KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Bruce Chen tossed six strong innings, Greg Holland pitched out of a ninth-inning jam, and the Kansas City Royals held on to beat the Baltimore Orioles 3-2 on Tuesday night. The loss snapped the Orioles’ season-best, five-game winning streak. Holland, who logged his 25th save in 27 chances, gave up a leadoff single in the ninth to Nick Markakis and a run-producing triple to Adam Jones with none out. Holland preserved the victory by striking out Chris Davis, and retiring J.J. Hardy and Henry Urrutia on grounders. Chen, who was making just his second start after…
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The success of President Barack Obama’s health care law may hinge on whether the best minds in advertising can reach one of the hardest-to-find parts of the population: people without health coverage. The AP’s John Mone has the story.
Federal officials say fire has broken out on an evacuated gas well in the Gulf of Mexico. Workers were evacuated after the well began leaking natural gas on Tuesday.
An Ogden man has been bound over for an August 12th arraignment in a murder case involving his girlfriend’s six month old child. Michael Dechant, 19, had a preliminary hearing in Riley County district court Tuesday morning. Dominick Lubrano of Ogden died this past March at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City. The original case came in as an aggravated battery incident over a weekend, with Lubrano lifeflighted to Children’s Mercy from Mercy Regional Health Center, where he died three days later. Witnesses allege Dechant reportedly shook the baby, with serious head injuries resulting.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A Kansas legislator who opposes capital punishment won’t get the study he wants of the costs of the death penalty. House Republican Steven Becker is a retired trial judge from Buhler. He has introduced legislation to repeal the death penalty statute and sought an audit of its costs. Kansas Public Radio reports the Legislative Post Audit Committee decided Tuesday against pursuing Becker’s request. The committee’s vice chair, Sen. Jeff Longbine, says there aren’t enough resources to approve all requested audits. But Longbine also says a death penalty audit could be considered in the future. Kansas has not…
ARGONIA, Kan. (AP) The school year could start later than planned in a south-central Kansas district after a powerful storm caused extensive damage to two buildings. KAKE-TV reports parts of the roofs were torn from the elementary school and the junior-senior high school in Argonia late Monday afternoon. Several homes in the Sumner County community also had roof damage. Argonia superintendent Julie Dolley says classes are scheduled to begin Aug. 21, but she’s not sure the cleanup can be finished by then. Parts of the ceilings at the schools caved in, allowing heavy rain to pour into the buildings. The…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas Fire Marshal is drawing fire for his efforts to reinstate oversight of the explosive industry in the state. The fire marshal lost legal authority to issue permits to explosive industry operators in 2010, when an assistant attorney general mistakenly deleted the authority for the agency to do so. Temporary rules were imposed June 28. On Monday, Fire Marshal Doug Jorgensen told a Kansas legislative committee the problem could be permanently fixed by adopting the latest edition of the National Fire Protection Association’s explosive materials code. However, industry representatives told the committee the rules were too…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Former Sen. Bob Dole and the granddaughter of President Dwight D. Eisenhower have been named to Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback’s re-election team for 2014. The Republican governor announced Tuesday that Dole and Mary Jean Eisenhower will serve as co-chairmen of Brownback’s national campaign team. Mary Jean Eisenhower is the president of the Board of Directors for the People to People International, a humanitarian organization founded by her grandfather. Dole, who served in the Senate from 1969 until he resigned in 1996 for an unsuccessful run for president, celebrated his 90th birthday on Monday. Brownback and Lt. Gov.…
LARNED, Kan. (AP) A Kansas man has pleaded guilty to committing an Internet sex crime while he was confined as a sexual predator at the Larned State Hospital. U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom’s office announced Monday that Mark David Brull, 38, and a co-defendant admitted victimizing a 14-year-old Massachusetts boy. Brull pleaded guilty to one count of the transfer of obscene materials to a minor. Prosecutors said Brull used a phone in a common area to call a service that let him to create an email with a voice recording attachment. His co-defendant, Ryan J. Dancosse, 40, of Wichita, uploaded pornographic…
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) A 20-year-old man will be sentenced in August after pleading no contest to an assault on a female student at a University of Kansas dormitory. Jeremy R. Ruzas was arrested in February after a 19-year-old Kansas student report she had been assaulted in her room at Oliver Hall. Prosecutors said Ruzas entered the woman’s room uninvited and was drinking before the woman’s friends made him leave. But he returned later and assaulted the woman while she was in bed. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that Ruzas was initially charged with aggravated sexual battery and burglary but pleaded no…