WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A 21-year-old soldier from the Wichita was killed this week in Afghanistan. The U.S. Department of Defense announced Friday that Spc. James R. Burnett Jr. died Wednesday when an improvised explosive device hit a Jeep in which he was riding in a convoy. Twenty-two-year-old Pfc. Matthew C. Colin of Navarre, Fla., also died in the attack in the Kandahar province of Afghanistan. Burnett and Collins were assigned to the 1st Battalion, 5th Infantry Regiment, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, Fort Wainwright, Alaska. Burnett attended Clearwater High School in Wichita and joined the Army after…
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Striking machinists at Honeywell will vote on a proposed contract on Sunday. Steve Nickel, a representative of the machinists’ union, said late Thursday that union negotiators agreed to present the proposal from a mediator to its member. He said the company has agreed to accept the proposal if it is approved. The Kansas City Star reports that neither Nickel nor Honeywell spokeswoman Linda Cook would describe terms of the proposal. The 840 members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers in Kansas City have been on strike since Oct. 9. The walkout started after…
PITTSBURG, Kan. (AP) Pittsburg officials are wrestling with questions of safety, costs and liability as they try to determine the best ways to protect residents from tornadoes. The question took on greater urgency after a May 22 tornado devastated parts of Joplin, Mo., just 30 miles away. Fire chief Scott Crain says the city isn’t closer to a solution than it was when the effort started five months ago. The state has said Pittsburg will receive 75 percent of the $1.6 million to $2 million cost of building a community shelter that would hold 2,000 to 3,000 people. The Joplin…
Riley County extension director Jennifer Wilson announced the results of this year’s extension council elections on Thursday. Elections are held each year to rotate three new members into sub-committees, which are divided into four separate categories of agriculture, family and consumer science, 4-H youth development and community development. The winners in agriculture are Jordan Hagenmaier, Steve Hargrave, and Greg Legleiter. Family and Consumer Science winners are Linda Teener, Susan Goff, and Kerry Wefald. 4-H Youth Development winners are Marjorie Devlin, Douglas Russell, and Sharon Dobesh-Beckman. Community Development winners are Darin Marti, Jay Terrill, and Sherrie Russell. All committee members will meet at Pottorf Hall on November 30 to select – from the 24 total – nine who will serve…
A two-day event this weekend hopes to spice up the City of Manhattan website, as the Little Apple Hackathon takes place Saturday and Sunday. CivicPlus Chief Technology Officer Brian Rempe is overseeing the technical team at CivicPlus, and explains that since CivicPlus calls Manhattan home this is a way for them to give back. Six teams will work on designing the new website. Rempe (Rem-pee) does encourage community involvement. You can do so by visiting here. The community is also welcome to come out to the presentation of the website designs Sunday afternoon at 4 p.m. The Little Apple Hackathon…
Manhattan Mayor Jim Sherow thinks progress is being made on what to do with the Kansas River bridge piers possibly being used for signage. However Sherow admits some questions remain. The piers apparently belong to the Kansas Department of Transportation, and are also in the unincorporated area of Riley County, which would mean they fall under the county’s recent moratorium on signage on highways that went into effect a couple of weeks ago. The moratorium lasts for a year. That means the city, if it’s able to obtain at least one of the piers, would have to abide by the…
STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) Oklahoma State University says women’s basketball coach Kurt Budke and assistant coach Miranda Serna were killed in a plane crash in central Arkansas. The university said in a news release Friday that the two were on a recruiting trip to Arkansas when the plane crashed near Perryville, about 45 miles west of Little Rock. The university says the plane’s pilot and another passenger also died in the crash. Their names were not released and OSU said they were not associated with the university. Ten men associated with the OSU men’s basketball team died in a plane crash…
The Riley County police department has started conducting evaluations of their services to the county. “The Riley County police department is calling to ask you how happy you were when you were with us when you filed a report, got a ticket, or had an officer to respond to a call,” Brad Schoen, director of the Riley County Police, said. Additionally, Schoen said that a new system will be used in 2012 which will examine ‘benign’ calls; calls that didn’t result in a response.
The FBI has taken over the investigation of the Kansas State bank robbery in Manhattan. The person in charge of the investigation was not available just before noon Friday. This is the second time this type of robbery has happened in as many months. The suspect entered the bank, presented the teller with a note demanding money and then left the bank. No weapon was displayed. The robber is described as a white male between 5’7″ and 5’8″, who weighs between 160-170 pounds. He was wearing a black beanie cap, sunglasses, a dark shiny coat and jeans at the time of the…
Ten times more students are taking nuclear engineering courses than were nearly 20 years ago. That’s according to William D. Magwood IV, a commissioner of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, who visited Kansas State Thursday. Magwood adds he’s seen a lot of changes in nuclear energy in the nearly two decades he’s actively worked with the Department of Energy. He says the mid-90’s showed little interest in the field. And Magwood reminds us of Kansas State’s importance with it’s nuclear reactor–that is close to celebrating it’s 50th anniversary. Magwood said he also wanted to visit Kansas State to learn more about…