TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A rare gazelle has died at the Topeka Zoo after a sudden illness. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the zoo euthanized the 3-year-old Addra gazelle this week. The animal became sick Wednesday and was unable to stand. The gazelle’s condition worsened, however, and the staff euthanized it after about five hours. Topeka Zoo director Brendan Wiley said the cause of death hasn’t been determined, but a test showed abnormalities in some of the gazelle’s organs, including its liver. More tests are being conducted. The Addra gazelle is a critically endangered species from Africa. The zoo says there…
Author: KMAN Staff
Saturday begins the first of many homecomings as soldiers from the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infrantry Division. Family and friends will be reunited with the returning 150 soldiers during a ceremony beginning at 5:15 pm Saturday at Fort Riley. This brigade was deployed to Afghanistan in April, where their mission was to enable the country’s government, security forces and economy to operate more independently. The remaining 4th Infantry Brigade soldiers will continue to return to Fort Riley throughout the following weeks.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) A University of Kansas School of Education dean has apologized for a crude joke about a turkey that was abused and killed at a fraternity house party earlier this month. A woman in Indiana emailed three deans at the Lawrence campus after reading about the rented turkey being chased and choked before a student killed the bird to end its suffering. The Kansas City Star reports one of the deans, Jim Lichtenberg, wrote an email making fun of the incident and including a slang term describing masturbation. Lichtenberg meant to send the email only to the…
Sales tax numbers for December were released on Friday, showing a decrease in Manhattan over last year. Manhattan Finance Director Bernie Hayen indicates that the decrease amount could be linked to an early “cut off” on sales tax collections. Though this won’t be verified until next month’s numbers are released. Even with this, a great achievement has been made. “Nearly every retail sector was down compared to a year ago. Nonetheless, we easily broke the $10 million mark, which, in itself, is a significant milestone.” December numbers showed $800,762 in sales tax receipts, or an adjusted rate of $737,805.
To have a New Year’s Eve celebration at Times Square, you first have to get ‘2013’ in lights ready. Along with the famous Waterford Crystal ball that drops just in the nick of time.
The world’s attention wavered between the tragic and the silly in 2012, and along the way, Web surfers searched in mass to find out about elections, Super Storm Sandy and celebs including Kim Kardashian and Psy.
UPDATE: More Riley County Firefighters were needed early Saturday morning as hot spots were triggered from an overnight blaze. As KMAN previously reported a call came in around 10:15 Friday night from Mike Kalmer, who resides in the 7800 block of Powy’s Lane, about eight miles west of Riley, saying that his home was on fire. Fire fighters from Riley arrived first to find flames coming out of the roof of the residence. They, along with help from five other stations, worked to put out the blaze until about 5 am. At about 6 am, a call came that the fire had…
Though an Amber Alert has been issued in Georgia, the Kansas Highway Patrol is already informing Kansas residents to be on the look out via their Twitter account as the “subjects [may] possibly travel through Kansas”. Thursday, Ben Cleary , 9, and Henry Cleary, 7, were reported missing from Roswell, Georgia. Ben has brown eyes, brown medium hair and was last seen wearing a light blue winter vest. Henry has green eyes, brown medium hair and last seen also wearing a light blue winter vest. It is reported that the boys were last seen with Daniel Cleary, 46. They are believed to…
The Senate’s top Democrat and Republican say they’re entering last-minute talks with the White House aimed at avoiding the fiscal cliff.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Shawnee County sheriff’s deputies continue investigating the Dec. 16 killings of two Topeka police officers even though the assailant was shot to death the following day. Sheriff Herman Jones has asked the county commission for overtime expenses for the investigation into the deaths of police Officer Jeff Atherly and Cpl. David Gogian. The two were shot to death while checking possible drug activity outside a Topeka supermarket. Their killer, 22-year-old David Tiscareno, was shot and killed by law enforcement officers Dec. 17. Jones told The Topeka Capital-Journal that his office still had some people to interview. The…