On today’s In Focus, Cathy spoke with Manhattan Mayor, Wynn Butler and Deputy City Manager, Jason Hilgers.
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Former K-State pitcher Evan Marshall is the 11th former Wildcat to reach the Major Leagues after being called up on Tuesday to the Arizona Diamondbacks from triple-A Reno. Marshall is expected to make his debut for the D-Backs against the Milwaukee Brewers this week. He is 0-1 with a 0.54 ERA in 14 relief appearances with Reno this season, while allowing only 10 hits and five walks with 19 strikeouts in 16 2/3 innings. Marshall pitched for K-State from 2009 to 2011, registering a 3.55 ERA in 85 career appearances. During his junior season in 2011, the right-hander had a…
K-State senior men’s golfer Daniel Wood is the first Wildcat in four years to be selected to the NCAA Regionals. Wood tied for seventh at the Big 12 Championship earlier this month, and is one of 45 individuals nationally to earn a bid. He’ll tee it up next Thursday thru Saturday, May 15th to the 17th at the Columbia, Missouri regional. To make the NCAA National Championships in Hutchinson later this month, Wood would have to beat out all golfers not on one of five teams to qualify from the Columbia Regional. Mitch Gregson and Joe Ida were the last…
SAN DIEGO (AP) Will Venable hit a two-run single in the 12th inning to give the San Diego Padres a 6-5 win over the Kansas City Royals on Monday night. Venable singled off Tim Collins and over the head of right fielder Lorenzo Cain to score Chris Denorfia with the tying run and Yonder Alonso with the winning run from second base. Denorfia led off the inning with a single off Louis Coleman before Collins came on. After a sacrifice, Alonso reached a bloop double to left to bring up Venable. Mike Moustakas hit an RBI single in the 12th…
Guthrie, Oklahoma Fire Chief Eric Harlow says the huge blaze in the central part of the state could last for days. He also said strong winds make the fire extremely dangerous.
The leader of Nigeria’s Islamic extremist group Boko Haram is threatening to sell the nearly 300 teenage schoolgirls abducted from a school in the remote northeast three weeks ago, in a new videotape received Monday.
A man carries a cross as he walks by the coffin of regional parliament member Vyacheslav Markin, in Odessa, Ukraine, Monday, May 5, 2014. Markin, who was known for speaking out against the government in Kiev, was buried on Monday while about 300 pro-Russian supporters shouted “Hero, hero!” Markin died Sunday from burn wounds sustained in Friday’s fire.
An aerial view shows the site of Friday’s landslide that buried Abi Barik village in Badakhshan province, northeastern Afghanistan, Monday, May 5, 2014. Hundreds of people were killed in a horrific landslide and authorities are trying to help the 700 families displaced by the torrent of mud that swept through their village. The families left their homes due to the threat of more landslides, Minister for Rural Rehabilitation Wais Ahmad Barmak said.
On today’s In Focus, Cathy talked to Director of Military Affairs at Kansas State University, Art DeGroat, Candy Allison and Margie Young with Manhattan Emergency Shelter, and Mary Mertz regarding the Feast of the Fields.
A man charged in a vehicular homicide case, made his final statement during his sentencing Monday afternoon. Daniel Nitchman (38) appeared in Riley County District Court, alongside his attorney-Richard Seaton. In September of last year, Nitchman was driving his 2012 Ford pickup down I-70 when he reportedly fell asleep at the wheel. His vehicle veered off the roadway, entered the north side ditch, and struck 31 year old Samantha Coleman of Abilene, who was standing outside her vehicle. The accident killed Coleman instantly. During Nitchman’s final statement, he commented- “I’m sorry for what happened. If I could go back…