Kansas State sophomore guard Marcus Foster continues a wild off season with the Lebron James Skills Academy next up which will run from July 9th-13th in Las Vegas. The four day camp will include competitive workouts designed to improve certain skills on the basketball court, also there will be five on five scrimmages which gives the players a chance to work in front of NBA personnel. 30 college invitations are dished out across the country and Foster joins four other Big 12 players that will be attending the camp. Perry Ellis and Kelly Oubre from Kansas, Georges Niang from Iowa…
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Residents of Gaza woke up to flattened homes on Tuesday, after Israel launched what could be a long-term offensive against the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.
The legal battle over the $2 billion sale of the Los Angeles Clippers finally got underway Monday after lawyers for owner Donald Sterling lost a bid to move the case to federal court.
Fire caused by a lightning strike resulted in about 120-thousand dollars in damage to a home in the 27-hundred block of Stone Valley Drive Monday night. As KMAN reported Monday night, Manhattan Firefighters were dispatched to the structure fire shortly after 9:30 p.m. Upon arrival, crews found a one-story duplex with fire showing from the roof. The fire reached a second alarm before it was contained within 30 minutes. A total of 18 firefighters responded on 5 fire apparatus with the last units clearing at around 12:30 a.m.The occupant at the affected portion, 2720 Stone Valley Drive, was not home at the…
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Back on the mound at Tropicana Field, Kansas City’s James Shields looked and felt right at home. The right-hander sparkled in his return to the stadium where he earned a living for the first seven seasons of his career, limiting the Tampa Bay Rays to three hits and striking out 10 in seven innings to help the Royals beat his former team 6-0 on Monday night. No pitcher has had more success at The Trop than Shields, who remains Tampa Bay’s all-time leader in victories with 87, including a franchise-best 47 at home. “It’s definitely…
U.S. Highway 24 remains closed this morning from K-113 to the Highway 77 junction at Madison road. Motorists are being advised to use Anderson Avenue as an alternate route. Also Green-Randolph Road is closed from Winkler Road to Tuttle Creek Boulevard due to a large tree blocking the entire roadway. A fire caused by a lightning strike caused and estimated $120,000 damage at 2720 Stone Valley Drive, no injuries were reported. Blue Valley Township fire reports via Twitter that their units responded to a residential structure fire in St. George shortly after 1 a.m. but no further information is available…
Today on “The Game”…3 KSU players on pre-season watch lists, Marcus Foster invited to the LeBron James skills academy, Royals have a disappointed series at Cleveland, interview with Powercat Gameday blogger Cole Manbeck, a look at hypothetical BCS era playoffs, John’s World Cup Minute and You Can’t Be Serious
A large, 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit parts of Southern Mexico and Central America early Monday morning killing two people and damaging infrastructure.
In this June 25, 2014 photo, a group of immigrants from Honduras and El Salvador who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally are stopped in Granjeno, Texas. Just since October, the Border Patrol’s Rio Grande Valley sector has made more than 194,000 arrests, nearly triple that of any other sector. Most are from Central America, and many are children.
Riley County Commissioners are continuing to work through their budget process for the 2015 budget. Requests were completed last month, and work sessions came to a close Monday afternoon. Before coming to a consensus to move forward with the budget worksheet they have been working on, commissioners asked a few department heads about why they chose to cut/add into their own individual budgets. They also asked that Budget and Finance Officer, Johnette Shepek give a re-cap of the commissions previous decisions. The commission chose to eliminate a transfer from the capitol improvement projects fund, and decreased the transfer out of economic…