Thousands gathered in Ukraine’s capital Kiev to pay their respects to victims of last month’s violence as Crimean pro-Russian supporters celebrate closer ties with Moscow.
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Updated Monday evening: Services for Naomi McClendon will be held at Westview Community Church in Manhattan on Saturday at 7pm. Updated 9 a.m. Monday: Manhattan High school Principal Greg Hoyt put out an announcement to parents Monday morning,commenting on the weekend death of Naomi McClendon, a 2013 graduate of the high school with parents who teach there and a brother who is currently a sophomore. Hoyt said in the announcement it is important for children to have as normal and routine a day as possible. He says crisis team met at 6:45 AM Monday morning to articulate a plan of action, and a school-wide…
Several local Kansas Lawmakers gathered Saturday morning at Sunset Zoo’s Nature Exploration Center for the second-to-last Legislative Coffee of the season. Representative of the 67th District, Tom Phillips shared his opinion on how the legislature should restore $129 million to public schools, as mandated by the Kansas Supreme Court’s ruling on school finance. “I would like to take a major bulk of the money out of last year’s carry-over balance,” Phillips said, “There’s probably some initiatives submitted by the Governor, for example pre-K. That’s 16 million dollars, maybe we’re gonna have to hold off on that initiative.” Representative of the…
Ross Kivett went two for five and scored a pair of runs and Jared Moore won for the fifth time in six decisions as the Kansas State Baseball team defeated Creighton 8-5 Saturday afternoon at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, Neb. in the middle game of a three-game non-conference weekend series. Despite scoring runs in five of the first six innings of the game, the Wildcats held just a 6-5 lead over the Blue Jays who won the series opener Friday night 4-3. In the top of the eighth inning however, K-State picked up the insurance it needed on R.J.…
Crews searching for victims in the tangled debris field from the Washington mudslide halted their work Saturday for a moment of silence to honor those lost.
A Chinese military plane spotted several objects floating in the sea on Saturday, including two bearing colors of the missing Malaysian jet. But it was not immediately clear whether the objects were related to the 3-week-old investigation.
MCPHERSON, Kan. (AP) Police in the central Kansas town of McPherson have identified a man found dead outside a storage shed as a 26-year-old resident of the community. The death of Ernest Charles Miller is being investigated as suspicious, although police have not yet classified it as a homicide. Miller’s identity was released Friday, one day after two people passing by spotted the body. The McPherson Sentinel reports an autopsy concluded Miller died of blunt trauma and suffocation. Police had also been looking for Miller’s car and found it Thursday night at his home.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Gov. Sam Brownback says Kansas will join Oklahoma in suing the federal government over the addition of the lesser prairie chicken to its list of threatened species. Brownback announced his state’s response Friday during a news conference. Oklahoma sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in federal court last week, challenging the process under which the federal agency was considering the listing. The Kansas governor said there was no need for the federal agency to list the lesser prairie chicken as threatened because five states containing its habitat have developed a conservation plan. The states are Kansas,…
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie says the report that cleared him of involvement in closing lanes near the George Washington Bridge “will stand the test of time, and it will be tested.” His office hired the law firm that issued the report.
Jeremiah Denton, who survived 71/2 years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam and alerted the U.S. military to conditions there when he blinked the word “torture” in Morse code during a television interview, has died. He was 89.