Surveillance-camera footage released by the FBI shows two men identified as suspect 1 and 2. They are seen walking one behind the other in the crowd and the FBI asking the public for help in identifying the men.
Author: KMAN Staff
Senators formally unveil a wide-ranging immigration bill with support from business executives, religious leaders, activists and others. The sponsors are four Republicans and four Democrats, hoping the coalition holds firm.
Aerial video shows the extent of the destruction in West, Texas after a massive explosion yesterday at a fertilizer plant.
Commissioners from Manhattan, Riley County, and Pottawatomie County met Thursday afternoon for the monthly Joint City/County meeting . The only item on the agenda was to discuss areas for Cooperation and Collaboration. Riley County Commissioner, Robert Boyd, opened the discussion by asking how Manhattan and Riley County could work together to improve the current Graphic Information Systems (GIS) service. “The problem with collaboration is you’ve got four or five fingers in there, nobody’s in charge, and it tends to not work,” said Wynn Butler, Manhattan City Commissioner. The conversation shifted to taking a look at the big picture and the possibility of one day, consolidating local…
K-State head men’s basketball coach Bruce Weber announced the signing of Hargrave Military Academy center Neville Fincher to a national letter-of-intent with the Wildcat program. The 6-foot-9-inch 240-pound Fincher averaged 12 points, eight rebounds, and four blocked shots this past season. He graduated from Teaneck High School in Teaneck, NJ, in 2012, where he was a four-year lettermen for the Highwaymen. Fincher is rated as the #26 center prospect in the Class of 2013 by ESPN. The K-State 2013 recruiting class now numbers four as Fincher joins Wichita Falls, TX guard Marcus Foster, Houston, Texas small forward Wesley Iwundu, and Queens,…
For the first time in a few years, K-State has a true quarterback competition as redshirt sophomore Daniel Sams and junior college transfer Jake Waters are fighting it out this spring to take the job vacated by Heisman Trophy finalist Collin Klein. Wildcat coach Bill Snyder says that neither Sams nor Waters has differentiated himself through the first 10 practices of the spring, not unlike any other position on the football team. Waters is considered the better thrower, but Sams is entering his third year in the program. “(Sams) really has developed the capacity to get the ball snapped,” Snyder said. “Meaning…
DERBY, Kan. (AP) Police in south-central Kansas report two arrests in a vandalism rampage that caused about $1 million in damage to a Wal-Mart store under construction. KAKE-TV reports Derby detectives arrested two men, ages 22 and 23, on Thursday. They were being held in the Sedgwick County Jail. Contractors discovered the damage on March 18 when they arrived for work at a Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market being built in Derby. The vandals had broken in over a weekend and used scissor lifts to ram freezer and cooler units located along one wall and in the center of the store. Doors…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt acknowledges that his office is taking longer than the 90 days specified by state law to process applications for permits to carry concealed weapons. But Schmidt also said Thursday he expects the delays to be eliminated by the end of the month. Schmidt said decisions on permits are being delayed only a few days beyond the 90-day period and that his office now has 11 employees working on applications. Gun-rights supporters have said the attorney general’s office has been struggling to process a record number of applications for permits over the past…
LINWOOD, Kan. (AP) This weekend’s cleanup of the Kansas River has been put on hold because of rising water and potentially dangerous conditions. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment and the group Friends of the Kaw planned to lead the cleanup Saturday. But KDHE said Thursday the event has been postponed indefinitely. The schedule called for canoes to put in near Eudora and pick up trash en route to an illegal dump site near Linwood, where volunteers would haul tires from the water and the river bank. Officials say the Kansas is too high and muddy for the cleanup…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) An agreement arising from a fatal natural gas explosion in Topeka will fine one company and require another company to change its operations. The Kansas Corporation Commission on Wednesday approved the agreement in response to a January 2012 explosion that killed Lucinia Tolliver, 81, at her home. The Topeka Capital Journal reports the agreement fines N-Line Lawn Service $5,000. The company was installing a sprinkler system in a yard behind Tolliver’s home when one of its machines moved a Kansas Gas Service line. Kansas Gas Service will be required to make such changes as amending its emergency…