– Manhattan High softball split with Rossville. The Indians scored four runs in the seventh to win game one 7-6 and lost game two 11-1. – Manhattan High girls soccer dominated Emporia in a 5-0 win. Cailey Perkins had three goals and two assists. – Manhattan High boys tennis finished in third after hosting Junction City, Highland Park and Marysville. Beniah Gorman won 8-1 and the doubles teams of Ben and Matt Turnley and Kevin Harper and Jacob Richard won as well. – Manhattan High boys golf finished second behind Washburn Rural at the Manhattan Invitational. Pierson McAtee shot a…
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A press release was issued Wednesday morning regarding an arrest made in Junction City. The Junction City-Geary County Drug Operations Group conducted a traffic stop just before 4:45 p.m. on Tuesday, while in the 500 block of West 12th Street in Junction City. The driver was talking on his cell phone (which is against city ordinance), his driver’s license was suspended and had a confirmed Geary County District Court warrant for his arrest. An odor of marijuana also resulted in a search of the vehicle. Officers found marijuana packages for sale within the vehicle. This search also took place within…
Ford’s Theater in Washington, DC held events on Tuesday to marking the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. Lincoln died on April 15th, 1865.
Officially kicking off her campaign for the 2016 presidential race, Hillary Rodham Clinton held a roundtable discussion with students and teachers at a community college in Iowa, and said she wants to be a champion for struggling Americans.
TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) A man accused of alcohol-related violations in connection with the fatal fall of an Arizona State University student from Manhattan in 2014 has been sentenced. Maricopa County Superior Court officials say Matthew Farberov was sentenced Tuesday to nine months of probation and community service for a misdemeanor count of soliciting an adult for alcohol. The 21-year-old Farberov was among two people charged following Naomi McClendon’s death in March 2014. Tempe police say the 18-year-old freshman from Manhattan plunged 10 floors to her death from an apartment complex near campus. They say McClendon got too close to the edge,…
By Chris Kutz, K-State Athletics Communications (Photo Courtesy Kansas State Athletics) With two outs and the bases loaded, Jake Wodtke hit a first-pitch single through the left side to score Shane Conlon and give the K-State baseball team a 5-4 comeback win in 10 innings over Wichita State on Tuesday at Tointon Family Stadium. Wodtke’s walk-off hit capped five unanswered runs for K-State (17-18), which fell behind 4-0 after the top of the fifth inning when Ryan Tinkham of Wichita State (13-23) hit the second of his two home runs. Wodtke’s 10th-inning single, one of his two hits in the…
Updated 7 a.m. Wednesday: No official connection has been made, but a 20-year-old Wamego man faces a variety of charges after his arrest at about 10:45 Tuesday night in the 600 block of Vattier. KMAN reported a traffic stop in that location at about 9:30 p.m., with an occupant reportedly fleeing on foot. Wednesday morning’s Riley County Police arrest report lists the arrest of Todd Collette and five drug-related charges, with a bond of $18,000. Reports Tuesday night indicated an occupant of the vehicle that was stopped fled on foot and a chase ensued as police attempted to track the…
A man drives his taxi past a Cultural Center with the word “Cuba” on it, in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, April 14, 2015. President Barack Obama will remove Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism, the White House announced Tuesday, a key step in his bid to normalize relations between the two countries.
In this March 14, 2005 file photo, Percy Sledge accepts his award during the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in New York. Sledge, who recorded the classic 1966 soul ballad “When a Man Loves a Woman,” died, Tuesday April 14, 2015. He was 74. (
The Riley County has won the Central Region Fire Prevention Program of the Year award from the U.S. Army Installation Management Command’s. The department scored 99.51 percent overall. The Fire Prevention Branch of FRFD received several prevention-specific honors.The Prevention Branch educates soldiers, family members, and patrons of the post. “We work with the entire installation and regional partners, delivering services ranging from fire safety briefings to the newest soldiers arriving at Fort Riley to providing fire safety recommendations to the garrison and division commanders,” Ivan May, lead fire inspector said. The Kansas Fire Marshall presented the Fire Prevention Branch of FRFD the…