Updated: 4:20 p.m. Sunday Power was restored to Riley and Pottawatomie County Westar customers about 35 minutes after the reported problem. Westar Spokeswoman Gina Penzig tells KMAN the problem was due to a breaker going out. More than 1,800 customers were impacted during the brief outage, with traffic lights at several busy intersections in Manhattan impacted. #### A power outage was reported just before four Sunday afternoon, affecting 217 Riley County Westar customers, and 1,602 Pottawatomie County customers. In addition traffic lights are not functioning on Tuttle Creek Boulevard from Bluemont to Poyntz Avenue. Motorists are urged to use caution…
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Rodney McGruder made the most of his NBA summer league debut with the Orlando Magic, scoring 11 points in just 11 minutes of action during Orlando’s 95-88 win over the Boston Celtics Sunday afternoon. McGruder made three of five shots from the floor, including two three pointers, and connected on all three of his free throw attempts. Former Oklahoma Sooner Romero Osby tied for the Orlando scoring lead with 18 points in 24 minutes. The Magic will play the Oklahoma City Thunder at 10:00 AM Monday. Jordan Henriquez did not see the floor in the Houston Rockets first summer league…
Hundreds of supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi gathered outside the Republican Guard headquarters in Cairo on Sunday calling for the release of the former president.
San Francisco Mayor Edwin Lee offered the city ‘s thoughts and prayers toward passengers aboard an Asiana Airlines plane that crashed while landing at San Francisco International Airport, killing at least two people, and injuring many others.
Over one hundred people gathered in the auditorium of Wamego High School tonight as well as to participate in a silent auction, with both events raising money for the victims of the Moore Oklahoma tornado. Wamego high student Alexis Pettay spearheaded the event, and she says she was inspired to do something for Moore after watching a benefit concert presented by country music star Blake Shelton. She asked her friend Maggie Shermoen to assist, and in just a matter of weeks, the two friends had everything ready for the fund raising event. Pettay says there were donation jars set up…
KANSAS CITY, Mo.(AP) — The Kansas City Royals are starting to embrace quite the never-say-quit mentality. Trailing in the seventh inning? No need to worry. Game tied in the eight? Perfect position. Jarrod Dyson delivered an infield single with the bases loaded and two outs on Saturday, and stingy closer Greg Holland preserved the Royals’ scrappy 4-3 victory over Oakland with a perfect ninth inning that gave Kansas City its first win over the Athletics this season. “Sometimes games aren’t going to go our way, but we aren’t going to hang our heads,” said Dyson, who snapped an 0-for-11 skid…
An Asiana Airlines flight from Seoul, South Korea, crashed while landing at San Francisco International Airport, forcing passengers to jump down the emergency inflatable slides to safety.
A large swath of a town in eastern Quebec was destroyed Saturday after a train carrying crude oil derailed, sparking several explosions and forcing the evacuation of up to 1,000 people.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A Wichita woman wants the thief who stole her purse to know she was also robbed of a very special possession: an urn with her father’s ashes. Melissa Stout told KAKE-TV that her purse was stolen from her car when she and her family were downtown Thursday night to watch fireworks. Stout says she has carried the ashes with her since her father died four years ago. She thought she was keeping them safe. She says everything else in the purse can be replaced, but the urn is priceless. Stout says she’s concerned that whoever took her…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A new report shows Kansas collected nearly $87 million more in taxes than expected in the fiscal year that ended June 30. The state Revenue Department said Friday that tax collections totaled about $6.2 billion in the 2013 fiscal year, nearly $160 million more than in the previous year. Collections in June were $567 million, about $25 million more than expected. New laws enacted last year reduced the state’s personal income tax rates and eliminated taxes on roughly 191,000 businesses in certain categories. The Legislature approved more tax cuts in its latest session.