Wamego has a new leader. Tuesday’s meeting was Sine Die, better known as Commission reorganization, with the newly elected Commissioners, Dr. Bill Ditto and Cliff Baughman taking their oath of office. Commissioner Bob Morse was elected Mayor and Larry Fechter was elected Mayor Pro-Tem. After Mayor Morse reopened the meeting, the Commission accepted the resignation of Lorraine Richard from the Airport Board due to relocating out of the area, appointed Housing Authority resident Glenn Linder to the Housing Authority, and appointed Commissioner Vic Enns and City Manager Merl Page to the Kansas Municipal Energy Agency Board for another year. The…
Author: KMAN Staff
The Kansas City Royals are out on the east coast starting with a three game series against the Baltimore Orioles. Ervin Santana made the start for Kansas City and he had stellar numbers entering the game on Tuesday night. He came into the game with a 3-1 record with an ERA slightly above two. Santana gave up three runs in the first inning but settled down after that and gave up the three runs, on seven hits in six innings of work, he also struck out four. Alcides Escobar got the Royals on the board in the third with an…
Former South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford has been elected to the US House. The win marks a major political comeback for Sanford, whose career was derailed by an extramarital affair in 2009.
The Dow Jones industrial average punched through another milestone Tuesday: its first close above 15,000.
A discussion turned a little heated at Tuesday night’s Manhattan City commission meeting. McDonald’s is attempting to develop and build a new building on the east side of town, and is having some issues securing a signature from one of the local land owners near the proposed site. The commission is weighing whether or not to vacate some of the project to allow the development to go forward. Local business owner Steve Hart rents business space near the site, and was concerned about traffic into and out of his business. However, McDonald’s project manager, Howard Johnson, assured Hart there would not…
(From Left to Right: Henry DeNoble, Head Coach Don Hess, Josh Mullin) Not only did the Manhattan High Baseball team sweep Washburn Rural Tuesday in Topeka. They exceeded new heights by making some history in the process. In game one the Indians won 2-0 behind a no-hitter thrown by Henry DeNoble. Tribe head coach Don Hess also picked up his 300th career victory. Hess believes that the seven inning no-hitter was the first ever thrown in MHS history. The solid baseball played by the Indians continued into game two with a 2-1 win in twelve innings. With the two…
Authorities arrest three brothers, ages 50 to 54, in the case of three missing Cleveland women who vanished but are now found. One of them, former school bus driver Ariel Castro, owned the home where the women were kept.
This week’s sexual battery arrest of Air Force Lt. Col. Jeffrey Krusinski, who headed the Air Force Sexual Assault Prevention and Response unit, provided a rallying point for lawmakers, who said it’s an example of the failure to make progress.
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) The president of Haskell Indian Nations University plans to resign soon to take another position in Oklahoma. The Lawrence Journal World reports that Chris Redman made the announcement Tuesday in a message to students, faculty and staff. In the memo, Redman said he’d be moving closer to his family after being offered a new position. Redman wrote that the “choice was difficult.” But he added that he’s been given a “great opportunity to continue to serve Indian Country in a new capacity.” The note included no additional details about Redman’s new job. Haskell spokesman Stephen Prue says…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Authorities have scheduled a news conference to discuss the killings of two Topeka police officers. The Topeka Capital-Journal reported that Shawnee County District Attorney Chad Taylor plans to discuss the Dec. 16 deaths of Cpl. David Gogian and officer Jeff Atherly at 9 a.m. Wednesday. The two were shot to death while checking possible drug activity outside a Topeka supermarket. Their killer, David Tiscareno, 22, was shot and killed by law enforcement officers Dec. 17. The Shawnee County Sheriff’s Office investigated the shooting because Atherly and Gogian were police officers. Also, a third officer in the grocery…