A replacement project will begin Thursday on the K-99 Bridge over Brush Creek located 7.5 miles north of Wamego just south of Brush Creek Road in Pottawatomie County. Project work includes replacement of the existing 24-foot wide reinforced concrete deck T-girder bridge structure, with a 40-foot wide reinforced concrete haunched slab structure. The new bridge will include two 12-foot lanes with 8-foot shoulders. Work will take place during daylight hours, Monday through Friday, with some occasional Saturday work. Beginning early Monday (July 16), northbound and southbound K-99 over the Brush Creek Bridge will be reduced to one lane of traffic for both…
Author: KMAN Staff
Wamego’s putting plans in place for the new school year. Monday’s Board of Education meeting began with the introduction by Board President Richie Chrest, of the new Director of Special Services, Rebecca Helbert. New Board Officers were elected at this meeting, with Philip Wethington taking over as President and Amy Schwein as Vice President for the 2012-13 school year. In other business, the board failed to approve the adoption of a 11-hundred-16-hour school term as proposed. State law provides the board may adopt the hourly term or 186, six-hour day term. Board member Richard Weixelman voiced his opposition to the…
Two expensive tools missing from a Manhattan man’s residence sum up to over $2,000. Riley County Police reported this Tuesday morning that a theft occurred around 6:30 Monday evening in the 3000 block of Conrow Drive. Steven Sanborn (64) reported a chainsaw and welder had been taken from his home for a total loss of $2,400. He believes this happened sometime within the past two months. —— A Manhattan man’s failure to appear lands him in jail with a large bond. Mark Douglas Townley II (31) was arrested around 5:30 a.m. Tuesday morning for failing to appear in court. Townley…
After a solid first professional season in the Italian League, K-State’s all-time leading scorer Jacob Pullen is back in the NBA Summer League. Pullen led the Philadelphia 76’ers outfit with a game-high 15 points on day one against the Indiana Pacers. He was 5 of 11 from the field, including three of six from beyond the arc, and two of four at the line. Pullen also added three rebounds and two assists. The 76’ers will play their second of five games in Orlando on Tuesday morning against the Utah Jazz. Former K-Stater Dominique Sutton also is suiting up for the Orlando…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Detroit’s Justin Verlander will start on the mound for the American League, and Matt Cain of San Francisco will go for the National League in Tuesday night’s All-Star game. Verlander posted a 9-5 record with a 2.58 ERA for the Tigers in the first half of the season. Cain went 9-3, including a perfect game, with a 2.62 ERA for the Giants. American League manager Ron Washington announced his starting lineup. Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter will lead off, followed by his teammate Robinson Cano at second. Texas left fielder Josh Hamilton bats third, followed by…
Detroit’s Prince Fielder outslugged Toronto’s Jose Bautista to win Monday night’s Home Run Derby. Fielder defeated Bautista 12-7 in the final round. He’s only the second player to win the derby more than once, having won it in 2009. Ken Griffey Jr. won three derby crowns. Fielder hit 28 during the three rounds, including one measured at 476 feet, longest of the night. Defending champ Robinson Cano was blanked in his round and was booed by the Kansas City crowd. The crowd believed Cano should’ve selected Kansas City’s Billy Butler to participate in the annual contest. Cano made several comments…
In an election-year faceoff, President Obama is demanding Congress renew Bush-era tax cuts only for the middle class, but Republicans say that just means a whopping tax hike for everyone else.
The mother of a Detroit woman shot and killed while dancing with an off-duty police officer questioned Monday why he would carry a loaded gun at a party in his own backyard.
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) The hot weather has claimed hundreds of carp at a nature preserve outside Lawrence. The state Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism says the dead carp lining the banks of the pond at the Kanza Southwind Nature Preserve outside Lawrence died from the excessive heat. Chuck Bever, regional fisheries supervisor with department, told The Lawrence Journal-World that the hot weather and decaying plants take oxygen out of the water, leaving little for fish. The heat affect is most often seen in small lakes and ponds.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Kansas has again appealed a federal judge’s order prohibiting the state from stripping federal family planning funds from Planned Parenthood clinics in Wichita and Hays as well as an unaffiliated clinic in Dodge City. Monday’s appeal notice seeks to put both the 2011 and 2012 statutes before the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals more quickly. The lawsuit stems from a Kansas law requiring the state to first allocate federal family planning money to public health departments and hospitals, which leaves no funds for specialty clinics. Planned Parenthood and the Dodge city Family Planning Clinic earlier won…