Authorities say they have arrested 20-year old Jeffrey Williams in the shooting of two officers outside the Ferguson Police Department on Thursday.
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP)–Troy Tulowitzki and Justin Morneau hit home runs on consecutive pitches in the first inning, lifting the Colorado Rockies to a 6-2 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Sunday. Tulowitzki’s liner off Royals rookie Aaron Brooks curled inside the left field foul pole. The two-run shot was the second of the spring for Tulowitzki, who also made a diving play at shortstop as he shows no ill-effects from season-ending hip surgery. Morneau, the 2014 NL batting champ, sent Brooks’ next pitch halfway up the g rassy seating area in left center. “Today was a nice little show…
By Chris Kutz, K-State Athletics Communications Despite erasing a four-run deficit with the help of a game-tying, bases-clearing double by Max Brown in the seventh inning, the K-State baseball team surrendered three two-out runs in the eighth that led to a 10-7 defeat at the hands of Missouri State on Sunday at Tointon Family Stadium. Trailing 7-3 entering the bottom half of the seventh, Carter Yagi drew a leadoff walk and Clayton Dalrymple recorded the second of his three singles in the game to help put runners on base for the Wildcats (10-9). After back-to-back outs and a Steve Serratore…
Updated 5:30 a.m. Monday: Junction City Police have arrested a suspect in a Sunday homicide case. Daniel Edwards, 34, was taken into custody shortly before 11:30 Sunday night after being located in Topeka by the Topeka Police Department. Junction City Police Detectives responded to Topeka, interviewed Edwards, arrested him, and transported him back to Junction City where he was confined at the Geary County Detention Center with no bond. Edwards faces charges in connection with the death of Sharon Moody, 52, of Junction City. As KMAN earlier reported, Moody was found shortly before 3:30 Sunday afternoon at her home in…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas Supreme Court has thrown out the 50-year prison sentence of a man convicted of fatally shooting his uncle in 2008 in Kansas City, Kansas. While ordering Friday that a Wyandotte County trial court resentence Mark Salary, the state’s high court upheld Salary’s first-degree murder conviction in the death of Valray Estell, who at that time of the shooting was his live-in uncle. Authorities had alleged that Salary shot 58-year-old Estell and left him to die in a burning house. Salary had insisted the shooting was self-defense. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the Kansas Supreme Court…
Riley County Police arrested a Manhattan man Saturday night for aggravated burglary. Robert Melcher (21) was also charged with criminal damage to property after he was apprehended in the 1400 block of Fairchild RD. Melcher was confined on a $6,00 bond, but has since been released.
A massive cyclone tore through Port Vila, Vanuatu early Saturday leaving two confirmed dead. Relief workers expect the death count to rise dramatically once communication is restored.
Thousands turned out Saturday to honor Robert Wilson III, a Philadelphia police officer killed on March 5 while waiting in line at a GameStop store to purchase a game for his son.
Making their first appearance in school history in a State Championship Basketball game, the Rock Creek Mustangs lost to Holcomb 63-55 in the Boys Class 4A Division II title game Saturday night at Hartman Arena in Park City. Elsewhere in the Class 2A State Tournament held at Bramlage Coliseum on Saturday, the Girls State title went to Central Plains which defeated Moundridge 46-33 while on the Boys side, K-State commit Dean Wade was crowned a State Champion along with the rest of his teammates as St. John-Hudson downed Central Plains 49-45 preventing a Championship sweep by Central Plains. Also in…
SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP)– Collin Cowgill hit a two-run double in a five-run fifth inning against Jason Vargas, and a Los Angeles Angels split squad beat the Kansas City Royals 7-6 in 10 innings Saturday. Vargas retired the side in order in the first, but then allowed nine of the next 13 batters to reach base — eight hits and a walk. The left-hander pitched out of a bases loaded jam in the third, getting Kyle Kubitza to bounce into an inning-ending double play. Efren Navarro doubled in the second and had three hits for Los Angeles. Kubitza homered in the…