The City of Junction City, through the Engineering Department, will hold an informational Open House regarding the City’s ongoing Street Maintenance Program. The program will be an interactive and ongoing program from 3 PM to 7 PM December 20, providing the public information on the City’s Street Maintenance Program. The Open House is informal and will allow individuals the opportunity to stop in for a few minutes or longer to ask questions, obtain information and/or provide concerns. Informational materials will be available on the following: the City’s Street Pavement Management Program (PAVER – a street rating and evaluation program), prior…
Author: KMAN Staff
For the second straight season, the American Volleyball Coaches’ Association (AVCA) named K-State middle blocker Kaitlynn Pelger an honorable mention all-American. The Olathe junior is one of only four players at her position to play all six rotations as she totalled 361 kills, 273 digs, and 91 blocks. Pelger was also named first team all-Big 12 and the third K-State player to be an all-American in back-to-back seasons. Nataly Korobkova was a third team AVCA all-American in 2007 and 2008, and Liz Wegner (Busch) earned honorable mention all-America from Volleyball Magazine in 2000 and 2001. In the Big 12, the…
A Big 12 offensive coordinator will reportedly be the next head coach at Arkansas State. ESPN Radio 103.3 in Dallas says Texas OC Bryan Harsin will be introduced as the new head man for the Red Wolves on Wednesday. Harsin will replace Gus Malzahn in Jonesboro, who left Arkansas State after one season to return to Auburn. Malzahn led Cam Newton and the Tiger offense during the 2010 national championship season. Harsin led a Texas offense that ranked #37 in the country during an 8-4 regular season.
PITTSBURGH (AP) Jeremiah Jones scored 16 points and Derrick Colter added 12 points and seven assists as Duquesne rallied past West Virginia 60-56 on Tuesday night. Marvin Binney scored 10 points off the bench for the Dukes (6-4), who beat the Mountaineers for the first time since 2003 behind a solid second half that erased a 15-point deficit. Juwan Staten led West Virginia (4-4) with 13 points and Gary Browne and Matt Humphrey added 10 points each, but the Mountaineers saw their three-game winning streak end during a miserable 20 minutes in which they struggled on both ends of…
DIX HILLS, N.Y. (AP) More than 100 mourners attended a wake in New York for Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher, who killed his girlfriend and himself. The 25-year-old Long Island native was in an open casket in an auditorium-size room at the Upper Room Christian World Center church in Dix Hills, 30 miles east of New York City. Police say the West Babylon native shot 22-year-old Kasandra Perkins and then shot himself Dec. 1. The couple had a baby daughter named Zoey. Belcher’s mother, Cheryl Shepherd, declined to speak with a reporter when contacted by telephone Tuesday. Belcher’s…
Police say the man who opened fire in a suburban Portland shopping mall apparently killed himself after fatally shooting two people and wounding a third.
The Michigan Legislature gives final approval to a bitterly contested right-to-work plan limiting the power of unions, unswayed by the pleas of Democrats and thousands of protesters in the state Capitol.
Bicycling, storm water drainage at a local park, and the structure of the Metropolitan Planning organization headed up the items at Tuesday Night’s Manhattan city commission meeting. Public participation was strong as residents and commissioners tackled the CiCo park drainage study and recommendations issue. Commissioners informed city staff to investigate more options to fund erosion preventative measures, and lessen the impact of a possible benefit area consisting of 25 residences near the project. A detention plan would be paid for by the city itself. A presentation on improvements to Bluemont Avenue from 11th street to North Manhattan Avenue took a…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A group of activists is planning to renew efforts to lobby the Kansas Legislature to expand the definition of bullying and cyberbullying because of ongoing problems in a south central school district. The Wichita Eagle reports Tuesday that parents from the Wichita area and State Board of Education member Walt Chappell are pushing the issue to modify a bullying law passed in 2007. The law requires districts to implement anti-bullying plans but doesn’t dictate how districts should handle or track reports of bullying. Calls for the legislation were prompted by bullying incidents in the Haysville district. Parents…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A federal judge has ruled a trial is necessary to decide claims brought in a lawsuit by two unions arising from Boeing’s 2005 sale of its commercial aircraft operations in Kansas and Oklahoma. The lawsuit was brought by the International Association of Machinists and the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace. In a 49-page decision Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Monti Belot rejected requests by both sides for summary judgment, although he did side with Boeing on some minor claims. Among issues to be decided is the meaning of “layoffs” as it relates to early retirement and…