With many years left until fulfilled completion, the K-State 2025 campaign is being given a lot of attention in 2011. University President Kirk Schultz along with Senior Vice President and Provost April Mason addressed members of the media and officials from both the city of Manhattan and Riley County. Mason told those present the draft plan for the campaign is up on the university website. “Within the next week to week and half, the finalized plan will be up and there will be a video of President Schultz and I finalizing the plan.” Mason says. Mason says the plan will not only impact…
Author: KMAN Staff
The regular season got underway on Thursday as the reigning Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers matched up with the New Orleans Saints. Two former K-State players found the endzone in the contest. The Packers Jordy Nelson hauled in a 3-yard touchdown reception in the first quarter. K-State’s all-time leading rusher Darren Sproles returned a punt 72 yards for a score for the Saints late in the first half. It was Nelson’s Packers who got the better of the Saints, as Green Bay eked out a 42-34 win at Lambeau Field.
SEATTLE (AP) Justin Smoak hit his first home run in nearly three months, a two-run shot in the sixth inning, to help the Seattle Mariners claim a 4-1 victory over the Kansas City Royals Thursday night Smoak hit a 1-1 fastball from Luke Hochevar (10-11) into the right-field seats for his 13th, but first since June 12. He had gone 48 games between home runs. Jason Vargas (8-13) picked up the victory, his first since Aug. 10. He worked six innings, allowing four hits and one run. Jamey Wright, Tom Wilhelmsen each worked a hitless inning. Brandon League had…
Following is an interview Erik Stone and Cathy Dawes had with WCBS reporter Sean Adams about his experiences on 9/11/01:
Nearly 20 firefighters from Manhattan and Junction City fire departments will be participating in a 110 story memorial stair climb in Kansas City this coming weekend, to recognize the 343 firefighters lost on 9/11 of 2001. Manhattan Firefighter Matt Carlson says it puts things in perspective. Carlson says the dozen participants from M-F-D represent a range of positions from student firefighters to a chief officer. Junction City Firefighter Nathan Dixon tells KMAN each participant will represent one of the 343 firefighters killed on that day. Dixon says he has many similarities with his firefighter, Joseph Mateo-with sons exactly the same…
KMAN News Director Cathy Dawes had an opportunity to visit with Fort Riley Staff Sgt. Peter Rosie with the Dragon Brigade, who was a paramedic with the New York City Fire Department when 9/11/01 occurred.
Fort Riley authorities have released the name of a 24-year-old soldier found dead at a rural Geary county residence early Tuesday morning. Nathan Matthews of York, Pennsylvania was found dead at the home of a friend. Foul play is not suspected. Matthews was with the 701st Brigade Support Battallion, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division of Fort Riley. Captain Melody Falkenberry confirmed Matthews’ death this (Thursday) morning, adding an investigation is pending involving military and local law enforcement officials.
A Leonardville animal cruelty case is now receiving national attention. The Humane Society of the United States is offering a reward of up to 25-hundred dollars for information leading to the identification, arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the theft of three dogs and the beating death of two dogs in Leonardville. Midge Grinstead, Kansas state director for The Humane Society of the United States says her group is hopeful this reward will help find the person or persons who committed this horrible act and that they will be held accountable to the fullest extent of…
A broken rail is being blamed for the Union Pacific train derailment in Pottawatomie county early Monday. Spokesman Mark Davis indicates the line through Emmett reopened shortly before noon Wednesday. The train was hauling coal from Wyoming to Oklahoma, and included 134 cars. It derailed just before four a.m. There were no injuries.
The Manhattan – Ogden School Board had a full agenda to discuss. They started the evening in an executive session, but at 6:30 PM they began moving through the regular meeting agenda. The board had ten items they made a motion for. Of those ten, only one was not unanimous among the board members. With the delay in the opening of Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt for the semester, how they were to make up the time was a question the board had to figure out. The proposal that was presented to the board was to extend the school day…