tom Gilbert, K-State Athletics Communications Nine games at Bramlage Coliseum, the CBE Hall of Fame Classic at the Sprint Center and a return to INTRUST Bank Arena for the Wichita Wildcat Classic highlight the 2015-16 Kansas State men’s basketball non-conference schedule released on Thursday. The non-conference slate could include as many as six teams that participated in the postseason a year ago, including three from the 2015 NCAA Tournament. Competition could come from as many as nine different conferences, including the Atlantic 10, ACC, Big Ten, Big Sky, Mountain West and SEC. The 113th season of K-State men’s basketball…
By Kenny Lannou, K-State Athletics Communications For the third consecutive season, all available K-State football season tickets have been sold as department officials announced that public season sales for the 2015 season at Bill Snyder Family Stadium have surpassed the 36,000 mark, while three contests are already sold out of contiguous seats. Fans who ordered season tickets but did not receive a ticket location during the priority seating process will be refunded and placed on a waiting list for the 2016 season, which currently sits at more than 250 accounts with 1,000 tickets requested. Those fans will also receive a…