Ashlee Arnau, a cheerleader at William Carey University in Hattiesburg, Miss., made an incredible front-flip half-court shot Thursday night at halftime of the school’s men’s basketball game that became an instant Internet sensation.
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A South African magistrate allowed Oscar Pistorius to go free on bail Friday, capping hearings that foreshadow a dramatic trial in the Valentine’s Day killing of the star athlete’s girlfriend.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Authorities have arrested the parents of a Wichita baby who suffered a skull fracture. The Wichita Eagle reports that the parents brought the 3-month-old boy to a Wichita emergency room Wednesday afternoon. Police said an X-ray showed he had a skull fracture that isn’t life threatening. The child was admitted to a pediatric intensive care unit. A police report says a 21-year-old woman was booked into jail on suspicion of aggravated child endangerment and abuse. Police Lt. Jeff Weible says the boy’s father also was arrested.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A Wichita planning commission has rejected a bid from an anti-abortion group to rezone the property where slain abortion doctor George Tiller’s clinic is located. The Metropolitan Area Planning Commission voted 6-4 Thursday against a request by Kansans for Life to rezone the property. The group submitted nearly 14,000 signatures to the Wichita City Council earlier this month seeking the change. The Wichita Eagle reports Kansans for Life development director David Gittrich criticized the panel for conducting the hearing Thursday while much of the town was paralyzed by a strong winter storm. The nonprofit Trust Women Foundation…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Wichita police are looking for two women who drove off with a man’s car after he stopped to help them when they claimed they were stranded. Police say the 23-year-old man stopped in north Wichita late Tuesday after the two women told him they were having car trouble. As he was looking at their car, one of the women jumped into the man’s SUV and drove off. She even hit the man, who suffered minor injuries. The other woman got back into their car and drove away. There was nothing wrong with the car. Police say the…
ATCHISON, Kan. (AP) An eastern Kansas college has announced former Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan will deliver its commencement address in May. Benedictine College says the congressman will be the featured speaker at the May 11 ceremony in the Ralph Nolan Gymnasium. More than 360 students are expected to participate in what is the largest graduating class in recent school history. Benedictine President Stephen D. Minnis says Ryan is a great family man who is willing to stand up for what he thinks is best for the country. Ryan is senior member of the House Ways and Means Committee…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A new government report shows that U.S. beef production and slaughter numbers were up in January in the wake of a widespread drought that drove ranchers to sell off livestock. The National Agricultural Statistics Service reported Thursday that commercial red meat production totaled 4.35 billion pounds in January. That is up 5 percent from the same month in 2012. Beef production totaled 2.26 billion pounds for a 7 percent jump from the same month a year ago. Some 2.83 million head of cattle were slaughtered in January. That is 4 percent more cattle than the previous January.…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Appropriations Committee in the Kansas House appears ready to close one of 21 residential cottages at the state’s hospital for the developmentally disabled in Topeka. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the move is designed to free up money to provide services for developmentally disabled Kansas in their homes. Appropriations Committee Chairman and Newton Republican Marc Rhoades said consolidating operations at the Kansas Neurological Institute is a bipartisan idea. The committee is looking at closing the least utilized cottage. The hospital has space for 160 residents and last year had a population of 153. In 2011, Gov.…
Even with the amount of snow in the area, The Riley county police department did not see a lot of activity Thursday. That’s according to Public Information Officer Matthew Droge. There were 37 motorists assisted, mostly from slide offs and needing help getting unstuck and 11 accidents, none of which resulted in ambulance transfers. By the way, the National Weather Service’s latest report of snow fall in the Manhattan area indicates 9.7 inches from Thursday’s storm. ### An accident involving a pedestrian was reported a little after midnight Thursday. Coryn Correll was walking westbound in the 1300 block of Fremont when…
WASHINGTON, DC – The Kansas federal congressional delegation and the Governor of Kansas Friday announced the Department of Homeland Security awarded the contract for construction of the Central Utilities Plant (CUP), a critical step forward in construction of the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) in Manhattan. Friday’s action by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) awards $40 million in Fiscal Year 2011 appropriations to be spent on construction of the CUP without further delay. The CUP will be a free standing 87,000 sq. ft. building built on the NBAF site on the Kansas State University campus in Manhattan. Construction of the…