Duke players celebrate with the trophy after their 68-63 victory over Wisconsin in the NCAA Final Four college basketball tournament championship game Monday, April 6, 2015, in Indianapolis.
Author: KMAN Staff
Ferguson city council candidates and their supporters are making a final push for votes. On Tuesday, April 7, residents will vote in the first municipal election since the death of Michael Brown — an election they hope will bring change.
It’s election day, with polls open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Manhattan voters are electing city commissioners and school board members for USD 383. There are six candidates running for the three open positions on the Manhattan City Commission, with only one incumbent running for re-election. The candidates are Mike Dodson, Jerred McKee, Wynn Butler, Linda Morse, John Ball, and Kaleb James. There are five candidates for the four open Manhattan/Ogden USD 383 Board of Education positions including four incumbents. Nicholas Dyer, Curt Herrman, Darrell Edie, Leah Fliter, and David Colburn are trying for the at-large USD 383 slots. Voters…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — For one unsettling moment, it appeared opening day had taken a terrible turn for Yordano Ventura and the Kansas City Royals. Ventura crumpled to the ground in the seventh inning with a cramp in his right thumb, ending a strong outing that helped the AL champion Royals rout the Chicago White Sox 10-1 on Monday. “I felt the thumb lock up on me,” Ventura said, with teammate Jeremy Guthrie translating. “My first thought, it was something really bad, but I’m really happy that it’s not. I’m not concerned about it at all. It’s just a…
The prosecution and defense presented their closing arguments Monday in the trial of Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. AP legal affairs writer Denise Lavoie breaks down the day in court.
Rolling Stone is pledging to review its editorial practices after a leading journalism school issued a blistering critique of how it reported and edited a discredited article about an alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia.(
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Kansas farmers have begun planting this year’s corn amid growing concern for the deteriorating winter wheat crop in several counties where it is dry. The National Agricultural Statistics Service reported Monday that 6 percent of the corn crop has now been planted in Kansas. But the agency also noted that topsoil moisture conditions for the week ending on Sunday are short to very short across 57 percent of the state. About 23 percent of the state’s winter wheat crop was rated in poor to very poor condition. About 44 percent of the wheat was in fair condition…
WAMEGO, Kan. (AP) With few trees in large swaths of Kansas prairieland, early settlers built fences out of stone instead. People interesting in learning more about how those fences were built will get a chance this spring during a festival in Wamego. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the Native Stone Scenic Byway Committee is offering a stone fence workshop May 2 and 3. The Kansas Sampler Festival will be set up that weekend in Wamego. Workshop participants will construct a new fence in Wamego City Park. That breaks from the tradition of doing the workshop along the Native Stone Scenic…
On today’s In Focus, Cathy was joined by Lt. Col. Art DeGroat, Executive Director of Military and Veterans Affairs at Kansas State University; Riley County Health Department’s Clinic Nursing Supervisor, Gail Chalman and Flint Hills Summer Fun Camp Coordinator, Melissa Kirkwood. Art DeGroat-segment 1 Art DeGroat-segment 2 Gail Chalman-segment 1 Melissa Kirkwood-segment 1
Riley County’s efforts in replacing their 911 radio system, which began a decade ago, continue to move forward-as an emergency radio consultant visited the county commission during their meeting on Monday. Tusa Consulting is credited with providing radio communications services to different departments and organizations throughout the nation. They recently developed an $80 million radio system for the Kansas City metro area. It included five counties, two states, 24 dispatch centers and 25,000 users. Tusa Consultants have visited Riley County previously to find out what their current system is like and to see how to improve it. The county uses…