SALINA, Kan. (AP) First responders from throughout the state are taking part in a two-day mass disaster exercise in central Kansas. The exercise Wednesday and Thursday brings together more than 230 people from city, county and state agencies, including the Kansas Highway Patrol and search and rescue teams. The event takes place at Crisis City, located at the Great Plains Regional Training Center near Salina. Crisis City is operated by the Kansas Division of Emergency Management. Among its training sites are a collapsed building, piles of rubble, a simulated rail disaster and a high-angle rescue tower.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas legislators plan to resume negotiations on tax issues following House rejection of a proposal to set the sales tax at 6 percent in July. But House and Senate negotiators were still waiting to schedule talks Wednesday. They’re still trying to resolve the differences between the two chambers on legislation following up on massive income tax cuts approved last year. On a 71-42 vote Tuesday, the House rejected a proposal crafted by the leaders of its Republican majority during talks with the Senate. It would have cut income taxes further but raised new sales tax revenues to…
[mp3-jplayer] The guys preview the Arkansas Razorbacks, who are the number two seed in the Manhattan Regional, former Wildcat pitcher AJ Morris joined the show to start hour two and Marshall Henderson reaches out to Amanda Bynes in today’s “You Can’t Be Serious.”
On today’s InFocus, Cathy talks with Ella Casey and Mark Ellner with Sunset Zoo, followed by Vern Henricks and Elaine Dhuyvetter with Greater Manhattan Community Foundation, and ending with Gail Urban regarding the Fieldhouse proposal. [mp3-jplayer]
Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann has announced that she is not running for another term in Congress. Bachmann, tea party Republican favorite, says she was not concerned about being re-elected, or any inquiries into her 2012 Presidential campaign.
Security forces rescued seven foreigners working for the International Red Cross in Afghanistan after an hour-long gun battle with insurgents in the eastern city of Jalalabad.
Tickets for the NCAA Baseball Regional this weekend at Tointon Family Stadium have sold out according to Kansas State Athletics officials. However, there’s still an opportunity to get in to see the games. Below is the release from K-State Athletics Communications: K-State Athletics officials announced today that All-Session tickets for the NCAA Baseball Manhattan Regional are sold out. However, a limited number of standing room only tickets will go on sale at 8:30 a.m., Friday for all games. Fans can purchase SRO tickets online at k-statesports.com, by calling 1-800-221-CATS, or in person at the Bramlage Coliseum ticket office. Standing room…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) The Kansas City Chiefs have begun their final week of voluntary workouts, though you wouldn’t know they’ve been voluntary by the attendance. Just about everyone has been at practice every day the past couple weeks. No holdouts, no drama. Instead, the Chiefs under new coach Andy Reid have been busily installing their offense and defense, getting acclimated with each other and preparing for next week’s mandatory minicamp. Not that it promises to be a whole lot different than organized team activities. The Chiefs have already started to nail down potential starters at several positions, including…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Carlos Beltran hit a two-run homer against his former team, rookie Tyler Lyons made another dazzling start and the St. Louis Cardinals beat Kansas City 4-1 on Tuesday night for the Royals’ 10th consecutive home defeat. The only two hits that Lyons allowed over seven innings were to Billy Butler a two-out RBI double in the first inning and a bloop single in the seventh. Otherwise, the left-hander shut down an anemic Kansas City offense to improve to 2-0 in his week-old major league career. Trevor Rosenthal pitched the eighth inning in a driving…
The first 2014 Manhattan city budget and capital improvement program city commission work session on Tuesday night unveiled a few of the battle lines drawn in the sand by the commission. Manhattan Director of Finance Bernie Hayen presented the first round of information on the city budget, and prefaced it by informing the commission on the growth the city has gone through in recent years. Manhattan saw a 5.5 percent growth change from 2010 to 2012, and ranked 15th in the nation in a recently released report from the U.S. Census Bureau. Hayen says growth, and infrastructure will have an…