COLUMBUS, Kan. (AP) The state Highway Patrol says a southeast Kansas teenager has died after crashing a car while being chased by law enforcement. Four other teens were injured when they were thrown from the car. The patrol says the crash occurred just after 8 a.m. Monday near the Cherokee County town of Columbus while officers were chasing a car driven by 17-year-old Noah Kirsch, of Pittsburg. The car went off the road and rolled over several times. It was not immediately clear why Kirsch was being chased. His injured passengers were identified as two boys and two girls, all…
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This Oct. 28, 2014, photo provided by the U.S. Geological Survey with the permission of the Sato family, shows the Sato headstone still standing in a sea of black lava in a cemetery in Pahoa, Hawaii. As the slow-moving lava got closer to the Pahoa Japanese Cemetery, officials provided Aiko Sato an opportunity to visit. When she placed flowers at the headstone last week, she thought it would be the last time she would see it. But after lava flowed over the cemetery, Sato’s aunt was given a photograph taken by a geologist documenting the lava’s advancement, showing the Sato…
Sen. Mark Warner holds his hands up during a rally at his headquarters in Richmond, Va., Monday, Nov. 3, 2014. Warner faces Republican Ed Gillespie in Tuesday’s election.
Wildcat Insider with Wyatt Thompson and John Kurtz. Hour 1 https://1350kman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/1.mp3 K-State rolls Oklahoma State https://1350kman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/2.mp3 TCU could be the toughest game of the season/ Gundy-reporter interaction https://1350kman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/3.mp3 KSU Women’s Basketball opens the season tonight/ Volleyball beats Texas Tech/ Big weekend in college football https://1350kman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/4.mp3 Jake Waters is a semifinalist for the Maxwell award/ Is Joe Hubener the QB of the future Hour 2 https://1350kman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/5.mp3 KSU shuts down OSU after the first drive/ Trevone Boykin has been great this season https://1350kman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/6.mp3 TCU made a lot of mistakes at WV/ DJ Johnson might redshirt this season https://1350kman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/7.mp3 Notes on the K-State…
Advanced voting polls closed at noon on Monday, and numbers had already surpassed the previous gubernatorial election statistics. Riley County Clerk, Rich Vargo reported during Monday’s county commission meeting that 3,145 county residents had participated in advanced voting in person as of Saturday. 892 ballots had also been received in the mail at that point. Vargo said, “with those figures, we are at 4,037 so far that have participated, which has exceeded the 2010 numbers. We had 3,250 that year. So we’ll beat 2010’s numbers by over a thousand easily”. Election day polls will be open from 7 a.m.-7 p.m.…
Day one of the jury trial for the man charged in the case where a pest control man was found dead, was held Monday in Riley County District Court. After several years of being found incompetent enough to withstand a trial, Howard Barrett (58) was finally cleared to stand trial. Barrett is charged in the stabbing death of Thomas James (48) of Clay Center. This incident reportedly happened on Valentine’s Day in 2008. Barrett appeared before Judge David L. Stutzman in his courtroom. Prosecuting State Attorney, Barry Wilkerson called witnesses to the stand throughout the day, several of which were investigators…
A Pottawatomie County development will involve quite a few infrastructure improvements–but commissioners only received one bid for the project at Monday’s meeting. Commission Chair Stan Hartwich adds the bid did come in under what had been anticipated though. Commissioners opened the one bid for the Wildcat Woods Phase III infrastructure, which includes street, sewer and water improvements. The lone bid came from Larson Construction in Manhattan, for $207,249.50, which was a little lower than the engineer estimate of $209,937. Statutes that date back to the 1800’s were discussed by Pottawatomie County commissioners, regarding a road in the northern part of…
On today’s In Focus, Cathy was joined by Art DeGroat, retired Lieutenant Colonel and Ex. Dir. of Military and Veterans Affairs at Kansas State University. The last two segments were utilized for open phones.
President Barack Obama is making a final election-season push to help Democrats in Connecticut and Pennsylvania governors’ races.
Investigators looking into the crash of a Virgin Galactic prototype spacecraft that killed one of two test pilots said they have multiple camera angles of the accident to review.