Ervin Santana could be traded before the end of the month, and his superb effort Friday might make some teams interested. Santana allowed two singles in 7 1/3 innings and the Kansas City Royals beat the Detroit Tigers 1-0 on Friday night to snap a five-game losing streak. Santana didn’t allow a runner to reach second base as he walked just one batter and struck out six Tigers. The third-place Royals are seven games behind the first-place Tigers. The lone run of the game came in the first inning off an RBI single by Billy Butler. Game two of the…
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Hoping to provide “context” to the Travyon Martin controversy, President Obama made a surprise appearance in the White House briefing room Friday. He said black Americans feel pain after the verdict because of a “history that doesn’t go away.”
Detroit has filed for Chapter 9 Federal Bankruptcy Protection, making it the largest US city to make such a filing. The move comes after years of financial struggles.
After 33 months as Commander of the Dragon Brigade (4IBCT), Colonel Joseph Wawro stepped down from his post and passed the colors to Colonel Peter Minalga, on Friday at Fort Riley. COL Wawro’s time at Fort Riley included a nine month deployment to RC-E in Afghanistan. His next stop is the nation’s capital where he’ll serve as an Army Senior Fellow at the Washington Institute of Near East Policy. He’ll be joined by his wife, LTC Christiane Ploch, who will be in charge of senior leader development. Colonel Minalga comes to Fort Riley from Washington, D.C. where he worked for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff…
GARDEN CITY, Kan. (AP) A first court appearance is scheduled for a well-known freelance photographer who was charged with misdemeanor trespassing after he flew a paraglider over a Kansas feedlot while shooting pictures. George Steinmetz, of Glenn Ridge, N.J., and his assistant, Wei Zhang, of Beijing, China, are set for a first appearance hearing Aug. 29 in Finney County. Steinmetz was on assignment for National Geographic magazine when he flew above Brookover Feed Yard last June 28. The feedlot owners say he did not seek permission for the flight. A National Geographic spokeswoman says the magazine hired a Garden City…
MINNEAPOLIS, Kan. (AP) Residents of a central Kansas town are watching with sadness as a 125-year-old building is demolished. Workers on Thursday began demolishing the former Parker House Hotel in Minneapolis. The building partially collapsed last month, forcing the evacuation of the downtown area. The building’s owners had said they wanted to save it but the Minneapolis City Council voted to pay $76,800 to demolish the structure because of concerns that it could collapse. The Salina Journal reports the building was erected in 1888 as the Corn State Bank and became the Parker House in 1899. For years it was…
GARDEN CITY, Kan. (AP) A Garden City man has been found not guilty of attempted murder and other charges in a shooting after a confrontation between people in two vehicles. A jury deliberated into Friday morning before finding Miguel Herrera not guilty in the June 2012 shooting of Frankie Garcia of Garden City. Western Kansas Broadcast reports Herrera was charged with attempted murder, aggravated use of a weapon by a convicted felon and causing intentional bodily harm with a dangerous weapon. Garcia was riding in a car when altercation began after someone in the car threw a beer can at…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The man who planned a burglary that led to the murder of a Topeka woman and the wounding of her partner has been sentenced to 18 years in prison. Bayate Rayshawn Covington was sentenced Thursday in the July 2011 death of Natalie Gibson and the wounding of Lori Allison at their home. Covington pleaded no contest in July to reckless second-degree murder, aggravated battery and conspiracy to commit aggravated robbery. Chief Judge Nancy Parrish said Covington played a major role in planning and coordinating the nine defendants who planned to burglarize the victims’ home. The women were…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A state regulatory agency is requiring a Salina water utility to make some improvements. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the Kansas Corporation Commission voted Thursday to require Howison Heights to buy a new computer to monitor water pressure in its lines and to install new equipment to keep chlorination at the right level. The improvements are required in the next 60 days. Howison Heights serves about 60 customers in suburban Salina. More than a third of its customers submitted comments opposing a more than 100 percent rate hike the utility requested in April. Some of those customers…