On today’s In Focus, Cathy spoke with Manhattan Mayor, Wynn Butler and City Manager, Ron Fehr.
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Tuttle Creek Dam has been credited with preventing $6,556,494,400 in flood damages since it was placed into operation back in 1962. This number only reflects prevention up to September 30th, 2013. One of the lake’s functions is flood control. This involves reducing flood damage from the more frequent lower level floods. Large, infrequent flooding events are far more difficult to control. Theories involving the 1951 and 1993 floods in the Manhattan area have caused some local residents to believe that the flooding issues were “man-made disasters”, made possible by the Tuttle Creek Dam. Despite previously circulated opinions, Operations Project Manager…
The Leonardville man charged in connection with an accident back in October of last year where a teenager died, appeared in Riley County District Court for sentencing Monday afternoon. Garrett Olson faces charges involving the rollover accident, which resulted in the death of Trevor Redding (17). Olson previously entered a plea for one charge of involuntary manslaughter. The plea agreement allowed Olson to drop his other two charges: DUI and failure to remain at the scene of an accident. Chief Judge Meryl Wilson sentenced Olson to 30 months, or two and a half years, with the Kansas Department of Corrections, and 36 months…
The Taliban in Pakistan claimed responsibility for attacking a military-run school. Dozens were killed and dozens more injured.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott described the gunman who held hostages for 16 hours at a popular Sydney cafe as ‘a deeply disturbed person.’ Abbott says the gunman, Man Haron Monis, was not on a terror watch list.
Out with the old and in with the new, as Manhattan replaces its neighborhood watch program with Nextdoor, a free app that uses social media to provide community networking. Manhattan and Riley County residents can now create an account on Nextdoor to network with their community. The goals of the city aren’t to bombard residents with information, rather than to provide it on a case-by-case neighborhood basis, according to Public Program Coordinator Gayle Donaldson. “I think it’s just another way for people to reach out to us. It’s really going to be on the residents to get involved and to find a…
AP-KS–Topeka-ChildKille TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Prosecutors say a man should be executed for kidnapping, raping and killing an 8-year-old Topeka girl, while the defense is calling for a life prison sentence. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that closing arguments were made Monday in the penalty phase of the trial for Billy Frank Davis Jr. The 31-year-old was convicted last week of 10 counts, including capital murder, in the May 2012 killing of Ahliyah Nachelle Irvin. Defense attorney Mark Manna says imprisoning Davis for the rest of his life will protect the public. Chief deputy district attorney Jacqie Spradling’s posted 30 photographs on…
Wildcat Insider with Wyatt Thompson, Brian Smoller and Corey Dean. Hour 1 https://1350kman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/1-.mp3 Demolishing of the Vanier Complex is underway/ Nino Williams in the Big 12 Player of the Week https://1350kman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/22.mp3 KSU Women find a way to beat Oral Roberts https://1350kman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/32.mp3 Alamo Bowl preparation is underway https://1350kman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/42.mp3 TCU’s Gary Patterson named National Coach of the Year Hour 2 https://1350kman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/52.mp3 Many Wildcast received Big 12 honors/ Tyler Lockett receiving many of his own https://1350kman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/62.mp3 K-State Basketball not looking good in the half court https://1350kman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/72.mp3 New feelings on the College Football Playoff https://1350kman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/81.mp3 Favorite 2014 K-State moments
A FedEx truck carrying hundreds of packages crashed on an interstate in Mahwah, New Jersey, spilling its contents across the roadway.
A blood soaked stretcher is wheeled to an ambulance after shots were fired during a cafe under seige at Martin Place in the central business district of Sydney, Australia, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014. A flurry of loud bangs erupted as a swarm of heavily armed police stormed inside a downtown Sydney chocolate cafe where a gunman had been holding an unknown number of people hostage for more than 16 hours.