KSU at TCU is two days away. We’ll hear audio from Gary Patterson and other Big 12 coaches. Chiefs will play a game in London next season. Full Throttle to wrap hour 1. Tyler has to defend his tweets. Jamey Eisenberg from CBS sports in hour 2. You Can’t Be Serious to wrap up the show.
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Philadelphia police credited an eyewitness for reporting Carlesha Freeland-Gaither’s alleged abduction and called him a hero. They also said their investigation was a “case study on how everything fell right into place.”
Palestinians burn tires during clashes with Israeli border police in east Jerusalem on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2014. Clashes broke out after a Palestinian driver rammed a minivan into a crowded train station. He then backed out and proceeded to drive away, hitting several cars along the way, then got out of the car and attacked a group of civilians and police officers on the side of the road with a metal bar, killing one and wounding 13, before he was shot and killed.
Previous public building commission (PBC) discussions have caused a few differing opinions to arise on the matter. Riley County Commissioners have had several previous conversations about the possibility of forming a public building commission. Several complaints were originally brought forward by area residents, but soon subsided after the commission cleared up some misperceptions. During Thursday’s meeting, the commissioners reviewed the format for their upcoming public building commission meeting. Commission Chair, Robert Boyd stressed, “this meeting is just to educate, not to advocate”. County residents are invited to attend the meeting to provide their thoughts on the draft bylaws, and to…
On today’s In Focus, Cathy spoke with Mike Kearns and Tom Fryer with the Flint HIlls Veteran’s Coalition, as well as Catherine Hedge with the League of Women Voters of Manhattan/Riley County.
MANHATTAN — Long-term ecological research at Kansas State University’s Konza Prairie Biological Station will continue for another six years with a $6.76 million grant renewal from the National Science Foundation. Konza Prairie, an 8,600-acre native tallgrass prairie research station, is jointly owned by Kansas State University and The Nature Conservancy and managed by the university’s Division of Biology in the College of Arts & Sciences. The NSF Long-Term Ecological Research, or LTER, program is an interdisciplinary research and education program focused on the tallgrass prairie, one of the most endangered ecosystems in the world, according to John Blair, the research program’s director and…
Junction City Mayor Mike Ryan and Commissioners want residents and City employees to have a voice in the City Commission’s selection of the next City Manager. On November 13, as part of a candidate interview process, two finalists for the City Manager position will be asked to make short presentations and respond to audience questions at separate, hour-long public forums. The forums are scheduled for 3:00 and 4:15 p.m. on the second floor of the Opera House at 135 W. 7th Street. At the end of each forum, those attending may offer observations about the candidate’s performance by completing comment cards. …
(Photo Courtesy Kansas State Athletics) By Chris Kutz, K-State Athletics Communications AMES, Iowa – The No. 22 K-State volleyball team dropped its first true road match of the season as the Wildcats fell at Iowa State, 3-0 (25-23, 25-23, 25-22), on Wednesday in Hilton Coliseum. The Wildcats (20-4, 7-3 Big 12) had won seven consecutive true road matches to start the year, but they ran up against Iowa State (12-9, 4-6 Big 12) in Ames, where K-State has not won in its last seven matches. K-State out-hit Iowa State, .217-.192, but 17 attack errors and six service errors—and no aces—prevented…
A Manhattan man is being treated at a Kansas City Hospital following a collision involving a motorcycle and three vehicles near the intersection of Claflin Road and University Drive shortly after 2:30 Wednesday afternoon. Benjamin Giguere, 23, was taken to the University of Kansas Hospital following the accident, involving his 2014 Kawasaki motorcycle. Police say the cycle was traveling west on Claflin Road when Giguere lost control, then struck a 2001 Buick Century driven by Katherine Kramer, 21, of Manhattan. The motorcycle also struck a 2011 Chevy Cruze driven by Christine Lenz, 21, of Manhattan and a 2000 Chevy Silverado driven by Cameron Uphoff, 21,…
Berkeley, California voters became the first in the country to approve taxing sodas to curb consumption, after costly campaigns by the soda industry helped defeat similar taxes in more than 30 other cities and states in recent years.