CHICAGO (AP)– There is no big secret to Danny Duffy’s July success. No mechanical adjustments. Nothing like that at all. The Kansas City Royals play great defense, and Duffy is putting his fielders to work. Duffy took a shutout into the ninth inning in the longest outing of his career, and surging Kansas City beat Chris Sale and the Chicago White Sox 4-1 on Sunday. “We needed him to stand up today big time, and he did,” Royals manager Ned Yost said. Duffy (4-4) was replaced by Joe Blanton after Tyler Saladino led off the ninth with his first career…
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Executives from a major Japanese corporation have given an unprecedented apology to a 94-year-old U.S. prisoner of war for using American POWs for forced labor during World War II.
A world surfing competition had to be cancelled Sunday after one of the surfers was attacked by a shark. Three-time world champion Mick Fanning from Australia was struck by the shark from behind and knocked off his board. He escaped unharmed.
A Westmoreland man was arrested for attempted 2nd degree murder and aggravated battery during the early Sunday morning hours, according to a press release from the Pottowatomie County Sheriff’s Department. The Pottawatomie County Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call on Sunday at approximately 2:30 a.m. that someone had been shot at 110 South 4th St., in Westmoreland. A second 911 call was received and the caller reported that two individuals had been shot. Sheriff’s deputies located two individuals outside the residence, suffering from non-life threatening gunshot wounds. The suspect, 28-year old Travis Conder, was also located outside the residence, and was taken into…
CHICAGO (AP)– Lorenzo Cain was hoping someone on his team would hit a home run to end the marathon game. He wound up taking matters into his own hands. Cain homered in the 13th inning and the Kansas City Royals outlasted the Chicago White Sox 7-6 Saturday in a game that took nearly five hours. The AL Central-leading Royals won for the 10th time in 13 games. “I ended up doing it and helping everybody get out of here and move on to tomorrow. It was well needed, well needed,” Cain said. Cain doubled and singled early, then led off…
Hundreds of people taunted each other on the grounds of the South Carolina Statehouse during separate rallies staged by two groups from outside the state.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump criticized Arizona Sen. John McCain’s military record Saturday, saying he was a “war hero because he was captured.”
DODGE CITY, Kan. (AP) — A former staffer for U.S. Rep. Tim Huelskamp has been sentenced to 12 months in prison in a Kansas child- sex case. Matthew Pennell, a Manhattan High graduate and one-time candidate for the Riley County USD 378 school board was sentenced Friday in Ford County after admitting to two of the 17 child sexual exploitation counts he was charged with in March. The Dodge City Daily Globe (http://bit.ly/1HB76Ap ) reports that Pennell also will be required to register as a sex offender and complete a treatment program. The affidavit says Pennell was in possession of…
A wildfire burned through 3,500 acres of the winding, mountainous Cajon Pass 55 miles northeast of Los Angeles Friday below the elevated lanes of Interstate 15, trapping hundreds of people amid a cauldron of smoke, flames and ash.
Those who knew Sandra Bland said she would not have killed herself inside a Texas jail cell, not even over the traffic stop that led to her arrest, which mirrored the ones she railed against online.