Nigel Johnson scored 18 points to lead six Kansas State players in double figures as the Wildcats rolled to a 98-68 season-opening victory over Southern Utah before an announced crowd of 12,405 Friday night at Bramlage Coliseum. The game was back and forth in the first five minutes with Southern Utah using the three-point basket to take leads of 7-4 and 10-9. However, K-State would keep pace with some three-point firepower of its own mainly from Sophomore Marcus Foster and while the score was tied at several different points during the first half, K-State would never trail again after the…
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Breanna Lewis scored 13 points and Ashley Jones and Ashia Woods scored 11 apiece as the Kansas State Women’s Basketball team won its first game under new head coach Jeff Mittie 81-55 over Southern Illinois-Edwardsville before an announced crowd of 3,925 Friday night at Bramlage Coliseum. The Wildcats jumped out to a fast 11-2 lead on a layup by Kindred Wesemann who scored seven of her nine total points in the game’s first six minutes. The Wildcats would widen the lead to as many as 15 points at 31-16 with 4:28 left in the first half on a layup by…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt is urging the Kansas Supreme Court to not unnecessarily abandon the state’s ban on same-sex marriages until a final constitutional decision on the issue is made by the nation’s highest court. Schmidt contends in a court filing Friday that a federal judge’s order allowing gay couples to marry applies only to the court officials in the two Kansas counties involved in the federal lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union. The state also wants a decision that a Johnson County judge acted prematurely when he issued an order allowing gay marriages.…
Newly surfaced videos are adding fresh energy to Republican efforts to repeal President Barack Obama’s health care law. An advisor in the law’s drafting called American voters ‘stupid,’ which he says helped Democrats pass it through Congress.
The Justice Department is collecting data from thousands of cellphones through high-tech gear deployed on airplanes that mimics communications towers, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. (
One hour show today. K-State basketball regular season gets started tonight.
The Kansas Court of Appeals affirmed decisions in two local cases Friday–one in a Riley County indecent liberties case, and another in a Pottawatomie County domestic violence case. The Riley County Court decision involves an indecent liberties with a child case from 2012 which resulted in John Elmer Goodpasture Jr. being sentenced to life in prison. Goodpasture was convicted of 21 counts of sexual offenses which included rape and aggravated indecent liberties with a child. Goodpasture appealed the sentence, maintaining the trial court erred in denying his request to expand the bill of particulars, with generalities allegedly listed in some…
Peter VanKuren will resign as Director of Manhattan Regional Airport effective May 15, 2015. Ron Fehr, City Manager for the City of Manhattan, announced the resignation today. “Although I am very appreciative of Peter giving substantial advance notice of his desire to relocate to the east coast to be closer to family, we will certainly miss his expertise and leadership for the Manhattan Regional Airport,” Fehr said. “Peter has played a vital role in the successful growth in air travel and airport improvements for our region. He was instrumental in obtaining grant funds, planning, design and beginning construction for the…
The state agriculture commissioner says no people or animals were killed or seriously injured in a large fire at the Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry Museum in Jackson. Two structures were lost.
Speaker John Boehner says Republicans will ‘fight the president tooth and nail’ on immigration reform at a House Leadership Committee briefing.