WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Wichita State University is commemorating the 45th anniversary of a crash that killed 31 people aboard a plane carrying the school’s football team. KAKE-TV reports that the ceremony gets started Friday morning. The crash of the plane carrying the team’s starters happened on Oct. 2, 1970, in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. Among the dead were 14 players, coach Ben Wilson and his wife, boosters, administrators and three crew members. Nine survived, eight of them players. Another charter plane, carrying reserve players and other coaches took a different route and landed safely in Logan, Utah, where the…
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AP-KS–SymphonyintheFlin COTTONWOOD FALLS, Kan. (AP) An annual event that brings the Kansas City Symphony to the Flint Hills will use a remote central Kansas pasture for next year’s performance. The Kansas City Star reports that the spot near Clements in Chase County is the same location used in 2010 for the popular sunset performance. The theme of the June 11, 2016, concert is “The Future of the Flint Hills.” Tickets for the show will cost $94 for adults and $50 for children under 12. They will go on sale in early spring.
Officers with the Riley County Police Department filed a report for theft of a motor vehicle in the 1000 block of Humboldt Street in Manhattan on October 1, 2015 at approximately 7:20 AM. Police found that a 1997 red Honda Civic valued at approximately $2,000.00 was removed from an apartment complex parking lot without the owner’s permission. The victim in this investigation is listed as being Joseph Green, 29, of Manhattan. The vehicle was unsecured at the time of this crime and police were told it had Missouri license plates. If you have information about this crime contact the Manhattan…
CHICAGO (AP)– Kansas City Royals manager Ned Yost was sitting in his office in the visiting clubhouse when White Sox broadcaster Ken Harrelson walked in and offered him a lucky gold coin. Yost accepted the present with a big grin. After all, he could use a little help with all of the Royals’ bumps and bruises. Jonny Gomes drove in three runs, and the banged-up Royals moved into a tie with Toronto for the AL’s best record with a 6-4 victory over Chicago on Thursday. Kansas City played without outfielders Lorenzo Cain and Alex Rios on a windy, cold night,…
Oregon Governor Kate Brown says that the gunman in a deadly community college shooting is now deceased and was 20-year-old male suspect.
Riley County commissioners were updated on the housing market Thursday morning. County Appraiser Greg McHenry reported that the market continues to be steady and slightly ahead of last year’s pace. So far McHenry’s office has recorded 1,002 real estate sales in 2015 through Sept. 28. The median sale price was $188,000 while the average sale price was $202,881. McHenry’s median residential sales ratio — which compares the midpoint of county values divided by actual sales prices — is currently 97 percent. “The significant part of that is when we set our values on Jan. 1, we were closer to the 100 percent mark,”…
The Kansas State University Police Department responded to an unusual call Tuesday evening. At around 7 p.m. K-State police were called to a residence hall regarding a report of a nude male who was causing a disturbance. Upon arrival, the officers detained the suspect, who was later transported to Via Christi Hospital in Manhattan. K-State Police are continuing their investigation.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) One of two northeast Kansas twin brothers has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for his role in a multistate marijuana-trafficking operation. The Lawrence Journal-World (http://bit.ly/1jA1SNY ) reports 33-year-old Los Rovell Dahda was sentenced Wednesday and fined almost $17 million. Dahda and his brother Roosevelt Rico Dahda, both of Lawrence, were found guilty last year of conspiracy. They were among 43 people accused in Kansas and California in connection with the trafficking ring. Authorities say the ring brought 8,000 pounds of marijuana, much of it from California, into Lawrence and the Kansas City area…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Donations are being sought for a middle school counselor who underwent a quadruple amputation after a shooting at a south-central Kansas store. The Wichita Eagle (http://bit.ly/1KVdQru ) reports that about $28,000 has been raised so far for Julie Dombo. The 61-year-old was wounded in August during a robbery at a Derby AT&T store. Because of oxygen deprivation to her limbs while in the hospital, her hands and legs required amputation in early September. A blood drive was held in Dombo’s honor on Labor Day, and a run/walk was held on Sunday as a fundraiser for her medical…