KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) The Kansas City Chiefs had offensive tackle Eric Fisher rated #1 on their draft board. The Jacksonville Jaguars had fellow offensive tackle Luke Joeckel at the top of their list. Both of the teams got what they wanted in April as Fisher went #1 overall and Joeckel #2 in the NFL Draft. Now, the Chiefs and Jaguars will get a good idea who might have fared best when Fisher and Joeckel make their NFL debuts. Kansas City visits Jacksonville on Sunday with both players set to start at right tackle for teams coming off 2-14 seasons.…
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Kansas State senior safety Ty Zimmerman is one of 30 players nationally to be named a candidate for the Senior Class Award. The Senior Class Award focuses on the total student athlete and encourages students to use their platform in athletics to make a positive impact as leaders in their communities. Zimmerman is the second wildcat is as many years up for the award as Collin Klein was a finalist in 2012. The 30 candidates will be narrowed down to 10 halfway through the regular season. Stay connected to all things KSU on the go just text EMAW to 88474…
As part of Wednesday night’s Manhattan Ogden school board meeting, the topics for the Fall retreat were decided. The board agreed upon examining both the Manhattan High School East project and the College Hill Facility project. Curt Herrman, Board President, also mentioned there may be a topic to tackle in the spring, but they’ll come to that later if needed. The Fall Retreat is scheduled for October 23 beginning at 5:15 pm. During their meeting, the board was informed that all schools in the district have begun their emergency safety drills, which include fire, tornado, evacuation, lockdown and reentry…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas Senate has sent Gov. Sam Brownback a bill revising a state law allowing 50-year sentences in certain murder cases to fix a constitutional flaw. The legislation requires juries rather than judges to decide if the facts of a case warrant a sentence of 50 years without parole. Wednesday’s 40-0 Senate came one day after the House approved the measure 122-0. Kansas legislators revised the so-called “Hard 50” law during a special session prompted by a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a Virginia case. The high court ruled that giving judges the sole authority to determine…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) A Missouri man has been ordered to stand trial in last year’s killing of a well-known dog breeder from Kansas City, Kan. The Kansas City Star reports a Wyandotte County judge on Wednesday bound Darrell Lee Broxton, 50, over for trial on charges of first-degree murder, theft and auto burglary. Broxton, of Kansas City, Mo., is accused in the December 2012 death of 69-year-old Peter Belmont Jr. in the older man’s Kansas City, Kan., home. A doctor testified during the preliminary hearing that Belmont had been attacked with a sharp implement, such as a hatchet. Belmont…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas Senate’s top Democrat is calling Republican Gov. Sam Brownback’s nomination of his chief counsel to the state Court of Appeals a political maneuver. But the GOP-dominated Senate was expected Wednesday to confirm Caleb Stegall’s appointment to the state’s second-highest court by a wide margin. Minority Leader Anthony Hensley of Topeka said the appointment represents political cronyism. But Judiciary Committee Chairman and Independence Republican Jeff King said Stegall is well-qualified. King predicted that Stegall will be a strong asset to the court. The 41-year-old Stegall was Jefferson County’s elected prosecutor for two years before joining Brownback’s…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Kansas Congressman Mike Pompeo says he will vote in support of authorizing a U.S. strike on Syria. The Republican congressman spoke Tuesday to The Associated Press by phone from Israel. Pompeo is traveling to several Middle Eastern countries this week as part of his role on the House Intelligence Committee. The rest of the state’s all-Republican delegation is opposing a military response to an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria that killed hundreds. Pompeo says a no vote in Congress would guarantee a bad outcome. He says the Iranians are watching how Americans respond to the alleged…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) Police are looking for a gunman who shot and killed a woman inside a northeast Kansas City, Kan., house. Officers responding to reports of a shooting about 2:20 a.m. Wednesday found the woman dead in the home. The woman, in her early 20s, was shot several times. The gunman was gone when officers arrived. Police did not release suspect information.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Four Wichita residents have pleaded guilty in a mortgage fraud scheme that cost lenders hundreds of thousands of dollars. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Wichita announced Tuesday that the four defendants admitted to conspiring with another man to make false statements in prepared loan applications. That allowed money to be transferred to buy homes in Wichita. KAKE-TV reports the four are Christopher Ginyard; Henry Pearson Jr.; Janice Young and Henry Pearson Sr. In their pleas, the four admitted to conspiring with co-defendant Manjur Alam, who prepared the loan applications. Sentencing is set for Nov. 25. They each…
PITTSBURG, Kan. (AP) A southeast Kansas man has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison for his role in the death of a Pittsburg man three years ago. Forty-one-year-old Charles F. Mitchell of Pittsburg was sentenced Tuesday for in the death of Ian P. Monaghan,29. Mitchell and Amie Lee Ryburn, 33, were originally charged with first-degree murder after Monaghan was found shot to death in July 2010 in a field two miles west of Pittsburg. The Joplin Globe reports Ryburn, who was the person who shot Monaghan, pleaded guilty earlier this year to second-degree murder and manufacturing methamphetamine.…