Author: KMAN Staff

Starting at the new home of the Wonder Workshop Children’s Museum, the Call Me Manhattan trolley tour provided Manhattan residents the opportunity to view historical sites and homes. Some of the sites featured on the tour included:  Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, George Giles’ house, Phi Beta Sigma house, Wyandotte Colony Goodnow Park, and Henry Strong’s house.  At all of the 22 sites, an informational panel displaying a telephone number with a code, allowed participants to access the audio history of the home/place which shared the stories of the families who established them. The event was donations only, to benefit…

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The Yard Arts Classics Car Club held its annual car show today day with car enthusiasts from all over the area gathering to show off their vehicles . Car Show Chair for the club Pat Caffey says event organizers expect around one hundred participants for this year’s event, which is slightly higher than last year, when just under one hundred participated . There were a wide variety of cars on display, ranging across a span of years, makes, and models. Caffey says that all kinds were welcome and there were categories for every possible kind of vehicle. Those categories included…

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At 10:22 pm Friday evening, inmate Randy Ridens, Sr, was apprehended as he was entering Topeka, Kansas. He was immediately transported back to Lansing Correctional Facility. Earlier in the evening, Allen Hurst and Scott Gilbert, the other two minimum custody escapees from Lansing Correctional Facility, had been apprehended and taken into custody by law enforcement officers in Clinton County, Missouri. All three inmates had been declared on escape status from the minimum unit at Lansing Correctional Facility at approximately 7:40 am earlier in the day.

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On a night where offense was in short supply and they saw their catcher get thrown out of the game, the Kansas State Wildcats did what they’ve done numerous times so far this Baseball season….find a way to win. A pair of freshman pitchers combined to shutdown a potent Kansas lineup and a huge home run provided the difference as Kansas State downed the Jayhawks 4-3 Friday night in the opening game of a three-game Big 12 Conference Series before 2,090 at Hoglund Ballpark in Lawrence. K-State led 3-0 after four and a half innings on a pair of sacrifice…

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On Friday, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced that it will cancel the planned closure of 149 airport control towers thanks to the bipartisan bill passed by Congress which unequivocally directed the FAA to find savings elsewhere in their budget rather than target control towers for closure and air traffic controllers for furloughs. Among those saved from closure is the tower at Manhattan Regional Airport which had been scheduled to close initially last month before it was postponed until September. Other Kansas Air Traffic Control facilities protected from closure by the announcement include: Philip Billard…

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