The #25 K-State men’s basketball team will take the floor for the first time since they knocked off then #8 Florida last Saturday night at the Sprint Center in Kansas City. The Cats will host UMKC at Bramlage Coliseum, who’s 4-8 this season with losses at Ohio State and Louisville. K-State has two games to tune up for Big 12 play, and coach Bruce Weber says he’s learning about this team, but he’s not going to change K-State basketball. K-State men’s basketball will host UMKC on Saturday night at 6:00pm at Bramlage Coliseum. The game can be heard in its entirety…
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With the Sunflower Showdown right around the corner, the K-State women’s basketball team will get one more tuneup for Big 12 conference play at UC-Santa Barbara. The Cats will see a familiar face on the Gauchos’ sideline in head coach Carlene Mitchell, who started at point guard for K-State as a senior in the 1995-96 season. KU looms on Wednesday, so Wildcat associate head coach Kamie Ethridge says the Cats must play well at UCSB. Ethridge says coming off Christmas break, she hopes K-State is still in shape and the players come to Santa Barbara ready to go. The K-State women will…
Some tires and rims have been stolen recently from a local business. Four tires and four rims were taken out of the back of a truck in the parking lot of Tires for Less located at the 1400 block of Fort Riley Boulevard sometime between December 26 and 27. The theft totaled about $1,200. —- An altercation at a local bar has landed man in jail. At about 2:00 Friday morning, Riley County police were called to the Blackstone Tavern located in the Westloop Plaza. Upon arrival, police witnessed Naim Alamin, 33, of Manhattan, getting into his vehicle and taking off at…
Once referred to as the nation’s murder capital, Washington, D.C. has drastically cut the number of homicides and is on pace to have fewer than 100 this year, for this first time since 1963.
President Vladimir Putin has signed a bill banning Americans from adopting Russian children.
Teachers in Utah attended a gun training class on Thursday. Utah teachers with proper permits can legally carry a gun in their classrooms.
SAN DIEGO (AP) Glasco Martin ran for three touchdowns, Nick Florence threw for two scores and ran for another, and Baylor overwhelmed UCLA 49-26 in the Holiday Bowl on Thursday night. Lache Seastrunk rushed 16 times for 138 yards and one score for Baylor, which outgained UCLA 494-362. The Bears came in leading the nation in total offense with 387.7 yards per game. Florence’s 188 yards passing gave him 4,309 for the season, breaking Robert Griffin III’s 2011 school season record of 4,293. Baylor’s defense came up big, too. The Bears sacked Brett Hundley six times, including two by…
Earlier this morning, KMAN received information that westbound I-70 was shut down near mile marker 318 as a result of a vehicle hitting a deer and becoming engulfed in flames. Riley County Police report that the occupants of the vehicle each exited the car safely and there are no major injuries. Police were diverting traffic to K99. KMAN will have more information on the story when it becomes available.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Wichita police are investigating whether speed and alcohol were factors in a one-car crash that killed two men. The accident happened around 2:30 a.m. Thursday in western Wichita. Police say the car struck a culvert, then went airborne and hit a power pole and utility lines. Police said the driver, 21-year-old Marcus McClellan, died at the scene. His 22-year-old passenger, Devan Krausch, was thrown from the car and died later at a hospital. A witness reported seeing a car speeding, followed by a flash from the falling power lines. Westar Energy said the crash knocked out power…
GODDARD, Kan. (AP) A family in south-central Kansas has learned that a two-inch layer of ice over a frigid pond isn’t enough to support a small dog. KWCH-TV reports a 7-year-old beagle named Bear slipped under a fence around a wastewater lagoon at his owners’ home Wednesday and fell through the ice. Owner Patricia Wilson, of Goddard, says she tried to rescue Bear, but she fell into the water, too. Bear was rescued after nearly an hour by Sedgwick County Fire crews wearing special cold-weather wet suits. The beagle’s temperature was down to 83 degrees more than 15 below normal…