The Kansas Department of Labor released labor force estimates and the City of Manhattan had the lowest unemployment rate in the area at just 4% for the month of March, which is down a tenth-of-a-percent from February and a half-percent from a year ago. Other area unemployment numbers for March include: Riley County at 4.4%, down slightly from 4.6% in February. Pottawatomie County at 4.7%, down from 5.6% in February. Geary County had the highest unemployment rate in the area at 6.2%, down slightly from 6.8% in February. Clay County had the second lowest unemployment rate at 4.3%, down from 4.6% in…
Author: KMAN Staff
Published reports from numerous media outlets say former Kansas Governor and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will not run for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by incumbent Pat Roberts. Health and Human Services spokeswoman Dori Salcido told the Associated Press on Friday afternoon: “”Secretary Sebelius is continuing her important work at HHS and is not considering a run for the Senate.” Sebelius resigned from her position on April 3 following a rocky rollout of the sign-ups for the Affordable Care Act also known as Obamacare. Two days earlier, Sebelius had announced that the goal of seven million…
A finally Friday edition of “The Game” on KMAN gets you set for a big sports weekend. The Kansas City Royals are fresh off a sweep in Houston against the Astros and are back in KC for a three game home series with the Twins. Can the Royals get payback from last week when the Twins swept the Royals in Minnesota? The K-State baseball team picked up a much needed conference win against Baylor on Thursday night and still have a couple left with the Bears. Do the bat cats need a sweep to keep postseason play alive? Four star top 100 hoops prospect for 2014 Malek Harris has Kansas State on one of his top schools as the six foot seven forward will be visiting the Manhattan campus over the weekend. How important would that be for Bruce Weber if he could land Harris with that last scholarship? Frank Haith is the new coach at Tulsa replacing Danny Manning. Did Frank Haith do Missouri a favor by getting out sooner rather than later? All that and much more on “The Game” on KMAN.
Denis Pushilin, foreground center, spokesman of the self-appointed Donetsk People’s Republic, speaks to reporters inside the regional administration building seized earlier in Donetsk, Ukraine, Friday, April 18, 2014. Pushilin told reporters that the insurgents do not recognize the Ukrainian government as legitimate. Pro-Russian insurgents in Ukraine’s east who have been occupying government buildings in more than 10 cities said Friday they will only leave them if the interim government in Kiev resigns. Pushilin also denied being connected to leaflets reportedly distributed to Jewish citizens in Eastern Ukraine register themselves and their property by early May.
A rescue diver jumps in near the buoys installed to mark the sunken 6,852-ton ferry Sewol in the water off the southern coast near Jindo, south of Seoul, South Korea, Friday, April 18, 2014. Rescuers scrambled to find hundreds of ferry passengers still missing Friday and feared dead, as fresh questions emerged about whether quicker action by the captain of the doomed ship could have saved lives.
New revenue projections came out Thursday predicting the State of Kansas will collect nearly $178 million more in revenues than previously thought through June 2015. KMAN had a chance to speak with State Senator Tom Hawk of Manhattan on his thoughts about the projections. Hawk said the revenue numbers are not as good as he thought they would be due to the reduction of the state income tax. According to Hawk $100 million out of the total is from this fiscal year and the remaining $78 million is projected. The revenues during the current fiscal year would still run about 6…
A gift of more than $629,000 is heading to the Department of Military Science at Kansas State. K-State’s Director of Military Affairs Art DeGroat tells KMAN the gift is from the estate of Lt. Colonel Albert E. Hylton III, to establish a fund in his father’s name, the Albert E. Hylton Jr. Excellence Fund. DeGroat adds he has utmost confidence the generous gift will help to perpetuate excellence in the military officer pre-professional program at K-State. DeGroat says the gift will be invested and the interest income each year will go to the excellence fund to develop programs for…
More than $25,000 in damage is being reported by T-Mobile of Overland Park for property located at a Manhattan location. Riley County Police indicate that Thursday at approximately 11:00 AM, police took a report for criminal damage to property in the 2200 block of Tuttle Creek Blvd. Police were told that a hybrid Fiber Optic cable approximately 150 feet long was damaged. The damaged cable belongs to T-Mobile of Overland Park. Currently no arrests have been made. ### Two Manhattan men face citations after reports of taking down city street signs in the area of the 1800 block…
A five-run sixth inning rallied K-State past Baylor on Thursday night 8-2 at Tointon Family Stadium. The Cats trailed the Bears 2-1 entering the frame, when Tyler Stover scored on an error by Baylor pitcher Brad Kuntz. The next two batters struck out, and then senior all-American Ross Kivett came through with a 2-out 2-run single to give K-State the lead. RJ Santigate and Austin Fisher would close the inning with run scoring base hits. Max Brown closed the scoring in the seventh with his first career home run, a two run blast to left. Stover led K-State with three hits…
HOUSTON (AP) James Shields struck out 12 in eight innings and the Kansas City Royals completed a three-game sweep of the Houston Astros with a 5-1 win on Thursday night. Shields gave up one run and four hits, all singles. He got back to his winning ways after seeing his nine-game road victory streak snapped in his last start at Minnesota when sloppy defense led to six unearned runs in a 7-1 loss. The Royals will return home looking for revenge on Minnesota, who swept them last weekend. First pitch at the K will be at 7:10pm on Friday night,…