KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) The Kansas City, Kansas, police department says it’s investigating after photos surfaced of two officers posing with their rifles in front of a vandalized stop sign. The Kansas City Star reports the photographs show lettering had been added to a stop sign to read, “Cops STOP murder’n.” The two officers posed for photos in front of the sign with their patrol rifles. Police spokeswoman Amber Hickerson says the department learned of the photos after a neighbor saw the officers and posted pictures of them on social media. Hickerson did not know where the sign was located…
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At about 3:30 pm Saturday, the Riley County Police Department received a 911 call from a passerby who reported a one vehicle rollover accident with entrapment in the 3200 block of Stagg Hill Road, Manhattan, KS. Responding officers found that the vehicle had three occupants at the time of the accident. One of the passengers was pronounced deceased at the scene and was identfied as 18-year old Cheyanne Higgins, of Junction City. A second passenger was transported to Stormont Vail in Topeka, and his current condition is unknown at the time of this release. The driver of the vehicle is…
KANSAS CITY, Mo.(AP)– Expecting some rain, the Kansas City Royals tried to rush their way through five innings to make it an official game, and came away with a shortened win. Alex Gordon hit a two-run homer, Edinson Volquez pitched six solid innings and the Royals beat the St. Louis Cardinals 3-2 Saturday night in a game called in the sixth inning due to rain. Volquez acknowledged he was rushing his throws with rain looming. “I was kind of hurrying my throws a little bit,” Volquez said. “I knew the rain was coming. I was trying to get past the…
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has scheduled a last-minute session to consider retaining the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of domestic phone records.
Michael Brelo, center, listens to the judge reading his verdict during his trial Saturday, May 23, 2015, in Cleveland. Brelo, a patrolman charged in the shooting deaths of two unarmed suspects during a 137-shot barrage of gunfire was acquitted Saturday in a case that helped prompt the U.S. Department of Justice determine the city police department had a history of using excessive force and violating civil rights. Seated next to Brelo is attorney Patrick D’Angelo, left, and attorney Fernando Mack.
On today’s In Focus, KMAN’s Erik Stone talked to St. Rep. Tom Phillips of Manhattan; U-S Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas; Operations Project Manager at Tuttle Creek Lake, Brian McNulty; and Dam Safety Program Manager,U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Kansas City District, John Benson Tom Phillips-segment 1 Pat Roberts-segment 1 Tuttle Creek Lake-segment 1 Tuttle Creek Lake-segment 2
The 1st inaugural Bill Snyder Half Marathon and 5K race opened to a large crowd on Saturday morning. Over 1,500 individuals registered for the race. Runners participating in the half marathon were taken by bus to Bill Snyder Highway, where the race began. The course then went through Poyntz, City Park, Aggieville, K-State campus, and concluded on the east side of Bill Snyder Family Stadium. Participants received a free t-shirt and fruit from HyVee. They also had the chance to enjoy live music, vendors and bouncy houses for children. The first three runners in each age category received a medal.…
KANSAS CITY, Mo.(AP)– Kendrys Morales is leading the American League with 37 RBIs. A year ago, he wasn’t even playing — he was waiting for an offer as a free agent. Morales hit two home runs and had five RBIs, Chris Young gave up six hits in six innings and the Kansas City Royals defeated the St. Louis Cardinals 5-0 Friday night. Morales hit a three-run homer with two out in the first. He homered again in the third with Lorenzo Cain aboard for his 13th multihomer game. The five RBIs matched a Royals’ season high. “I wasn’t even playing…
By Chris Kutz, K-State Athletics Communications (Photo Courtesy Kansas State Athletics) TULSA, Okla. – K-State had its season come to a close on Friday as Oklahoma scored a pair of two-out runs in the top of the ninth to eliminate the Wildcats from the 2015 Phillips 66 Big 12 Baseball Championship with a 3-1 decision at ONEOK Field. Despite starting pitcher Corey Fischer throwing a career-high eight-plus innings in his first start since March 22, the Wildcats (27-30, 10-14 Big 12) saw Kolbey Carpenter start off the ninth with the first of two infield singles by the Sooners (34-26) in…
The State Department has released 296 emails from Hillary Rodham Clinton’s days as secretary of state. One shows that Clinton received information on her private email server about the 2012 attack on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya.