Back-to-back run-scoring hits from Jared King and Ross Kivett jump started the K-State offense in the top of the 7th in a 5-1 win over High Point on Friday afternoon in the season opener at Charleston, SC. The Cats stranded six runners in the first six innings against the Panthers, including three in scoring position before finding their spark in the final three innings. Tanner Witt led off the K-State 7th with a single to left field, and Shane Conlin sacrificed him to second. King then busted the door open for the Cats with an RBI triple to right center…
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An ongoing investigation is looking into a report of theft, which occurred between December 1, 2011 and March 15, 2012. Penny Nelson, 53, of Randolph, told the Riley County Police Thursday items from her home have gone missing. Nelson believes she knows the suspect. The total amount lost was about $1,400. — An indecent liberties with a child was reported Thursday in Manhattan. Riley County Police stated a teenager and an elementary school student were playing at a park on February 6 when some inappropriate activity took place, which led to the report. The suspect is known to the victim. —…
A meteor streaked across the sky above Russia’s Ural Mountains on Friday morning, causing sharp explosions and reportedly injuring around 100 people, including many hurt by broken glass.
Passengers are now leaving the disabled Carnival Triumph after it was towed to Mobile, Alabama. More than 4,000 people are on board. Passengers raucously cheered the end to an ocean odyssey.
Thursday marked the beginning of many celebrations for K-State’s Sesquicentennial with a special birthday bash held at Ahearn Field House. The celebration featured speeches from K-State President, Kirk Shulz, Governor Sam Brownback, and Kansas Board of Regents President and CEO, Andy Tompkins. Remarks from former Student Body Presidents gave those in attendance a look back at what times were like over the past 60 years. These speakers included Pat Bosco, Kent Bradley, Bernard Franklin, Jackie McClaskey and Greg Musil. Accounts from the former Student Body Presidents show how far K-State has come, with the additions of the Student Union, Bramlage Coliseum, Bill Snyder Family Stadium,…
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) A central Kansas hospital will double the number of beds in its emergency department under a $5 million expansion and renovation scheduled to begin this fall. Officials of Hutchinson Regional Medical Center announced plans for the project Thursday, after a year of planning. Keith Miller, president and CEO of Hutchinson Regional Healthcare System, says the existing emergency facility has worked well for nearly 40 years. But Miller says it’s too small for the number of patients it now sees. The expansion will increase the number of emergency department beds from 10 to 20, while adding two major…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A Kansas legislator from the Wichita area has missed a day of meetings after reporting he was robbed while entering his room at a Topeka hotel where dozens of lawmakers stay. Republican Joe Edwards of Haysville did not participate in Thursday’s House session. House Speaker Ray Merrick says he visited Edwards Thursday morning at a Topeka hospital where Edwards was treated for a concussion. Merrick said Edwards planned to head home to Haysville. Edwards did not immediately respond to an email and a phone message left at his home later Thursday. Edwards told The Wichita Eagle he…
GREAT BEND, Kan. (AP) Officials in a central Kansas county are calculating the damage done by vandals to several pieces of heavy equipment. The Great Bend Tribune reports employees with the Barton County Road and Bridge Department discovered the damage Thursday morning at a job site south of Ellinwood. Department foreman Mike Patton says windows were smashed out of two road graders, a power broom and a backhoe that were parked just off a road. He estimates the damage at $10,000 to $15,000. Crews had just started working Wednesday on a project that was scheduled to take about two weeks.…
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) A Hutchinson church that has gone from 120 to 1,300 members in the last decade is preparing to move into a new home while celebrating its growth. Besides the congregation of the CrossPoint Church who attend services in Hutchinson, about a thousand more members watch from nine satellite locations in central and western Kansas. The church’s growth began in 2002, when Senior Pastor Andy Addis arrived. Today CrossPoint has six services at two Hutchinson locations, as well as the nine satellite locations from Ulysses to Concordia. The Hutchinson News reports the church is in the midst of…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A Kansas House committee hears testimony from critics of a national movement to implement new K-12 education standards for math and English. Opponents of the standards told the House Education Committee on Thursday that the Common Core Standards were flawed, unproven and that states were pressured into adopting them. The Kansas State Board of Education adopted the standards in 2010. A bill before the House committee would require Kansas to abandon the standards, expend no money to implement them and require new state standards to be written in their place. Deputy education commissioner Brad Neuenswander told the…