A Cleveland judge has ruled that enough evidence exists to charge two officers involved in the November shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice.
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By The Associated Press 5:30 a.m. (CDT) The Kansas Senate will determine whether a plan for raising sales and cigarette taxes to erase a budget deficit will clear the Republican-dominated Legislature and go to GOP Gov. Sam Brownback. Two bills contained parts of the tax plan. The measures together would raise $384 million during the fiscal year that begins July 1. The Senate was expected to vote Friday on a bill increasing the state’s sales tax to 6.5 percent from 6.15 percent. The House approved it early Friday morning, 63-44. The Senate approved the other part of the package…
By Anthony Meier, K-State Athletics Communications EUGENE, Ore. – Akela Jones registered a performance of historic proportions, notching K-State Track and Field’s first individual national title by a women’s athlete since 2011 in the heptathlon and breaking the school record in the process. Tallying a gaudy 6,371 points, Jones broke Austra Skujyte’s school record of 6,275 points set in 2002, as well as became the sixth Wildcat women’s athlete ever to win an NCAA title outdoors. Her record-setting performance came thanks to personal best showings in all but one of the heptathlon’s seven events. Jones dominated competition, leading the field…
By Tom Gilbert, K-State Athletics Communications Nine games at Bramlage Coliseum, the CBE Hall of Fame Classic at the Sprint Center and a return to INTRUST Bank Arena for the Wichita Wildcat Classic highlight the 2015-16 Kansas State men’s basketball non-conference schedule released on Thursday. The non-conference slate could include as many as six teams that participated in the postseason a year ago, including three from the 2015 NCAA Tournament. Competition could come from as many as nine different conferences, including the Atlantic 10, ACC, Big Ten, Big Sky, Mountain West and SEC. The 113th season of K-State men’s basketball…
By Kenny Lannou, K-State Athletics Communications For the third consecutive season, all available K-State football season tickets have been sold as department officials announced that public season sales for the 2015 season at Bill Snyder Family Stadium have surpassed the 36,000 mark, while three contests are already sold out of contiguous seats. Fans who ordered season tickets but did not receive a ticket location during the priority seating process will be refunded and placed on a waiting list for the 2016 season, which currently sits at more than 250 accounts with 1,000 tickets requested. Those fans will also receive a…
Troy Boyd transports sandbags to a house that is trying to protect itself from water caused by the flooding of the Red River, Thursday, June 11, 2015, in Shreveport, La. Flooding from the swelling river put hundreds of homes and farmland underwater or in danger in rural northwest Louisiana, and state officials said Thursday that they would seek a federal disaster declaration to get help for residents.
New York State Police prepare their equipment during a search for two escaped prisoners near Dannemora, N.Y., Thursday, June 11, 2015. Police have blocked off the main road outside a northern New York village as authorities concentrate their sixth day of searching for David Sweat and Richard Matt on a swampy area just a couple miles from the prison the convicts broke out of last weekend.
A Belvue man apparently had second thoughts as what was listed as a plea on the Pottawatomie County Court Docket ended up being a request for a jury trial in a first degree murder case. Judge Jeff Elder asked defendant Christopher Arand’s attorney, Richard Lake, the status of the case from his client’s perspective. Lake indicated his client did not fully comprehend or understand the effect of the hard 50, saying it had come as a shock to him and he now was requesting a jury trial. Judge Elder set the week of October fifth for the trial, with a September…
Riley County Police Officers Thursday afternoon were investigating and looking for a suspect in the 700 block of Yuma, described as a white male, six feet tall, and weighing 190 pounds after elderly victims reported they had money taken from them. The subject stated he was an employee of a gas company. No injuries were reported and no further information is being released at this time. In addition, RCPD announced Thursday they are looking for a third suspect in an earlier report regarding area vehicle burglaries. His picture can be viewed on twitter @1350kman.
A pattern of normalcy has taken hold of the Flint Hills during the last couple months. For each new thunderstorm that passes over the region seemingly everyday, there’s also the expectation each morning that the state legislature isn’t going to have a tax plan approved — even though it is 22 days over session. Crunch time is coming, though, for Topeka lawmakers and the governor, and county departments that depend on the state passing a budget and allocating funds by the end of the month are getting nervous. Thursday morning state legislators in the House voted down another attempt at…