LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) Billy Gillispie says doctors have ordered him to avoid any stress for 30 days to try to bring his blood pressure down. In a text message early Monday, Gillispie confirmed he’d been treated for kidney problems and abnormal headaches while at the Mayo Clinic where he went last week. Gillispie is currently on indefinite sick leave from Texas Tech, which is set to begin practices Oct. 12. Texas Tech athletic director Kirby Hocutt told Gillispie last week that he was no longer to make day-to-day decisions for the basketball program or to engage with it so…
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Kansas City Chiefs running back Jamaal Charles dinged up the same knee that needed reconstructive surgery last season during Sunday’s 35-17 loss to the Buffalo Bills. Kansas City coach Romeo Crennel said Monday that the decision was made to rest Charles, who has yet to show the same burst that carried him to more than 1,400 yards rushing in 2010. Crennel said he expects Charles to be ready for Sunday’s game at New Orleans, another team that is winless through its first two games.
Occupy Wall Street protesters have been marching in small groups around Manhattan’s financial district to mark the anniversary of the grass-roots movement. Dozens were arrested for blocking the sidewalk.
Republican Mitt Romney says a video clip in which he called nearly half of Americans “victims” was “not elegantly stated” and was “spoken off the cuff.”
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt says he’ll appeal a state Supreme Court ruling ordering a new trial for a man sentenced to die for the 2005 killing of a sheriff. Scott Cheever was convicted of capital murder in the shooting death of Greenwood County Sheriff Matt Samuels. The sheriff was killed while serving a warrant at a southeastern Kansas home where authorities say meth was being made. The Kansas court ruled last month that Cheever’s rights were violated during his trial when a psychiatrist disclosed his psychological records without his consent. Schmidt said Monday he has taken…
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) Prosecutors in northeastern Kansas have charged a suspect with murdering a South Carolina pediatrician who was in the area for a medical conference earlier this month. The body of 39-year-old Dr. Franchesca Brown, of Myrtle Beach, was discovered Sept. 12 in a field near an Overland Park hotel. The suspect was identified Monday as John Meredith Hodges, believed to be from Virginia. Police say Hodges fled to South America and has been captured in Colombia. He’s expected to be returned to the Kansas City area this week. Overland Park and Johnson County authorities said Hodges was…
EMPORIA, Kan. (AP) Kansas is getting a visit from U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan. Duncan is due in Emporia Tuesday for a town hall meeting at Emporia State University. He’s also scheduled to visit Topeka, with a stop planned at the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic site. Duncan is on a 10-day national tour that ends Friday in Washington. In Emporia, he plans an afternoon town hall at Emporia State University as well as a visit to the National Teachers Hall of Fame, which is located on the Emporia campus.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has named a former state House member as the top elections official in one of the state’s most populous counties. The appointment of 43-year-old Andrew Howell as Shawnee County election commissioner was announced Monday. Howell replaces Elizabeth Ensley Deiter,who stepped down last week to become a magistrate judge for four northeast Kansas counties. Shawnee County is home to the city of Topeka and the state Capitol. Howell runs a small home-renovation company in the Topeka area. He served in the Kansas House from 1995 through 2004. He is a Republican like…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) More than $11 million in raises for thousands of Kansas state employees have cleared a final step. The increases were given formal approval Monday by the State Finance Council, made up of Gov. Sam Brownback and top legislative leaders. Kansas lawmakers approved $11.2 million for the raises in May as part of the state budget for the fiscal year that began in July. Nearly 4,300 state employees will benefit, including some Highway Patrol troopers and corrections officers at state prisons and juvenile detention centers. This is the fourth round of annual raises under a plan approved by…
OLATHE, Kan. (AP) A northeastern Kansas man has avoided a trial by pleading no contest in the killing of his wife earlier this year. Thirty-seven-year-old Dominic Camacho had been scheduled to go on trial Monday in Johnson County District Court on a charge of first-degree murder. The Kansas City Star reports the Lenexa man instead pleaded no contest to a charge of second-degree murder. Camacho’s wife, 35-year-old Leslie Camacho, was found strangled March 13 in the couple’s suburban Kansas City home. Police went to the home when relatives became worried after being unable to reach Leslie Camacho. The victim worked…