An envelope addressed to Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi tested positive Tuesday for ricin, a potentially fatal poison, congressional officials said, heightening concerns about terrorism a day after a bombing at the Boston Marathon.
Author: KMAN Staff
A storm system that’s expected to linger is creating travel delays in Colorado. As much as 15 inches of snow fell in some areas. Denver International Airport reported 5 inches as airlines canceled more than two dozen flights.
If you’ve walked or driven around Aggieville and the K-State campus lately, you may have noticed a cordoned-off portion of the block at the corner of Bluemont and North Manhattan Ave. “They’re starting to demolish those structures that are at the corner of Bluemont and North Manhattan Avenue. Once that demolition is done, and we’ve completed the plan review, there is planned to be a five-story hotel building on that corner,” said Brad Claussen, Building Official for the City of Manhattan. Once construction plans are approved, the City will issue a building permit and construction will begin on the new hotel.
It’s time to check in with Manhattan on today’s InFocus. Cathy sits down with City Manager Ron Fehr, outgoing Mayor Loren Pepperd, incoming Mayor John Matta. [mp3-jplayer]
KMAN has been able to get in touch with a couple of people who were in Boston Monday during the marathon. We have Sam Brinton, a former K-State student who is now living in Boston, and Lyndi Stucky, a junior in mass communication at K-State. [mp3-jplayer]
Two new commissioners took their seats on Tuesday night at the Manhattan City commission meeting at city hall. Usha Reddi, and Karen McCulloh joined with re-elected incumbent Rich Jankovich to applaud the service of outgoing members of the commission… Loren Pepperd, and Jim Sherow. McCulloh waited no time to jump back into her role as a commissioner, and asked the city to help in outreach to the city of Boston. McCulloh reminded those gathered of the aid given by Boston to Manhattan after the 1993 flood. Reddi says she is excited to get to work as a commissioner, and wants…
Though, the explosions happened on the east coast in Boston on Monday, here in Manhattan we are feeling the ripple effect as some of our own were effected. Four Kansas State students were in Boston with their families running the marathon, while other Wildcats had made the transition to Boston to work on their education. KMAN had a chance to talk with Lyndi Stucky, junior in mass communications and part of Alpha Delta Pi, and Samuel Brinton, former K-State student. For Stucky, she was lucky in more ways then one on Monday. She not only got to run in the…
MISSION, Kan. (AP) Police in northeast Kansas are trying to determine if the shooting of a 6-year-old girl by a 14-year-old cousin was accidental. The girl was wounded Tuesday morning while she and the boy were in the lobby of a chiropractor’s office in Mission, a suburb of Kansas City. Mission Police Capt. David Moloy says the girl was alert when she was taken to a hospital for treatment of a gunshot wound in her leg. Moloy says the teenager ran from the scene. He was taken into custody without incident about an hour later, less than a block away.…
WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama has canceled his scheduled visit Friday to the University of Kansas in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing. The White House issued a brief statement Tuesday saying the president’s schedule had changed. He will go to Boston on Thursday to attend an interfaith memorial dedicated to victims of the blasts. It’s unclear whether the White House will reschedule the Kansas visit. The purpose of Obama’s trip to Kansas had not been disclosed, though state Democratic leaders were asked to find a venue on the Lawrence campus that could hold between 3,000 and 6,000 people.
LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) The executive director of a mental health center that serves three northeast Kansas counties says the center is dealing with increased demand while receiving less funding. Keith Rickard told the Leavenworth County Commission Monday that the Guidance Center sees about 5,000 patients a year, compared with about 2,800 decade ago. The center serves Leavenworth, Jefferson and Atchison counties. He said the center made $400,000 less in 2012 than in 2011. And if the state cuts an estimated $10 million from its community mental health center grants this year, the center will lose about $183,000 in grants. The…