On Monday morning Governor Sam Brownback made the trip up to Kansas State University as part of his tour of Kansas Regents schools. Governor Brownback is conducting the tour to discuss his plans to fund higher education, and met with university leaders as part of that discussion. Governor Brownback says he wants to ensure schools have the stability to make plans for the future. This includes an understanding of the pressures higher education is facing to achieve higher standards. Those improvements for K-State include a higher ranking for the veterinary school, and more engineering graduates. Governor Brownback says higher education…
Author: KMAN Staff
The Kansas State Track and Field team competed at the outdoor championships this past weekend down in Waco, Texas. The men came away in fourth with the best combined effort in conference history. The women also had a number of solid performances to finish in seventh place over the three days of action from Hart-Patterson Track and Field Complex. The men’s team had two champions at the Big 12 championship meet and scored a total of 96 points in the 21 events. Those 96 points are the most ever scored by the men’s team at the Big 12 Conference Outdoor Track…
Israeli warplanes have carried out strikes in Syria twice in the last three days, and now Israel is deploying two batteries of its Iron Dome rocket defense system to the north of the country.
Two Manhattan residents were involved in a fatal crash in Wyandotte county Saturday evening. The two were passengers on a party bus but they were not injured… they are identified as 27 year old Jamee Schwartz and 30 year old Taryn Oliver. A 26-year-old Kansas City, Kan., woman died after falling out of the bus on Interstate 35 and being struck by three other vehicles. The Kansas City Star reports the victim has been identified as Jamie N. Frecks. The Kansas Highway Patrol says she fell out of the emergency door of the party bus around 9:50 p.m. Saturday as…
Riley County will place an asphalt overlay to RL 376 Fancy Creek Road beginning at the Clay County line and continuing approximately eight miles east to the Winkler Mills intersection. The project will start on Monday, May 6, 2013 and continue through Friday, May 10, 2013. The road will be reduced to one lane during the construction process. Traffic will be allowed through the projects, but drivers should expect delays of up to 15 minutes. Be advised fresh asphalt oil will be applied – take alternate routes when possible. The schedule may change due to weather delays.
LeBron James is the overwhelming choice as the NBA’s Most Valuable Player. The Miami Heat star becomes the fifth player with at least four MVP awards, joining Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Michael Jordan, Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain.
President Barack Obama told college graduates Sunday that only their generation can break the cycle of a political system consumed by “small things” that works for the benefit of a few.
Alex Gordon’s two-out single in the bottom of the 10th inning gave the Kansas City Royals a thrilling come from behind 6-5 victory over the Chicago White Sox Sunday afternoon at Kauffman Stadium. This was a roller coaster of a game for the Royals who won their fourth in a row. After being no-hit for four innings by White Sox starter Jose Quintana, Kansas City took a 3-1 lead with three runs in the bottom of the fifth inning. Chicago struck back with four runs in the top of the seventh to lead 5-3 and took that lead into the…
After being held scoreless for the first three innings, the Kansas State Wildcats got their bats going in the middle innings and put away the Texas Longhorns in a 9-3 romp on Sunday before 5,710 at Disch-Falk Field. Austin Fisher led the offensive attack for K-State with three hits while Jared King and Blair DeBord added two apiece to get the Bat Cats a rare series victory in Austin. The other two series wins came in 1997 and 2009. Jared Moore (3-0) picked up the win in relief and three other Wildcats held the Longhorns to just two runs over…
The public face of the National Rifle Association is imploring members to never surrender their weapons in the wake of recent gun control efforts in Congress that he said will “destroy us and every ounce of our freedom.”