AMES, Iowa (Kansas State Sports Information) – Aliyah Carter hit .300 on her way to a team-high 15 kills while Sydney Bolding added a career-high eight blocks, helping K-State roll to a straight-set victory over Iowa State Saturday at Hilton Coliseum, 25-23, 25-13, 25-23. Carter, a native of Dubuque, Iowa, picked up six kills on eight swings in the opening set and Holly Bonde recorded all 10 of her kills in sets two and three. Offensively, K-State (15-8, 6-6 Big 12) owned a 43-32 advantage in total kills while hitting .282. The Wildcat defense totaled a dozen blocks in holding…
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MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Kansas State kept watching West Virginia stubbornly convert fourth downs to keep its comeback hopes alive. Finally, the Wildcats did the same thing on fourth down to dash them. Deuce Vaughn ran for 121 yards and a touchdown, Sammy Wheeler had a touchdown catch along with a crucial fourth-down grab that led to the clinching fourth-quarter score, and the Wildcats held off the mistake-prone Mountaineers 34-17 on Saturday snap a five-game losing streak in the series. “The belief, the confidence, the expectation — those are kind of the three terms we’ve come up with the last…
The inaugural VetFest in Manhattan followed the 2021 Veterans Day Parade on Thursday. The event kicked off as the parade was wrapping up, and numerous strolled over to Manhattan City Park to participate before filtering back to City Hall for the Ceremony of Honor. While the first time it’s been a part of Manhattan’s Veterans Day activities, VetFests can be found in numerous communities across the country. A relatively small affair, the fest featured two different food vendors as well as bounce houses for the kids. Perhaps the biggest draw, though, were the multiple armored military vehicles from Fort Riley…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican lawmakers have succeeded in forcing a Thanksgiving-week special session of the Kansas Legislature to consider financially protecting workers who refuse to comply with federal vaccine mandates. GOP legislative leaders announced that all Republicans in both the House and the Senate have signed a petition demanding a special session starting Nov. 22. Governors call special sessions, but the Kansas Constitution requires them to do it if two-thirds of both chambers demand it and the GOP holds more than enough seats. There are GOP proposals to make it easier for workers to claim religious exemptions to vaccine…
GODDARD, Kan. — A Kansas school district has agreed to resume allowing its libraries to check out books that a parent had challenged. The Goddard district wrote in an email that school principals and librarians made the decision during a meeting Wednesday. The Wichita Eagle reports that the email encouraged parents to “contact them directly if they have questions about the books being challenged nationally.” Issues had arisen when one parent in the Goddard district objected to language he found offensive in “The Hate U Give,” a novel about the aftermath of a police officer killing a Black teenager. The…
DES MOINES, Iowa — A man who is serving a 25-year prison sentence for rigging computers to win lottery jackpots for himself, friends and family is suing Iowa, claiming he was pressured four years ago to plead guilty to crimes he did not commit. Eddie Tipton filed documents starting the lawsuit from prison in January 2020. He wants the court to halt all restitution he’s been ordered to pay until a trial is held. A lawyer from the Iowa attorney general’s office asked a judge to dismiss Tipton’s lawsuit as frivolous. Tipton in 2017 accepted a plea agreement and was…
LANSING, Kan. — A Kansas school district is giving overwhelmed staff some extra time off heading into Thanksgiving break by using two of the extra days it had built into its schedule in case it had to close because of snow. WDAF-TV reports that the Lansing board of education’s decision to give staff Nov. 22 and 23 off as wellness days was based on the recommendation of Superintendent Dan Wessel. He said that staff has been “presented with an overwhelming amount of responsibility this school year amid the ongoing pandemic.“ The school district said that if the school district reaches…
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 as well as 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 in the 1200 block of Marlatt Ave. in Manhattan on November 10, 2021, around 8:53 a.m. Officers listed Kansas Coring and Cutting, LLC as the victim when it…
On Friday’s edition of In Focus we spoke with Margaret Abbott and Ken Johnson, Friendship Meals with Riley County Seniors’ Service Center. Red Cross representative Kristi Ingalls and organizer Maxine Coffey previewed the Kevin Coffey Memorial Blood Drive in Manhattan. In our final segments we spoke with Ascension Via Christi President and CEO Bob Copple.
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