SALINA, Kan. (AP) A central Kansas community has welcomed home a farmer who suffered severe shocks and burns in a fall harvest accident. The Salina Journal reports that car and truck horns sounded Saturday afternoon as 24-year-old Zach Short arrived in Assaria. Nearly 300 lined a road on the edge of the tiny town, with some holding “Welcome Home” signs. His 17-month-old daughter, Brynlee, was there proclaiming “Daddy! Daddy!” Short was helping to harvest a soybean field in October when he tried to help put out a fire coming from a grain cart. Nobody noticed that the auger was in…
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A Rossville man is set for a court appearance this next week in Riley County District Court for vehicular homicide, in connection with a June truck/bicycle fatality, resulting in the death of a bicyclist in Riley County. Derik Kesler, 32, is set for first appearance in Riley County District Court Wednesday at one p.m. The morning after the accident, which resulted in the death of Mark Jilka, 49, of Manhattan, Riley County Police Director Brad Schoen announced on KMAN’s “In Focus,” the driver may have been distracted by his cell phone. Schoen added the department was forwarding a report…
Danish police shot and killed a man early Sunday suspected of carrying out shooting attacks at a free speech event and later at a Copenhagen synagogue.
Rayven Brooks scored 26 points and Texas Tech recovered from squandering a double-digit second half lead with a 74-68 overtime victory over Kansas State on Sunday afternoon in Big 12 Women’s Basketball action at Bramlage Coliseum. The Lady Raider who went 0-18 in the Big 12 last season were coming off a huge win in their last game against Iowa State during which the three-point shot was their strength and in this game Tech used it to jump out to an 18-11 lead with 11:14 left in the first half. K-State would then use a 10-2 run to close the…
By Chris Kutz, K-State Athletics Communications PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. – After tying the game in the bottom of the eighth inning, the K-State baseball team allowed six runs in the top of the ninth to contribute to its 7-4 loss to Saint Louis on Sunday at North Charlotte Regional Park. K-State (2-2) relied upon a strong pitching performance by starter Corey Fischer to keep it in the contest, but in the ninth, the Billikens (1-3) rattled off back-to-back base hits to open the inning and chase reliever Jordan Floyd from the game. Floyd (1-1) had entered the contest in the…
High winds and freezing cold temperatures create dangerous conditions along the coastline of Massachusetts in the newest round of snow storms.
Hours after a gunman opened fire on a Copenhagen cultural center, a second shooting occurred near a synagogue wounding three. Police said it wasn’t clear whether the incidents were linked.
Marcus Foster in his first game after a three-game suspension scored 14 points, none more important than the last three from his final shot as he nailed a three-point basket with 3.4 seconds left to lead Kansas State to a 59-56 victory over 17th-ranked Oklahoma and bring to an end the Wildcats longest losing streak in a decade Saturday night at Bramlage Coliseum. The Sooners who came into the game riding a five-game winning streak, jumped out to an early 9-4 lead and maintained a small advantage on the scoreboard throughout the first half before K-State closed the gap and…
By Chris Kutz, K-State Athletics Communications PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. – The K-State baseball team found itself on both ends of a shutout on Saturday as the Wildcats blanked Pitt, 7-0, in their first game of the day, while in the afternoon, they were shut out by George Mason, 5-0. Over the two games, five of the six K-State pitchers who logged time on the mound held opponents scoreless, led by game one starter Levi MaVorhis and game two reliever Colton Kalmus. Both right-handers turned in six unblemished innings. The Wildcats, who won the first two games of a season for…
Gunmen fired on a cafe in Copenhagen as it hosted a free speech event Saturday, killing one man in a likely terror attack, Danish authorities said.