Next week a final decision will be made as to whether or not Kansas State University will continue to have Civil Service classifications or whether the designations will be changing. Over the past few months, University officials have been putting together how the change will look if the vote allows for the change. The final two town hall meetings about the issue were held Friday and K-State President Kirk Schulz was there to help answer questions along with a panel of representatives including the chair of the Alternative Service Committee. Some of the issues that arose during the meetings included job…
Author: KMAN Staff
The K-18 Corridor Improvement Project is nearly complete! Local and State Officials from Riley and Geary counties, Manhattan, Ogden, Junction City, Fort Riley and K-State joined KDOT Friday morning at Westview Community Church in Manhattan, to officially dedicate the three-year, 135 million dollar construction project. The project converted about seven miles of K-18 between Ogden and Manhattan into a four-lane freeway with multiple bridges, interchanges and major flood control measures. “As Manhattan has grown, as Kansas State has grown, with NBAF coming up here now, with the improvements that we’re making to the airport, we’re now able to get safely…
Wamego standout Kaylee Page is about ready to embark on her senior season with the goal of winning back-to-back 4A state championships, but she doesn’t have to worry about her destination for the next four years. Page signed her national letter of intent with the University of Nebraska at a ceremony at Wamego High on Thursday. The Huskers are ranked #10 in the latest USA Today Coaches’ Poll, and advanced to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament last season. Kaylee was the leading scorer and rebounder for the Lady Raiders last season at 20.6 points and 8.1 rebounds per…
Wamego standout Kaylee Page is about ready to embark on her senior season with the goal of winning back-to-back 4A state championships, but she doesn’t have to worry about her destination for the next four years. Page signed her national letter of intent with the University of Nebraska at a ceremony at Wamego High on Thursday. The Huskers are ranked #10 in the latest USA Today Coaches’ Poll, and advanced to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament last season. Kaylee was the leading scorer and rebounder for the Lady Raiders last season at 20.6 points and 8.1 rebounds per…
More than 3,600 people are known dead in the Philippines from Typhoon Haiyan. The government is struggling to get relief to people who need it. Residents of one city are lining up to use a working telephone.
President Barack Obama admitted Thursday that his administration “fumbled” the rollout of his new health care law. Still, speaking at a Cleveland steel plant, he vowed to keep fighting attempts to scrap the whole program.
President Barack Obama admitted Thursday that his administration “fumbled” the rollout of his new health care law. Still, speaking at a Cleveland steel plant, he vowed to keep fighting attempts to scrap the whole program.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A former University of Kansas lab director has filed suit claiming he was fired for reporting possible fictitious charging to federal grant funds for the use of an electron microscope and other equipment. David Moore’s whistleblower lawsuit also alleges improper financial management and accountability for KU’s Microscopy Analysis and Imaging Laboratory in Lawrence. The lawsuit was filed in state court in Douglas County and was made public Thursday. Defendants include the Kansas Board of Regents and the university, which did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment. Moore claims the university inappropriately charged administration, overhead and…
SALINA, Kan. (AP) A Kansas man will have his trial on a charge of escaping from jail held outside Saline County, in part because of public comments posted to online news articles about the defendant. The Salina Journal reports District Judge Rene Young agreed Thursday to a change of venue for Antonio Brown. The 29-year-old Salina man was convicted last month of murder in the 2011 abuse death of 14-month- old Clayden Urbanek, the son of his former girlfriend. That trial was also held outside Saline County. Brown initially pleaded no contest in the death, but disappeared from the Saline…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) A federal grand jury has indicted a central Kansas man on charges that he worked with an Alton, Ill., company and its owner in a $3 million scheme to sell foreign versions of Botox and Juvederm. The U.S. attorney’s office in Kansas City, Mo., says Christopher Tozier, 43, of Hesston, Kan., was charged Thursday with smuggling goods into the U.S. and several other similar counts. The superseding indictment adding Tozier replaces an indictment in April that charged Illinois-based Orthopaedic Solutions Inc. and its owner, 48-year-old Christopher Carstens, with similar counts. The superseding indictment alleges that Carstens and…