KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) The Kansas Highway Patrol is investigating after a woman died in a collision with a Kansas City, Kansas, police car. The patrol says the accident happened late Thursday when a car made left turn in front of the police car on a Kansas City, Kansas, street. The 31-year-old police officer suffered minor injuries. A passenger in the car, 50-year-old Wendell L. Hall of Kansas City, was killed. The driver of the car, 37-year-old Fatimath Jones, was hospitalized with serious injuries.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A Kansas judge is suggesting that the independence of the state’s courts is at stake in a dispute over an administrative policy imposed on them by legislators. An attorney for District Judge Larry Solomon of Kingman County on Friday asked District Judge Larry Hendricks of Shawnee County to strike down a 2014 law changing who selects chief judges in the state’s 31 judicial districts. Solomon is chief judge in the 30th District in south-central Kansas. Hendricks had a hearing in a lawsuit by Solomon against the statute and said he will rule soon. Judges in each district…
By Chris Kutz, K-State Athletics Communications CORAL GABLES, Fla. – For the fourth straight year, K-State started its season on a winning note as the Wildcats used a .371 team hitting percentage to sweep Florida A&M (25-8, 25-11, 25-19) in the Hurricane Invitational opener at the James L. Knight Sports Complex. K-State (1-0) stayed low error and never trailed throughout the entire match, helping it turn in its highest hitting percentage in a season-opener since 2005 (.391, vs. Arkansas-Little Rock). The Wildcats never hit lower than .300 in any of the three sets while in the second, they posted a…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP)– The Chiefs’ Alex Smith knows exactly how much weight Titans quarterback Marcus Mariota feels as the first-round pick tries to turn around the fortunes of Tennessee. He was in a similar position in San Francisco a decade ago. “For me, it was battling the anxiety of being the top pick and justifying that, and that’s what I fought for so long, and it took me a while,” Smith said shortly after leading Kansas City to a weather-shortened 34-10 victory over the Titans on Friday night. “In some ways,” he said, “you have to play yourself out…
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP)– Kendrys Morales lost sight of his deep drive to center field. Turns out he missed seeing the end of a quirky long ball. Morales hit his 15th homer, Edinson Volquez pitched into the seventh inning and the AL Central-leading Kansas City Royals beat the Tampa Bay Rays 3-2 on Friday night. Morales put the Royals up 3-1 with a two-run shot in the third off Erasmo Ramirez (10-5) that struck an overhanging catwalk. “I was confused in a couple of ways,” Morales said through an interpreter. “I didn’t think I hit the ball that well, and…
Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe met Friday with grieving employees at WDBJ two days after a reporter and a photographer at the TV station were shot and killed during a live field report.
Marking the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, former President George W. Bush said today is a day to celebrate the resurgence of New Orleans schools, most of which are now charter schools.
OLATHE, Kan. (AP) A 39-year-old registered sex offender faces nearly three years in prison for photographing women in a bathroom at Johnson County Community College. Saysavat Noy Bounyadeth of Lenexa pleaded guilty in July to three felony counts of invasion of privacy. The Kansas City Star reports that the judge sentenced Bounyadeth to 17 months in prison on the first count and nine and eight months on the others. Campus police arrested him April 27 after a woman noticed him using his cellphone to photograph her inside a restroom on the Overland Park campus. Bounyadeth’s arrest in April came about…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Wichita officials say they are planning an urban wetlands park in northwest Wichita. Mayor Jeff Longwell announced Thursday the city will use more than 40 acres of land to create the park and public nature area. The land is being donated by Slawson Cos., which is planning a mixed-use development adjacent to the property. The Wichita Eagle reports the city council must approve the land donation, which could happen next week. Longwell says the park could include walking and jogging trails and a boardwalk, with other nature-related activities, such as bird watching and a fishing pond. Part…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – Kansas and Nebraska will extend for one year an agreement that allows Nebraska to pump more of its share of the Republican River while ensuring Kansas eventually gets all the water it is due. The Republican River Compact Administration, which includes Colorado, announced the agreement Thursday. It extends similar agreements reached for the past two growing seasons. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports Nebraska expects to pump about 35,000 acre-feet more than its share would allow in 2016. In return, Nebraska will pump enough groundwater to Harlan County reservoir this winter and spring to help Kansas through the 2016 growing…