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…
Author: KMAN Staff
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…
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.
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.