FORT RILEY, Kan. (AP) A 1st Infantry Division brigade will be conducting a live-fire training exercise in preparation for an upcoming deployment to Africa. Soldiers with the 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team will be conducting a mock assault exercise Thursday on the training grounds at Fort Riley. The soldiers will be using newly issued models of Bradley Fighting Vehicles and Abrams tanks during the exercise. The training will combine the use of ground forces and maneuver equipment from the 4,000-soldier brigade. The 2013 mission to Africa is the first of any Army unit as part of regionally aligned forces. The…
Author: KMAN Staff
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Incoming Kansas House Speaker Ray Merrick says he’s hoping to finish committee assignments early next week. Merrick told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he’s still working to fill some committee chairmanships in the 125-member chamber. The Stilwell Republican was named as the next speaker earlier this week by fellow Republican legislators and legislators-elect. His selection must be formally ratified by the entire House when the Legislature convenes its next annual session in January, but that’s considered a formality. It’s typical for some key committee chairmanships to change hands with a new speaker. Merrick is following Speaker…
ROELAND PARK, Kan. (AP) The suburban Kansas City mayor says her police department is in danger of being disbanded after a Walmart store closes in 2014 and leaves a roughly $700,000 sales tax gap. Roeland Park, Kan., Mayor Adrienne Foster says she could consider eliminating the department to save money, but the City Council’s public safety committee chairman says that’s not an option. KSHB reports the police department has 20 full-time and part-time employees serving the community of about 6,500, with an annual budget of about $1.4 million. As council members work on budget-cutting proposals, getting rid of the police…
Monticello High School basketball player, Lucas Marty makes a full court shot discus-style beating the buzzer at a game in Wisconsin against Highland High School
President Barack Obama, trying to put a personal touch on “fiscal cliff” negotiations, visited a northern Virginia family’s basement apartment Thursday to press his hardline on tax rate increases for the wealthy.
U.S. intelligence agencies say they’ve detected that President Bashar Assad’s government has been preparing its chemical weapons stockpiles for possible use. Senator John McCain says he’s ‘deeply disturbed’ by the news.
During Thursday’s Riley County Commission meeting, County Planner, Bob Isaac presented three different plat projects requesting approval. The first project involved the final plat of the Larson addition. The Larson families main request was to receive a residential use designator lot for their farmstead, which would require re-platting. The second request involved two different plats on the Stony Brook Addition-Lot 17 of Stony Brook Addition Unit 2, and Lot 2 of Stony Brook Addition Unit 3. Lot 17 is currently occupied by a resident, but Lot 2 is not. The third request is the most complex of the three, as…
Several months ago KMAN did a story about a Pirate radio station operating in Manhattan. The individual has been fined $10,000 by the Federal Communications Commission. In a release from the FCC office in Kansas City, Glen Rubash, licensee of amateur radio station KCOGPV in Manhattan, apparently willfully and repeatedly violated the communications Act of 1934, by operating an unlicensed radio transmitter on the frequency of 88.3 megahertz (MHz). A complaint came to FCC’s enforcment bureau in Kansas City and used direction-finding techniquest to locate the source of the radio frequency transmissions at a Manhattan residence. The agents reportedly located a…
In what could be an indication of how Heisman Trophy voters are leaning, the Maxwell Award will be handed out Thursday night at the ESPN College Football Awards at Walt Disney World. The three candidates are the same for both awards, K-State senior quarterback Collin Klein, Texas A&M freshman quarterback Johnny Manziel, and Notre Dame senior linebacker Manti Te’o. Even though Tim Tebow won both awards in 2007 and Cam Newton did the same in 2010, the Maxwell has not exactly been in sync with the Heisman in recent years. Players like Peyton Manning, Drew Brees, Ken Dorsey, Larry Johnson,…
For the first time, there will be two former K-State Wildcats on the PGA Tour. Aaron Watkins earned his tour card for the second time by finishing in a tie for 17th in the final “Q” school, held over six rounds at two different courses in La Quinta, CA. Watkins was on the tour in 2009, where he recorded a seventh place finish at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans, but lost his card. His play picked up this year, highlighted by a top 15 finish in the US Open. Watkins joins former Wildcat Robert Streb on the PGA Tour, as Streb finished seventh on the…