Manhattan City Commissioners recently approved a new contract for City Manager Ron Fehr, effective December 20th. The contract, amounting to $192,000, is up more than $17,000 from Fehr’s 2022 salary of $174,000. The contract came for a vote after Fehr’s annual performance review on December 13th, which involved some back and forth according to a brief statement by Fehr that evening. Commissioners ultimately approved Fehr’s new contract by 4 to 1 vote, with Commissioner Wynn Butler voting to oppose the renewal. City of Manhattan briefing documents from the 20th indicate the pay adjustment was ‘somewhat’ based on the recent pay…
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Arkansas coach Sam Pittman admitted he was exhausted after more than four hours of football. Who could blame him after the Razorbacks and Kansas combined for 108 points? KJ Jefferson passed to Rashod Dubinion for a 2-point conversion in the third overtime and Arkansas held off a furious second-half rally by Kansas for a 55-53 win in the AutoZone Liberty Bowl on Wednesday night. The Jayhawks had rallied from 25 points down in the second half to force overtime, but failed on a 2-point conversion pass from Jason Bean to Lawrence Arnold in the third OT…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly banned the use of TikTok on the state-issued devices of government workers under her control on Wednesday, becoming one of the first Democratic governors to restrict the popular social media app. Kelly’s action came five days after Congress approved the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill that banned TikTok from most U.S. government-issued devices for employees. Republican governors in at least 15 states have already imposed such restrictions. In Louisiana on Monday, the state’s commissioner of administration — a Republican appointed by Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards — banned the use of TikTok on state…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs expect to have wide receiver Mecole Hardman on the field for the first time in nearly two months on Sunday when they play the Denver Broncos in the penultimate game of the regular season. Hardman has been out since Nov. 6 with an abdominal injury that landed him on injured reserve. He returned to practice a couple of weeks ago, but the ailment caused the already lean Hardman to lose weight he’s had to put back on. The time off also diminished the endurance. “As the week went on,” Chiefs coach…
MANHATTAN, Kan. (Kansas State Athletics) – Junior Nae’Qwan Tomlin earned his first career weekly award on Tuesday afternoon (December 27), as he was selected as the Big 12 co-Newcomer of the Week after his near double-double performance in the Wildcats’ 73-65 win over Radford on Dec. 21. Tomlin led four Wildcats in double figures in the win over the Highlanders with a season-high 26 points to help K-State (11-1) extend its winning streak to 5 games and continue its best start to a season since 2016-17. It was his first career 20-point game, as he connected on 11-of-18 field goals, which included…
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Edward Seaton, a longtime Kansas newspaper publisher who served as the Pulitzer Prize Board’s chair and advocated for international press freedom, has died. He was 79. He died of natural causes Monday night at his home in Manhattan in northeastern Kansas, his son, Ned, who followed his father as publisher of The Manhattan Mercury, told the newspaper. Edward Seaton was chairman of Seaton Publications at the time of his death. He became The Mercury’s publisher and associate editor in 1969 and its editor-in-chief in 1981. His grandfather had bought the paper in 1915, and his father, uncle and…
News Radio KMAN · In Focus 12/28/22: Kenny Titus, Lewis Bloom Segment 1 – 00:00 Segment 2 – 10:43 Segment 3 – 19:51 Segment 4 – 35:43 On Wednesday’s edition of In Focus we spoke with Rep.-elect Kenny Titus and Rep.-elect Lewis Bloom for the full hour.
The following summary of calls for service/reports filed by the Riley County Police Department is a portion of those received by police. Some names, addresses, and case details are withheld to follow local, state, and federal law and in an attempt to protect community members from being victimized further. Those arrested are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. MANHATTAN, KAN. – Officers filed a report for theft by deception in the 100 block of Blue Earth Pl. in Manhattan on December 27, 2022, around 8:30 a.m. Holiday Inn Express was listed as the victim when it was…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs wouldn’t be in the race for a first-round bye in the AFC without Patrick Mahomes, who is charting a course toward a second MVP, along with three-time All-Pro tight end Travis Kelce and a host of other big-name stars. Nor would they have been in the mix without the unsung and overlooked. At the top of the list is Jerick McKinnon, whose one-year deal paying him $1,272,500 was signed without fanfare — it barely merited mention most places — but has turned out to be one of the biggest steals in…
Starting in January, parking regulations are set to change in the Aggieville Entertainment District. The first to go into effect focuses on street parking, and begins on Tuesday January 3rd says Manhattan Parking Services Manager Adrienne Tucker. “The three-hour limit on parking has been reduced to two hours,” she says. “And we will be enforcing parking through LPR or license plate recognition technology versus the traditional chalking method.” The two hour limit was settled on in a compromise between city and Aggieville representatives in 2022. Initially, on-street parking was to be limited to three hours with one hour free parking…