Six-months after Superstorm Sandy, shore towns are rebuilding, but recovery is slow. Remnants of Sandy’s destruction are clearly visible. Towns are working hard to complete boardwalk projects to draw tourists back in time for summer.
Author: KMAN Staff
The Kansas Highway patrol worked a couple of accidents in Riley county this past weekend, one which resulted in three people requiring hospitalization. Loren Gray (64) and Ningbo Li (32), both of Manhattan, and Larissa Gibb (31) of Lee’s Summit, Missouri were injured in an accident on highway 77 nearly two miles north of highway 24 shortly before nine Sunday night. Gibb was driving a 2009 Nissan Versa northbound on highway 77, with a 1987 Chevy pickup driven by Gray southbound. Gibb’s Nissan went left of center into the southbound lane. Gray travelled onto the shoulder to avoid Gibb’s vehicle, with Gibb’s vehicle still…
K-State partnered with PSC Environmental Inc. to provide a free e-waste collection on Saturday morning. K-State students and Manhattan area residents unplugged their old appliances, TVs, cell phones etc., and dropped them off for proper recycling. Howie’s Trash Service will sort the e-waste, and send it out to two different certified recycling plants for complete processing. “The monitors and TVs with the glass in them, they’ll go to one recycler down in Texas, and then all the other things go to another recycler… they’re certified recyclers. Everything stays in the United States, gets demanufactured, and recycled. Nothing goes out to a third world country,”…
Spectators and at least one marshal at the Zurich Classic were startled when an alligator, estimated to be about 12 feet, spent some of the afternoon sunning itself on the left side of the 12th fairway.
A possible gas explosion has blown the side of a 5-story residential building in France’s Champagne country. At least two people have been killed and at least ten others injured.
Residents of the most heavily damaged area of West, Texas can return to their homes this weekend, but not to stay. For some the homecoming will be bittersweet; of the one-hundred-56 homes in the neighborhood, only three are fit for habitation.
Bolstered by a pair of multiple-run innings and the work of five pitchers scattering six hits the Texas Christian Baseball team defeated Kansas State 5-2 in he final game of a three-game Big 12 Conference series Sunday before a crowd of 1,580 at Tointon Family Stadium. With the game scoreless going to the top of the third, the Horned Frogs plated three runs thanks to two run-scoring singles and and RBI ground out. K-State got on the scoreboard in the bottom of the fifth inning on a sacrifice fly by Mitch Meyer but TCU responded with another two runs in…
Ervin Santana is pitching as good as he once was back in 2010 when he won 17 games in Anaheim. Santana (3-1) pitched seven scoreless innings, striking out five and walking none as the Royals (12-8) were able to survive and pick up a 3-2 victory on Saturday night. Greg Holland gave up two unearned runs in the ninth but was able to get his sixth save in seven opportunities. The Royals only had six hits in the ball game, Salvador Perez hit a two run home run in the second inning off Indians pitcher Scott Kazmir to get two…
President Barack Obama joked Saturday about his plans for a radical second-term evolution from ‘strapping young Muslim Socialist’ to retiree golfer, all with a new hairstyle like first lady Michelle’s.
Despite scoring just two runs and managing only five hits, the Kansas State Baseball team continued their roll on Saturday by squeaking out a 2-1 victory over Texas Christian in Big 12 action before 2,957 at Tointon Family Stadium. After falling behind 1-0, K-State scored the only runs they would need in each of the first two innings. Shane Conlon’s RBI double in the first inning scored Ross Kivett and Clayton Dalrymple plated a run on an infield hit in the second frame. From there, the Wildcat pitching staff shut down TCU as three relievers backed up Matt Wivinis in…