Kansas State University’s Chief Government Relations Officer Sue Peterson is retiring next month. Peterson, who also serves as assistant to the President Richard Linton, will retire after nearly 34 years of service on April 7. Coming to K-State in 1989, Peterson has had direct responsibility for all university liaison activities with the state legislature and federal government. She’s also has served as a political science instructor since 1992. “Sue has had an amazing career at K-State that has led to immeasurable impact for our university,” said Richard Linton, Kansas State University president. “She has been a tireless advocate for the…
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News Radio KMAN · In Focus 3/29/23: Fort Riley, USD 384, UFM Segment 1 – 00:00 Segment 2 – 11:56 Segment 3 – 23:33 On Wednesday’s edition of In Focus, Fort Riley’s Month of the Military Child was highlighted by Toni Buentello and Christian Bishop, with Fort Riley’s Child and Youth Services Program We also spoke about Child Abuse Prevention Month and activities going on in April at Fort Riley with Carolyn Tolliver-Lee with the Family Advocacy Program. USD 384 Blue Valley-Randolph Superintendent John Cox discusses upcoming activities in the district. UFM Community Learning Center Director Aliah Mestrovich Seay joined…
Officers filed a report for aggravated kidnapping, domestic battery, criminal deprivation of property, aggravated intimidation of a victim, and criminal damage to property in Manhattan on March 28, 2023, around 11:00 a.m. A 35-year-old woman and a 41-year-old man known to each other were listed as both the victims and the suspects when it was reported the man wouldn’t let the woman leave his home for approximately 8 to 9 hours. During this time it was reported the man took her phone and hit her. It was also reported the woman threw a table at the man and hit him.…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is moving to increase its legal age for buying cigarettes, electronic cigarettes and other tobacco products to 21 from 18 after the federal government and most other states already have done it. The state Senate approved a bill to raise the age Tuesday on a 28-11 vote, sending it Gov. Laura Kelly. The House had approved it earlier this month on a 68-53 vote. Kelly has not said whether she will sign the bill, but officials with the state Department of Revenue and the Department for Aging and Disability Services supported the measure. Public health officials believe raising the age…
A 16-year-old suspect was arrested Monday following an incident at the Manhattan Sonic on Anderson Ave. According to the Riley County Police Department, three women were in the Sonic parking lot around 7:30 p.m. when Cedric Swinson allegedly pointed a gun at them. When officers arrived, Swinson ran but was followed by officers across Westport Place into the Walgreens parking lot then across Garden Way. He was eventually apprehended in the Evergreen Apartments parking lot. Swinson was charged three counts of aggravated assault and one count of interference. He was processed through juvenile intake and released to a guardian.
News Radio KMAN · In Focus 3/28/2023: Dee McKee Segment 1 – 00:00 Segment 2 – 14:02 Segment 3 – 26:06 Segment 4 – 36:22 On Tuesday’s edition of In Focus we spoke with Pottawatomie County Commissioner Dee McKee.
Officers filed a report for aggravated assault and interference with LEO in the 2700 block of Anderson Ave. in Manhattan on March 27, 2023, around 7:30 p.m. A 19- and two 20-year-old women were listed as the victims when they reported a 16-year-old male suspect pointed a gun at them in the parking lot of Sonic. When officers arrived on scene, the suspect ran but was followed by officers across Westport Pl. into the parking lot of Walgreens, then across Garden Way where he was eventually taken into custody in the parking lot of Evergreen Apartments. Cedric Swinson, 16, of…
MANHATTAN, Kan. (K-State Athletics) – On the heels of K-State’s 2022 Big 12 football championship and 2023 men’s basketball run to the Elite Eight, Athletics Director Gene Taylor has been named the 2022-23 Cushman & Wakefield FBS AD of the Year by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA). Taylor’s K-State program has taken the college athletics world by storm in 2022-23 as Chris Klieman’s football team won the 2022 Big 12 Championship and played in the Allstate Sugar Bowl, and Big 12 Coach of the Year Jerome Tang and his men’s basketball squad made a remarkable run…
News Radio KMAN · In Focus 3/27/23: Sally Dreher, Deanna Likes Segment 1 – 00:00 Segment 2 – 09:29 On Monday’s edition of In Focus Flint Hills Discovery Center Curator of Education Sally Dreher and Marketing Coordinator Deanna Likes join us to discuss an upcoming membership drive to celebrate the Discovery Center’s 11th anniversary. We also discuss summer programming including Summer Discovery Camp, with registration now underway.