Officials searching for Malaysia Airlines flight 370 say no pings have been heard from deep in the Indian Ocean since Sunday. Pings consistent with an airplane’s black boxes were picked up over the weekend.
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Some acts of vandalism and at least 11 arrests were reported as UConn fans celebrated their school’s NCAA men’s basketball championship. UConn topped Kentucky 60-54 in Arlington, Texas on Monday night.
A St. Mary’s man already serving time for multiple burglaries entered a plea of no contest Monday in Pottawatomie County District Court to three counts of non-residential burglaries. Luke Linxwiler’s sentencing is set for April 24th. The cases occurred in April and May of 2013 and involved Griffith Lumber and a site under construction in the industrial park in Pottawatomie County. Linxiler was sentenced in February to nine years in prison for multiple burglaires in rural St.Mary’s and the city of St. Mary’s last summer
Jason Vargas was sharp in eight innings of work for Kansas City as the Royals open up a three game series with the Tampa Bay Rays with a 4-2 victory Monday night at Kauffman Stadium. Vargas (1-0) allowed four hits, walked one and struck out two in eight-plus innings, lowering his ERA to 1.20 in two starts. He lost his shutout bid when Ben Zobrist homered on his second pitch in the ninth. Rays starter Matt Moore (0-2) came out in the fifth inning with a sore left elbow. The All-Star lefty grimaced after throwing a pitch to Norichika Aoki…
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) Shabazz Napier scored 22 points and Connecticut won its second NCAA title in four years, beating all those Kentucky freshmen 60-54 in the championship game Monday night. Napier is among three UConn seniors who were part of the Huskies’ 2011 title. That trio stayed after coach Jim Calhoun’s retirement even when the Huskies were ineligible for the NCAA tournament last season. They came back strong in coach Kevin Ollie’s second season, and the Huskies (32-8) went all the way to their fourth overall title. Kentucky (29-11), with five freshmen starters, never led in the championship game. The…
“Wildcat Insider” on KMAN breaks down the K-State baseball team’s series loss to the Kansas Jayhawks over the weekend at Tointon Family Stadium. How important is the upcoming week for the K-State baseball team as the bat cats sit at 2-4 in the conference? The K-State volleyball team is working out and getting ready for the upcoming season, head coach Suzie Fritz joins the show to talk about the teams progress. Bill Snyder and the K-State football team continues spring practice with coach Snyder’s spring press conference coming up this week. All that and much more on “Wildcat Insider” on KMAN.
Three major theft incidents turned into one significant arrest. The Riley County Police Department received a 9-1-1 call from Richard Rothfuss (69) of Junction City around 4:15 Sunday afternoon. He reported that he was confronted by an armed male in the 3100 block of Anderson Avenue, and forced to drive to the 4100 block of Marlatt Avenure, where his personal property was taken from him. The suspect then left in Rothfuss’s 2014 black Chevy Silverado valued around $30,000. He also obtained other items including a bank card and a cell phone. Rothfuss walked to a nearby home and reported the…
On today’s In Focus, Cathy spoke about Big Blue River Flood Plain Project with Brian Rast, Senior Planner and Senior Project Manager and Silver Jackets Coordinator for Kansas & Missouri with U-S Army Corps of Engineers, Brian McNulty Operations Manager with U-S Army Corps of Engineers at Tuttle Creek Lake and Chad Bunger, Senior Planner with City of Manhattan, as well as Executive Director of Manhattan Area Habitat for Humanity, Roxann Janes and Chair of Chocolate and Tea fund-raiser,Carol Bredesen.
Ships searching the Indian Ocean are trying to track down signals heard from deep under water. Officials say the signals are consistent with black-box transmissions.
Actor Mickey Rooney, a Hollywood legend whose career spanned more than 80 years, has died. He was 93.