Author: KMAN Staff

President Barack Obama speaks at Millennium Steel Service in Princeton, Ind., Friday, Oct. 3, 2014, to discuss the economy as part of Manufacturing Day. Boosted by the lowest jobless rate in six years, the president on Friday heralded September’s hiring rate as the longest uninterrupted stretch of private sector job growth in U.S. history and boasted that the country is surpassing combined job creation in other advanced economies.

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It’s Friday! K-State hosts Tech tomorrow. Royals take Game 1 of the ALDS. We have a preview of this weekends Big 12 games. K-State basketball starts practice today. Kevin Lockett kicks off hour 2. Bold Predictions and You Can’t Be Serious wraps up the week.

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Representatives from Pawnee Mental Health, the  Crisis Center, Sunflower CASA, and the Riley County Attorney’s Office were present for a noon ceremony Friday at the Riley County Courthouse Plaza. The annual event recognized domestic Violence Awareness Month, with silhouettes of Kansas victims of domestic homicide. Adam Johnson with Pawnee Mental Health read the names of victims during the noon hour observance, and shared with KMAN following the event the real reason for the event, which is to remember why they do all the work they do with victims and offenders. Judy Davis, Executive Director of the Crisis Center in Manhattan,…

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“Hold tight to your own point of view.” This is one of many pieces of advice self-proclaimed Hollywood refugee Jeffrey Townsend gave to K-State students Wednesday and Thursday. Townsend has over three decades experience in production design, 2nd unit directing, network film making, and screenwriting. Townsend was invited by Assistant Professor Tom Hallaq to speak to mainly an audience of students from the A.Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications. His primary speech topic was “Five Things I Learned in Hollywood”. “I think it’s important for our students to hear from people who’ve worked in the industry so that they…

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ANAHEIM, Calif. — When Mike Moustakas smacked a high fly into right field in the 11th inning, the Kansas City Royals’ No. 9 hitter had no idea whether it had enough juice to get out of the Big A. Moustakas homered leading off the 11th, and the Royals kept rolling in their first postseason in 29 years with a 3-2 victory over the Los Angeles Angels in their AL Division Series opener Thursday night. Kansas City had managed just two baserunners since the fifth inning when Moustakas hit the first extra-inning homer in postseason history for the Royals, a…

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A smoke rises after shelling near the airport in the town of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014. Pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine advanced Wednesday on the government-held airport in Donetsk, pressing to seize the key transportation hub even as the two sides bargained over a troop pullout under a much-violated truce.

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HARPER, Kan. (AP) At least eight earthquakes have shaken southern Kansas this week, with the largest cracking walls. The earthquakes occurred the same week that a panel commissioned by Gov. Sam Brownback announced there isn’t enough evidence to link recent quakes to oil and gas exploration in the region. The group recommended more monitoring. The U.S. Geological Survey reports that this week’s largest earthquake had a preliminary magnitude of 4.4 when it struck just after 1 p.m. Thursday about seven miles southeast of Harper. Another quake that struck nearby about 30 minutes later had a preliminary magnitude of 3.4. Interim…

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