Author: KMAN Staff

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas medical board plans to appeal a court order overturning its revocation of a doctor’s license over her referrals of young patients for late-term abortions. The State Board of Healing Arts made the decision Friday to take the case of Dr. Ann Kristin Neuhaus of Nortonville to the Kansas Court of Appeals. Shawnee County District Judge Franklin Theis last week said Neuhaus kept inadequate records but that the board failed to show that she provided inadequate mental health exams. Theis ordered the board to reconsider its revocation of Neuhaus’ charity-care license in 2012 over exams in…

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A piece of Wamego history went up for auction Saturday. The Leach-Ditto home was built in 1890, with the second story addition completed in 1904.  Over the years, the home saw many changes, once being converted into multiple apartments.  Dr’s. Bill and Rose Ditto purchased the home in 1987 and completely renovated the home, keeping as much as the original as possible. The home is over 6,000 square feet, with 5 bedrooms and 4 1/2 baths, 4 garages, 4 gas fireplaces, a large family room all done in walnut.  It is heated and cooled with 5 separate HVAC units.  There are 70…

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The Wamego Red Raiders Girls Basketball team will look for its second consecutive State Championship when they face Bishop Miege in the Class 4A Division I title game Saturday afternoon at the Bicentennial Center in Salina. Wamego (24-0) enters the game on a 39-game winning streak after Friday’s 52-39 victory over Kansas City Piper. Bishop Miege which has won double-digit State titles in Class 5A over the years, now in its first year in Class 4A reached the title game with a 64-52 win over Andover Central. The game can be heard on our sister station Hot Country B 104.7…

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A demonstrator carries Russian and Ukrainian flags during a march to oppose president Vladimir Putin’s policies in Ukraine, in Moscow, Saturday, March 15, 2014. Large rival marches have taken place in Moscow over Kremlin-backed plans for Ukraine’s province of Crimea to break away and merge with Russia. More than 10,000 people turned out Saturday for a rally in the center of the city held to oppose what many demonstrators described as Russia’s invasion of the Crimean Peninsula. In a nearby location, a similar sized crowd voiced its support for Crimea’s ethnic Russian majority, who Moscow insists is at threat from…

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A woman writes on a board of messages and well wishes dedicated to people involved with the missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner MH370, Saturday, March 15, 2014 in Sepang, Malaysia. A Malaysian passenger jet missing for more than a week had its communications deliberately disabled and its last signal came about seven and a half hours after takeoff, meaning it could have ended up as far as Kazakhstan or deep in the southern Indian Ocean, Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak said Saturday.

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Levi MaVorhis threw a complete game, two-hit shutout to lead K-State to a 10-0 win over Northern Colorado. The win is K-State’s eighth in a row, and the two-hitter was the first at K-State since Chase Mitchell two-hit Kansas in 2005. MaVorhis retired the first 18 batters he faced before Northern Colorado’s Jake Ekman led off the 7th inning with a line drive that went just over the glove of K-State’s Carter Yagi at second base. K-State’s offense was locked in as well. The Wildcats scored three runs in each of the first two innings to jump all over the…

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The Manhattan high girl’s basketball team lost their 20 game win streak with a 42-35 loss in the 6A state tournament semi finals on Friday afternoon. Manhattan led 5-3 after the end of the first quarter but Maize outscored the Indians 21-12 in the 2nd quarter to seize control and MHS couldn’t get over the hump. Manhattan was led by Darby Price who finished with 12 points and seven rebounds. She was the only MHS player to reach double figure scoring. Caroline Ballard finished with just five points as she was hurt with foul trouble as she picked up her…

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A Bolivarian National Guard officer holds a demonstrator’s head up to help him breathe after his detention during clashes in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, March 14, 2014. The Venezuelan government is stepping up security operations in Caracas and other cities where demonstrators are blocking streets, avenues and highways. President Nicolas Maduro said that those involved in creating road barricades will be arrested.

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US Secretary of State John Kerry gestures as he arrives for a meeting with Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron and the Foreign Secretary William Hague at Downing street in London, Friday, March, 14, 2014. Kerry arrived in London Friday, for his last meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov before the Crimea vote.

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Thomas Donilon, former national security adviser to President Barack Obama, will present Kansas State University’s second Landon Lecture of 2014.   Donilon’s lecture will be at 11:15 a.m. Tuesday, April 15, in the university’s McCain Auditorium.   “We’re very excited to welcome a former national security adviser who served under the current U.S. president,” said Jackie Hartman, chair of the Landon Lecture Series, the university’s chief of staff and director of community relations. “Mr. Donilon played key roles in several defining national security issues and is a fitting addition to the Landon Lecture Series’ historic roster of speakers.”   As…

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