KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Alex Gordon had two firsts Sunday: six RBIs and a curtain call. Gordon went 4 for 4 with a pair of three-run homers and a career-high six RBIs as the Kansas City Royals beat the Baltimore Orioles 8-6. Gordon drove a 1-1 pitch from Ubaldo Jimenez (2-5) out to right with two outs in the fifth with Nori Aoki and Billy Butler aboard. Gordon, who led the Royals with 20 home runs last year, had gone 134 at-bats without a home run. Gordon homered in his next at-bat, a three-run shot off left-hander Troy Patton…
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Forces loyal to a rogue Libyan general attacked the country’s parliament Sunday, expanding his eastern offensive against Islamists into the heart of the country’s capital. (
Updated at 10 a.m. Monday: The victim of Sunday’s fatal boating accident at Tuttle Cove has been identified. Riley County Police announced shortly after 10a.m. Monday that shortly after 10:00 PM Sunday emergency crews recovered the body of Matthew Mann, 25, of Junction City. He was pronounced dead at the scene as a victim of drowning The other two passengers who were rescued by a bystander have been identified as Jessica Regodos, 22, and Joshua Jacobs, 28, of Manhattan. Regodos was transported to Mercy Regional Health center with a non-life threatening serious injury. Jacobs was able to drive his personal vehicle to…
Austin Fisher’s two-run double in the bottom of the ninth inning capped a three-run rally and allowed Kansas State to beat Texas 5-4 and in the process snap an 11-game losing streak in Big 12 play before 2,997 Saturday night at Tointon Family Stadium. Before the game, the Wildcats’ four Seniors, Blair DeBord, Ross Kivett, Jared Moore and R.J. Santigate were honored in a pre-game ceremony as arguably one of the best classes in the program’s history who were part of K-State’s first conference championship in Baseball in 80 years in 2013, along with a Regional Championship and nearly a…
KANSAS CITY, Mo.(AP) — Danny Duffy carried a perfect game into the seventh inning, Billy Butler drove in the only run and the Kansas City Royals held on to beat the Baltimore Orioles 1-0 Saturday night. The 25-year-old Duffy (2-3) retired the first 20 batters he faced, rarely running the count to three balls and flirting with the first perfect game in franchise history. Adam Jones finally ended it with a weak groundball up the middle with two outs in the seventh. Duffy bounced back to get Chris Davis on a fly out to end the inning, then gave up…
Kentucky Derby winner takes home first place in the Preakness Stakes in the second leg of the horse racing Triple Crown.
Serbian emergency workers on Saturday continued to evacuate people from flooded areas along the Sava river.
Commencement services began on Friday, and took up a large portion of the day Saturday. Kansas State University students accepted diplomas during the following graduation ceremonies on Saturday: College of Arts and Sciences, 8:30 a.m., Bramlage Coliseum, with John Hofmeister, founder and CEO of Citizens for Affordable Energy. College of Architecture, Planning & Design, 10 a.m., McCain Auditorium, with Colin Noble, president and CEO of Noble Hospitality Inc., a hotel management and renovation company. College of Education, 11 a.m., Bramlage Coliseum, with Robert Shoop, Kansas State University professor emeritus of educational leadership. College of Business Administration, 12:30 p.m., Bramlage Coliseum,…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) First lady Michelle Obama says young people who’ve grown up with diversity must lead a national fight against prejudice and discrimination. She told high school graduates in Topeka on Friday that the historic Brown v. Board of Education ruling against school segregation is “still being decided every single day.”