By Anthony Meier, K-State Athletics Communications EUGENE, Ore. – Kim Williamson and the K-State Track and Field women capped off a stellar showing at the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships with Williamson taking second in the high jump and the women tying for ninth overall to earn their first top-10 finish outdoors since 2002. Williamson’s scoring performance, along with Akela Jones’ fourth-place finish also in the high jump tallied 13 points for the women on the day, boosting their total to 28 points overall. The ninth-place finish marked the women’s first finish in the national top-10 since…
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ST. LOUIS (AP)– Jason Heyward closed his eyes in the bright glare of the sun, dropped slowly to the turf on his backside, and hoped for the best. The St. Louis Cardinals right fielder made the key defensive play against the cross-state rival Kansas City Royals strictly by feel, preserving an eighth-inning lead by snaring a sinking liner by Kendrys Morales. “I saw it off the bat and that was the last time I saw it until I went to throw it in,” Heyward said after the 3-2 victory on Saturday. “I felt it hit my glove and I was…
Updated Monday morning: Details have been released regarding an accident KMAN first told you about Saturday afternoon on I-70 in Geary County. The Geary County Sheriff’s Department reports at 1:10 p.m. Saturday, Deputies responded to mile marker 301 on Interstate 70 for a report of a two vehicle injury accident. Steven Weber of Junction City, was traveling westbound on Interstate 70 in a 2008 Dodge Ram when he struck a large piece of debris in the roadway and lost control of the vehicle. The pickup left the roadway, went into the median and entered into the eastbound lanes of travel.…
(Photo by Cathy Dawes) An apparent explosion at a house in the 200 block of North High Street in Riley touched off a fire shortly after 12:30 Saturday afternoon. Firefighters from multiple stations including Riley, Keats, Randolph and Leonardville responded to the scene as well as Riley County Police. According to early reports it appears all occupants made it out of the house safely, however according to Riley County Fire Chief Pat Collins a woman and three children were transported to an area hospital for treatment but the extent of their injuries is unknown. Collins has identified Amber Farnsworth as…
Dallas’ police chief says a sniper has shot the suspect in an overnight attack on police headquarters and that the department is checking to see if he’s still alive.
A defense lawyer has entered a not guilty plea for northern New York prison worker Joyce Mitchell who is accused of helping two killers escape last weekend.
Riley County Police arrested a Green, Kansas woman Friday evening for a variety of drug and alcohol related crimes. Barbara Crowl (58) was picked up shortly after 6:30 pm Friday and charged with possession of opiates, opium,, or narcotics, illegal use or possession of drug paraphernalia , refusal of an initial drug test, improper driving on a laned highway and transporting an open container. Crowl was confined at the Riley County Jail on a $10 thousand bond. __________________________________________________________________________________ Officers with the Riley County Police Department arrested an Ogden man for a couple of violent offenses Friday afternoon. Eugene Nolley (48)…
ST. LOUIS (AP)– Jaime Garcia pitched eight innings of four-hit ball and helped himself with an RBI single for the St. Louis Cardinals, who ended the Kansas City Royals’ four-game winning streak with a 4-0 victory in the opener of a high-profile weekend interleague series on Friday night. Jon Jay snapped a 2-for-24 slump this month with a two-out RBI triple in the second off Yordano Ventura (3-6), and Garcia followed with his 12th career RBI on an opposite-field single to left. The Cardinals are 40-21 overall and 23-7 at home, both major league bests. They got a huge outing…
Kansas legislators have approved increases in sales and cigarette taxes to erase a budget deficit and avert deep spending cuts. The Senate voted 21-19 Friday to approve a bill raising the sales tax to 6.5 percent from 6.15 percent. The House passed it 63-45 early Friday morning, and it goes next to Republican Gov. Sam Brownback. The GOP-dominated Legislature also is sending Brownback a companion bill to increase the cigarette tax by 50 cents a pack to $1.29. The House passed it 63-44 early Friday, after the Senate’s approval Sunday. The two bills together raise $384 million during the fiscal…
President Barack Obama and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. leave meeting with House Democrats on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, June 12, 2015. The president made an 11th-hour appeal to dubious Democrats on Friday in a tense run-up to a House showdown on legislation to strengthen his hand in global trade talks