Fullback Braden Wilson became the third member of the Kansas State Wildcats 2012 Big 12 Championship squad selected in the 2013 National Football League Draft when he was picked at number 204 in the sixth round on Saturday. Following a reshirt season, Wilson saw action in every game of his collegiate career blocking for the likes of current Miami Dolphin running back Daniel Thomas and for current Running Back John Hubert. Wilson was also a four-time State Champion at Smith Center High School under recently retired coach Roger Barta. Linebacker Arthur Brown was the first Wildcat to go Pro when…
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A Mississippi man, Everett Dutschke, whose home and business were searched as part of an investigation into poisoned letters sent to the president and others has been arrested in the case, according to the FBI.
Russian authorities secretly recorded a telephone conversation in 2011 in which one of the Boston bombing suspects vaguely discussed jihad with his mother, officials said Saturday.
Almost since the moment that K-State’s Fiesta Bowl game against Oregon ended in early January the question around the Wildcat Nation has been who will succeed Collin Klein, one of the greatest Quarterbacks in the 117-year history of the program. Daniel Sams is one of the Quarterbacks aspiring to the throne….he saw some time last year in mop-up duty in blowout wins over Missouri State, Miami (Fla.) and Kansas and played the last quarter and a half of a victory against Oklahoma State when Klein went out of the game with a concussion. Sams wowed the K-State fans with his…
Former K-State wide receiver Chris Harper is going back to the Great Northwest as he was selected by the Seattle Seahawks in the 4th round of the 2013 NFL with the 123rd overall pick. The Wichita Northwest product spent his freshman season at Oregon, where he played quarterback and wide receiver before returning home for his final three seasons with the Wildcats. Harper was K-State’s leading receiver during his senior season at K-State with 58 receptions for 857 yards and three touchdowns as the Cats won the Big 12 championship. He was named 2nd team all-Big 12 by the league’s…
Police in Bangladesh saw large cracks in the walls of a garment factory and issued an evacuation order they say went ignored the day before the structure collapsed. Some 300 workers were killed, renewing calls for better working conditions.
The surviving Boston Marathon bombings suspect has been released from a civilian hospital and transferred to a federal medical detention center in central Massachusetts.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Governor Sam Brownback has asked the Kansas higher education system deserves to avoid cuts in state funding. Brownback has used a statewide tour to highlight the importance of higher education. He also campaigned for his proposal to keep funding for the schools at current levels in the budget year that starts July 1. In other news, Governor Sam Brownback says Kansas legislators need to approve $202 million in new bonds for a national biosecurity lab. He cited the federal government’s ongoing budget problems as a reason to get financing resolved soon. The lab would study animal diseases…
President Barack Obama has formally declared a major disaster from the February snowstorms in Kansas. The designation makes federal funding available to supplement state and local recovery efforts. It covers the period from February 20th to 23rd.
Freshman right hander Levi Mavorhis pitched five and a third scoreless innings in his first career start and K-State claimed a 6-1 victory over TCU on Friday night at Tointon Family Stadium. MaVorhis (4-0) did give up eight hits, but worked his way out of trouble throughout the ballgame. Gerardo Esquivel needed just four pitches to finish the sixth inning, Jake Matthys gave up a run in two innings, and Tanner Witt shut it down in the ninth. Jared King had two hits and three RBI, a two-run double to put K-State up 3-0 in the bottom of the sixth,…