GREAT BEND, Kan. (AP) Authorities say 11 people were sent to the hospital after a collision in Great Bend was caused by a 17-year-old girl who tried to kill a spider. The Hutchinson News reports the teenager was driving along U.S Route 56 Sunday when she noticed a spider on her lap. The Kansas Highway Patrol says she let go of the steering wheel to swat at it and her vehicle crossed the center lane, colliding with a car before bouncing off and striking a second car. The report says three people in the first car and five people in…
Author: KMAN Staff
SALINA, Kan. (AP) A Salina theater was evacuated after a man apparently shot himself in the leg with his concealed handgun. The Salina Journal reports the theater was evacuated Friday after the handgun went off in the man’s pocket, hitting him in the upper leg. Tim Coleman says he was sitting nearby when he heard a pop, smelled gunpowder and the man said “Oh my God! I shot myself.” Coleman, an Army mechanic now with the Kansas National Guard, says first he checked to make sure his 14-year-old daughter and her friends were safe. He says people evacuated calmly, and…
US Secretary of State John Kerry said he’s urging all parties in the Middle East to show restraint amid the recent deadly violence in the region. He is planning to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas this week.
Police in Fort Myers, Florida say they have no suspects or motive in the shooting at Zombicon on Saturday night. Gunfire killed one person and wounded five more late Saturday night.
A Fort Riley man was injured in a Saline County accident Sunday night. Austin Wright, 18, was driving a 1992 Nissan Pathfinder northbound on Highway 81, five miles north of Salina, when he fell asleep. The vehicle entered the center median, the driver woke up and over corrected, coming back onto Highway 81 but losing control of the vehicle. The vehicle then entered the center median again, overturning and coming to rest on its top. Wright was taken to Salina Regional Health Center. He was wearing a seat belt. The accident was reported by the Kansas Highway Patrol at 10:40 p.m.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP)– The Minnesota Vikings have shown plenty of potential since coach Mike Zimmer took over last year. Signs of progress can come in ugly performances, too, like Sunday’s victory over the reeling Kansas City Chiefs. Bailed out by a persistent defense, three field goals by Blair Walsh and another big game by rookie wide receiver Stefon Diggs, Teddy Bridgewater and the Vikings held on to beat the Chiefs 16-10. “No win in this league is going to come easy. You get an easy win, you’re a lucky team,” said Bridgewater, who threw two interceptions. Alex Smith’s 42-yard touchdown pass…
The head of an international charity whose hospital in northern Afghanistan was destroyed in a US airstrike said the “extensive, quite precise destruction” of raid cast doubt on American military assertions that it was a mistake.
Vice President Joe Biden strongly defended religious liberty in the United States and around the world on Saturday evening, saying “where there’s division, too often there is a ripe ground for extremists to sow havoc.”
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP)– Ben Zobrist’s easy fly that somehow fell in for a hit began a five-run rally against David Price in the seventh inning, and the Kansas City Royals rolled to a 6-3 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays on Saturday for a 2-0 lead in the AL Championship Series. Wade Davis survived a shaky ninth for Kansas City after Luke Hochevar and Danny Duffy were solid in relief of Yordano Ventura. Kelvin Herrera breezed through the eighth. Davis gave up a leadoff single and walked pinch-hitter Cliff Pennington, but bounced back to strike out leadoff man Ben…