For the third straight season, the K-State volleyball team will square off with a Pac-12 school. The Cats will open the season at the University of Green Bay tournament, and Arizona was announced as the fourth team in the field on Tuesday. K-State and Arizona will clash at 4:30pm on Saturday, August 30th to conclude the tournament. The two teams haven’t met since 1987, and Arizona won both previous meetings against K-State. The Cats beat fellow Pac-12 teams Cal last season and Oregon State in 2012, both in five sets. Stay connected to all things KSU on the go just text…
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) James Shields cooled down hot-hitting Colorado over seven sharp innings, Lorenzo Cain and Salvador Perez both homered and the Kansas City Royals beat the Rockies 5-1 on Tuesday night. The only run Shields allowed came on an RBI single by Justin Morneau in the fourth inning. Shields followed it up by retiring the final 10 batters he faced, striking out the side in the sixth inning and fanning Troy Tulowitzki for the 1,500th strikeout of his career. Alcides Escobar added a pair of RBIs, and relievers Wade Davis and Aaron Crow wrapped up the win for…
A rescue operation is underway in Turkey after an explosion and fire at a mine killed hundreds and trapped many more underground.
A Vermont widow whose husband suffered from PTSD and tried to commit suicide last year, is questioning his care by the V.A. after he was shot and killed by one their children during a violent outburst last month.
Alma resident and K-State alumnus, Keen Umbehr recently announced his decision to run for Kansas Governor. The Libertarian candidate recently spoke to KMAN and shared his story. His father worked in oil fields overseas, so Umbehr grew up in parts of Africa and Asia. After meeting his wife in Singapore (she’s originally from Wisconsin) the two moved back to the United States, where Umbehr says his interest in politics grew. “We got back to Alma, started our family and started a trash company, we were in the trash business for 17 years; and during that 17 years, of course I…
The Manhattan City Commission is considering a change to the current application process for Benefit Districts. Under the change, Deputy City Manager, Jason Hilgers said during Tuesday’s Work Session that the City would require property developers to submit two new forms, one certifying all tax payments to Manhattan are current, and the other disclosing the tax status of all companies that a developer has a 20 percent or greater interest in. “All it’s really doing is alerting the governing body in the event a developer is delinquent on a previous or other project,” Hilgers said. “And then it adds to…
The Danish warship “Esbern Snare” escorting the cargo ships transporting Syriaís most dangerous chemical weapons out of the strife-torn country, is photographed, from a boat, docked outside of Larnaca port, Cyrpus, Tuesday, May 13, 2014. Denmarkís foreign minister Martin Lidegaard is urging Syria to give up the last of its chemical weapons agents in the next few days in order to meet a June 30 deadline for completely ridding the war-torn country of its lethal stockpile. A Danish-Norwegian flotilla consisting of two warships and two cargo vessels has been moving the chemicals out of Syria for eventual destruction since January.
An Iraqi policeman gestures near burning vehicles moments after one in a series of bombs hit the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City, in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, May 13, 2014. A wave of car bombings in mainly Shiite areas of Baghdad killed tens on Tuesday, officials said.
Kansas Governor, Sam Brownback announced Tuesday his recent appointments to boards and commissions, one of which is from Manhattan. Linda Weis has been appointed to serve a four year term on the Kansas Supreme Court Nominating Commission, to fulfill the unexpired term of Don Dahl. Weis earned her bachelor’s degree at the University of Kansas and her master’s degree at the University of Denver. She currently works as the supervising broker and owner of an independently owned real estate company in Manhattan. She also has served on the Governor’s Military Council and the Kansas Arts Industries Commission. She will continue to work…
Congressman Tim Huelskamp made it official Tuesday, filing for re-election at the Kansas Secretary of State’s office. The Congressman tells KMAN he’s excited about the campaign. Huelskamp, a Fowler Republican, admits it’s been an interesting term in office–and he admits there have been lots of surprises. He says his favorite answer to the question “Was it everything you thought it would be?” is “Oh yes and much worse.” Republican Alan LaPolice of Clyde and Democrat Bryan Whitney of Wichita are the only two who have officially filed for the position at the Secretary of State’s office, although Democrat Jim…