Author: KMAN Staff

Although the budget will not officially be approved until a public hearing is held during the next regular meeting on August 20th, the Manhattan Ogden USD 383 School Board agreed on the proposed budget. Director of Business Services, Lew Faust presented the budget, which has been adjusted during previous meetings. The board’s original goal was to keep the mill levy increase under a mill, and they definitely did so-as the proposed mill levy stands at 52.49, which is an increase of .04 mills over last year’s budget. Board Vice President, Marcia Rozell made a motion to give final approval to…

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Seen through a window, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials have a conference call on Ebola with CDC team members deployed in West Africa from the agency’s Emergency Operations Center, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014, in Atlanta. An American aid worker infected with Ebola arrived Tuesday from Liberia to Emory University Hospital, just downhill from the CDC, joining a second patient being given an experimental treatment that has never before been tested on humans.

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K-State Football media day is today and K-State basketball finds out their first opponent for the Maui invitational. Royals demolish Arizona. Mitch Holthus joins the show. Joan Kurtz will call in from Bill Snyder Family Stadium. We will go “Around College Football”. “You Can’t Be Serious” wraps up the show.

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On today’s In Focus, KMAN’s Laura Monsanto filled in for Cathy and spoke with Manhattan Ogden USD 383 School Board Member, Darell Edie and Superintendent, Bob Shannon; as well as K-State Vice President for Student Life and Dean of Students, Pat Bosco.

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K-State will take on Purdue in their opening game of the 2014 Maui Invitational on November 24th at 1:30 P.M. on ESPN2. Bruce Weber was an assistant for 18 years under Gene Keady at Purdue from 1980-98 and was 7-11 against the Boilermakers during his time at Illinois. Purdue finished just 15-17 and 5-13 in the Big Ten last season. They return four players that started at least 15 games last season and add two top-100 recruits in Isaac Haas and Vince Edward. The other game in K-State’s half of the bracket is Missouri against Arizona. Pittsburgh, Chaminade, BYU and…

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PHOENIX — The Kansas Royals had given Danny Duffy almost no run support over his previous four starts and little all season, so they were anxious give him something, anything against the Arizona Diamondbacks. Ten runs on three swings did the trick nicely. Billy Butler had a three-run homer among his four hits, Nori Aoki hit a grand slam and the Royals gave Duffy some rare run support by bashing the Diamondbacks 12-2 on Tuesday night. Salvador Perez had the first big blow with a three-run homer in the third inning and Butler added another three-run shot during Kansas City’s…

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