Twin sisters often have an unbreakable bond, and after starring for four years at Riley County, Madison and Makayla Vargo will carry on their basketball careers together at Washburn University. The Vargos plan to ink their national letters of intent with the Lady Blues on Wednesday morning at Riley County high school. Unfortunately their senior seasons ended a little sooner than expected with a trip to the 3A state tournament and a loss in the first round to Lyons, the Falcons finished at 22-2. Madison and Makayla were both on the all Mid-East League first team this past season,…
Author: KMAN Staff
Updated 1:30 p.m. Tuesday: The passenger in Monday night’s rollover accident in Geary county has been identified as Luke M. Johnson Sr. of Manhattan. ### As KMAN announced early Tuesday, one person was injured in a rollover accident in Geary county Monday evening. John D. Thompson of Manhattan was westbound on I-70 at milemarker 301 shortly before 6:30 p.m. when he lost control of the 1999 “S”Series Mercedes he was driving. The vehicle swerved into the opposite lane, Thompson over-corrected, and the Mercedes went through a fence, rolling over and coming to a stop on its roof. EMS…
Wamego’s USD 320 Board of Education reviewed the High School’s proposed grading policy. At Monday’s meeting, Principal Tim Winter went over a revised grading policy, after the current policy raised some public concerns. According to Winter, the Honor Roll standards have been amended because currently about 90 percent of the student body is listed on the Honor Roll. The regular Honor Roll will require a 3 point 7 (3.7) to 3 point 99 (3.99) GPA. The High Honor Roll will require a 4 point 0 (4.0) or higher GPA, because of the weighted grading of the Advanced Placement (AP) classes.…
K-State women’s basketball coach Jeff Mittie has announced the hiring of another member of his former staff at TCU. Ebony Gilliam was an assistant for the Horned Frogs under Mittie for the past two seasons, and also spent another two years as the director of operations. Gilliam joins associate head coach Brian Osterman at K-State. The former Ebony Shaw ended her TCU playing career from 2000-2004 as the sixth leading scorer in school history, and also coached high school basketball for four years in the Fort Worth area before returning to her alma mater. Mittie previously announced a pair of former K-State…
Five-time state champion wrestling coach Dennis Charbonneau will take a step away from the mat as he was named athletic director and assistant principal at Wamego High School during Monday night’s USD 320 school board meeting. Charbonneau has spent 25 years as a chemistry and physics instructor, and was a head wrestling coach for 19 years, from 1996-2009 at Clay Center and the last five seasons at Emporia. He’s been named Kansas wrestling coach of the year eight times.
A vehicle slammed into a downtown business early Tuesday morning. The business struck is identified in the Riley County Police incident report as Linde Beauty Supply, located at 121 South Fourth Street. While not known if this is connected, an arrest is also reported in that same location at the same approximate time of just before two a.m. Scott Tuck, 23, of Junction City was taken into custody at 121 South Fourth at 1:59 a.m. on a DUI charge. His bond was set at $750.
One year after two bombs went off near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, the victims and law enforcement look back on a painful day.
The Army last November officially began assigning female officers to lead the cannon platoons and plans to open other combat jobs. In Fort Bragg, North Carolina, 1st Lt. Kelly Requa is among the first women to lead a cannon platoon.
Victims of a blast lie on the ground as fire and smoke rise at a bus park in Abuja, Nigeria, Monday, April 14, 2014. A massive explosion ripped through a bus station during the morning rush hour in Nigeria’s capital, killing and wounding scores of people in a bombing that marked the bloodiest terrorist attack ever in Abuja.
Oscar Pistorius, leaves the high court in Pretoria, South Africa, Monday, April 14, 2014. Pistorius is charged with murder for the shooting death of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, on Valentines Day in 2013.