The Pottawatomie County Sheriff’s Office is asking for help in locating a runaway juvenile from St Mary’s Kansas. Anne Bernadette Cooney, age 17, is reported to have left her residence in St.Mary’s at about 10:00 a.m. on the May 31st. Cooney has not returned home and was last seen wearing a short pink dress. She is described as a white female, 5’10” , 135 pounds. shoulder length brown hair and has hazel eyes. She commonly wears her hair in a braid. If you have seen Anne Bernadette Cooney or know where she may be found, please contact the Pottawatomie County…
Author: KMAN Staff
Topeka – Kansas Governor Sam Brownback today announced the appointment of the office’s new Director of Communications/Press Secretary, Eileen Hawley. She will join the administration staff on June 24, 2013. “Eileen’s experience and passion for excellence will make her a great fit for the administration,” Governor Brownback said. “Lt. Governor Colyer and I are excited to welcome her to our team.” Hawley is a professional communicator with more than 25 years of corporate and government public affairs experience. Most recently she served as Vice President Operations of the Lawrence Kansas Chamber of Commerce. Before moving to Kansas in 2008, she…
The bench-clearing donnybrook got underway in the seventh inning at Dodger Stadium after Arizona pitcher Ian Kennedy plunked his L.A. counterpart, Zack Greinke, with a high-and-tight pitch. The Dodgers’ pitcher, who fractured his collarbone in a brawl with the Padres earlier this season, was the third player hit in the tense NL West tilt. That 92-mph fastball at Greinke’s head proved to be the final straw. Home plate umpire Clint Fagan immediately ejected Kennedy, who began walking off the mound as Greinke shook off the impact. Before the D-backs pitcher even crossed the first-base line, he was swallowed up by…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Max Scherzer won his ninth straight decision, and the Detroit Tigers beat Kansas City 3-2 to snap the Royals’ six-game winning streak on Tuesday night. Scherzer became the first Tigers starter to begin the season 9-0 since Vern Kennedy in 1938 by pitching seven sharp innings. He limited the Royals to three hits and two runs, while striking out six and walking two. Aaron Crow (2-2), who was a college teammate of Scherzer’s at Missouri, took the loss after pitching out of a bases loaded jam in the seventh. Crow hit Miguel Cabrera with a pitch…
A major wildfire burning near Colorado Springs is zero percent contained as of late Tuesday night. Four major fires are burning in Colorado.
After a prolonged legal fight, President Obama reversed course on age restrictions for the Plan B morning-after pill. It’s unclear just how soon the emergency contraceptives will hit the shelves for girls of any age to buy.
A mill levy increase is projected in the city of Manhattan’s 2014 budget. The Manhattan city commission received a briefing on the 2014 city budget, capital improvements, economic development, and utility rate forecasts during Tuesday’s work session. Manhattan Director of Finance Bernie Hayen says overdue capital improvements is one of the factors leading to the increase . Hayen says current property taxes are already heavily leveraged towards such items as the state mandated funding of the Riley County Police department. Local businessman Tim Schultz joined with other community business leaders in expressing his discontent with the mill levy increase. Schultz…
Updated: 9 p.m. Tuesday night The unofficial final results from Tuesday night’s special election regarding a USD 378 bond proposal shows the defeat of that proposal by a more than two to one margin. With 100 percent of the precincts reporting, 764 voted no and 358 said yes. In percentages, that’s 68 percent saying no to about 32 percent saying yes. The voter turnout for the special election was nearly 42 percent of registered voters in the USD 378 voting district. Results will not be official until the June 17th canvass. KMAN news will be speaking with USD 378 Supt.…
Two prominent civil rights groups have filed a lawsuit against the National Security Agency over its program that reportedly collects the telephone records of millions of American customers of Verizon.
President Obama says the path to citizenship under a proposed immigration reform bill is “no cakewalk”. He says the Senate bill is not perfect and no one will get everything they want.