A request to a hire a part-time person was granted, while some other positions are up for review. In November of last year, positions were approved for the Riley County public works department and the planning and development department. Public works received two positions to fill the gap of Assistant Public Works/Parks Director, Rod Meredith’s retirement. Planning and development gained one position as well around that time. Human Resource Manager, Cindy Volanti told the county commission, during their Thursday meeting it’s time to review these positions. Volanti recommended using McGrath consulting for this task, as they are efficient and not very…
Author: KMAN Staff
Ross Kivett singled home Blair DeBord from third base in the bottom of the eighth inning to give K-State a 4-3 victory over Minnesota on Wednesday afternoon at Tointon Family Stadium. The Golden Gophers jumped out to a 3-0 lead over the Cats with single runs in the second, third, and fifth innings. K-State pulled within 3-2 in the bottom of the fifth with a DeBord RBI double and Tanner Witt’s sacrifice fly. Shane Conlon tied the game at 3 in the seventh with a towering solo home run to right field. After Wildcat starter Blake McFadden gave up two…
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) Tyrone Garland led La Salle’s guard-driven offense with 22 points, and the Explorers wrapped up the NCAA tournament’s First Four by getting the better of an old-fashioned shootout, beating Boise State 80-71 on Wednesday night. The 13th-seeded Explorers (22-9) play fourth-seeded K-State on Friday. Ramon Galloway, one of the Atlantic 10’s top scorers, added 21 points in a fast-paced offense that did pretty much whatever it wanted. The Explorers shot 63 percent from the field–16 of 22 in the second half. Thirteenth-seeded Boise State (21-11) got its first at-large bid and was looking for the first…
The family of a six-month-old child who died earlier this week in what has become a reported murder case is asking for financial assistance for a memorial fund. The grandmother of Dominic James Lubrano, Gina Brisby, notified KMAN Wednesday that a fund has been established at Kansas State Bank at 1010 Westloop for Lubrano. Michael DeChant, 19, was arrested in connection with the case and is charged with first degree murder. His bond has been set at one million dollars.
Palestinian militants in Gaza fired two rockets into Southern Israel on Thursday. The rockets hit far from Jerusalem, where President Obama was at the time.
Police say they have no suspects yet in the shooting death of Colorado’s top corrections official, Tom Clements, who was gunned down Tuesday night when he answered the door at his home.
President Barack Obama says the U.S. is investigating whether chemical weapons have been deployed in Syria, but he’s “deeply skeptical” of claims by Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime that rebel forces were behind such an attack.
Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke says unemployment will remain high into 2015, suggesting the Fed will keep short-term interest rates near record lows at least until then.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas House has given first-round approval to bill cutting sales and income taxes after rejecting a diversion of highway funds to stabilize the budget. The bill advanced Wednesday on an 82-37 vote, suggesting it has enough support to pass on final action expected Thursday. The legislation follows up on personal income tax cuts enacted last year by promising income tax rate reductions each year that overall state revenues grow more than 2 percent. Also, the bill allows the state sales tax to decline as scheduled in July. Originally, the bill would have diverted $382 million over…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A bizarre crash in Wichita involving a pair of empty school buses has left one man dead and two others under arrest. KAKE-TV reports the accident happened early Wednesday on the Kansas Turnpike. The Highway Patrol says one school bus was towing another southbound when the towed bus broke loose. Troopers say the driver of the first bus turned around in the southbound lanes and drove back to the other one. Other motorists tried to avoid the buses, setting off a chain-reaction crash that killed a driver identified as Donald Putnam, 60, of Wichita. Investigators believe the…