The Manhattan High girls soccer team punched their to the 6A state tournament on Tuesday night with a 2-1 win over Wichita Heights at Anneberg Park in the quarterfinal round. The Tribe were never truly threatened as they allowed only a late goal to the Falcons. MHS will play in the state semifinals on Friday night at Wichita Heights. Pairings are not set, but Maize, Blue Valley North and Blue Valley Northwest will be the other teams in the field.
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HOUSTON (AP) Mike Moustakas tied it with an RBI single before George Kottaras walked with the bases-loaded to drive in the go-ahead run in a four-run eighth inning, and the Kansas City Royals rallied for a 7-3 win over the Houston Astros on Tuesday night to end a four-game skid. The Royals trailed 3-0 and couldn’t get much going offensively until the seventh when they cut the lead to one on RBI singles by Alcides Escobar and David Lough. Eric Hosmer chased Wesley Wright in the eighth when he singled to load the bases. He was replaced by Jose Cisnero,…
The Manhattan Christian College baseball team placed two players on the National Christian College Athletic Association Division II All-America teams. Crusader junior Trey Shelton was named a first team all-American, and also received a scholar-athlete award. Senior outfielder J.J. Floyd was pegged a second team all-American.
Workers raced Tuesday to complete the search for survivors and the dead in the Oklahoma City suburb where a mammoth tornado claimed 24 lives. Scientists concluded the storm was a rare and extraordinarily powerful type of twister known as an EF5.
Four peregrine falcon chicks that live in a box on the George Washington Bridge connecting Manhattan to New Jersey got identifying bands Tuesday and were pronounced healthy and parasite-free.
A new Chick-Fil-A development got the go ahead nod from the Manhattan city commission during Tuesday nights commission meeting in city hall. The proposed first reading of an ordinance to allow the restaurant met with some questions regarding the construction of the restaurant on the 100 year flood plain, and adequate protection for the project. Assistant director for planning Eric Cattell says the developers understand the issues with working in the flood plain, and plan on constructing the facility with a four foot fill. The development would be constructed at the plaza where Staples, and Hastings are currently located.…
In the wake of the devastating tornado that ripped through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, the Big 12 Conference has changed the time and format of the baseball tournament. The championships were originally set to begin on Wednesday at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark in a double elimination tournament format. Now the games will begin on Thursday and will utilize a pool play format. This isn’t the first time that the conference has used a two pool format. Kansas State, Texas Tech, Baylor and Oklahoma will play in one pool and Oklahoma State, West Virginia, TCU and Kansas will be in the second pool.…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Negotiators from the Kansas House and Senate are moving closer to a deal on canceling all or part of a scheduled drop in the state sales tax. Three negotiators resumed their talks on tax issues Tuesday and plan to continue Wednesday. The sales tax is the key issue. It’s scheduled by law to decline in July from the current 6.3 percent to 5.7 percent. But the Senate has approved Republican Gov. Sam Brownback’s plan to keep the tax unchanged. The House favored allowing the tax to decline as planned, but the chamber’s Republican leaders later proposed resetting…
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) A deputy at a central Kansas jail is accused of having illegal sexual relations with a female inmate and bribing or intimidating two others. Reno County Sheriff Randy Henderson announced the charges Tuesday against Jonathan Diaz, 30. Henderson says he asked the Kansas Bureau of Investigation to get involved after learning of the allegations two weeks ago. District Attorney Keith Schroeder, who filed the charges, told The Hutchinson News the sexual contact charge involves a female inmate more than 18 years old. Schroeder says the two alleged victims of bribery and intimidation are also older than 18.…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A Tennessee pharmacist has admitted distributing a misbranded Chinese-made drug that was given to kidney dialysis patients in Kansas. The U.S. Attorney’s office says Robert Harshbarger Jr., 53, of Kingsport, Tenn., pleaded guilty Tuesday in Topeka to one count each of distributing a misbranded drug and health care fraud. Harshbarger admitted that from 2004 to 2009, he substituted a cheaper Chinese import for an iron sucrose drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The drugs were given to patients of Kansas Dialysis Services. Prosecutors say there were no reports of harm, but patients were put…