No cause yet, but the Manhattan Fire Department has released a dollar amount regarding loss from a fire Friday morning at an unoccupied residential structure at 2715 Browning Avenue. The Manhattan fire department indicates fire loss is estimated at 350-thousand dollars. KMAN news told you about the fire early last Friday morning, involving a residence under construction. Heavy smoke was apparent when firefighters arrived. It took more than an hour to get the fire under control, with crews having to evacuate the structure due to the floor collapsing. Part of Browning Avenue was closed most of Friday morning. The cause of…
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KMAN’s Chris Swick talks about a recent study revealing how lifestyle changes could reduce cancer risks for KMAN’s Morning News.
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. – CSU Bakersfield’s DC Legg hit a pair of home runs, including a three-run shot in the bottom of the first, and pitcher Taylor Aikenhead threw a complete game as the Roadrunners took the three-game set from Kansas State with an 8-1 victory Monday at Hardt Field. CSUB came back to win the final two games of the series after K-State took a 7-5 extra-inning victory in the season opener on Saturday. Monday’s loss marked the first time the Wildcats lost a three-game road series to open the season since going 1-2 at Arkansas to open the 1992 campaign.…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Legislators continue to move forward on changes to Kansas water policy aimed at improving conservation efforts and prolonging the life of water supplies. On Monday, the House approved a bill that would allow water-rights holders to form a reservoir improvement district on reservoirs. The bill, which now goes to the Senate, establishes a governing body that has the authority to develop plans to extend the life of reservoirs through management or improvement projects. Several of Republican Gov. Sam Brownback’s pieces of water policy changes are close to arriving at his desk. One would remove the 1945 policy…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) The National Agricultural Statistics Service says the number of farms in the U.S. dropped slightly last year and the amount of land used for farming continued to decline. A report released Friday shows the nation had 2.18 million farms last year. That’s down from 2.19 million farms the previous year. Meanwhile, the amount of land used for crops, pasture and grazing dwindled further to some 916.9 million acres. That is 1.85 million fewer acres than in 2010. The average U.S. farm size last year was 420 acres. In Kansas, the numbers remained stable. Kansas had 65,500 farms…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas House Speaker Mike O’Neal is floating a new congressional redistricting plan that would split the Kansas City area between two districts and put part of it in a district with rural western Kansas communities 400 miles away. The proposal from O’Neal was among several for redrawing the state’s four congressional districts unveiled this week during a meeting of the House Redistricting Committee. O’Neal’s plan would put most of Wyandotte County in the 1st District of western and central Kansas. Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley, a Topeka Democrat, has been predicting for months that O’Neal would push…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Ten months and more than 100 surgeries after he suffered a paralyzing bullet wound in Afghanistan, a Fort Riley soldier has completed his long journey home to Topeka. Dozens of members of the American Legion and Patriot Guard Riders stood at attention Friday as a private medical plane carrying 27-year-old Sgt. Jamie Jarboe touched down at Philip Billard Memorial Airport. He was moved onto a stretcher and placed in an ambulance for a ride to a Topeka rehab facility, escorted by Patriot Guard motorcyclists, The Topeka Capital-Journal reported. The turnout was especially gratifying for Jarboe’s wife, Melissa…
SALINA, Kan. (AP) Gophers have been causing problems for Salina, where the furry rodents are digging burrows in the city’s flood-control levee. The Salina Journal reports that the gophers have been digging burrows and tunnels that could create problems in the city’s 21-mile levee. Mike Fraser, Salina’s director of public works, says if the gophers create enough holes in the levee the structure could fail under stress from floodwaters. Fraser’s levee staff have been fighting the gophers with traps and have killed 369 gophers since 2009. Jack Goates, the city’s flood control supervisor, said the Corps of Engineers mandates that…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) A free dental clinic in Kansas City, Kan., has attracted hundreds of people for the two-day event. The Kansas City Star reports that people lined up at the Kansas Mission of Mercy clinic late Thursday to get a spot in the clinic, which opened Friday and continued Saturday. More than 1,000 people were treated Friday, and a similar crowd was expected Saturday. Cindi Sherwood, of Independence, Kan., is one of 173 dentists volunteering. She said dentists at the event were doing “thousands and thousands of fillings and lots of extractions.” She said many of the patients…