DENVER (AP) Peyton Manning threw for 304 yards and three touchdowns Sunday to lift Denver to a 38-3 win over Kansas City that sealed the No. 1 seed in the AFC playoffs for the Broncos. Manning finished the season with 4,659 yards, only 41 short of his career high. He finished with 37 touchdown passes, and none will be more memorable than the last two circus catches by Eric Decker and Demaryius Thomas that turned the game into a blowout. Denver (13-3) won its 11th straight and leaped past Houston for the top seed after the Texans lost to Indianapolis…
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Senate Republicans and Democrats are still trying to reach a compromise over taxes and spending, to avoid the fiscal cliff. Tax hikes and spending cuts are set to kick in with the new year.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is hospitalized in New York with a blood clot. She is expected to stay in the hospital for 48 hours.
LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) Authorities in northeast Kansas are searching for an escaped inmate. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that 29-year-old Raheem K. Armstead walked away from the jail Saturday afternoon. A police advisory says Armstead has a history of fighting with and eluding police. He was convicted in 2008 of robbery and aggravated burglary.
The Kansas Highway Patrol have been on the lookout for two missing children as reports said they could be traveling through Kansas, but about noon on Sunday, the KHP tweeted that the children have been found and in safe condition. Ben Cleary, 9, and Henry Cleary, 7, were located in Austin, Texas Saturday night with their father Daniel Cleary. Cleary supposedly took the two boys after a family dispute. The last time any had seen the three was December 23.
Chester Zoo, in northwest England, saw something of a baby boom in 2012. As well as a baby orangutan and an okapi foal, zookeepers delivered an Asian elephant calf.
A suicide bomber driving a vehicle packed with explosives rammed into a bus carrying Shiite Muslim pilgrims in southwest Pakistan on Sunday, killing 19 people, a government official and eyewitnesses said.
K-State and Kansas City tied the mark for the least amount of combined points in the Big 12 era in a game involving the Wildcats on Saturday night at Bramlage Coliseum. The good news is though K-State bested the ‘Roos 52-44 as Rodney McGruder led all scorers with 17 points. Thomas Gipson had 13 points and six rebounds, and Nino Williams pulled down a career-high 13 rebounds to go with eight points. K-State would lead by as many as 11 points in the first 20 minutes, but Kansas City scored 12 of the final 17 points of the half to…
Brittany Chambers scored 27 points and grabbed nine rebounds as the K-State women’s basketball team beat UC-Santa Barbara 60-45 on Saturday night at the UCSB Thunderdome in Santa Barbara, CA. Chambers connected on 11 of 19 shots from the field, and made three of her seven attempts from beyond the arc. Ashia Woods added a career high 11 points for the Cats in their non-conference finale. K-State (9-3) led the Gauchos 43-35 with 11:34 remaining, but the Cats went on a 12-0 run to put the game away. UCSB (4-8) is coached by former K-State point guard Carlene Mitchell, and…
DODGE CITY, Kan. (AP) Dodge City authorities have identified a woman and child killed in a house fire earlier this week. Dodge City officials say 51-year-old Luz Maria Conejo and 2-year-old Pablo Antonio Coca-Conejo died of smoke inhalation in the fire Thursday. The Dodge City Globe reports that Fire Chief Kevin Norton says the cause of the blaze is under investigation but authorities have determined the fire likely started in the living room of the single-story residence. The deaths have been ruled as accidental. Norton says the house didn’t have any smoke alarms.