The Manhattan High girls basketball team took care of business on Thursday night in the first round of the Mid America Classic against Valley Center, beating the Hornets 57-37. Manhattan had 11 players score in the ball game with no Indian scoring in double figures. Amara Ehie led the way for MHS with nine points. Gigi McAtee and Madison Mittie each pitched in with eight apiece. Manhattan shot 46% from the field and hit 12 of 18 from the free throw line. The win over the Hornets gave head coach Scott Mall win number 299 in his career with the…
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Senator Jerry Moran apparently had a busy Thursday after seeing the passage of the Keystone XL Pipeline in the senate, and introducing a new bill lifting the United States travel ban with Cuba. On Thursday Senator Moran said, “The new Senate Majority has shown in just a few short weeks what can be accomplished when the United States Senate returns to its roots of regular order, allows open debate on good ideas, and allows for a fair amendment process. While this vote to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline should have happened years ago, I am very pleased the Senate has…
By Rob Corolla, Big 12 Conference Irving, Texas – The Big 12 and Southeastern Conferences have announced that their top non-conference challenge series will be moving to January, beginning with the 2015-16 season. All contests in next season’s Big 12/SEC Challenge will move from December to January 30, 2016. “We are excited to move this event to January to provide the Big 12 a unique showcase and help ESPN give the Big 12/SEC Challenge the attention it deserves,” said Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby. “Our teams have shown a commitment to scheduling tough non-conference opponents and should be commended for…
Former New England Patriots football player Aaron Hernandez, center, listens during his murder trial, Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015, in Fall River, Mass., as defense attorney Charles Rankin, left, looks on while an image of Odin Lloyd is displayed on a monitor, right. Hernandez is charged with killing Lloyd, 27, a semiprofessional football player, in June 2013.
Rescue workers comb through the rubble of a children’s hospital after a gas truck exploded, in Cuajimalpa on the outskirts of Mexico City, Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015. The powerful explosion shattered the hospital on the western edge of Mexico’s capital, killing at least three adults and one baby and injuring dozens.
Six bids were opened for the Tuttle Creek Fire Station project during Thursday’s Riley County Commission meeting. Each bid contained three options. The first for a whole new fire station, an alternate for an interior build-out, and a second alternate for two trench drains as well as a storage room. The bids were as follows: Construction Services Bryant, Inc. of Wichita: base bid-$729,000, alternate #1-$87,000, alternate #2-$7,800 Cheney Construction, Inc. of Manhattan: base bid-$574,964, alternate #1-$76,163, alternate #2-$7,400 Schultz Construction of Manhattan: base bid-$595,000, alternate #1-$73,000, alternate #2-$7,500 Ron Fowles Construction of Manhattan: base bid-$631,300, alternate #1-$95,000, alternate #2-$6,700 Kelley Construction of Topeka-base bid-#638,500,…
On today’s In Focus, KMAN’s Erik Stone spoke with the MHS Science Olympiad team, KSU Student Body President, Reagan Kays and Jill Harrison with Interim Healthcare. Olympiad team-segment 1 Reagan Kays-segment 1 Reagan Kays-segment 2 Jill Harrison-segment 1
Ashia Woods scored 18 points and a three-point basket that went in didn’t count for Oklahoma State as Kansas State defeated the Cowgirls 52-51 in a thrilling overtime contest Wednesday night in Women’s Basketball action at Bramlage Coliseum. Woods tied the game with 32 seconds left in regulation by making the first of two free throws before missing the second one. Then after the Wildcats committed two fouls they had left to give, Oklahoma State’s Lakota Beatty missed a layup with three seconds left in regulation and the game went into the extra period. K-State then took a three-point lead…
Challenged by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch defends President Barack Obama’s decision to shelter millions of immigrants from deportation though they live in the country illegally but she said they have no right to citizenship under the law, as she testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015 during her confirmation hearing before the committee. Lynch made her remarks in the opening moments of a hearing into her appointment as the nation’s first black female attorney general. It is the first confirmation proceeding since Republicans took control of the Senate…
Jennifer Bruno gathers belongings inside her heavily damaged apartment the day after a winter storm in Marshfield, Mass., Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015. The storm buried the Boston area in more than 2 feet of snow and lashed it with howling winds that exceeded 70 mph.