KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) The Kansas City Royals have made a series of roster moves to bolster their bullpen and overall depth as they play for their first playoff appearance in nearly 30 years. The Royals, who began Tuesday 4.5 games out of the final wild-card spot, recalled pitchers Wade Davis and Louis Coleman from Class A Wilmington, where they were optioned last week. They also recalled left-hander Donnie Joseph and infielder Johnny Giavotella from Triple-A Omaha, and purchased the contracts of infielders Pedro Ciriaco and Carlos Pena from the Storm Chasers. Kansas City cleared the necessary roster space by…
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PHOENIX (AP) The Phoenix Suns and former K-State all-American Michael Beasley have reached an agreement to terminate the contract of the troubled power forward. The move on Tuesday will cost the franchise $7 million, a $2 million savings from what Beasley would have been due had he simply been waived. It also represents a significant reduction in what the hit on the team’s salary cap would have been. Beasley was arrested a month ago in suburban Scottsdale on charges of felony marijuana possession and possession of drug paraphernalia. It was the latest in a series of incidents involving the…
Emotions ran high during the Manhattan City Commission meeting Tuesday evening. Several local residents presented their case for why the City should vote against previous plans to repurpose the City Auditorium, also known as the Peace Memorial Auditorium. The plan was to gut the auditorium in order to add several Parks and Rec offices and expand the gymnasium floor. However, since the building was created as a holistic war memorial in 1955, several local residents (including a veteran of WWII) passionately expressed their desire to see the auditorium preserved. The Commission ultimately voted against plans to repurpose the building (2-3); and instead voted to consider alternative plans, including refurbishing the Auditorium and…
PITTSBURG, Kan. (AP) A judge has ordered a southeast Kansas woman to spend 30 days in jail followed by three years’ probation for the death of her 4-month-old son. KOAM-TV reports Heather Buckalew, 25, of Arma, was sentenced Tuesday in Crawford County District Court. Buckalew pleaded no contest in July to involuntary manslaughter in the death of Memphis Cash Harvey in August 2012. Prosecutors believe the baby was smothered when Buckalew rolled over onto him while they were sleeping. Investigators said the mother was inebriated at the time. Buckalew was initially charged with second-degree murder, but the judge reduced the…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas legislators have adjourned their special session. Lawmakers wrapped up business Wednesday in only two days. They approved a bill repairing a law allowing convicted murderers to be sentenced to at least 50 years in prison. The Senate also approved multiple appointments by Gov. Sam Brownback, including the appointment of chief counsel Caleb Stegall to the Kansas Court of Appeals. The House adjourned at 5:21 p.m. The Senate followed six minutes later. It was the Legislature’s first special session since 2005, when lawmakers were ordered by the Kansas Supreme Court to increase funding on public schools. This…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A former Kansas Court of Appeals research attorney faces a disciplinary hearing for derogatory comments she tweeted during the same kind of hearing last year for former state Attorney General Phill Kline. WIBW-AM reports the hearing for Sarah Peterson Herr was scheduled Tuesday for Dec. 20. Herr posted the comments last Nov. 15 while Kline was appearing before the Kansas Supreme Court in a disciplinary hearing. The court was considering whether to suspend Kline’s law license for his conduct during investigations of abortion providers while he was attorney general and Johnson County district attorney. Herr apologized and…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Wichita educators and students are mourning the death of a middle school social studies teacher who was killed in a car crash in southwest Missouri. Beth Adamson died Monday in an accident at 11:45 about 10 miles north of Joplin, Mo., after her husband failed to stop at a stop sign and their car was broadsided by a pickup truck on Missouri 43. The 50-year-old Adamson had worked for the Wichita School District for 25 years, most of that time as a fourth-grade teacher at Mueller Elementary School. Last year she became a social studies teacher at…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) One Kansas man has been sentenced to prison and a second has received three years’ probation in separate cases of Social Security fraud. The U.S. Attorney’s office says L.T. Baker, 54, of Wichita, and Paul David Lieder, 40, of Hillsboro, were both sentenced Tuesday in federal court in Wichita. Both had pleaded guilty to lying to the Social Security Administration to improperly receive disability payments. Besides receiving a one-year prison sentence, Baker was also ordered to repay the more than $66,000 he received in disability benefits. Baker admitted using a slightly altered Social Security number to claim…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A Kansas Senate committee has approved Gov. Sam Brownback’s nomination of his chief counsel for an open seat on the state Court of Appeals. The Judiciary Committee’s voice vote sends the nomination of Caleb Stegall to the full Senate. The chamber is expected to debate and vote on the appointment Wednesday. Republicans dominate the committee and the full Senate, so the GOP governor’s nomination of Stegall wasn’t likely to meet much opposition. But he faced questions about comments in 2005 in an online magazine he edited that encouraged “forcible resistance” to court orders in order to save…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Critics of a Kansas law requiring new voters to provide proof of their U.S. citizenship when registering want legislators to repeal it during their special session. The American Civil Liberties Union said Tuesday that lawmakers must act because more than 15,000 legal residents have their voter registrations on hold because they haven’t provided proof of their citizenship. Joining the ACLU were the NAACP and Equality Kansas, the state’s leading gay-rights group. Those groups already have told Secretary of State Kris Kobach that they might file a federal lawsuit. Kobach contends the law prevents election fraud. Lawmakers were…