-Both the Manhattan High boys and girls cross country teams qualified for state at the 6A regional meet in Junction City. Each Tribe squad was second in the team standings, as Alaina Schroeder won the girls’ race, and Chris Melgares was fifth in the boys’ race. – The Wamego boys cross country team won their 4A regional at Bonner Springs, as Jordan Routh was second as an individual. The Lady Raiders also qualified for state by finishing 3rd at regionals, and Allison Seufert was fifth individually. – The Riley County boys will run as a team at state after winning their 3A regional…
Author: KMAN Staff
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) Matt Kenseth won for the second time in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship in a caution-marred race at repaved Kansas Speedway. The fast new surface and a hard tire contributed to Sunday’s race-record 14 cautions, a season high for the Sprint Cup Series. Nobody was immune from the problems, either, as at least five title contenders had issues. Jimmie Johnson led 44 laps early, but crashed hard after spinning by himself. He had to stop at least a half-dozen times on pit road for repairs over two caution periods to salvage a ninth-place…
As of 8:30 a.m. Monday: The Kansas Department of Transportation issued a correction, indicating westbound U-S 24 only would be impacted over the Big Blue River Bridge!!!! EXPECT DELAYS on highway 24 in east Manhattan! Eastbound and westbound US-24 over Big Blue River Bridge at the east city limits of Manhattan will be reduced to one lane for polymer overlay work on the bridge deck, 24/7 round the clock, Monday through Friday, (October 22-26). Crews will complete overlay work on the bridge deck one half at a time, so the lane closure over the bridge will switch sometime during the…
Police in Wisconsin say the suspect in a mass shooting at a spa outside Milwaukee died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. <iframe width=”425″ height=”239″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/Kdl-R-1-7wA” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe>
During Sunday’s Riley County Commission Forum hosted by the League of Women Voters of Manhattan/Riley County, candidates from the Kansas Senate District 22, the House Districts 51, 66 and 67 all made appearances to talks about the issues that votes are concerned with. During the three hour forum, each race was given time to talk starting first with the Kansas Senate District 22 with candidates Tom Hawk and Bob Reader. Hawk leveraged his experience as a school administrator to illustrate his point of lack of funding in the public education sector. Reader agreed the tax cut was too much to…
Lebanese soldiers fired guns and tear gas to push back hundreds of protesters who broke through a cordon and tried to storm the government headquarters in Beirut. The crowd came from the funeral of a top intelligence official assassinated. <iframe width=”425″ height=”239″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/1nOhBzS3x7s” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe>
Police have released a photograph of a man suspected of wounding multiple people in a shooting at a spa near a suburban Milwaukee shopping mall. The suspect was later found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. <iframe width=”425″ height=”239″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/vPkKqfoEcMI” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe>
Despite dominating Texas Tech in the first two sets, the K-State volleyball team was pushed to the limit before escaping in the fifth set with a victory on Saturday afternoon at Ahearn Fieldhouse, 25-13, 25-14, 20-25, 23-25, 15-9. Kaitlynn Pelger led the Wildcats with 18 kills and 18 digs, while Alex Muff had a career high 17 kills and hit .593. Muff also topped K-State (18-3, 5-3 Big 12) in blocks with seven. Caitlyn Donahue led the Cats to a .318 hitting efficiency and had 58 assists. Texas Tech (12-12, 1-7 Big 12) was led by a career effort from…
Quarterback Collin Klein already mentioned as a strong candidate for the Heisman Trophy turned in a Heisman-like performance Saturday night as K-State met up with new Big 12 member West Virginia. Klein had a hand in all seven K-State touchdowns and set career bests for passing yards and touchdown passes in a single game as the third-ranked Wildcats blew away the 13th-ranked Mountaineers 55-14 before a stunned crowd of 60,101 at Mountaineer Field. In addition to rushing for four touchdowns giving him a new number of 47 for his career, Klein threw a career-high three touchdown passes, two to Tyler…
A Manhattan man was transported to Mercy Regional Health Center with unknown injuries following an accident late Friday night. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol 62-year old Jesse Wilhoite Jr. of Manhattan was traveling westbound in the 5500 block of Mc Dowell Creek road approximately a mile and a half north of I-70 when he swerved to avoid two deer in the roadway. Wilhoite’s 2006 Hyundai Elantra left the roadway and went into a ditch and jumped a field entrance before returning to the highway. Wilhoite was wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash. There is no…