Riley County Historical Museum Director Cheryl Collins joined us to discuss fashion and clothing stores of Manhattan from the 1950s through the 1990s.
Author: KMAN Staff
Kansas State University held their commencement ceremonies at Bill Snyder family stadium over the weekend for 2020 and 2021 graduates. Graduates from the Fall and Spring semesters of 2020 who did have a commencement ceremony were invited back to join the 2021 graduates. The ceremonies began on Friday with the Graduate School and College of Veterinary Medicine. During the Graduate School ceremony, K-State President Richard Myers commended the resilience of the graduates who spent the pandemic finishing their courses and to those who came back to celebrate. Myers says the graduates’ presence at the ceremonies showed how the university came…
From the top of the Board of Education to the families from across the nation, Manhattan High School welcomed countless families and friends to Bill Snyder Family Stadium to see the classes of 2020 and 2021 graduate Friday night. Seeking a “positive end to this year”, Assistant Principal Larry Myers says it’s been a tough year, and the students have worked really hard persevering through all the difficulties of the pandemic to ultimately make it. “I think it’s kind of a celebration for the whole school that we’ve made it this far, and we get to celebrate on a positive…
An Illinois man wanted in Riley County for an August 2020 domestic incident at a hotel was arrested and brought to Manhattan Thursday night. Isain Lopez was being held on a separate warrant in Joliet, Illinois, when the Will County Sheriff’s Office and U.S. Marshalls took him into custody on the Riley County allegations. He was charged with aggravated kidnapping, aggravated domestic batter and domestic battery. Lopez is being held at the Riley County Jail on a quarter-of-a-million dollar bond.
LAWRENCE, Kan. — The embattled president of Haskell Indian Nations University has been fired following an internal investigation into complaints that he violated the free speech rights of faculty and students. The Lawrence Journal-World reports Ronald Graham was dismissed Friday after the Bureau of Indian Education sent a team to the Lawrence campus last month to do an administrative review. Graham began his presidency in May 2020. Graham said in a statement he would never intentionally violate the First Amendment rights of students and faculty.
TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas will follow new federal guidance that people fully vaccinated against COVID-19 will no longer need to wear masks or socially distance, with some exceptions. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced the new guidelines Thursday. Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly said the state will adopt the policy, effective immediately. The CDC said fully vaccinated people can stop wearing masks in outdoors in crowds and indoors, except in crowded settings like buses, planes, hospitals, prisons and homeless shelters. Kelly announced Wednesday the state will offer the Pfizer vaccine to children 12 and older, after the CDC approved…
WICHITA, Kan. — A Kansas prosecutor says no criminal charges will be filed against a Sedgwick County sheriff’s deputy who fatally shot a woman who refused to pull over during a high-speed chase that began over a wrong license plate on a vehicle. Sedgwick County District Attorney Marc Bennett on Thursday released his final report concluding that the deputy is immune from prosecution in the December 2019 death of 51-year-old Debra Lee Arbuckle. Bennett determined the deputy fired his weapon to stop what he perceived to be a threat of bodily injury to himself and his fellow deputies. An attorney…
ULYSSES, Kan. — The Kansas Bureau of Investigation says a 13-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of fatally shooting another teen in southwestern Kansas last month. The KBI says in a news release that the Grant County Sheriff’s Office arrested the boy Thursday afternoon on suspicion of second-degree murder, criminal possession of a firearm and possession of stolen property in the April 28 fatal shooting of 14-year-old Christopher Garcia. Investigators say Garcia was shot at a Ulysses park and taken to a Wichita hospital, where he died four days later. The 13-year-old arrested is being held at the Southwest…
On Friday’s edition of In Focus we spoke with President & CEO Bob Copple , Rita Zeller, Emily Schrader and Emily Walker from Ascension Via Christi. We were also joined by Dr. Thomas Lane – K-State VP for Student Life discussing mental health initiatives.
Kansas State University graduations get started Friday morning at Bill Snyder Family Stadium, with total of eight ceremonies taking place there–not counting Manhattan High’s use of the stadium for their graduation that night. Friday’s schedule has the graduate school ceremony at nine, the College of Veterinary Medicine at four and Manhattan High’s commencement tonight at 7:30. Saturday’s schedule is the same, with the College of Arts and Sciences, College of Education and College of Health and Human Sciences holding their ceremonies. On Sunday, the College of Agriculture’s graduation is at eight, the College of Business Administration’s ceremony is at one…