The Manhattan high girls basketball team was in a dog fight from start to finish in the third place game at the 6A state tournament in Wichita Saturday afternoon. MHS and Olathe South has had some history over the last couple of seasons. Last year the Falcons defeated the Indians in the Mid America Classic in McPherson in the championship game. Olathe South also knocked MHS out of the state tournament in the quarterfinals back in 2012. Manhattan built a two point lead at halftime 25-23. However in the second half, Kylee Kopatich and Bailey Rinehart turned up their games…
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Ross Kivett had four hits in seven at bats while scoring three runs and driving in another three and Kansas State recorded four innings in which they scored four or more runs as the Wildcats rolled to their ninth straight victory in a 24-3 rout of Northern Colorado in Game 1 of a doubleheader Saturday afternoon at Tointon Family Stadium. Mitch Meyer hit just K-State’s fifth home run of the season as he was one of five Wildcats with two or more hits. After trailing 2-1 in the bottom of the second inning, the defending Big 12 Champions turned things…
Aggieville played host to the 36th Annual Saint Patrick’s Day Road Race on Saturday morning. The event began at eight that morning with registration and packet pick up. At ten o’clock, the fun run and untimed two mile walk began at the corner of Moro and 12th Street. These events were designed for non-competitive runners and walkers. Once that race kicked off, the 10K road race began soon after. Numerous participants dressed in green attire. Awards were presented in Triangle Park after the race concluded. Results can be found by logging onto LetsGoRun.com. The St. Patrick’s Day parade began at…
The Kansas Court of Appeals has ruled on a Pottawatomie County court case, with an opinion released Friday. The case involves a property dispute between a father and daughter. The appeals court reversed and remanded the case for further proceedings in Ellen Byers Bouton v. Walter Byers. The 31 page opinion is based on appeal from Pottawatomie District Court, with Judge Jeffrey Elder presiding. The case revolves around a disputed million-dollar promise between Father and daughter, with Ellen Byers Bouton appealing on grounds the local court precipitately entered summary judgment, improperly cutting short her action for equitable relief on the…
Updated Monday Morning:Details were released Monday morning regarding a house fire reported Saturday morning at 1204 Bluemont Avenue. Upon arrival, crews found a two story residential structure with fire on the exterior of the structure, on the south and west sides. The fire was quickly extinguished, with fire damage contained to the exterior of the structure. Six fire apparatus and sixteen firefighters responded to the fire with the last units clearing at around 2:55pm. Westbound Bluemont Avenue was closed for a short period of time while crews extinguished the fire. The two story house is rented by five people with two of them…
DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. (AP) In the nearly 40 years after he escaped from a Kansas military prison, convicted killer James Robert Jones carved out a new life for himself in Florida. He lived under an assumed name, got married and worked for an air conditioning company. But it all came to an end Thursday when Jones or Bruce Walter Keith, as the former Army private was known in Florida was recaptured with the help of facial-recognition software. Barry Golden of the U.S. Marshals Service said Friday that the first words out of Jones’ mouth were: “I knew this would catch…
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) Police in a northeast Kansas community are investigating a report of a sexual assault on an 11-year-old girl. Overland Park police said the incident was reported in an apartment complex shortly after 7 a.m. Friday while the girl was walking to a bus stop. Extra patrols were being conducted in the large Johnson County community in a search for the suspect, described as a white man in his 20s. He was reportedly wearing black clothing, with a surgical mask on his face and thick gardening gloves on his hands. Police did not release any other details…
LYNDON, Kan. (AP) A former Topeka man will be tried for the 2011 killing of another man whose head was severed in what witnesses described as a voodoo ritual. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports James Paul Harris (29) was bound over for trial following a hearing Friday in Osage County District Court. Harris is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Topeka resident James Gerety (50), who was reported missing in March 2011 by a law firm that handled his personal affairs. A mushroom hunter found Gerety’s partial remains a year later in the Osage County town of Carbondale. A…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas medical board plans to appeal a court order overturning its revocation of a doctor’s license over her referrals of young patients for late-term abortions. The State Board of Healing Arts made the decision Friday to take the case of Dr. Ann Kristin Neuhaus of Nortonville to the Kansas Court of Appeals. Shawnee County District Judge Franklin Theis last week said Neuhaus kept inadequate records but that the board failed to show that she provided inadequate mental health exams. Theis ordered the board to reconsider its revocation of Neuhaus’ charity-care license in 2012 over exams in…
A piece of Wamego history went up for auction Saturday. The Leach-Ditto home was built in 1890, with the second story addition completed in 1904. Over the years, the home saw many changes, once being converted into multiple apartments. Dr’s. Bill and Rose Ditto purchased the home in 1987 and completely renovated the home, keeping as much as the original as possible. The home is over 6,000 square feet, with 5 bedrooms and 4 1/2 baths, 4 garages, 4 gas fireplaces, a large family room all done in walnut. It is heated and cooled with 5 separate HVAC units. There are 70…