Author: KMAN Staff
Garmin International Incorporated is expanding its engineering internship program through the opening of a new software engineering facility at Kansas State University. The facility is designed to support software engineering, as well as semester-long, part-time software engineering internships throughout the school year and full-time software engineering internships during the summer. Students who participate in the internship will have the opportunity to work side-by-side with Garmin engineers and will get hands-on experience developing the next generation of Garmin GPS products. Garmin worked closely with Kansas State University, KSU-IC, The Manhattan Area Chamber of Commerce and KBED to open this facility, which…
A pair of Rock Creek wrestlers placed second as the Mustangs finished fifth as a team at the Wabaunsee Invitational over the weekend. Sam Wilson and Trevor Sutton both made the finals but finished as runners-up. Marc Reiss won his final match for 3rd place, while Shane Schaake and Shilo Schaake each came in 4th. Holton easily won the Wabaunsee Invitational team title. The rest of the top five was separated by five and a half points, with Wamego second, Royal Valley in third, St. Marys fourth, and Rock Creek in fifth.
It was a festive day at the Manhattan Town Center, with the celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. day in full swing. One of the highlights of the day was a quilt put together by Ronna Tyson, a former art teacher at Manhattan high school. Tyson says it took 550 hours to put the quilt together, with many of those going back and re-doing things. Tyson, who has worked with MLK committee chair Jim Spencer for a number of years, says quilting isn’t new to her–but this project was different. Tyson says the technique is described as snippets. In…
22nd District Kansas Senator Roger Reitz talked with Cathy Dawes recently about the first week of the 2012 Kansas Legislature.
66th District Representative Sydney Carlin talked with Cathy Dawes recently as the first week of the Kansas Legislature’s session wound down.
U.S. 2nd District Representative Lynn Jenkins joined Cathy Dawes on In Focus recently for an update on Congress.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A third man has been sentenced to life in prison in the shooting death of a 13-year-old Wichita boy on Father’s Day. Eli Betancourt will have to serve nearly 26 years before he can face a parole board under the sentence imposed Friday in Sedgwick County District Court. The 21-year-old was convicted in May of first-degree murder in the June 2010 death of Miguel Angel Andrade Martinez. The middle school student was shot multiple times when he opened his front door after hearing sounds outside. Prosecutors called the shooting an apparent mistake by men who fired on…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Police say an officer shot and critically wounded a woman because she was going after another woman with a knife. The Wichita Eagle said the shooting happened Friday night. Police Lt. Ken Landwehr said a 53-year woman pulled out a lockblade knife while four officers were trying to restrain the other woman. The woman with the knife cut the other woman’s blouse and undergarments. Landwehr said one of the officers was between the two women when the 53-year-old started to go after the younger woman again. That’s when the officer shot the 53-year-old once. The younger woman…