KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) The Kansas City Chiefs have been on the clock since the end of last season. The Chiefs went 2-14 to land the No. 1 choice in the NFL draft for the first time in franchise history. But there’s no clear-cut player available this year, and certainly no star quarterback such as Andrew Luck or Robert Griffin III to make the pick an easy one. Kansas City is likely going to shore up its offensive line with the selection Thursday night. Most draft experts believe the Chiefs will go with Texas A&M’s Luke Joeckel or Central…
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The start of a three-game series for the Royals at Detroit was rained out on Tuesday night. The game was delayed at the start and was called off about 15 minutes later. A makeup date has not yet been set, and a doubleheader will not be played on either of the next two days. The pitching matchup remains the same for Wednesday night’s game, Wade Davis is on the hill for Kansas City against Max Scherzer of Detroit. The Royals still have a game and a half lead on the Tigers in the AL Central, and a one game edge over…
Three of eight murder charges were thrown out Tuesday against a Philadelphia abortion provider apparently because the judge had not heard sufficient evidence that the three babies were viable, born alive and then killed.
Charges were dropped Tuesday against the Mississippi man accused of sending ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and others, while authorities searched at another man’s home in connection with the case.
Off-duty firefighter Matt Patterson immediately applied a tourniquet to 7-year old Jane Richard and got her to an ambulance after the Boston Marathon bombing, helping to save her life.
Update: Thursday morning–The K-18 traffic switch is now scheduled to take place Thursday afternoon, April 25 due to the strong potential of rain now forecasted for tomorrow, Friday, April 26. Older report: Eastbound and westbound K-18 from 56th Avenue to just west of K-113/Seth Child Road will be moved to the new westbound K-18 lanes and reduced to one lane in each direction for pavement reconstruction work beginning on Friday, April 26, weather permitting. These lane closures will remain in place until late fall 2013. In the case of inclement weather on Friday, April 26, crews will complete the K-18 traffic switch…
After the announcement last week by the FAA of furloughs for air traffic controllers and closures of air traffic control towers across the nation, U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) held a press conference Tuesday to discuss the issue. During the conference, Moran commented on the issue of the towers, but doesn’t see why it has come to this stage. “We have taken a significant effort to get some common sense into the Department of Transportation,” said Moran. “The closing of air traffic control towers and the furloughing of air traffic control tower controllers seems to me to make no sense. There is no…
On Tuesday night two years of work from the Wildcat Creek Watershed Working Group came to the floor of the Manhattan city commission. City staff gave an initial briefing on the management plan which will be going forward in its final adjustments before possible adoption by city and county officials in July. The plan includes policy, and other preventative measures to help mitigate flood damage in the area. Some infrastructure changes have already been implemented such as three high tech gauges placed strategically across the watershed area that give experts a clear picture of water flows, and automated advanced…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The American Civil Liberties Union is demanding more information from a southwest Kansas school district about assemblies this week that featured a speaker from a creationist group. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the ACLU of Kansas and Western Missouri is requesting that the Hugoton district release emails between its staff and employees of the Oklahoma-based Creation Truth Foundation. The ACLU also wants copies of materials used at the assemblies and other documents. Hugoton Superintendent Mark Crawford said Tuesday that his district would fulfill the ACLU’s request. But he said the group tried to intimidate the district into…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A Kansas prosecutor says he’s planning to retry a capital murder suspect rather than ask the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate the man’s convictions for killing two women in Topeka. The Kansas Supreme Court overturned Phillip Cheatham Jr.’s convictions in January, finding that his lawyer did a poor job at his 2005 trial. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports Shawnee County District Attorney Chad Taylor announced Tuesday his conclusion that it would be “ill-advised” to appeal the state court’s ruling. Cheatham was sentenced to die for the 2003 shooting deaths of two women at a Topeka duplex. He was…