A platform collapsed during an aerial hair-hanging stunt at a circus performance Sunday in Providence, Rhode Island, sending eight acrobats plummeting to the ground.
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Sinn Fein party leader Gerry Adams was released without charge on Sunday after five days of police questioning over his alleged involvement in a decades-old Irish Republican Army killing of a Belfast mother of 10.
The sun was bright overhead, and near perfect weather set the stage for the 25th annual Kansas Sampler Festival in Wamego. Hailed as the state’s largest traveling festival by organizers it showcases talent, and products from all over the state of Kansas. This year’s festival celebrates the 25th anniversary of the event. Organizers are saying over 7,000 festival goers have dropped by so far, and if the trend continues it will be the largest Sampler in the smallest town to date. Wamego Police Department assistant chief of police Paul Schliffke says the event has been a success, and praised the community…
KANSAS CITY, Mo.(AP) — The Tigers’ Drew Smyly went from the bullpen to tossing seven shutout innings as a starter. Nick Castellanos is tied with Miguel Cabrera for the team lead in RBIs. Not exactly what Detroit manager Brad Ausmus expected at the start of the season. Both of those pleasant surprises factored into a 9-2 rout of the Royals on Saturday night. Smyly picked up where fellow starter Rick Porcello left off by keeping Kansas City off the scoreboard, and Castellanos drove in three runs before Detroit tacked on the final sixth in the ninth inning. So far, Castellanos…
Photo Courtesy of Kansas State Athletics By Chris Kutz, K-State Athletics Communications FORT WORTH, Texas – The K-State baseball team allowed three two-out runs in the fourth inning, giving No. 13 TCU the only runs needed in the Wildcats’ 3-1 loss at Lupton Stadium on Saturday. K-State starting pitcher Nate Griep allowed a leadoff single in the fourth but quickly retired the next two batters to bring the Wildcats (23-24, 4-13 Big 12) within one out of escaping the frame. Griep, however, walked Jerrick Suiter on four pitches and then surrendered an RBI single to Dylan Fitzgerald to tie the…
The California bred horse takes home the rose garland with Commanding Curve in second and Danza in third.
Pro-Russia insurgents in eastern Ukraine on Saturday released the seven European military observers and five Ukrainian assistants who had been held for more than a week.
At approximately 3:50 PM Saturday, the Riley County Police Department along with emergency crews responded to a single vehicle collision in the 2100 block of McDowell Creek Road. This vehicle (motorcycle) collision occurred after the driver of a 2013 Kawasaki ZX636, Devon Jamison,30, of Fort Riley lost control and left the roadway. Jamison and a passenger, who were wearing helmets at the time, were both ejected. The passenger of this motorcycle, Andrea Becker, 19, also of Fort Riley was transported to Mercy Regional as a result of injuries sustained during the accident. Jamison was transported to Stormont Vail Hospital in…
A Riley County District Court Decision in a civil lawsuit involving Kansas State University and a former employee has been reversed and remanded with directions by the Kansas Court of Appeals. The opinion was released Friday. In the lawsuit, Rachel Platt appealed from the district court’s decision, with Judge David Stutzman presiding, which dismissed her claim of retaliatory discharge against Kansas State University. The local court maintained she failed to exhaust administrative remedies under the Kansas Judicial review Act. Platt was hired as a probationary employee by the university in September of 2011, but she maintains she began to suffer…
On today’s In Focus, Cathy was joined by St. Rep.Vern Swanson of Clay Center, Riley County Extension Director Jennifer Wilson, and Robert Rogers, a member of Knights of Columbus, regarding State Convention in Manhattan, survivor of a fatal flash flood accident that took his family in 2003.