On Monday’s edition of In Focus we spoke with Riley County Historical Museum Curator of Design and interim director Allana Parker along with K-State Retired Assistant Dean Steven Graham.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Patrick Mahomes threw five touchdown passes and returned to his usual form after a surprisingly shaky stretch this season, and the Kansas City Chiefs moved into first place in the AFC West with a 41-14 victory over the Las Vegas Raiders. Mahomes and the Chiefs showed little resemblance to the team that overpowered the AFC the past three seasons over the first nine weeks. But they used a dominant performance over the Raiders on a day everyone else in the division lost to return to the top of the standings. Las Vegas has lost two straight.
MANHATTAN, Kansas (Kansas State Sports Information) – Junior Ayoka Lee led the Kansas State women’s basketball team to a 76-44 win over Western Kentucky, which included the All-America candidate surpassing the 1,000-career point mark and earning her 30th career double-double on Sunday afternoon in Bramlage Coliseum during the 2021 WNIT Preseason Tournament. Lee ended the afternoon with 33 points on 14-of-17 shooting and pulled in 13 rebounds for her first double-double of the 2021-22 season. Lee also pocketed a career-high four steals. The 33 points by Lee set the school record for points in a Preseason WNIT game, surpassing the previous…
Preventing homelessness and housing instability as well as providing a path to self-sufficiency are the goals of a new local program. Manhattan Housing Authority is launching a Bridge to Housing Stability program which looks to leverage over $2 million dollars in federal and state funding to rapidly rehouse and stabilize approved residents experiencing homelessness. BHS case manager, Karen Martinez, a single mother of two who was once laid off and often worried about not being able to pay rent, talks more about her story. “I was scared. I didn’t know what I was going to do, I have two little…
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Jalon Daniel hit Jared Casey on a scrambling pass for a 2-point conversion in overtime and Kansas stunned Texas 57-56 Saturday night to snap their eight-game losing streak this season and a 56-game losing streak in Big 12 road games over the past 13 years. Texas scored first in overtime and Kansas answered with Devin Neal’s 2-yard touchdown run. First-year coach Lance Leipold then immediately decided to go for Kansas’ first Big 12 road win since 2008. Texas started 4-1 under first-year coach Steve Sarkisian, but has now lost five in a row for the first…
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…
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…