The NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament Selection Committee took care of the Big 12, as seven teams will be in the field of 64. That includes 7th place Kansas, who snuck in as a #12 seed. The Women’s NIT grants an automatic bid to the first team not selected to the NCAA’s in each major conference. K-State finished eighth in the Big 12, and will open the WNIT on Thursday against Texas Southern. The game between the Cats (15-17) and Lady Tigers (20-11) will be played at Bramlage Coliseum at 7:00pm. SportsRadio 1350 KMAN will carry the game starting with the…
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Riley County Clerk Rich Vargo says over 500 mail in ballots have been sent out to local voters for the upcoming Manhattan city commission seats, and USD 383 Manhattan-Ogden school board positions. Voter registration closed for the county on March 12th, and advance voting began on March 13th. Walk in advance voting begins Monday March 25th at the Riley County office building at 110 Courthouse Plaza in Manhattan. The hours are from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, and Saturday from 8 a.m. to noon. However, advance voting will be halted by April 1st at noon to comply…
K-State could be looking at a Sweet 16 matchup with Gonzaga this year, but the Wildcats will for sure see the Zags next year. K-State will make a return to Wichita next season when the Big 12 Conference champions face current #1 Gonzaga in the Wichita Wildcat Classic on Saturday, Dec. 21 at Intrust Bank Arena. The Cats are the #4 seed in the West Region in the NCAA Tournament, while the Bulldogs are the top seed. K-State must get thru the second round against either LaSalle or Boise State on Friday, and then Ole Miss or Wisconsin in the…
President Barack Obama has chosen Thomas Perez, a top Justice Department official, to be the next secretary of labor, calling him a consensus builder whose “story reminds us of this country’s promise.”
Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced her support for gay marriage Monday, putting her in line with other potential Democratic presidential candidates on a social issue that is rapidly gaining public approval.
Former University of Oklahoma championship quarterback Steve Davis was one of two people killed when a small aircraft smashed into a house in northern Indiana, officials said Monday.
On today’s InFocus, Cathy talks with David Westfall, PhD candidate with Kansas State’s Sociology department. [mp3-jplayer]
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas’ transportation secretary says a key part of a legislative proposal to lower sales and income taxes will force the state to delay highway projects. Transportation Secretary Mike King issued a statement Monday about a provision of a tax bill before the Kansas House that diverts $382 million in revenues over two years from highway projects. The House bill would follow up on last year’s income tax cuts by allowing further reductions in rates if state revenues grow by more than 2 percent. It also would allow the state sales tax to drop in July, as scheduled…
AUGUSTA, Kan. (AP) Officials in a southeast Kansas town devastated by flooding nearly 15 years ago say work on a new levee is progressing slightly ahead of schedule. The Augusta Daily Gazette reports the levee protecting the west city of Augusta is expected to be complete by the end of August, at a cost of more than $6.6 million. Groundbreaking on the levee along the Whitewater River took place in July of last year. Part of Augusta lies at the confluence of the Whitewater and Walnut Rivers. In October 1998, more than 650 homes and roughly 90 businesses were damaged…
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) The latest edition of the Classic Jayhawk, a University of Kansas campus landmark sculpture, will be tougher than its predecessors and less likely to be rolled away thanks to a 3-foot anchor and three tons of concrete. Over the years, the other Classic Jayhawks have been climbed on, knocked over and rolled along the Jayhawk Boulevard sidewalk. But The Lawrence Journal-World reports that the new version of the Jayhawk sculpture in front of the Kanas Unions is due to be completed this month. And while it might look the same, inside it’s an entirely different bird. The…