Former Arkansas associate head coach Todd Butler stepped in for the legendary Gene Stephenson as head baseball coach at Wichita State last month. He’s wasted little time recruiting Kansas kids, as KMAN has learned Manhattan High senior-to-be Bret Fehr has committed to the Shocker program. Fehr led off the Indian lineup during last season’s run to the 6A state tournament in Lawrence. After his senior campaign, Fehr will make his debut with the Shockers in the 2015 season.
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A tornado ripped through a Milan province causing millions of euros worth of damage. No serious injuries were reported.
One child has died and dozens have been injured after a burst water main released a torrent of water over a residential area in Campo Grande, near Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday. The burst pipeline has been shut down, but no word on the cause.
An injury accident involving a semi and several cows was reported in Clay County Tuesday night. Matthew Salter, 31, of Missouri Valley, Iowa was taken to the Clay County Medical Center following the accident on K-15, 17 miles south of Clay Center. The Kansas Highway patrol reports Salter was driving a 1998 Peterbilt semi southbound on K-15 when the semi struck four cows, ending up in an east ditch. The accident was reported at 10:40 Tuesday night. Seat belt use is unknown.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Mike Moustakas homered twice and drove in four runs to back another strong start from Ervin Santana, and the surging Kansas City Royals beat the Minnesota Twins 7-2 Tuesday night. Santana gave up two runs on four hits and struck out eight in seven innings and Eric Hosmer had three hits and an RBI for the Royals, who have won seven in a row and nine of 11 coming out of the All-Star break. At 52-51, they are over .500 for the first time since May 18. Mike Pelfrey gave up four runs on eight hits with…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) Michael Bradley got his start in professional soccer as an 18-year-old midfielder for what would eventually become the New York Red Bulls of Major League Soccer. Now he gets a chance to see just how far the league has come. Bradley will join Francesco Totti and the rest of Italian club AS Roma in taking on the best that MLS has to offer in the league’s annual All-Star game on Wednesday night at Sporting Park. The MLS is 7-2-1 in All-Star games since the current format featuring an international opponent was adopted more than a…
An appeals court ruled Tuesday that New York City’s Board of Health acted unconstitutionally when it tried to limit the size on soft drinks served in restaurants. Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the city plans to appeal the decision.
An SUV rammed a parked Cadillac into a Kansas City day care center Tuesday injuring the SUV’s driver and three children.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Two Kansas sheriff’s deputies have been arrested on suspicion of stealing taxpayer money. Sedgwick County Sheriff Jeff Easter announced the arrests Tuesday without naming the deputies. Easter says the case has been turned over to the district attorney’s office. The deputies worked in the transportation division, taking inmates between jails. Easter says the arrests followed a two-week investigation. No other details about the alleged theft of public money were released, and Easter said he would not comment further. Both deputies were booked into the Sedgwick County jail, one on suspicion of giving false information and the other…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Health officials say two Kansas cases are tied to the cyclospora outbreak that has sickened 372 people in 15 states. A spokeswoman for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment said Tuesday one patient is from Phillips County, located on the Nebraska border in north-central Kansas. The other patient lives in Johnson County, in the Kansas City metro area. The spokeswoman, Miranda Steele, says officials believe both illnesses were caused by food eaten in Nebraska. Iowa and Nebraska health officials say that a prepackaged salad mix is the source of an outbreak of the stomach bug in…