Author: KMAN Staff

With requests from Kansas governmental officials Wednesday to halt releases of water from three of its reservoirs. the U-S Army Corps of Engineers has responded with actually increasing the water released overnight. Tuttle Creek Lake is one of the reservoirs affected, and Operations Project Manager Brian McNulty for Tuttle Creek Lake with the U-S Army Corps of Engineers indicates the lakes serve several congressionally authorized purposes. The U-S Army Corps of engineers Thursday indicated in a news release that  releases from Milford, Tuttle Creek and Perry reservoirs in the Kansas River Basin have been providing supplemental navigation support to the Missouri River since…

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K-State men’s basketball coach Bruce Weber announced on Thursday that would-be senior Jeremy Jones is leaving the program.  The 6 foot 2 inch guard told Weber he’d like to finish his college career closer to his hometown of Chicago.  Jones transferred to K-State after he was an NJCAA all-American at Seward County Community College a year ago.  He saw action in 20 games for the Cats last season as he averaged 3.1 points a night.  Jones scored a season high 12 points in 14 minutes at Oklahoma, but injured his ankle in the game, which hampered his playing time the rest of the way.

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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP)   Jered Weaver won his seventh straight start to tie a career-best, Mike Trout and Torii Hunter homered, and the Los Angeles Angels beat the Kansas City Royals 11-6 victory Wednesday.  The Angels won the rubber game of the three-game series without slugger Albert Pujols, who missed his second game of the season because of a bruised right elbow.  Weaver (13-1) threw 101 pitches over five innings, allowing two runs and three hits while his AL-leading ERA rose from 2.20 to 2.27 because of Billy Butler’s two-run homer in the fifth.  Royals right-hander Luke Hochevar (6-9) was…

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Thousands of dollars worth of damage were reported from a pasture fire Wednesday evening on West 69th Avenue, west of Manhattan near Keats. The fire began about 6:30 in the evening when a hay baler caught fire for an unknown reason, while out in a field with a hay bale attached.  While one individual was treated by Riley County EMS on the scene, no one required hospitalization. Riley County Fire Chief Pat Collins indicates 35-40 acres on the William Smith farm were involved in the fire, amounting to a thousand dollars worth of hay , a haybaler, and a power pole being…

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Governor Sam Brownback has updated all 105 counties to the Emergency Drought Status. With this declaration, the Kansas Water Office and the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism have issued a Memorandum of Understanding, or MOU, for emergency use of state fishing lake storage. “This MOU would allow small communities and producers to pump water from certain state fishing lakes to provide some relief if they are in dire need of water,” said Tracy Streeter, director of the Kansas Water Office and Chair of the Governor’s Drought Response Team. Atchison, Barber, Brown, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Clark, Crawford, Goodman, Jewell, Kingman,…

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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Drought-stricken Kansas is asking the Corps of Engineers to halt releases of water from three of its small reservoirs for downstream navigation. During a drought conference Wednesday, Gov. Sam Brownback asked U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts to help get the Corps to stop releases from the Milford, Perry and Tuttle Creek reservoirs while some upstream reservoirs remain at flood stage. The governor also asked Roberts to support expanding the Kanopolis reservoir to hold 2 more feet of storage, which could help central Kansas during a future drought. Brownback says he has allowed pumping from all of the state’s…

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