The Manhattan Area Chamber of Commerce conducted a candidates forum Saturday morning for Manhattan City Commission and Manhattan Ogden USD 383 school board candidates. The event was held at Sunset Zoo. Six candidates are currently running for city commission seats. Mayor, Wynn Butler is the only incumbent. The other five individuals are: Linda Morse, Jerred McKee, John Ball, Kaleb James and Mike Dodson. An array of questions were submitted from the audience. They covered topics including public transportation, the transient tax, sexual orientation/gender/race in the election, supporting local businesses and taxes. School board candidates took the floor immediately following the…
Author: KMAN Staff
A masked gunman sprayed bullets in a restaurant popular with foreigners in Mali’s capital early Saturday, killing five people including a French person and a Belgian national, officials and witnesses said.
Canadian authorities have released cellphone video of the man who was shot dead when he stormed Ottawa’s Parliament Hill last October. The gunman said he was responding to Canada’s military involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq.
On today’s In Focus, Cathy talked to St. Rep. Susie Swanson of Clay Center, Riley County Ext. Agriculture Agent Greg McClure, Student Program Coordinator of Hands On Kansas State Ross Allen, and U.S. Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas. Susie Swanson-segment 1 Greg McClure-segment 1 Pat Roberts-segment 1 Ross Allen-segment 4
Haley Texada scored 18 points and Breanna Lewis added 17 as the Kansas State Women’s Basketball team defeated their in-state rivals the Kansas Jayhawks 57-49 Friday night in the first round of the Big 12 Tournament at American Airlines Center in Dallas. The win was K-State’s third this season over KU and second over the Jayhawks in the last 10 days. The Wildcats jumped out to a 23-12 halftime lead and led by as many as 15 points in the early stages of the second half before a barrage of three-point baskets got Kansas back into the game and at…
By Tom Gilbert, K-State Athletics Communications Kansas State head coach Bruce Weber announced Friday evening that senior Nino Williams and sophomore Jevon Thomas will be unavailable for Saturday’s game at Texas. Williams will not travel due to personal reasons, but will re-join the team on Monday when it begins preparations for play in the Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship next week in Kansas City, Weber said. Thomas is being held out due to a coach’s decision and will also not travel.
By Chris Kutz, K-State Athletics Communications Four two-out RBIs by the K-State offense backed up Nate Griep’s three-hit, seven-inning quality start to lead the Wildcats to a 4-1 series-opening win against Santa Clara on Friday at Tointon Family Stadium. Recording his third consecutive quality outing, Griep notched his second win of the season for K-State (5-7) after holding the Broncos (7-6) to one run while striking out six. In each of his four starts this season, the redshirt sophomore has fanned six or more, a mark he did not reach in 15 appearances (10 starts) during the 2014 season. “Nate…
Dr. Sanjay Khurana talks to reporters, at his office in Marina Del Rey, Calif., on Friday, March 6, 2015, about how he saw actor Harrison Ford’s plane falling from the sky while on a golf course on Thursday. Khurana was one of the first people to come to Ford’s aid after the crash.
A man holds the picture of a miner killed in an explosion on Wednesday at more than 1,000 meters (3,200 feet) underground at the Zasyadko mine, during a funeral for the victims of the accident in Donetsk, Ukraine, Friday, March 6, 2015. Tens of miners died in the accident.