Officials from the south Louisiana chemical plant where an explosion killed two workers and injured dozens of others say they still don’t know the cause of the blast.
Author: KMAN Staff
Google tests giant balloons to connect 50 New Zealand homes to the internet. It says the technology could bring websurfing to remote corners of the world.
The Kansas Department of Agriculture and Kansas State University broke ground on a new facility Friday afternoon at Research Park. The K-State Foundation is constructing a three-story, 50,000-square-foot facility and leasing it to the Kansas Department of Agriculture for a 20-year period. The new facility will be next to the K-State Institute of Commercialization and the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility. The College of Agriculture, Kansas State Research and Extension, College of Veterinary Medicine, K-State international grain science complex, and U.S. Department of Agriculture facilities are also nearby. “If you look at the industry across the state and in with what’s…
On today’s InFocus, Cathy talks with Meagan Cramer, Co-Director of Communications and Terry Holdren, the new KFB CEO designee, followed by Colonel William Clark from Fort Riley, and ending with U-S Sen. Jerry Moran of Manhattan. [mp3-jplayer]
Firefighters are holding the line on a wildfire near Colorado Springs that has destroyed 379 homes and may have killed two people as they tried to escape.
Newtown held a moment of silence Friday for the victims of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School at a remembrance event that doubled as a call to action on gun control.
Jerry Moran joined KMAN’s “In Focus” on Friday.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Officials with the Veterans Affairs say a new building expected to open in November will allow improved mental health services in the Wichita region. The $4.6 million building is expected to open by Thanksgiving on the campus of the Robert J. Dole VA Medical Center in Wichita. A spokeswoman for the agency says the building will provide about 18,000 square feet, with offices, conference rooms and a briefing room. The Wichita Eagle reports the Wichita medical center now has about 100 staff working in behavioral health services, an increase from about 25 five years ago. And officials…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Department of Agriculture officials are asking all licensed scale service companies to attend a meeting to discuss the low accuracy rate of heavy-capacity scales. The meeting will be June 27 at the department’s Topeka headquarters. Tim Tyson, director of the department’s Division of Weights and Measures, said in a letter that large scale accuracy rates are lower than in recent years. Thbe state also has a new policy requiring a third party to place scales on new scale installations. The Topeka Capital-Journal reported this week that state inspectors approved only 19 of the 72 heavy-capacity scales between…
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) Members of a political action committee say they want more women to seek political office in Kansas. The PAC, called Kansans Advancing Women, was created last November. One of its creators, Laurel Maslowski of Lawrence, says women have experiences and voices that need to be a bigger part of the political process. Maslowski says the PAC is recruiting progressive female candidates of the Democratic and Republican parties. She noted only 39 of the 165 people in the Kansas Legislature this session were women, the lowest number in 15 years. She says the state has a history of…