A 9-0 run in the final two minutes allowed Washburn Rural to skate past the Manhattan High boys 45-40 on Tuesday night in Topeka. The Junior Blues built a 23-12 lead in the second quarter, but the Tribe pulled within seven at the half, and outscored Rural 14-4 in the third. MHS could never pull away though, and held a 37-35 edge with 2:15 to play. The Tribe intended to run the clock down and force the Junior Blues to foul, however they gave the ball up on an unforced turnover. Riley Landuyt knocked down a three-pointer to give Rural…
Author: KMAN Staff
Riley County Police are reporting an accident on Northbound Tuttle Creek Rd and McCall Road. The road is currently impassible and drivers are encouraged to find an alternate route. KMAN will provide more information as it becomes available. There are also several reports of cars sliding off of the road on K-18, so drivers are encouraged to be especially careful as they travel.
Authorities in Southern Alabama say a man allegedly boarded a school bus, killed the driver and took a six year old child hostage.
Alex Rodriguez denied a newspaper report that accused him of buying human growth hormone and other performance-enhancing substances from a Miami-area clinic.
Declaring ‘now is the time’ to fix broken immigration laws, President Barack Obama heralded a rare show of bipartisanship between the White House and Senate lawmakers on principles for making millions of illegal immigrants citizens.
GTM Sportswear held a ribbon cutting ceremony for the opening of a new state-of-the-art UltraFuse Sublimation Center at the GTM Campus in Manhattan. Owner and CEO of GTM Sportswear, Dave Dreiling; Kansas Governor, Sam Brownback; Manhattan Mayor, Loren Pepperd and President of the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce, Lyle Butler took part in the ceremony. GTM’s new UltraFuse uniforms are created with an advanced dye sublimation technology in which graphics, names and logos are heat-infused directly into fabric. The Sublimation process allows for greater design detail and more color possibilities for GTM’s athletic wear. Competitors are building sublimation technology overseas, which causes UltraFuse uniform…
On today’s InFocus, Cathy talks with Ella Casey with Sunset Zoo, followed by Jared Bixby, with the Flint Hills Discovery Center and Linda Rousser with the Wamego Dutch Mill Sweet Adelines. [mp3-jplayer]
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A lobbyist for the Kansas Bankers Association is telling legislators that bank stockholders are paying $2.5 million more a year in taxes because of a law passed last year to eliminate income taxes for thousands of business owners. Lobbyist Douglas Wareham on Tuesday urged the Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee to correct what he sees as an unintentional flaw in the law. The law exempted the owners of 191,000 businesses from income taxes. But banking companies pay what’s known as the privilege tax, a special income tax applied only to financial institutions. Wareham said when legislators exempted…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas legislators are done revising their rules, and one new provision limits the consideration of new spending when the House and Senate debate budget bills. The Senate voted 28-12 on Tuesday to approve rules governing interactions between the two chambers. The House approved the same measure Monday on a vote of 81-41. The biggest change is a joint rule barring members of both chambers from proposing increased spending during budget debates without proposing an offsetting cut elsewhere. The Kansas House had such a rule in place for the past two years. The Senate didn’t, but GOP conservatives…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A Kansas driver has now been charged for a crash that killed a 6-year-old girl last summer in southeast Wichita. KAKE-TV reports Raudel Sandoval, 19, was charged Tuesday with second-degree reckless murder. He was being held on $100,000 bond. The little girl, Feodora Two-Hatchett, was killed the night of June 26 when her mother’s car was hit by another vehicle in the middle of an intersection. Witnesses said Feodora’s mother might not have completely stopped at a stop sign, but they also said the other car was speeding. Police said Sandoval was driving 60 to 70 mph…