Fans can see the K-State volleyball team in action for the first time this week before the upcoming season. The annual Purple/White scrimmage will be held this Thursday night at 7:00pm at Ahearn Fieldhouse. K-State returns four starters and 10 letterwinners from the 2012 squad that went 21-9 and reached the NCAA Tournament for the second year in a row. K-State will make their season debut next Friday, August 30th in Las Vegas against the University of Portland at 6:00pm central time. Stay connected to all things KSU on the go just text EMAW to 88474 For full video wrap-ups,…
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) The Kansas City Chiefs have traded wide receiver Jon Baldwin to the San Francisco 49ers for wide receiver A.J. Jenkins in a swap of disappointing first-round picks. Baldwin was the 26th overall pick of the Chiefs in 2011. He missed time his rookie season after getting hurt in a fight with a teammate, and has been prone to dropping passes. He has just 41 catches for 579 yards and two touchdowns in two seasons. Jenkins was the 30th overall pick of the 49ers last year. He appeared in only three games as a rookie and did…
A plane flying from Baltimore to Austin, Texas made an emergency landing in Memphis, Tennessee after an unruly passenger tried to open two emergency exits in the back of the plane.
Egypt arrested the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohammed Badie. Pictures of him were shown on the pro-military television channel.
A 12-year-old girl who was mauled by a black bear in northern Michigan last week says she feared for her life during the attack. Abby Wetherell said she thought she was going to die, but after attacking her twice, the bear went away.
Opening up at 9 am on Monday was the 2014 budget hearing for the Pottawatomie County Commission. Robert Reece, County Administrator, reviewed with the commission where the budget was sitting and explained that “in essence, [the budget] was the same as last year.” The tax rate for 2014 is expected to be 25.675%. After making a few adjustments concerning the consolidated fire districts, the commission approved the budget as presented. After the budget hearing was completed, the commission moved into department updates. During his report, Chris Trudo, the emergency management director, told the commission on August 5, they had a test…
LIBERAL, Kan. (AP) A 51-year-old southwest Kansas man is dead after being severely beaten in a rural Seward County home over the weekend. The High Plains Daily Leader reports Seward County deputies were called at 8:30 p.m. Saturday in the northwest part of the county on a report of an unresponsive man. They found Thomas Miller of Garden City, who was flown to a Wichita hospital where he died early Sunday morning. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation is helping the sheriff’s office investigate the death, which is considered a homicide. Seward County Undersheriff Gene Ward says nobody has been arrested…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) The seller of a Kansas house where BTK serial killer Dennis Rader took a woman’s life in 1985 says he is disclosing the murder to make sure any potential buyer doesn’t have a problem with the home’s past. The Wichita Eagle reports real estate experts think the seller is doing the right thing by letting buyers know what happened there, even though state law doesn’t require such disclosure. Rader told a judge in 2005 that he sneaked into the Park City residence and strangled 53-year-old Marine Hedge. The former Park City compliance officer is serving a life…
EUREKA, Kan. (AP) Auctioneers say a 9,100-acre ranch in south-central Kansas has been sold to seven buyers for a total of $13.5 million. The ranch in Greenwood County was owned by the Frank N. Bills Living Trust. The trust decided to sale the ranch after Bills died in January at the age of 70. The Wichita Eagle reports the ranch was broken into 16 tracts and sold to seven buyers from Texas, Nebraska and Kansas. The average price was $1,475 per acre. Auctioneer Jeremy Sundgren of El Dorado says it was one of the largest ranches ever auctioned in south-central…
POTWIN, Kan. (AP) Law enforcement authorities say a Kansas man is hospitalized after his wife shot him in an apparent accident. The Butler County Sheriff’s Office says the 49-year-old Potwin man was shot in the shoulder Sunday evening at his home. Undersheriff Tony Wilhite says the man’s 31-year-old wife and a neighbor both called 911 to report the shooting. The woman was giving her husband first aid when emergency workers arrived at the house. The man was flown to a Wichita hospital. Authorities say he was able to provide a statement to authorities, which confirmed his wife’s report that the…