On today’s In Focus, Cathy spoke with Irwin Army Community Hospital TRICARE Online Manager, Sandra Bruner, and Irwin Army Community Hospital Access to Care Manager, Lillian Goddard, as well as Member of the Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission, Linda Weis and Director of the Commission, Peter Jasso.
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Riley County Commissioners found out about Senate Bill 436 Wednesday, and therefore discussed the piece of legislation during their meeting on Thursday. The proposed legislation would amend the statute involving police department director positions to be elected instead of appointed by the Law Board. Commission Chair, Robert Boyd said “we were surprised to find out it had come out of the Senate, because it hadn’t been talked about before. I don’t think any of us have debated it at all.” Commissioner, Dave Lewis added, “it comes as a complete surprise to me”. Lewis and Boyd seemed to agree that they…
An Ogden man was arrested on a failure to appear in court warrant Thursday. Casey Lindley, 26, was arrested while in the 500 block of 6th Street in Manhattan at approximately 11:40 AM. Lindley’s failure to appear warrant involved an original offense of fleeing or attempting to elude a law enforcement officer. He was confined and later released on a bond of $10,000.### The Riley County Police Department began an investigation into the alleged offenses of abuse of a child and aggravated endangering of child reported Thursday evening at approximately 5:00 PM. This investigation stemmed from allegations of abuse…
ESPN’s Adam Schefter is reporting that the New Orleans Saints have traded former K-State running back Darren Sproles to the Philadelphia Eagles for a fifth round draft pick. The Saints initially told Sproles they would release him, but decided instead to trade the nine-year veteran because there was so much interest from teams looking to acquire him. In three years with the Saints, Sproles gained a total of 1,067 rushing yards, 1,981 receiving yards and 21 touchdowns. He set an NFL single-season record for all-purpose yards with 2,696 in 2011.However, Sproles played in only about 33 percent of the Saints’ offensive…
Caroline Ballard scored 14 points and Darby Price added 10 as the Manhattan High girls basketball team beat Shawnee Mission West 55-39 in the 6A state tournament quarterfinals at Koch Arena in Wichita on Wednesday afternoon. The top seeded Tribe won their 20th game in a row to improve to 22-1. MHS will square off with Maize in the 6A state semifinals on Friday afternoon at 3:00pm. Indians pregame starts at 2:45 on NewsRadio 1350 KMAN with Brandon Tadtman. ———————————————————— Lanie Page scored 27 points as the Wamego girls basketball team took the first step in defending their state title…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Cory Jefferson scored 20 points, Isaiah Austin added 18 and seventh-seeded Baylor held on to beat pesky TCU 76-68 on Wednesday night in the opening round of the Big 12 tournament. Royce O’Neale added 14 points and 12 boards for the Bears (22-10), who advanced to play No. 2 seed Oklahoma in Thursday’s quarterfinals with their eighth win in their last nine games. #10 seed TCU (9-22) trailed by as many as 17 in the second half, but behind 19 points from Karviar Shepherd, closed to within 69-63 with 2:32 left to play. The Bears…
KANSAS CITY, MO (AP) Marcus Smart left one last impression on Texas Tech, scoring 18 points and leading seventh-seeded Oklahoma State to an 80-62 victory over the ninth-seeded Red Raiders on Wednesday night in the first round of the Big 12 tournament. Smart also had seven rebounds, seven assists and six steals for the Cowboys (21-11), who built a 46-23 lead by halftime and then cruised into Thursdays’ quarterfinal against top-seeded Kansas. Markel Brown had 20 points, Phil Forte added 14 off the bench and Le’Bryan Nash scored 10 for Oklahoma State, which has never lost in 10 first-round…
Two people are dead at the South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas. Police say a drunk driver trying to avoid arrest drove through barricades and hit the crowd. The driver is in custody, facing two counts of capital murder.
Malaysia said planes sent Thursday to check the spot where Chinese satellite images showed possible debris from the missing Malaysian jetliner found nothing.
Police respond to the scene of an explosion and building collapse in the East Harlem neighborhood of New York, Wednesday, March 12, 2014. The explosion leveled an apartment building, and sent flames and billowing black smoke above the skyline.