Leaders in the aging service field are in Manhattan for an annual conference on policy and regulatory matters. Secretary Shawn Sullivan from the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services addressed the group Thursday morning. Most of his presentation dealt with KanCare, with Sullivan telling KMAN the deadline is approaching for initiation of the program, which is January of 2013. An estimated 45,000 seniors in Kansas are impacted by changes in Medicaid and the state’s Kan-Care program. It was all part of the LeadingAge Kansas Policy and Regulatory fall conference, being held in Manhattan, which Sullivan describes as a good opportunity for long-term care…
Author: KMAN Staff
The Kansas High School Activities Association released classifications for the 2012-13 school year in all sports but football, and there will be two class 4A schools in Pottawatomie county. Joining Wamego in 4A will be Rock Creek, who is the smallest school in the class at 258 students. Contrast that with another school that will be brand new to 4A in Highland Park, who has 729 students, a difference of close to 500 potential student-athletes. There are no changes in the local area as Manhattan of course remains in 6A, Wamego in 4A, Riley County in 3A, and Blue…
For the first time, the K-State volleyball team will meet West Virginia on Thursday night, but it certainly won’t be the last. The two teams are now Big 12 conference bedfellows as the Mountaineers are a first year member of the league. West Virginia is 8-7 and 0-2 in the Big 12, while the #15 Cats are 13-1, but are also looking for their first league win. K-State senior libero Kuulei Kabalis says the Cats are excited to face a new league opponent. K-State was flying high into the Big 12 opener against Oklahoma last Wednesday. But, the Sooners quickly…
All four of K-State’s remaining football games have been declared sellouts as department officials announced today that all tickets to the October 27 matchup with Texas Tech have been sold. The sellout gives K-State six this season, which ties the school record for capacity crowds in a season originally set back in 1999. The latest announcement marks the 14th sellout at Bill Snyder Family Stadium since the 2009 season and the eighth time since the 1999 stadium expansion that multiple games will be at full capacity in the same season.
DETROIT (AP) Jhonny Peralta brought home the go-ahead run when Andy Dirks’ hard slide broke up a potential inning-ending double play in the eighth inning and the Detroit Tigers beat the Kansas City Royals 5-4 Wednesday night. Triple Crown candidate Miguel Cabrera was robbed of a tiebreaking homer in the fifth inning by Alex Gordon’s catch above the left-field wall. Detroit, which started the day tied with the Chicago White Sox atop the AL Central for the first time since Sept. 2, found a way to break through the eighth, though. It looked as if the Royals were going to…
An Iranian diplomat was escorted from a street by police Wednesday after he was surrounded and threatened by an angry group of protesters near the United Nations.
The NFL and the referees’ union have reached a tentative contract agreement, ending an impasse that began in June when the league locked out the officials and used replacements instead.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) The daughter of an 88-year-old Wichita woman whose home was burglarized is hoping to recover just one stolen item: a box containing the ashes of the woman’s late husband. The Wichita Eagle reports the break-in occurred Sunday morning while the widow was at church. Her daughter, J.E. Kelly, told the newspaper Wednesday the stolen items included money, jewelry and gold-colored etched metal box containing the ashes. Kelly says her mother planned to be buried someday with her husband’s ashes. They’re worried now that whoever has the box will open it, realize what’s inside and throw it away.…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Koch Industries and the Fred and Mary Koch Foundation are donating a total of $814,000 to the Kansas State University Office of Diversity. The Wichita Eagle reports that the donation includes a combined gift of $514,000 to increase enrollment of multicultural students in the university’s business administration and engineering schools. Koch Industries has also pledged $300,000 for future scholarships to promote diversity. Koch spokeswoman Susan Addington says the company and foundation are committed to education and promoting an educated, diverse workforce.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) Two Kansas women are recovering from transplants they received using parts of the same liver. Surgeons at the University of Kansas Hospital transplanted the divided liver into the two women last week. They split the liver because it was too large to fit into the women. The Kansas City Star reports one of the women, Pamela Lawson of Salina, feared she would not get a liver because she is 64 years old. She never hesitated when surgeons suggested the split-liver procedure and was recovering Tuesday at the hospital. The second recipient did not wish to be…