A Lion Air jet carrying more than 100 passengers and crew crashed into the ocean while attempting to land Saturday on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, injuring up to 45 people, officials said.
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Mitch Meyer and Shane Conlon each hit home runs and Ross Kivett went four for four to power a 17-hit attack as the Kansas State Baseball team bounced back from a tough loss on Friday to steamroll past Iowa 11-4 Saturday afternoon in Iowa City. K-State jumped out to a 9-2 lead after five innings and benefitted from three Hawkeye errors one day after seeing their season-high six-game winning streak come to an end. Several Wildcats took part in the hit parade with multiple-hit games. In addition to Kivett’s four hits, Tanner Witt had three, while Conlon, Meyer and Blair…
The White House is trying to tamp down concern over a new intelligence report showing North Korea could arm a ballistic missile with a nuclear warhead.
Legendary comedian Jonathan Winters has died. The cherub-faced comic passed away Thursday evening at his Montecito, Calif., home of natural causes. He was 87.
(Courtesy K-State Sports Information) Iowa scored six runs over the fourth and fifth innings and received great pitching performances from Matt Dermody and Nick Hibbing as the Hawkeyes topped Kansas State, 6-1, Friday afternoon at Duane Banks Field. The loss snapped K-State’s six-game winning streak as the Wildcats fell to 24-11 on the year, while Iowa improved to 12-16. K-State took a 1-0 lead on a Jared King double to left-center field in the third inning, but Iowa scored two runs in the fourth to take a one-run advantage. In the fifth, Taylor Kaufman hit the first of three seeing-eye…
SALINA, Kan. (AP) Two of the leading Republican groups in Kansas are condemning a Saline County commissioner for using a racial slur in a public meeting. The Kansas Republican Party and the Kansas Young Republicans issued statements Thursday to the Salina Journal criticizing Commissioner Jim Gile. During a hearing last week, Gile used a variant of a racial slur to imply a job done sloppily or hastily. When asked what he meant, Gile replied: “Afro-Americanized.” The two GOP groups said Gile’s comments were offensive and did not reflect the party’s beliefs. They also condemned the commission for not objecting to…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Gov. Sam Brownback has issued his first veto of a bill from this year’s legislative session. Brownback on Thursday vetoed a bill that would have made a board that regulates home inspectors a permanent board. Without the extension, the board will expire July 1. The governor said in a statement that he saw little evidence that large numbers of Kansans are being harmed by home inspectors. He says the board adds unnecessary fees and regulations to law abiding citizens. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the board, which was created in 2008, is funded every year by about $15,000…
PRATT, Kan. (AP) Pratt police are asking for help to solve a string of burglaries the south-central Kansas town. Detective Jeff Ward says many of the recent thefts in the last three weeks have been at storage units. The Pratt Daily Tribune reports the most recent complaint involved thefts at 12 or 13 storage units in the Pratt Business Center. Ward says property from the storage units was tossed around but not much was stolen. Police also responded to 14 burglaries at four storage units in March. Several suspects were arrested in that case. The Pratt County Sheriff’s Department is…
GOODLAND, Kan. (AP) A northwest Kansas technical college is closed until next week after an outbreak of a contagious skin disease caused by tiny mites. KWCH-TV reports the first report of scabies at Northwest Kansas Technical College in Goodland came Tuesday when a student went to the administration with symptoms. Other cases showed up at the Goodland Regional Medical Center on Wednesday, prompting the school to contact the Sherman County Health Department. The campus will be closed until Tuesday so the itch mites that cause the ailment, which need human hosts to survive, will die within two to three days.…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A northwest Kansas rancher has dropped a lawsuit claiming the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association is illegally using “beef checkoff” funds for lobbying. St. Francis feed yard operator Michael Callicrate filed a notice of voluntary dismissal Thursday in federal court in Kansas. Callicrate sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture and other entities seeking a court order prohibiting any beef promotion program dollars from going to the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. His legal move comes a week after the Agriculture Department’s Office of Inspector General released a report finding no evidence that the association board’s activities did not comply…