This photo released by the Kenya Presidency shows the collapsed upper car park of the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013. Working near bodies crushed by rubble in a bullet-scarred, scorched mall, FBI agents continued fingerprint, DNA and ballistic analysis to help determine the identities and nationalities of victims and al-Shabab gunmen who attacked the shopping center, killing more than 60 people. (AP Photo/Kenya Presidency)
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KMAN received word Thursday afternoon that a woman employed at Seth Child Cinema was fired and has received death threats after posting a negative comment on Facebook about the military. According to the woman’s Facebook page, she was once a staff leader at the theater. KMAN is still waiting for a comment from Carmike Cinema’s corporate office.
With four days to go before the federal government is due to run out of money, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., left, looks at a countdown clock during a news conference on Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013, where Senate Democratic leaders blamed conservative Republicans for holding up a stopgap spending bill to keep the government running. From left are, Reid, Senate Budget Committee Chair Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin of Ill., Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., and Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., the Democratic Policy Committee chairman. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Yet another meeting on proposed new flood maps was held Wednesday evening, just a night after the Manhattan city Commission examined the matter. City Floodplain Manager Chad Bunger tells KMAN there were actually two sessions Wednesday night, one for professionals such as realtors and the other for general members of the public. Bunger adds the turnout was good at both sessions. A total of 100 people signed in and Bunger says with those people came questions. Specifically, the City Planner says questions dealt with future planning and how the city will manage development in that area to eliminate flood risks. Bunger says following the…
Topics on Thursday’s Riley County Commission agenda ranged from increasing driver’s license fees to adding a temporary bailiff to the district court. The first work session held during the meeting, featured a “Certificate of Survey” for the parking lot purchase that has been discussed during previous meetings. County Counselor, Clancy Holeman presented this item. Nothing was approved, and he will return with edited language during a later date. The other two work sessions featured more discussion, as differing opinions arose. During the review of the Public Building Commission (PBC) draft resolution and draft bylaws, commissioners expressed their opinions about adding…
Jury selection lasted most of Wednesday in a change of venue murder case, being heard in Riley County District Court. Antonio M. Brown Sr., 29, faces charges in connection with the beating death of a 14-month-old child nearly two years ago. The mother of the child has already been convicted of second degree murder and has been sentenced to 13 years in prison. KMAN news reported on the case several times earlier this year, with Brown escaping from prison in February. He originally entered a plea of no contest to first degree murder but then withdrew his plea. Brown escaped…
SEATTLE (AP) Hisashi Iwakuma pitched eight scoreless innings and Mike Zunino homered twice to lead the Seattle Mariners to a 6-0 win against Kansas City, ending the Royals’ playoff hopes Wednesday night. The Royals entered Wednesday four games behind Cleveland for the second wild-card berth with five games to play. All three teams ahead of Kansas City in the wild-card hunt Tampa Bay, Cleveland and Texas won on Wednesday, and the Royals needed a victory to keep their slim hopes alive. Iwakuma made sure they didn’t get one. Ervin Santana matched Iwakuma and kept the Mariners scoreless for the first…
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have benched former K-State quarterback Josh Freeman and replaced him with rookie Mike Glennon. The move Wednesday came two days after coach Greg Schiano insisted Freeman remained the starter because he gave the team the best chance to win. The winless Bucs have lost their first three games, two on field goals in the closing seconds. Freeman has completed just 45.7 percent of his passes for 571 yards, two touchdowns and three interceptions. Glennon was drafted in the third round out of North Carolina State, where he spent part of his college…
OLATHE, Kan. (AP) A northeast Kansas woman is going to prison for embezzling more than $1 million at a hospital where she worked. The Johnson County prosecutor’s office says Cheryl McAnally, 52, of Lenexa, was sentenced Wednesday to eight years behind bars. Judge James Franklin also ordered her to pay restitution of more than $1 million. McAnally worked at Overland Park Regional Medical Center as the administrator of its medical staff dues fund. She was charged in November 2011 on seven counts and pleaded guilty in July of this year to five felonies. District Attorney Steve Howe says the Secret…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Federal prosecutors have accused a Canadian man living in south-central Kansas of stealing the identity of a younger brother who died as an infant decades ago. Trial for Leslie Lyle Camick, 58, of Winfield, was rescheduled after a hearing Wednesday and is now set for Nov. 19. The telecommunications field engineer has been indicted on charges including mail fraud, aggravated identity theft, immigration document fraud and lying to the U.S. Patent Office. Prosecutors say Camick used his dead brother’s birth certificate to flee Canada in 2006 to avoid overdue child support, back taxes and other legal difficulties.