A group of five players that played a vital role in K-State’s Big 12 championship season will get their chance to impress NFL scouts at the annual scouting combine later this month in Indianapolis. Arthur Brown, Anthony Cantele, Chris Harper, Collin Klein and Braden Wilson all will be poked and prodded at the event that showcases players’ physical and mental tools. For six days at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis beginning February 23rd, players are put through a series of drills, tests and interviews with more than 600 NFL personnel including head coaches, general managers and scouts. The 2013 NFL…
Author: KMAN Staff
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) Garlon Green scored 20 points and TCU held on for a 62-55 upset of fifth-ranked Kansas on Wednesday night for the Horned Frogs’ first Big 12 victory. The Jayhawks (19-3, 7-2 Big 12), coming off a loss four days earlier against Oklahoma State, have their first losing streak in more than seven years. They had played 264 games in a row since January 2006 without consecutive losses, the longest active streak in NCAA Division I. TCU (10-12, 1-8) never trailed in the game, which marked the midpoint of its conference schedule in its first Big…
A fire reported late Wednesday night claimed the life of a K-State postgraduate student. The Manhattan Fire Department responded to an apartment fire at 820 Sunset and found smoke coming from the address. Upon entering the residence, firefighters found 34 year-old Vasanta Lakshmi Pallem unconscious. She was transported to Mercy Regional Health Center where she passed away from smoke inhalation. Pallem worked in the chemical engineering department at Kansas State. No one else was injured in the fire. There were reports of individuals jumping from the apartment complex balcony, but upon arrival, emergency responders did not find anyone on the balcony. …
Two children under 10 years old and a woman were killed, and a third child was wounded in an apparent shooting at a house in northeast Denver, police said Wednesday.
It was a double win for Australians at the annual Empire State Building Run-Up as Mark Bourne raced up the 86 flights of stairs in 10 minutes, 12 seconds, and Suzy Walsham won the women’s division in 12 minutes, 5 seconds.
A Connecticut couple has been recognized as the longest-married pair in the US. John and Ann Betar have been married 80 years.
The National Weather Service says a big winter storm with near-hurricane force winds could drop up to two feet of snow in New England Friday and Saturday.
Aaryn Ellenberg scored 18 points and Sharane Campbell added 14 to lead a balanced scoring attack as 23rd-ranked Oklahoma held off a scrappy Kansas State squad for a 74-68 victory in Women’s Basketball action Wednesday night at Bramlage Coliseum. K-State started fast thanks to the three-point basket and took an early 8-4 lead on the second place Sooners but a cold spell allowed Oklahoma to go on a 23-7 run and take a 27-15 lead. The Wildcats were able to cut the deficit to eight points late in the first half but two three-pointers by OU allowed the Sooners to…
The elementary and high school schedules were put on hold, but that did not stop the Manhattan Ogden School board from exploring other items during Wednesday night’s meeting. The board was asked for approval to refinance the series 2008A bonds. Greg Vahrenberg, Managing Director with PiperJaffray, gave his presentation showing the increase in savings that could be had. The board approved the motion with a 5-0 vote. Summer 2013 was also on the radar, as Carol Adams, Executive Director of Teaching and Learning, and Pam Russell, Executive Director of Special Education and Special Services, presented their proposed programs. The board again unanimously approved…
Kansas officials are trying to sell a historic home west of the Statehouse and have received bids from two prospective buyers. The Department of Administration said Tuesday a Topeka development firm has bid $205,000 and a law firm has offered $351,000 for the Hiram Price Dillon house. The state has owned the 12,000-square-foot house since 1998, when a nearby church traded the property for a parking lot. Dillon was a prominent attorney who worked for the Union Pacific Railroad. He built the home in 1913 in an Italian Renaissance revival style common at the time. The state has used the…