TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback is inviting state employees to pack a lunch for a picnic in their honor Friday on the Statehouse grounds. The governor is even promising to hand out free cookies and ice cream to the first 1,000 state workers who attend the event on the Capitol’s south lawn. His office also plans to have a blues and jazz band play. Brownback says Cabinet secretaries and agency directors will join him in handing out the goodies. He is encouraging workers to bring sack lunches. The picnic begins at 11:30 a.m. A noon ceremony will honor…
Author: KMAN Staff
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A Kansas prosecutor is taking a few more days to wrap up his investigation of private meetings between Gov. Sam Brownback and state legislators at the governor’s official residence. An assistant says Shawnee County District Attorney Chad Taylor expects to report his findings next week. Initially, the report was expected by Friday night. Brownback held seven dinner meetings in January at Cedar Crest with members of 13 legislative committees, most of them fellow Republicans. Taylor, a Democrat, has been investigating whether the gatherings violated the state’s open meeting laws. Many legislators have described the dinners as social…
Riley County police are investigating a report of a missing Kansas State student who had been listed on the K-State football team roster up until recently. Kristi Harvill reported her son, Samuel Harvill, 20, had not been seen since 1:30 Wednesday afternoon. Harvill made the report late Thursday morning, with the announcement reaching KMAN a few hours later. As of 4:00 pm on Friday, there is still no word as to the whereabouts of Harvill. The RCPD is currently attempting to contact Harvill to check his welfare. Medical issues are reportedly involved. Harvill may be in a Silver 2005 Dodge R15 Pick-up…
The Pottawatomie county sheriff’s department is investigating the death of a woman near the Little Grill on Dyer Road near the Tuttle Creek State Lake, reported Wednesday afternoon. Sheriff Greg Riat tells KMAN the Pottawatomie County Sheriff’s Office responded to a medical call at that location in rural Manhattan at about three in the afternoon. Emergency units responding located an unresponsive female in a vehicle in the parking lot. It was determined the female was deceased, and had apparently suffered from a gunshot. The victim has been identified as a 37-year-old female of Manhattan. An autopsy is being conducted to…
K-State head baseball coach Brad Hill has hired Mike Clement as his new hitting coach. Clement replaces former associate head coach John Szefc, who left the Cats after two seasons to become the head coach at Maryland. Clement has spent the last three seasons at Texas A&M as a volunteer assistant, working with former K-State hitting coach Andy Sawyers. He previously was on the Texas-San Antonio staff for four seasons, including three years as a full-time assistant. Clement is a Marshalltown, Iowa native, where his father Brad is a hall of fame coach who won three state championships. Mike played…
Elvis Presley’s ex-wife Priscilla and daughter Lisa Marie unexpectedly appeared at Graceland Wednesday night, and greeted the thousands of fans who had gathered to mark the 35th anniversary of the singer’s death.
Tensions have been flaring between Japan and its neighbors over different sets of disputed islands. Japanese authorities arrested activists from Hong Kong and China who landed on one of them.
Riley County Police report between 1:34 pm and 5:58 pm Wednesday, a pickup truck was stolen from the Wal-Mart parking lot. William Kidney, 26, of Manhattan, reported his 1991 Ford Wrangler was taken. Officers reportedly checked the security footages and obtained a few leads. Following a traffic stop at about 6:30 pm in the 100 block of south 14th street, Jessica Cook, 25 and George Gibson III, 34, both of Topeka, were arrested in connection with the case. The two were taken to the Pottawatomioe County jail with bond set at $5,000 apiece. —- A man’s failure to appear before a judge has…
As President Barack Obama wraps up a three day tour across the battleground state of Iowa one of the major issues on the campaign trail, for both Obama and Republican Mitt Romney, has been health care.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) K-State has wrapped up its weeklong basketball exhibition tour of Brazil with a record of 2-2 after a fifth game was scrubbed because of scheduling conflicts. First-year head coach Bruce Weber says the Wildcats were disappointed by the cancellation of Wednesday night’s scheduled game. They spent the day instead shopping, sightseeing and taking cable cars to the of Rio’s Sugar Loaf Mountain. K-State played two games in Rio and two in Sao Paulo, recording one win and one loss in each city. Angel Rodriguez finished the tour with team-high averages of 10.3 points, 4.8 assists…