Tyler Lockett was named the Big 12 Football Scholar-Athlete of the Year. Royals sign Kendrys Morales to a two-year $17 million deal. We hear from six Big 12 Basketball Coaches. You Can’t Be Serious to wrap up the show.
Author: KMAN Staff
On today’s In Focus, Cathy talked to Staff Sgt. Jason Ford, 1st Infantry Division Band Operations Non-Commissioned Officer-in-Charge and Eric Zenk, Public Affairs Specialist, both of Fort Riley. She also spoke with Manhattan Catholic Schools Principal Scott Hulshoff and Flint Hills Christian School Administrator Tim McDonald.
There’s been the first filing for election to the Manhattan/Ogden USD 383 School board. Nicholas Dyer has decided to try for a position on the board during this coming spring’s election. Dyer tells KMAN he’s a 20 year old alumni of Manhattan High School and is currently a student at Highland Community College in Wamego. He has served on the Social Service Advisory Board with the City of Manhattan. The spring election is for four USD 383 school board positions and three city commission seats. The four school board members who have expiring terms are: Dave Colburn, Darrell Edie, Leah…
“I move to approve the resolution creating a public building commission”. With those words from Commissioner Dave Lewis, and a unanimous vote, the commission approved a PBC after months of deliberation, meetings and controversy. It wasn’t a quick and easy vote though. Commissioner Ron Wells expressed some concern about the idea of forming a PBC right before a new commissioner is appointed. Commission Chair Robert Boyd and Commissioner Dave Lewis both seemed to agree that it would be much more difficult to form one after mid-January, when Ben Wilson is sworn in. Boyd stated it would involve re-doing all of…
A 26-year-old Topeka man faces charges following his arrest by Riley County Police near the intersection of Green Avenue and Hanly Street in Manhattan. Joshua Eubanks was taken into custody at about six Wednesday evening on a warrant for failure to appear. RCPD indicates the warrant had an original offense of possessing opiates, opium, or narcotic drugs. Bond was set at $5,000.
Rain started hitting the San Francisco Bay Area on Wednesday night, as one of the worst storms in years rolls in. The forecast calls for eight inches of rain in some coastal regions, and two feet of snow in the mountains.
The director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday he’s encouraged by a $5.4 billion spending plan proposed by Congress to fight Ebola, although he says the epidemic may not be put ‘back in the box.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A Mexican man accused in a bizarre identity theft scheme would likely still be able to circumvent tough new Kansas voting laws because he had the proper documents. Eighty-one year-old Ramon Perez-Rivera entered a not guilty plea Wednesday in Wichita after being charged in a 33-count indictment. Federal prosecutors say he took another man’s identity to get food stamps and Medicaid, obtain a U.S. passport and driver’s license, and register to vote. While Perez-Rivera did not have to prove his citizenship to vote because he registered in 1999, he still would have likely fooled the state even…
NFL owners approved changes to the personal conduct policy Wednesday, but Commissioner Roger Goodell will retain authority to rule on appeals.
A special House committee is reviewing efforts to secure U.S. diplomatic facilities and personnel as it continues investigating the deadly 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya.