ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP)– Mike Moustakas and the Kansas City Royals both kept up their strong play. Moustakas had three hits and three RBI, Kendrys Morales came through with another big two-out hit and the AL Central-leading Royals beat the Tampa Bay Rays 6-3 on Saturday night. Moustakas has driven in 15 runs over his last 10 games. The Royals have won 17 of 22 to go a season-high 31 games over .500 (80-49). “You wouldn’t know that we’re 31 games over .500,” Moustakas said. “We come in expecting to win every night. We come in to grind it out,…
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The smells of 200 different wines, beers and spirits along with joyful chatter filled the fifth floor of Bluemont Hotel Saturday night. The 16th Annual Flint Hills Festival of Wine had its grand tasting in Manhattan’s newest hotel for the first time, where over 250 people exercised their palates. All the proceeds of the event went to Homecare & Hospice, as they had the previous 15 years. “People get to stroll around the evening, get some food and drink and find out what they like,” said Christina Nolte, the Director of Development for Homecare & Hospice. Nolte said the fundraiser typically…
More than 300,000 people have sought to cross the Mediterranean Sea so far in 2015, up from 219,000 in all of last year, as European authorities grapple with the largest influx since World War II.
A sheriff’s deputy in uniform was shot and killed Friday night while filling up his patrol car at a suburban Houston gas station, according to authorities. Police are searching for the suspect.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) The Kansas Highway Patrol is investigating after a woman died in a collision with a Kansas City, Kansas, police car. The patrol says the accident happened late Thursday when a car made left turn in front of the police car on a Kansas City, Kansas, street. The 31-year-old police officer suffered minor injuries. A passenger in the car, 50-year-old Wendell L. Hall of Kansas City, was killed. The driver of the car, 37-year-old Fatimath Jones, was hospitalized with serious injuries.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A Kansas judge is suggesting that the independence of the state’s courts is at stake in a dispute over an administrative policy imposed on them by legislators. An attorney for District Judge Larry Solomon of Kingman County on Friday asked District Judge Larry Hendricks of Shawnee County to strike down a 2014 law changing who selects chief judges in the state’s 31 judicial districts. Solomon is chief judge in the 30th District in south-central Kansas. Hendricks had a hearing in a lawsuit by Solomon against the statute and said he will rule soon. Judges in each district…
By Chris Kutz, K-State Athletics Communications CORAL GABLES, Fla. – For the fourth straight year, K-State started its season on a winning note as the Wildcats used a .371 team hitting percentage to sweep Florida A&M (25-8, 25-11, 25-19) in the Hurricane Invitational opener at the James L. Knight Sports Complex. K-State (1-0) stayed low error and never trailed throughout the entire match, helping it turn in its highest hitting percentage in a season-opener since 2005 (.391, vs. Arkansas-Little Rock). The Wildcats never hit lower than .300 in any of the three sets while in the second, they posted a…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP)– The Chiefs’ Alex Smith knows exactly how much weight Titans quarterback Marcus Mariota feels as the first-round pick tries to turn around the fortunes of Tennessee. He was in a similar position in San Francisco a decade ago. “For me, it was battling the anxiety of being the top pick and justifying that, and that’s what I fought for so long, and it took me a while,” Smith said shortly after leading Kansas City to a weather-shortened 34-10 victory over the Titans on Friday night. “In some ways,” he said, “you have to play yourself out…
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP)– Kendrys Morales lost sight of his deep drive to center field. Turns out he missed seeing the end of a quirky long ball. Morales hit his 15th homer, Edinson Volquez pitched into the seventh inning and the AL Central-leading Kansas City Royals beat the Tampa Bay Rays 3-2 on Friday night. Morales put the Royals up 3-1 with a two-run shot in the third off Erasmo Ramirez (10-5) that struck an overhanging catwalk. “I was confused in a couple of ways,” Morales said through an interpreter. “I didn’t think I hit the ball that well, and…
Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe met Friday with grieving employees at WDBJ two days after a reporter and a photographer at the TV station were shot and killed during a live field report.