Author: KMAN Staff
The Manhattan High Indians, ranked #4 in 6A, are set for Saturday’s Regional Wrestling Tournament at Derby. Fourteen Manhattan wrestlers will try to qualify for next weekend’s 6A State Tournament in Wichita. All 14 MHS wrestlers are seeded, which is a first for Manhattan Head Coach Bob Gonzales. Drew Unruh (126 lbs), Tre Davis (132 lbs), Michael Leeper (152 lbs), and Trey Campbell (182 lbs) earned #1 seeds at their respective weights. The Tribe is expected to contend for the regional title along with Derby and Wichita Heights. MHS and Heights were both league champions last weekend. Wrestling begins at…
Coming off a heart-breaking 42-39 Valentine’s Day loss to Topeka Hayden at home, the Indians looked to respond with a win against (5-12, 3-8) Shawnee Heights to end the week. With the leadership of seniors Deante Burton and Brandon Payne combining for 23 points, the Tribe were able to fight off the Thunderbirds to win 50-41. Although the team prevailed, Head Coach Tim Brooks thought the team could have done a much better job from the charity stripe going 9-24 on the night. The win on Senior Night gives MHS momentum as they take the road for their final games…
In a change of pace, the Manhattan High Indians were not led by Senior M.J. Massanet in scoring in their final contest of the regular season at home. Instead, the play of seniors Jenna Crusinberry and Onyeka Ehie who each scored nine points carried the team to a 52-26 victory. Massanet scored a total of five points with assistance from the trio of Darby Price, Veronica Pitchford, and Elayna Spilker who each end the night with six points. The win gave the Indians the 2011-12 Centennial League title with only two remaining league games left and kept their league record…
K-18 hasn’t had much construction lately that has interfered with drivers’ ability to get where they are going but depending on the weather, but all that is going to change. In March, KDOT will start construction on the turnoff at Scenic Drive and there are many questions about what could be put there to keep traffic flowing and drivers safe. There was original talks of taking away the option of a left hand turn at the junction and turning it into a T-Shaped intersection. Riley County Police Director Brad Schoen said he would like to see a different option than the T intersection used altogether…
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) Two Lawrence police officers have been suspended after an FBI investigation into traffic tickets being fixed in exchange for University of Kansas basketball tickets over a span of several years. City Manager David Corliss confirmed Thursday that the person whose traffic tickets were fixed is serving time in a federal prison related to a broader Kansas ticket scandal, The Lawrence Journal-World reported. In the scandal, seven people, including top business officials in the athletics department, were convicted in the thefts of more than 17,000 Jayhawk basketball tickets and at least 2,000 football tickets. The tickets were illegally…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Eight Kansas legislators have endorsed former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. Gingrich’s campaign announced the endorsements Thursday. The Republican lawmakers include two state senators Ray Merrick, of Stilwell, and Rob Olson, of Olathe. Six Kansas House members have endorsed Gingrich as well. They are Anthony Brown, of Eudora; Mario Goico, of Wichita; Trent LeDoux, of Holton; Larry Powell, of Garden City; John Rubin, of Shawnee, and Scott Schwab, of Olathe. The state’s Republican presidential caucuses are March 10, with 40 delegates to the GOP National Convention at stake.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A lawsuit challenging a Kansas law restricting insurance coverage of abortion has been reassigned to still another federal judge. A docket entry on Thursday moves the case to U.S. District Judge Julie A. Robinson in Topeka for all future proceedings in the lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union. The order removes the case from U.S. District Judge Carlos Murguia in Kansas City, Kan. He had been assigned the case after the previous judge, Wesley Brown, died last month at age 104. The Kansas law at issue bars insurance companies from offering abortion coverage as part…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) An eastern Kansas sheriff says a would-be armed robber left a rural home empty-handed after he confronted the occupant and had the door slammed in his face. Osage County Sheriff Laurie Dunn says a resident of the home in the northern part of the county answered a knock around 6:30 a.m. Thursday. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the occupant found himself face-to-face with a man holding a gun. The home’s occupant slammed the door, locked himself in a bathroom and called for help. Dunn says the gun-wielding man drove away.