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. …
Author: KMAN Staff
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…
A Canadian man who was found last year in Michigan with a 12-year-old Kansas girl he met on the Internet is expected to change his plea. Court records list a change-of-plea hearing Wednesday in federal court in Wichita for Stewart Kenneth Cody McGill, of Bewdley, Ontario. McGill is charged with one count of transporting a minor out of state to have sex. Authorities say McGill traveled in May 2012 to El Dorado to meet the girl. They were found a few days later near Potterville, Mich. The girl told authorities at the time she went with McGill willingly. Prosecutors say…
A Salina woman has pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide and driving under the influence in a 2011 crash that killed a Hutchinson girl. The Salina Journal reports 18-year-old Tara Pfeifer entered the plea Tuesday just before a jury was to be chosen for her trial. Pfeifer was driving a car that went off the paved road around 3:40 a.m. May 26, 2011, hit a concrete culvert and flipped. Her front-seat passenger, 15-year-old Journi Maas, was thrown out and fatally injured. The plea agreement calls for Pfeifer to receive consecutive sentences. She faces up to 18 months for vehicular homicide and…