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Tuesday’s program featured a discussion with Manhattan City Manager Ron Fehr and Mayor Usha Reddi.
Construction is underway for Expedition Asia which broke ground in September and features new Malayan tiger, sloth bear and Amur leopard exhibits and ADA-compliant viewing areas. The roughly $4.3 million project, was approved by the Manhattan City Commission early in September and broke ground later the same month offering crucial updates to existing enclosures, some of which are 50+ years old. Melissa Kirkwood, Marketing and Development Officer for Sunset Zoo, said that the new facilities will be state of the art and offer patrons the ability to witness up close the interaction between the keepers and animals. “They’ll be able…
A former Kansas lieutenant governor and K-State student-body president is hoping to succeed U.S. Senate candidate Roger Marshall as the latest Republican to represent the state’s 1st District in Congress. Tracey Mann, a United States House of Representatives candidate who currently lives in Salina, KS, says if elected, he will make agriculture and trade a priority. “Sitting on the House Ag Committee will be my number-one priority in Congress, as well as standing up for our conservative Kansas values,” Mann said during an interview with KMAN. “Donald Trump has stood up to China, who’s taken advantage of us for far…
Barry Flinchbaugh, Farm policy expert and longtime K-State professor, died Monday morning in Topeka. Flinchbaugh joined the Kansas State University Agricultural Economics department in 1971 where he most recently served as a professor emeritus. During his time at K-State, Flinchbaugh received three Outstanding Teacher Awards as well as several other agricultural-industry honors and taught about 4,000 undergraduate students. “We are deeply saddened by the recent loss of Dr. Barry Flinchbaugh,” Rich Felts, Kansas Farm Bureau president, said. “For more than 50 years Dr. Flinchbaugh was a voice of reason and a counselor to agriculture and the leaders of our nation.…
Early voter turnout for Riley County has almost doubled since the last presidential election. County Clerk Rich Vargo tells KMAN that as of noon Monday 15,326 Riley County voters cast their ballots in advance. Compared to 2016, that number was only slightly over 8,000. “Our total election participation in 2016 was 22,198. We’ll far surpass that,” Vargo told the Riley County Commission Monday. Nearly 80 percent of the mail ballots have been received, as 8,668 of the 10,889 had been returned by noon Monday. A total of 6,053 residents voted in advance in person. Vargo says his office does not…
Riley County saw an additional 37 positive COVID-19 cases come in over the weekend. Julie Gibbs, Riley County Health Department director, updated the county commission during their meeting Monday. Along with the additional positive cases, there were 60 more recoveries over the weekend as well. “As of today, that brings us to a total of 2,251 confirmed positives and out of those, 103 are considered active,” Gibbs said. “We’ve had 2,136 recover. Our percent positive was declining for about seven weeks up until the week before last, (when) it went up to 7.7 percent from 5 percent the week prior…
TONGANOXIE, Kan. — An eastern Kansas deputy is dead following an accident involving a school bus. The Kansas Highway Patrol said the accident happened Friday afternoon in Leavenworth County near the town of Tonganoxie. Deputy Corporal Daniel R. Abramovitz was driving an unmarked sheriff’s vehicle when it collided with a school bus. The bus driver was hospitalized with injuries characterized as not life-threatening. A child on the bus had minor injuries that did not require hospitalization. The patrol has released no further information about the accident, which remains under investigation. Abramovitz leaves behind a wife and three children.
LENEXA, Kan. — A man is hospitalized after being shot by a motorcyclist on Interstate 35 in Johnson County, and police believe road rage was behind the shooting. KCTV-TV reports that the incident happened Friday night, causing the shutdown of the interstate near the busy intersection with I-435. Lenexa police say the victim was driving northbound on I-35 when a motorcyclist driving the same direction shot him. Police say they’re investigating it as a road rage incident, but provided no additional information. The victim drove home and called 911. He was taken to a hospital but details about his condition…
OLATHE, Kan. — The largest county in Kansas has reported a record number of new COVID-19 cases, and its health director says the spread of misinformation is a significant factor in the spike in cases. The Kansas City Star reports that Johnson County health officials confirmed 287 new cases on Friday, along with two additional deaths. Dr. Sanmi Areola, director of the county health department, says the spread of misinformation is proving problematic and contributes to the spread of the virus. He says rhetoric promoting herd immunity and suggesting masks don’t work are hurting efforts to combat the pandemic.