At 10:22 pm Friday evening, inmate Randy Ridens, Sr, was apprehended as he was entering Topeka, Kansas. He was immediately transported back to Lansing Correctional Facility. Earlier in the evening, Allen Hurst and Scott Gilbert, the other two minimum custody escapees from Lansing Correctional Facility, had been apprehended and taken into custody by law enforcement officers in Clinton County, Missouri. All three inmates had been declared on escape status from the minimum unit at Lansing Correctional Facility at approximately 7:40 am earlier in the day.
Author: KMAN Staff
Marc Fucarile, one of the many people who was injured in last month’s Boston Marathon bombing is still recovering at Mass. General Hospital. Fucarile lost his right leg, and so did three of his friends.
President Barack Obama is launching a new effort to rally the public around his hotly disputed health care law, a strategy aimed at shoring up key components of the sweeping federal overhaul and staving off another challenge from Republicans.
On a night where offense was in short supply and they saw their catcher get thrown out of the game, the Kansas State Wildcats did what they’ve done numerous times so far this Baseball season….find a way to win. A pair of freshman pitchers combined to shutdown a potent Kansas lineup and a huge home run provided the difference as Kansas State downed the Jayhawks 4-3 Friday night in the opening game of a three-game Big 12 Conference Series before 2,090 at Hoglund Ballpark in Lawrence. K-State led 3-0 after four and a half innings on a pair of sacrifice…
On Friday, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced that it will cancel the planned closure of 149 airport control towers thanks to the bipartisan bill passed by Congress which unequivocally directed the FAA to find savings elsewhere in their budget rather than target control towers for closure and air traffic controllers for furloughs. Among those saved from closure is the tower at Manhattan Regional Airport which had been scheduled to close initially last month before it was postponed until September. Other Kansas Air Traffic Control facilities protected from closure by the announcement include: Philip Billard…
The silver spire topping One World Trade Center on Friday brought the structure to its final height of 1,776 feet. Loud applause and cries of joy erupted from construction workers as the spire was gently lowered and secured into place.
As the number of dead from the collapse of a garment factory building in Bangladesh soars past 1,000, there’s a remarkable story of survival. A woman was found alive today in the wreckage of the building.
About 1,200 students walked across the stage to receive their certificates and diplomas during Manhattan Area Technical College’s commencement exercises Friday. College President Rob Edleston tells KMAN several family members and friends attended the event, held at the Hilton Garden Inn, with 1,400 chairs filled. Featured speaker, Dr. Andy Tompkins, President and CEO of the Kansas Board of Regents, challenged the graduates to find a way to give of themselves. He also shared five suggestions with the graduates, including to treat other people the way you want to be treated, to value the importance of human relationships above all else, to pursue…
The Junction City Fire Department has been awarded with a FEMA 2012 Assistance to Firefighters Grant. With the grant, the department will be able to replace their existing 1989 75 ‘ aerial truck with a newer one. The goal of the Assistance to Firefighters Grant is to meet the firefighting and emergency response needs of fire departments and non affiliated emergency medical service organization. The award of the grant is $760,000 with a minimum match from the city of $84,444.
A power outage occurred on Manhattan’s west side at approximately 10:45am this morning. Westar Energy spokesman Nick Bundy tells KMAN that approximately 3,400 customer were affected. According to the Westar Energy outage reports on their website, as of right now that number has dropped tremendously with reports of just a few isolated outages. KMAN will continue to pursue information on the origin of the outage.