Author: KMAN Staff
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…
Hundreds of people gathered in Ankara, Turkey on Saturday to remember the victims of twin suicide blasts that struck the Turkish capital one week ago.
President Barack Obama said on Friday that he won’t be commenting on decisions the Democratic presidential candidates make during the campaign, but he did express his approval of all the participants in last week’s debate. (
Had Kansas State taken advantage of a few early opportunities Saturday against No. 19 Oklahoma, maybe things would have trended in a different direction. Maybe. But the Wildcats didn’t, and by the time they made adjustments, it was far too late. The result was perhaps the low point of the second Bill Snyder Era, a 55-0 loss that marked the first time K-State (3-3, 0-3 Big 12) has been shut out since 1996. Oklahoma jumped to a 7-0 lead, then gave K-State a couple brief opportunities to climb back in the game. Joe Hubener missed Deante Burton on what would…
At approximately 2:50 a.m. on Saturday, Officers with the Riley County Police Department arrested Jose Luis Guzman Flores, 27, of Manhattan. He was arrested in the 1300 block of Anderson Avenue for Driving Under the Influence. His bond was set at $17,510. Police arrested Corey John Worthington, 43, of Niangua, Mo. at approximately 10:40 p.m. on Friday on three counts of failure to appear. Worthington’s bond was set at $11,000. Jody Dean Hildebrand, 37, of Manhattan was arrested in the 1000 block of Houston around 2:15 p.m. for failure to appear. Her bond was set at $50,000.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas Supreme Court has indefinitely suspended a Topeka attorney’s law license. The state’s high court handed down on Friday a more severe penalty against Wendell Betts than the two-year suspension recommended by a disciplinary panel. The effective date was made retroactive to the September 2013 date an administrative hearing. The Supreme Court said that given Betts disciplinary record and his current problems, a more severe discipline than recommended by the panel should be imposed. A disciplinary panel found Betts had been previously disciplined on five occasions, and had engaged in a pattern of criminal misconduct…
By Chris Kutz, K-State Athletics Communications NORMAN, Okla. – K-State snapped a six-match losing streak in Norman on Friday as the Wildcats hit .366 and limited Oklahoma to its lowest attack percentage this season in a sweep of the Sooners (25-16, 25-21, 25-19) in McCasland Field House. The straight-set win for the Wildcats (11-7, 3-3 Big 12) was their first at Oklahoma (7-11, 1-5 Big 12) since 2005 and first victory of any kind since 2008. While the offense hit .300 or higher in all three sets, the K-State defense stifled Oklahoma in each set as well. The Sooners were…