Author: KMAN Staff

BALTIMORE (AP) — When Manny Machado arrived at Camden Yards amid much fanfare, Orioles manager Buck Showalter insisted the 20-year-old player was promoted for no other reason than to help the team win.  And that is precisely what Machado did in his second game in the major leagues.  Machado thrust himself into the Orioles’ record book by hitting two home runs and driving in four runs, a power display that carried Baltimore past the Kansas City Royals 7-1 on Friday night.  After going 2 for 4 in his debut on Thursday, Machado hit a solo shot in the fifth inning and a…

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Michael Adams caused a big chunk of Kansas City to catch its breath Friday night.  Jamaal Charles, on his first carry since ACL surgery on his left knee last September, took a solid shot from the Arizona cornerback right where the scar is.  But he jumped up and hustled back to the huddle, helping K.C. score touchdowns on its first two possessions en route to a 27-17 victory over the Cardinals in a very satisfying preseason opener. “That was a relief,” said coach Romero Crennel. “For him to take that hit, I think that helped clear his mind…

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Kansas Highway Patrol reports say a motorcyclist from Herington Kansas was killed after a collision with another vehicle near Salina on Saturday afternoon. According to police reports 58-year-old Leah Webb of Herington was riding her Harley Davidson onto I-70 eastbound  from I-135 when she collided with the right front corner of 21-year-old Gretchen Sutherland’s Toyota SUV.  Sutherland was exiting I-70 onto I-135 northbound when the collision occurred. Police say Webb was not wearing a helmet, and was pronounced dead by the Chaplain at the Salina Regional Health Center.

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According to Kansas Highway Patrol reports on Friday afternoon about 4 miles south of Herington on US 56 a fatal crash took the lives of two Junction City residents. Police say a 2010 Nissan driven by 21-year-old Bryan Alfred of Junction City veered left of center and collided with 41-year-old Toby Biehler’s 2010 Chevrolet Silverado.  Alfred’s vehicle went into a ditch and overturned, Biehler’s Silverado came to a rest in the roadway. Killed in the accident were 20-year-old Amber Alfred, and 2-year-old Josiah Alfred.  Bryan Alfred and his passenger  6-year-old Keith Johnson of Junction City were  flown by Lifeteam to…

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GARDEN CITY, Kan. (AP) Kansas gambling regulators say an increasingly popular fund-raising activity is illegal in the state because gambling provisions don’t include charitable exceptions. Racing and Gaming Commission spokesman Bill Miskell told The Garden City Telegram that poker runs and charitable poker tournaments are not allowed in Kansas. That prompted the newspaper to cancel a Texas Hold `Em tournament next week that would have helped fund its Newspaper in Education Program. Several poker runs in which motorcycle riders pay an entry fee and drive to various locations to pick up playing cards have taken place in Garden City this…

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) State health officials say two people who were treated at a northwest Kansas hospital in 2010 have tested positive for a strain of hepatitis C “closely related” to a cluster of cases in New Hampshire. Kansas officials notified more than 400 former Hays Medical Center patients last month that they may have been exposed to the disease by a traveling hospital technician who’s accused of causing an outbreak in New Hampshire. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment said Friday that of 334 patients who submitted blood as of Thursday, 311 were negative for hepatitis C. Tests…

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EMPORIA, Kan. (AP) An Emporia woman has been sentenced to nearly 13 years in prison after being found guilty earlier of putting her newborn son in a trash bin. KVOE-AM reports that Lyon County District Judge Merlin Wheeler on Friday sentenced 26-year-old Christina Devine to 155 months in prison. She was convicted in July of attempted first-degree murder. Workers at an Emporia apartment complex found the 7-pound, 10-ounce baby alive in a trash bin in October 2010. Authorities said Devine’s route to the complex took her past several places where she could have left the infant. Under the Kansas law,…

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