K-State would take an early seven-run lead, only to surrender that edge, before scoring five in a row to claim a 13-10 victory over Nebraska on Wednesday night to sweep the season series in a game played at Hawks Field in Lincoln, NE. The Cats leapt out to an 8-1 lead, including a five-run second inning keyed by a Jared King two-run double. The Huskers worked their way back with a three-run third to pull within 8-4, and had their own five-run outburst in the fifth to pull ahead 9-8. K-State fired back in the sixth inning with three runs…
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The K-State men’s golf team posted their best finish at the Big 12 Championship since 2010 by coming in fifth on Wednesday afternoon at Prairie Dunes in Hutchinson. The Cats carded a team score of 51-over par 791 over the 54-hole tournament, which was cut back by Tuesday’s snow. Texas claimed the meet, and finished 32 shots ahead of K-State. The Wildcats had two players finish in the top 15, including senior Curtis Yonke, who tied for 10th with an 8-over par 218. Sophomore Kyle Weldon tied for 14th place with a 9-over-par 219. Stay connected to all things KSU…
Jose Valverde returned to Detroit with a save and Victor Martinez drove in a pair of runs to help the Tigers beat the Kansas City Royals 7-5 Wednesday night. The Royals scored four runs in the third inning with five straight hits to begin the inning from Salvador Perez, Chris Getz, Alex Gordon, Alcides Escobar and Billy Butler to take a 4-1 lead. Detroit pulled within 4-3 of Kansas City in the bottom of third, and a Mike Moustakas error at third base keyed a four-run fourth to put the Tigers ahead 7-4. The Royals best chance to rally came in the top of the fifth…
Officials tell the AP that surviving Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev admitted his role in the bombing to the FBI, and stopped talking when he was read his Miranda rights.
A series of huge explosions on board two natural gas barges shook Mobile, Alabama Wednesday night. Some of the blasts were caught on camera. At least three people were hospitalized in critical condition.
Eight story building containing four clothing factories collapses in Bangladesh. Death foll rises.
A series of huge explosions on board two natural gas barges shook Mobile, Alabama Wednesday night. Some of the blasts were caught on camera. At least three people were hospitalized.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas agriculture officials say a new law taking effect in July will help a growing number of farmers’ markets across the state. The measure approved by legislators and signed by Gov. Sam Brownback earlier this month sets up a central registry for farmers’ markets in the state Department of Agriculture. Registering with the state will limit the legal liability of farmers’ markets if accidents occur. Agriculture Secretary Dale Rodman said Wednesday that registering also will give farmers’ markets access to promotional help from the state. The department said that from 1987 to 2012, the number of farmers’…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Relatives of two women kill by the same man 12 years apart are asking Kansas parole officials to keep him behind bars. Danny Williams was convicted in Idaho of second-degree murder in the 1970 beating death of Melba Gray, a mother of six. Idaho officials paroled him after eight years and he moved to Wichita, where he was convicted of stabbing Francis Ellifson to death at her home in April 1982. KFDI-AM reports about 40 friends and relatives of both victims attended a hearing of the Kansas Prisoner Review Board on Wednesday. Many read emotional statements arguing…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Emerson Lynn Jr., the former publisher of the Iola Register and one of the state’s best-known editorial writers, has died. The newspaper says Lynn died Wednesday morning at a hospice in Topeka, where he’d received care after being diagnosed with cancer earlier this year. He was 88. Lynn’s journalism career spanned more than 60 years. He led the Register from 1965 to 2000, when he sold it to his daughter, Susan. He continued writing editorials until this year. He is a member of the Kansas Newspaper Hall of Fame and received a lifetime achievement award last year…