CHICAGO (AP)– No fighting in this one. Just a lot of rain. One night after a benches-clearing brawl led to five ejections, the Royals and White Sox were tied at 2 when Friday’s game was suspended by rain heading into the ninth inning. Managers Robin Ventura of the White Sox and Ned Yost of the Royals huddled with the umpires after the eighth, and then crew chief Tim Welke waved the players off the field. The game was suspended after a 40-minute delay. It will be resumed on Saturday at 1:10 CT with the Royals batting in the top of…
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By Chris Kutz, K-State Athletics Communications Due to heavy rain, Friday’s game between K-State and Baylor has been suspended in the top of the seventh inning. The opener of the three-game set at Baylor Ballpark will resume on Saturday at 3 p.m., with the second game of the set to start approximately 45 minutes after the conclusion of the first. Trailing 3-1, the Wildcats had their first two batters of the seventh, Alex Bee and Sam Chadick, reach with back-to-back singles before the weather delay. Clayton Dalrymple was at the plate with Baylor’s starting pitcher Drew Tolson on the mound…
Pierson McAtee, a standout player for Manhattan High School’s Boys Basketball team has announced he will walk on at Kansas State this Fall. McAtee, a senior at MHS made the announcement Friday on his Twitter account. The 6’6″ Forward was All-Centennial League as he helped to lead the Tribe to its first league regular season title since 2008. McAtee before deciding to play for the Wildcats had also been considering Washburn and Missouri State. He is the latest addition to Bruce Weber’s squad which has seen its roster go through a massive transformation this offseason with six players either transferring…
The Junction City Police Department wishes to alert the public and businesses in the Junction City area of an increase in counterfeit currency being passed in the area. There has been two incidents of counterfeit one hundred-dollar bills that were passed in Junction City this week. It was learned that several counterfeit one hundred-dollar bills have also been passed in Manhattan and Salina. We encourage you to examine closely any one hundred-dollar bills that you come in contact with and if you believe that the bill is suspicious notify the Police and get a good description of the subject passing…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) A federal judge has shielded from public disclosure evidence the U.S. government turns over to attorneys for a Kansas man accused of trying to bomb an Army installation. An order signed Friday in the case of 20-year-old John T. Booker Jr. comes at the request of prosecutors and with the agreement of his defense attorneys. Prosecutors say the evidence includes general discovery typical in criminal cases, as well as declassified and sensitive law enforcement materials. Dissemination of the information is limited for use in preparing for trial. The order does not apply to classified information, which…
An Indiana school superintendent said officials are delving into records to help investigators after a stage collapsed during a high school dance Thursday night, injuring 16 students.
A New York Police helicopter circles over Liberty Island where the Statue of Liberty was evacuated with officers responding to a report of a suspicious package seen from Jersey City, N.J., Friday, April 24, 2015. Visitors are posting photos online showing hundreds of people being herded toward a ferry landing. Tourists say they were taken off boats while trying to leave nearby Ellis Island. Those vessels then were used to evacuate Liberty Island.
Riley County District Court Judge David Stutzman was recognized for his service to crime victims during this week’s Crime Victim’s Rights Conference in Wichita. Stutzman was presented the Criminal Justice Award by Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt during an awards ceremony this morning. Stutzman was nominated for the award by Jayme Morris-Hardeman, Sunflower CASA Project, Inc., and Shelly Williams, Riley County Community Corrections. “Judge Stutzman is not only an advocate for offender accountability, but he is an advocate for the victims,” Williams said. The Kansas Crime Victims Rights Conference was hosted by Attorney General Schmidt and Governor…
“We are very confident this is going to be a win-win for all of us here in Manhattan.” And with that Dr. Doug Hinkin, Board Chairman for the new Via Christi Hospital, summed up the sentiment of those participating in Friday’s ground-breaking of expansion efforts under Manhattan’s Via Christi Hospital, formerly Mercy Regional Health Center. Jeff Korsmo, President and CEO of Via Christi Health talked about the regional clinically integrated health care systems under the newly named facility, saying they work together as physicians, hospitals, senior care communities, and home health care. He mentioned the “wonderful presence” of Via Christi…
A police officer patrols outside St. Peter’s Square, in Rome Friday, April 24, 2015. Islamic extremists suspected in a bomb attack in a Pakistani market that killed more than 100 people had also planned an attack against the Vatican in 2010 that was never carried out, an Italian prosecutor said Friday. Wiretaps collected as part of investigation into an Islamic terror network operating in Italy gave “signals of some preparation for a possible attack” at the Vatican, prosecutor Mauro Mura told a news conference in Cagliari, Sardinia.