On today’s InFocus, Cathy talks with Ella Casey and Mark Ellner with Sunset Zoo, followed by Vern Henricks and Elaine Dhuyvetter with Greater Manhattan Community Foundation, and ending with Gail Urban regarding the Fieldhouse proposal. [mp3-jplayer]
Author: KMAN Staff
Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann has announced that she is not running for another term in Congress. Bachmann, tea party Republican favorite, says she was not concerned about being re-elected, or any inquiries into her 2012 Presidential campaign.
Security forces rescued seven foreigners working for the International Red Cross in Afghanistan after an hour-long gun battle with insurgents in the eastern city of Jalalabad.
Tickets for the NCAA Baseball Regional this weekend at Tointon Family Stadium have sold out according to Kansas State Athletics officials. However, there’s still an opportunity to get in to see the games. Below is the release from K-State Athletics Communications: K-State Athletics officials announced today that All-Session tickets for the NCAA Baseball Manhattan Regional are sold out. However, a limited number of standing room only tickets will go on sale at 8:30 a.m., Friday for all games. Fans can purchase SRO tickets online at k-statesports.com, by calling 1-800-221-CATS, or in person at the Bramlage Coliseum ticket office. Standing room…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) The Kansas City Chiefs have begun their final week of voluntary workouts, though you wouldn’t know they’ve been voluntary by the attendance. Just about everyone has been at practice every day the past couple weeks. No holdouts, no drama. Instead, the Chiefs under new coach Andy Reid have been busily installing their offense and defense, getting acclimated with each other and preparing for next week’s mandatory minicamp. Not that it promises to be a whole lot different than organized team activities. The Chiefs have already started to nail down potential starters at several positions, including…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Carlos Beltran hit a two-run homer against his former team, rookie Tyler Lyons made another dazzling start and the St. Louis Cardinals beat Kansas City 4-1 on Tuesday night for the Royals’ 10th consecutive home defeat. The only two hits that Lyons allowed over seven innings were to Billy Butler a two-out RBI double in the first inning and a bloop single in the seventh. Otherwise, the left-hander shut down an anemic Kansas City offense to improve to 2-0 in his week-old major league career. Trevor Rosenthal pitched the eighth inning in a driving…
The first 2014 Manhattan city budget and capital improvement program city commission work session on Tuesday night unveiled a few of the battle lines drawn in the sand by the commission. Manhattan Director of Finance Bernie Hayen presented the first round of information on the city budget, and prefaced it by informing the commission on the growth the city has gone through in recent years. Manhattan saw a 5.5 percent growth change from 2010 to 2012, and ranked 15th in the nation in a recently released report from the U.S. Census Bureau. Hayen says growth, and infrastructure will have an…
CORNING, Kan. (AP) Tornadoes have been roaring over parts of northern Kansas for a second straight day. No injuries have been reported. Scattered property damage was reported late Tuesday afternoon in the small Nemaha County town of Corning. Authorities there said a tornado destroyed at least one home and damaged another, while several sheds and outbuildings were also hit. Farther west, a large tornado was reported north of Salina near the Ottawa County town of Bennington. The twister was initially spotted around 5:30 p.m. and hadn’t lifted nearly an hour later. Tuesday’s violent weather follows an outbreak Monday night that…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A federal appeals court in Washington has refused to clear a potential obstacle to construction of a coal-fired power plant in southwest Kansas. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia rejected a request from Hays-based Sunflower Electric Power Corp. to overturn a federal judge’s ruling that put the construction plans on hold. Sunflower wants to build an 895-megawatt plant outside Holcomb. But U.S. District Judge Emmett Sullivan last year ordered the U.S. Agriculture Department’s Rural Utilities Service to complete an environmental study before granting any approvals for the $2.8 billion…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) A two-day festival of alternative, pop and rap music at Kansas Speedway scheduled for late June has been called off. Organizers of Kanrocksas announced the cancellation Tuesday, citing low ticket sales. The festival was scheduled to open June 28 with a lineup that included Fun., Passion Pit, She and Him, Kendrick Lamar and Imagine Dragons. The cancellation was announced jointly by Midwest Music Festivals and Kansas Speedway. A message on the Kanrocksas website says there are no plans to reschedule the event. This year’s festival would have been the second Kanrocksas. The first was held in…