On a Thursday edition of “The Game”, the guys talk Big 12 hoops as the Wildcats are slated to finish 5th in the conference. Multiple angles taken throughout the show getting you prepared for Saturday’s match up in the Little Apple between the Wildcats and the Baylor Bears. Jamey Eisenberg stops by from CBSsports.com to talk fantasy football, plus “You can’t be serious”.
Author: KMAN Staff
Stocks soared Thursday, putting the market on track for its second-best day of the year, on news Washington was moving closer to a deal to avert a U.S. government default.
World financial leaders converging on Washington for a high-level economic summit are getting a closer look at the US stalemate as talks resolving the shutdown inch closer. Economists say the budget fight has already hurt the US economy.
Foot and mouth disease is scary, particularly if you’re a farmer–and state authorities continued with a two day emergency drill with that scenario in Manhattan Thursday the Biosecurity Research Institute on the K-State campus. Mary Soukup, Communications Director with the Kansas Department of Agriculture, addressed reporters, including KMAN and a representative from “Modern Farmer” magazine based in New York, announcing that in the drill, the Kansas State football game had been cancelled. Soukup mentioned the 50,000 people and associated traffic could cause problems. Soukup admits to some irritated community members in that make believe world. Dr. Bill Brown, who serves as the Kansas Animal Health…
As Congress members continue to disagree, we have almost made it to a complete two weeks of the government being shutdown. Impacts in Washington D.C are evident, but impacts are happening here in Manhattan as well. Riley County Health Department staff members received disappointing news yesterday, which is a direct result of the shutdown. County Health Department Director, Brenda Nickel told commissioners, during their Thursday meeting, the state of Kansas had been lucky the past few weeks because the government shutdown had not yet impacted health services, but people that use WIC will be impacted until the shutdown is over.…
House Republicans say they will advance legislation to temporarily extend the government’s ability to borrow money. Speaker John Boehner said the measure would advance if President Barack Obama agrees to negotiate over reopening government.
Footage from government-controlled Syrian TV shows weapons inspectors examining a chemical plant in an unknown location in the country. Inspectors have visited three sites linked to Syria’s chemical weapons program, according to a spokesman.
Manhattan’s Sunset Zoo is home to several new additions – a female bobcat, a pair of sun conures (sun parakeets), eight prairie dogs and a male Amur leopard. All of the animals are doing well and, except for the leopard, all have completed the Zoo’s quarantine process and are now on public exhibit. “As an accredited member of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) we regularly transfer animals from one institution to another in an effort to maintain healthy populations among our facilities,” said Scott Shoemaker. “The mild weather we’re enjoying across the country makes fall an ideal time.”…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has signed an executive order offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of a suspect in a homicide case in southeast Kansas. The governor made the announcement Wednesday, seeking the public’s help in locating Kevin Robert Welsh. The 35-year-old Welsh, of Toronto, Kan., is being sought in connection with the shooting deaths of Keith and Sheila Kriesel, both of Eureka, and the shooting of a third individual on Oct. 2 in Eureka. Welsh is considered armed and dangerous. Greenwood County law enforcement and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation have been…
The defending Big 12 champion K-State Wildcats were picked by the league’s men’s basketball coaches to finish in a tie for 5th with Oklahoma in the annual preseason released on Thursday morning. The Cats were also selected fifth a year ago when they went on to win their first conference title in 36 years. Kansas and Oklahoma State were picked as preseason co-league champs, each receiving five first place votes, and 77 points overall. Baylor was picked third, and Iowa State was voted fourth. West Virginia, Texas, Texas Tech, and TCU round out the final four spots in the poll.…