Former K-State running back and kick returner William Powell is getting another shot in the NFL. Powell was re-signed on Monday by the Arizona Cardinals. Powell, an undrafted rookie, was released by the team Aug. 2 but returns to give the team a fourth running back after the Cardinals lost rookie Ryan Williams to a torn patella tendon in his right knee. Williams, another rookie from Virginia Tech, is out for the season, and Arizona will be looking to pick up another running back as teams make roster cuts.
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Three former K-State men’s golfers impressed this weekend at the Nationwide Tour’s Midwest Classic this weekend in Overland Park. Aaron Watkins, Robert Streb and Joe Ida all made the cut and shot under par through four rounds. Watkins and Streb both tied for 46th place at 11-under par, while Ida finished tied for 72nd at six-under par. Watkins is now 38th on the Nationwide Tour money list.
US Postal Service District Manager Rick Pivovar was at the Manhattan Fire Department on 2000 Denison to try to put out some fires of his own. Pivovar laid out the current financial troubles of the US Postal service, and said that if things don’t change then the US Postal service will be insolvent by next month. Pivovar said that a number things have contributed to the problem. Heavy reduction in volume from first class mail, and overpayment into retiree health costs to name a few. Pivovar says that the news about shutting down Rural post offices is also true. Pivovar…
Good news for at least a couple of Manhattan/Ogden schools Monday, with occupancy permits issued for Northview elementary and anticipated for Lee’s addition and Woodrow Wilson. Of course Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt already were announced as later openings on Friday. USD 383 Associate Superintendent Bob Seymour did have one piece of good news regarding construction, during Monday’s intergovernmental meeting, involving the high school, with all the staff having a chance for back to school activities and being “thrilled with that.” Another topic dealt with by intergovernmental leaders Monday involved continuing discussion on radio updates because of narrow banding requirements. Ty…
The Pottawatomie County commission heard from fire supervisor Bruce Brazzle during Monday’s meeting. Brazzle is in the process of visiting each of the county’s 12 fire stations to gauge interest in consolidation. The fire department will also be receiving a visit from the department’s insurance provider K-CAMP. K-CAMP will host a emergency response driver operator course Tuesday and Thursday (of this week). Brazzle added that drivers who pass the class will receive a certificate which they can present to their respective insurance companies to reduce their auto-insurance rates. County appraiser Lois Schlegel briefed the commission on her recent endeavors. Schlegel notes that sales were…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Kansas Lottery officials say someone in southwest Kansas bought a lottery ticket worth more than $3 million. The ticket matched all of the numbers in Saturday’s Super Kansas Cash drawing. The winning numbers were 3, 8, 11, 20 and 28, with a Cash Ball of 8. The southwest Kansas region where the ticket was sold includes Greeley, Wichita, Scott, Lane, Ness, Rush, Hamilton, Kearny, Finney, Hodgeman, Pawnee, Stanton, Grant, Haskell, Gray, Ford, Edwards, Kiowa, Morton, Stevens, Seward, Meade, Clark, and Comanche counties.
LYNDON, Kan. (AP) The father of a capital murder defendant in Kansas has testified that his son was depressed and not eating enough in the weeks before his son’s estranged wife and two teenage daughters were shot to death. Attorneys for 48-year-old James Kraig Kahler called his father, Wayne Kahler, as a witness Monday as the trial began its second week in Osage County District Court. The younger Kahler, a former city utilities director in Weatherford, Texas, and Columbia, Mo., is charged with four slayings, including that of his wife’s grandmother. The slayings occurred the week after Thanksgiving 2009 in…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Attorneys for Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri are asking a federal judge to require Kansas to pay the group quarterly with federal funds for non-abortion services. Planned Parenthood has filed suit to block a provision of the state budget aimed at preventing the organization from receiving any of the state’s share of federal family planning dollars. Monday’s filing in Wichita asks U.S. District J. Thomas Marten to require the state to make payments to the group as it has previously. The brief was filed in response to a request by the state that it pay Planned…
A different sort of mission faces Staff Sergeant Gerald Peckham, most recently of Fort Riley, who is participating in the “Road 2 Recovery” Bicycle Ride. The ride involves wounded warriors as participants and was put together last year. This next ride begins at 9-11’s Ground Zero and ends at the Pentagon. Peckham tells KMAN he is raising money toward the effort, with all participation paid for out of his own pocket. He says even a dollar donation would help. Peckham talks about the importance of remembering 9-11–which is connected with this next event. Peckham adds 9-11 has led to a lot of wounded warriors, whose lives have…