A finally Friday edition of “The Game” on KMAN gets you ready for a big sports weekend! K-State and Oklahoma from Bill Snyder Family Stadium. Kevin Lockett and former K-Stater Nick Leckey join the show to break down their prediction on Saturday between the Sooners and the Cats. Brent Maycock from the Topeka Capital Journal joins the show to break down the High School football playoffs. K-State basketball struggles again in Puerto Rico. Plus, “You can’t be serious” to close out the show on KMAN.
Author: KMAN Staff
A finally Friday edition of “The Game” on KMAN gets you ready for a big sports weekend! K-State and Oklahoma from Bill Snyder Family Stadium. Kevin Lockett and former K-Stater Nick Leckey join the show to break down their prediction on Saturday between the Sooners and the Cats. Brent Maycock from the Topeka Capital Journal joins the show to break down the High School football playoffs. K-State basketball struggles again in Puerto Rico. Plus, “You can’t be serious” to close out the show on KMAN.
The Kansas Department of Transportation has announced as of 11:45 a.m. Friday, the ramps from eastbound K-18 to Davis Drive and Davis Drive to eastbound K-18 are NOW OPEN to unrestricted traffic in Manhattan (Riley County). Also, the new bridge over K-18 connecting Miller Parkway to Davis Drive is NOW OPEN to unrestricted traffic. With the ramps and bridge opening to traffic, this means that ALL lanes, ramps and bridges on the K-18 Improvement Project are NOW OPEN to unrestricted traffic (excluding the sidewalk closure listed below). The sidewalks along Davis Drive, Miller Parkway and over the new bridge remain…
Story by K-State Communications and Marketing: In a 770 to 432 vote, classified employees have decided to leave the state civil service system and become university support staff employed directly by Kansas State University. Ballots were distributed to 1,582 classified employees, with 1,202 casting their vote. “I want to commend the Alternative Service Committee for their leadership in exploring the university support staff status for classified employees,” said Kirk Schulz, university president. “I also would like to thank those who participated in the discussion process about this important issue. I look forward to working together to meet faculty and staff…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A federal judge is approving changes in hearing schedules in a case involving a Manhattan doctor accused of illegally distributing prescriptions from his Kansas clinic. U.S. District Court Judge Julie Robinson approved the motion late Thursday to grant time for plea negotiations to continue between prosecutors and attorneys for Michael P. Schuster, 53. Schuster is charged with one count each of conspiracy to illegally distribute controlled substances, drug distribution, unlawfully distributing drugs to a person under 21 years old and using and maintaining a premises for drug distribution. Prosecutors allege Schuster signed blank prescription pads that his…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The national League of Women Voters and the group’s Kansas and Arizona chapters are seeking to intervene in a federal lawsuit over proof-of-citizenship laws in the two states. The groups filed their requests Thursday in a federal court case in Kansas. The national advocacy group Common Cause, three Arizona-based Hispanic-rights groups and an Arizona political consultant also filed requests to intervene. Last week, a Washington-based voter registration group, three Arizona-based advocacy groups and an Arizona state senator sought to intervene. The lawsuit was filed in August by Kansas and Arizona and Secretaries of State Kris Kobach and…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A judge has delayed until next year the trial of two Wichita restaurant operators accused of employing people who are in the country unlawfully. U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten on Thursday postponed the trial of Yong Lin, 33, and his wife, 29-year-old Zhuo Mei Weng, until March 11. The couple had been previously scheduled to go to trial on Dec. 17. The couple is charged with conspiracy and harboring people who are in the U.S. unlawfully. The indictment alleges they paid the workers at their World Buffet Grill in cash and failed to complete employment eligibility…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A 25-year-old northeast Kansas man has been charged in head-on crash that killed a Topeka man in 2010. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Aaron Emerson Meade, of Meriden, is charged with involuntary manslaughter while driving under the influence after a crash in March 2010 that killed Neil L. Highsmith, 50. Shawnee County District Court records show Meade was charged Nov. 15. He was booked into the Shawnee County jail Thursday, where he was being held on a $50,000 cash or surety bond. Lee McGowan, chief of staff for the county district attorney’s office, said he couldn’t comment…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) Police say four people were arrested after a shooting in which at least one bullet entered an elementary school in Kansas City, Kan. No one was injured in the shooting Wednesday near Whittier Elementary School. Police on Thursday chased a vehicle thought to be connected to the shooting. The vehicle eventually was stopped by a tire-puncturing device on Interstate 670 and the four people were taken into custody.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The chairman of the Kansas Corporation Commission is proposing ending cost studies for proposed rate increases that are less than 10 percent. KCC chairman Mark Sievers made the suggestion in a statement responding to Westar Energy’s recent $30.7 million rate request, which was approved Thursday. Sievers suggested that the commission could presume rate increases of less than 10 percent are reasonable. He says that would save time and the expense of cost allocation and rate design studies. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports cost allocation was an issue in Westar’s latest case because the utility sought larger increases for…