At the Manhattan – Ogden school board meeting, many topics were brought to the table. First was talk concerning the current redistricting map. Dr Robert Seymour, Associate Superintendent, gave yet another update as to where the redistricting committee is looking. He says they will continue next year at their January 5th meeting and has hopes to bring a plan to the board at their January 18, 2012 meeting. With redistricting and with the national budget like it is, concerns about Fort Riley were expressed. John Armbrust, Executive Director Governors Military Affairs Council, gave a report concerning the possibility of…
Author: KMAN Staff
With this being the last meeting of 2011, the Wamego City Commission tied up loose ends. City Manager Merl Page asked the Governing Body to approve an amendment to a 2008 analysis of needed upgrades to the sanitary sewer system in the area of 2nd and Military Trail Road. The City re-evaluated the original Schwab-Eaton design and determined it needed modification due to continued growth in the area, which would cost an additional 2-thousand dollars. The amendment was approved. In other business, Page said the City staff was evaluating different opportunities for transmission of the power supply because the current…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) A man on parole for burglary has been charged with burglarizing the Kansas City apartment of Chiefs running back Dexter McCluster, making off with thousands of dollars’ worth of electronics, watches and other property. The Jackson County prosecutor’s office charged 31-year-old Daniel LaBlance on Tuesday with one count of second-degree burglary. Police say McCluster and his girlfriend returned to the apartment in the city’s Westport section the afternoon of Nov. 13 and found the door kicked open and the rooms ransacked. Investigators said DNA from blood left at the scene led them to the suspect’s…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Yuniesky Betancourt is back with the Kansas City Royals after agreeing to a one-year contract. The deal was announced Tuesday. Betancourt, who played for the Royals from 2009-10, started at shortstop for the NL Central champion Milwaukee Brewers last season, batting .252 with 13 homers and 68 RBIs. Kansas City has Alcides Escobar at shortstop, so Betancourt will provide versatility and experience off the bench. He will back up Escobar while providing a right-handed bat behind Mike Moustakas at third base. Milwaukee declined a $6 million option on Betancourt for next season.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) The NCAA has hit Ohio State with a one-year bowl ban and other penalties for a scandal that involved players taking cash and tattoos in exchange for jerseys, rings and other Buckeyes memorabilia The university had previously offered to vacate the 2010 season, return bowl money, go on two years of NCAA probation and use five fewer football scholarships over the next three years But the NCAA on Tuesday banned the Buckeyes from playing in a bowl in Urban Meyer’s first year as head coach in 2012, further reduced the number of scholarships and tacked on…
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) LSU’s Les Miles is The Associated Press college football coach of the year after guiding the top-ranked Tigers to a spot in the BCS championship game Miles received 30 votes from AP poll voters to beat out Kansas State coach Bill Snyder, who got 16 votes Oklahoma State’s Mike Gundy was third with six votes, Michigan’s Brady Hoke received three votes and Southern California’s Lane Kiffin got one Miles won the award, which has been given out since 1998, for the first time. He’s the second LSU coach to win the award, joining Alabama coach…
LAS VEGAS, Nev. – Kansas State was unable to overcome a sluggish offensive performance against UNLV in the final game of the BTI Invitational on Tuesday night, as the Lady Rebels defeated the Wildcats 44-38. The loss ended K-State’s five-game winning streak. The Wildcats (8-3) were paced by senior forward Jalana Childs with 12 points. Joining Childs in double figures was Brittany Chambers with 11 points. UNLV (10-3) was led by Markiell Styles with a game-high 15 points while also adding seven rebounds. Adding to the Lady Rebels performance was a double-double from Jamie Smith with 10 points and a game-high 12 rebounds. Both teams…
Manhattan is quickly becoming a haven for bio-science research, and that aim was put forward a little further last night at the Manhattan City Commission meeting. An Indian company, Pratistha International came forward for a second consideration, applying for economic development funds to set up a Manhattan-based arm of their company. The proposal, which passed unanimously, will allow Pratistha to set up a research facility in an old armory building near Manhattan Regional Airport. Commissioners also were given the guaranteed maximum price on the construction of the new Traffic Operations Facility. While the price was presented, along with it…
Monday evening Daniel Brewer was sentenced to two concurrent prison terms of 12 to 20 years for two rapes that occurred in 1981. On Tuesday Morning Brewer defense attorney Larry McRell filed a motion for probation and or downward modification of the two prison sentences. McRell states in the motion that it is consistent with the plea agreement reached between Brewer and the state among other reasons. The motion goes on to state that prosecutor Christine Ladner acknowledged that the office of the Kansas State Attorney General believed suspending the sentence was in the best interest of the state, the…