Preliminary numbers were reported to the Riley County Commission, during their Monday meeting, involving EMS calls on Fake Patty’s Day. Riley County EMS Director, Larry Couchman noted that the numbers are within midnight of the morning of Saturday, until seven o’clock Sunday morning. During the 31 hour period of time, there were 45 total calls for service, which is down from last year’s 64 calls. Although the call volume was down, the Emergency Room patient numbers increased. 110 total patients were taken to the ER, while there were only 70 patients last year. Only four patients were admitted to the…
Author: KMAN Staff
The Excel Road project could be looking at a delay if agreements can’t come to pass. During Monday’s Pottawatomie County Commission meeting, John Watt, County Counselor, brought forth a complaint by a developer after review of the Memorandum of Understanding that was drawn up a couple of weeks ago. Watt explained the developer is wishing the county to pay inspection costs that for about a decade has been the responsibility of the developer. Stan Hartwich, Commission Chair, stated they need to “stay with what has been done in the past” on this matter. Gary Yenzer, Commissioner, agreed with the sediment…
Information from 1st Infantry Division Facebook: A Medal of Honor recipient, former 1st Infantry Division Soldier and Junction City native, Walter Ehlers was laid to rest March 8 in Riverside, Calif. He died Feb. 20 at the age of 92. Ehlers, who received a battlefield commission to second lieutenant in 1944, was a staff sergeant six months earlier when he earned the Medal of Honor. He was the last living Medal of Honor recipient who stormed Omaha Beach on D-Day and served with the 1st Inf. Div.’s 18th Infantry Regiment. His passing means there are now 75 living recipients of…
Marcus Foster is now a second team all-big 12 selection by the Associated Press and the Big 12 coaches. Foster was named to the coaches second team on Sunday and picked up the AP honor Monday morning. He was also named to the coaches all-newcomer team. Will Spradling and Thomas Gipson were both honorable mention selections by the coaches, but no one other than Foster received any mention from the AP. This is the 11th straight year that K-State has had at least one selection on one of the all-league teams. Iowa State’s Melvin Ejim won both Big 12 player…
A magnitude 6.9 offshore earthquake shook Northern California late Sunday. No damage or injuries are reported.
A man spent six hours holding out on a rooftop of the San Diego FBI Headquarters. He was taken into custody after a SWAT team stormed the area.
Ukrainian riot police block the entrance of the regional administrative building during a pro Russian rally in Donetsk, Ukraine, Sunday, March 9, 2014. Following an extraordinary meeting of the Ukrainian government, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced he would be flying later this week to the United States for high-level talks on “resolution of the situation in Ukraine,” the Interfax news agency reported Sunday.
A U.S. Navy helicopter lands aboard Destroyer USS Pinckney during a crew swap before returning to a search and rescue mission for the missing Malaysian airlines flight MH370 in the Gulf of Thailand, Sunday, March 9, 2014. The plane, which was carrying 239 people, lost contact with ground controllers somewhere between Malaysia and Vietnam after leaving Kuala Lumpur early Saturday morning for Beijing.
“High Speed, Low Drag” is a common saying in the military, and the new U.S. Department of Defense budget for 2015 seems to be taking a cue from its meaning as it calls for a slimmer military force relying more on technology to do the heavy lifting. Kansas Governor’s Military Council Executive Director John Armbrust says the plan also assumes a toning down of the military’s operation tempo with the withdrawal of military forces from deployments. Armbrust says a focus on technology is driving a smaller forecast of manpower requirements. However, Armbrust says the budget will have to change as…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A Kansas couple and their four newly adopted children have made it home after a grueling trip to Ukraine, where civil unrest delayed their return for weeks. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports Don and Lisa Jenkins arrived in Ukraine on Feb. 2 and had hoped to finalize the adoptions of their four children by Valentine’s Day. Those plans came to a halt when thousands of people took to the streets to protest the government’s movement toward Russia. Much of the fighting in Kiev happened just a mile from the apartment where the Jenkinses were staying. After the fighting…