(Courtesy of K-State sports information) MANHATTAN, Kan. – Kansas State’s Brandon Bolden and Justin Edwards each scored in double figures in helping Athletes in Action wrap up its international tour with a 108-99 win over the Barons, a Latvian professional team, on Wednesday at Olimpic Center in Riga, Latvia. After trailing 25-24 after the first quarter, Athletes in Action was able to slowly build a lead against the Barons, narrowly winning the second quarter, 26-24, to take a 50-49 edge into the locker room at halftime, before winning both the third (29-22) and fourth quarters (29-28) to gain the victory.…
Author: KMAN Staff
Cybersecurity researcher Allan Friedman said he is skeptical of Edward Snowden’s claim that the NSA secretly created software codenamed ‘MonsterMind’ to automatically fire back at cyberattacks from foreign countries without any human involvement.
Nebraska’s capital has the largest concentration of Yazidis in the United States. Now, the city is at the center of a frantic effort to draw attention to the Yazidi’s plight in Iraq, where thousands are fleeing from Islamic militants.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Health officials say none of the state’s KanCare providers met benchmarks for timeliness in claims processing during 2013. The Wichita Eagle reports the state set a goal to have all claims without mistakes processed in 20 days and all claims processed in 60 days. An August report from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment said the state’s three KanCare providers Amerigroup, Sunflower Health and United Healthcare failed to meet that benchmark in any month last year. KDHE spokeswoman Sara Belfry says part of the companies’ payments for the year were withheld, and the state continues to…
Royals lose 11-3, but still in 1st. Baylor Powercat Gameday reporter Lark Smith and the Voice of the Chiefs” Mitch Holthus joins the show. “Around College Football” in the 2nd hour. Nebraska AD vouches for Bo Pelini. You Can’t Be Serious wraps up the show.
Sunflower CASA Project, Inc. has just been awarded certification by the National Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) Association. This certification recognizes that Sunflower CASA, serving Riley, Clay, and Pottawatomie Counties, is in compliance with National CASA’s high standards for quality child advocacy. According to Michael Piraino, CEO of the National CASA Association, “The National CASA quality assurance process is very rigorous, and reflects our commitment to ensure every child we serve has the most powerful volunteer advocate working on their behalf. This certification says Sunflower CASA has demonstrated to us a strong capacity to provide excellent services to the…
Jeff Mittie’s first Big 12 game at K-State will come on the road at Iowa State on January 3rd. The Wildcats will get three of their first five Big 12 games at Bramlage Coliseum, starting with reigning co-Big 12 regular season champion Baylor on January 6th. Then K-State will play Kansas at Bramlage on January 10th for the Dillons Sunflower Showdown. The rest of the home schedule will be: Iowa State (Jan. 17), Oklahoma State (Jan. 28), Texas (Feb. 4), TCU (Feb. 11), Texas Tech (Feb. 14), Oklahoma (Feb. 21) and West Virginia (March 3). The rest of the road…
On today’s In Focus, Cathy talked to USD 323 Superintendent, Darrel Stufflebeam and USD 320 Superintendent, Denise O’Dea, as well as Ella Casey with Sunset Zoo.
A pro-Russian rebel stands at a block-post on the outskirts of Donetsk near a bullet riddled bus, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014, where at least 12 militiamen fighting alongside government troops against pro-Russian separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine have been killed in an ambush, a spokesman for their radical nationalist movement said Wednesday.
This March 7, 2010 file photo shows actress Lauren Bacall backstage during the 82nd Academy Awards in Los Angeles. Bacall, the sultry-voiced actress and Humphrey Bogart’s partner off and on the screen, died Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014 in New York. She was 89.