Haley Texada scored 17 points and Bri Craig had 16 as the K-State women’s basketball team opened their trip overseas with a 69-46 victory over the Italy All-Stars on Sunday. The Cats trailed just once in the game played under FIBA rules with four ten-minute quarters, and led 34-29 at the half. Texada also tied for the K-State lead with three assists while Craig hit a team-high four three-pointers. Freshman post Breanna Lewis had nine rebounds to go with four points. Riley County alum Kelly Thomson made her debut in a K-State uniform with nine points and five rebounds. K-State…
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) The Kansas City Royals have added infield depth by making a trade with the Minnesota Twins for Jamey Carroll. The Twins will get either a player to be named or cash. The deal was announced after both teams played Sunday. The Royals picked up Carroll on the same day they placed Miguel Tejada on the 15-day disabled list with a strained right calf. Tejada was injured while diving for a ball in the seventh inning on Saturday. The 39-year old was hitting .288 in 53 games and had won the starting second base job. The 39-year-old…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) James Shields earned his first home win in more than three months, Alex Gordon homered and the Kansas City Royals beat the Boston Red Sox 4-3 on Sunday. The Royals improved to 18-5 since the All-Star break, winning seven consecutive series. Shields (7-8), who had not won at Kauffman Stadium since an April 30 victory over Tampa Bay, limited the Red Sox to three runs and seven hits over seven innings. He struck out five and walked three. Gordon hit a 2-2 pitch from John Lackey (7-10) out to right in the third for his third…
Law enforcement authorities credit a retired sheriff, his wife and another couple with helping to rescue 16-year-old Hannah Anderson. The four spotted her with alleged kidnapper James Lee Dimaggio in the Idaho wilderness last week.
The Manhattan Fire Department handed out educational coloring books and home protection information to kids and their parents during the annual Back-to-School Safety Expo, Saturday afternoon at Manhattan Town Center. “The coloring book has some fire safety tips in it and things like that so hopefully they can learn a little bit; and then for the adults, we also have things about home fire safety, renters insurance, things like that we can also teach the adults while we’re here,” said Gregg Van De Creek, Firefighter for the MFD. When teaching children about fire safety, Van De Creek said repetition is…
National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden’s father says he has secured a visa to visit his son in Russia and plans to meet with him to discuss how to fight espionage charges.
A weeklong search for a missing California teenager ended when FBI agents rescued the girl and shot and killed her apparent kidnapper at a campsite in Idaho. Mark John spotted the pair and says ‘red flags’ went up.
Konza Rotary Club’s 3rd Annual Water Matters Day capped off with a $4,000.00 donation to both the City of Enterprise, Kansas, and the AIM Mission, which focuses its efforts in Ghana. Rotary Club President Rich Jankovich says the all-day event, which began with a symposium at the Manhattan Public Library and continued with an afternoon at the City Park Pool, is part of the club’s mission to promote clean water projects internationally. He says just recently the club partnered with Kansas Rural Water to aid small Kansas communities, with the same mission in mind. City of Enterprise Mayor Larry Jantz…
Man’s best friend got its turn to take a dip at the 9th Annual Pet Poolooza, sponsored by the Petco Foundation. Although there is no official count of the number of paws to cross CiCo Pool’s threshold, the many Manhattan residents and pooches who attended the event were asked to make a donation to the T. Russell Reitz Manhattan Regional Animal Shelter, which all proceeds of the event will benefit. Animal Shelter Technician Serena Irwin says although the event is geared toward the canine, the proceeds will go to efforts which benefit a number of different species of animals, including…
The Riley County Police Department informed reporters Monday morning about an incident we reported earlier. The police said they took a report of a rape early Sunday morning that occurred in the city limits of Manhattan. It is unknown at this time whether the victim or suspect knew each other. No arrests have been made. #### Preliminary reports are continuing to come into the KMAN news room as our reporters find out more information on an incident which occurred on Saturday night on the Manhattan campus of Kansas State University. Riley County police confirmed the incident, and sources say a…