1991 The first Planet Hollywood opened! 2004 The Boston Red Sox won their first World Series in 86 years and then lastly... 1985 The Kansas City Royals won their first World Series Championship! Will history repeat itself this week?! #TakeTheCrown -Tyler Jackson
CareerCast.com has a list for Halloween of the ten scariest jobs in America. As in, jobs that would trigger hardcore phobias in the average person. Check 'em out. 1. Arachnologist. A person who studies spiders. 2. Coroner. Obviously it involves touching and cutting open dead bodies. 3. Diver. You spend your time [...]
The city of Manhattan had a significant decrease in sales tax collections this month compared to the October 2014 report. While virtually every category under the North American Industry Classification System was down Finance Director Bernie Hayen indicates there is a partial explanation. The city did not receive any distribution from intercollegiate athletics this month […]
FORT RILEY, Kan. – About 120 Soldiers with Company F, 1st Attack Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Aviation Regiment, 1st Combat Aviation Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, are set to return this week to Fort Riley following a nine-month deployment to Afghanistan in support of Operation Freedom’s Sentinel. While deployed, the Soldiers of “Fenix” company operated the Gray Eagle unmanned aircraft system, […]
Riley County commissioners are urging farmers and ranchers in the Flint Hills region to be mindful about how they schedule their annual pasture burns. Riley County Emergency Management Director Pat Collins told commissioners new standards from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have lowered the threshold of air pollutants to 70 parts per billion from 75 […]
Nobel laureate Adam Riess, distinguished astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute and astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins University, will present a Neff lecture in Physics at Kansas State University in Hale Library’s Hemisphere Room on Tuesday, October 27, at 4:30 p.m. KMAN’s Cathy Dawes had a chance to visit with Riess at the KMAN […]
Two arrests were made after a physical altercation on October 25, 2015 at approximately 11:35 AM. Kimberly Martin, 50, of Manhattan was arrested for the offense of domestic battery and given a bond of $1,000.00 after pushing Marlo Martin, 47, of Manhattan during an altercation. Marlo Martin was arrested for the offense of aggravated […]
1881 The most famous gunfight of the Old West took place: The Gunfight at the OK Corral took place in Tombstone, Arizona The most famous gunfight of the Old West was between Wyatt Earp, his two brothers and Doc Holiday and the Ike Clanton Gang Wyatt Earp and Billy Clanton opened the battle with Doc shooting [...]
Manhattan, Kan. – The Manhattan Area Technical College (MATC) Foundation is pleased to announce it has received a $150,000 grant from Delta Dental of Kansas. These funds will be used to implement an expansion of the dental clinic that will benefit the community in multiple ways. MATC plans to expand oral health services by doubling the […]
An Alta Vista man died in a two vehicle accident in near-by Morris County Sunday afternoon. Robert Ziegenhirt, 66, was a passenger in one of the vehicles involved in the accident on K-177, three-tenths of a mile south of F Avenue, reported a few minutes after four p.m. Sunday. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, the accident […]
