Spring enrollment at Kansas State University’s Manhattan campus is at an all-time high, and the diversity of the campus’s student body continues to grow. For spring 2015, the Manhattan campus enrollment is 20,038, up from 19,969 in spring 2014. The increase includes more undergraduates, more multicultural students and more international students. Pat Bosco, vice president for student life and dean of students, credits the Manhattan campus enrollment increase to university programs targeting retention, diversity and student success, as well as dedicated faculty and staff. “These successes would not have been possible without a team effort, including our outstanding faculty, academic…
Author: KMAN Staff
Wesleyan University in Connecticut says at least 11 students have been hospitalized with symptoms of overdoses on the drug known as “Molly.” At least two were listed in critical condition.
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case Monday concerning the Affordable Care Act. The case challenges the government subsidies that help millions of low- and middle-income people afford their health insurance premiums.
A Belleville man died in an early Sunday morning crash in Geary County. Ronald E. Stump, Jr., 35, died in the one car accident in the 7,000 block of Laurel Canyon Road, 5.1 miles north of K-244. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, Stump was driving a 2015 Chevy Malibu south bound on Laurel Canyon Road, when the road came to a dead end and for an unknown reason Stump drove off the end of the roadway. The Chevy then rolled down an embankment, coming to a rest on its top. Passengers in the vehicle were identified as Wesley Peters,…
By Chris Kutz, K-State Athletics Communications MESA, Ariz. – The K-State baseball team scored a season-high 12 runs on Sunday with the help of 11 hits and another season-best six walks to beat Washington State, 12-3, at Sloan Park in the Big 12/Pac-12 Challenge. The Wildcats (4-4) scored in five of the first six innings, with the highest-scoring frame coming in the sixth when K-State plated five runs to blow open a 12-2 lead. Tyler Moore capped the crooked sixth with a three-run home run to left field, the first homer of his career and by a Wildcat this season.…
Starting on Saturday, and running throughout the weekend, the Manhattan Area Garden Show presented classes from local organizations and businesses to help folks with their green thumb. Some of the highlights included a “Whodunit” event hosted by the Riley County Extension office. The exhibit presented prizes to those who could figure out the varmint signs in the ground, and ruined plants. Master Gardner President Penny Sturr kept a watchful eye over the event, and gave this reporter a failing grade as I only identified 50% of the vermin. Riley County extension agent Gregg Eyestone said the event had a great…
A river ferry carrying up to 140 passengers capsized in central Bangladesh on Sunday after being hit by a cargo vessel, killing at least 48.
Hundreds of trucks carrying cooking oil have been waiting for 13 days to unload outside the city of Kirkuk as fighting between IS militants and Iraqi military forces continues.
By Chris Kutz, K-State Athletics Communications MESA, Ariz. – The K-State baseball team fell for the second straight game on a walk-off hit as Washington’s Branden Berry hit a bases-loaded single in the bottom of the 10th inning to deal the Wildcats a 6-5 loss on Saturday at Sloan Park. After falling to Oregon State on a ninth-inning walk-off on Friday, the Wildcats (3-4) were able to force extra innings when Carter Yagi swatted an RBI single in the top of the ninth inning that tied the game at 5-5. However, in the 10th, the Washington (5-2) used a third-strike…
Secretary of State John Kerry discussed new sanctions against Russia on Saturday in London as Ukraine’s week-old cease-fire unravelled.