(Courtesy K-State Sports Information) Nine national television games, including Big Monday tilts with Kansas and West Virginia, highlight the Big 12 Conference portion of the Kansas State men’s basketball released on Thursday by league officials. For the second year in a row, Big 12 teams will play an 18-game round-robin schedule, while welcoming conference newcomers TCU and West Virginia to the fold. The Wildcats, who are coming off their sixth consecutive 20-win season and 26th NCAA Tournament appearance in 2011-12, will play home-and-home contests with all nine conference foes for just the second time since the Big Eight era. In…
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BALTIMORE (AP) Billy Butler came within a single of hitting for the cycle, and the Kansas City Royals beat Baltimore 8-2 on Thursday night to end the Orioles’ five-game winning streak and take the luster off Manny Machado’s impressive major league debut. Butler homered in a four-run first inning, doubled in the third and tripled in the fifth. Needing only a single to become the first Kansas City player to complete the cycle since George Brett in 1990, Butler struck out in the seventh and again the ninth. He did, however, finish with three RBIs and scored three runs. …
The U.S. women’s soccer team won its third straight Olympic gold medal Thursday, beating Japan 2-1 in a rematch of last year’s World Cup final and avenging the most painful loss in its history.
The Curiosity rover has returned another postcard from Mars, the first 360-degree color view from Gale Crater.
COLBY, Kan. (AP) Authorities are trying to identify a man who was arrested after leading officers on a 72-mile chase through northwestern Kansas. The Colby Free Press reports the chase started Thursday morning after a state trooper tried to stop the man on Interstate 70 about 25 miles west of Colby. The driver dodged traffic spikes as he led officers on several highways between Colby and Oakley at speeds that reached 130 mph. Authorities said the man briefly drove along railroad tracks in Colby and onto a street where he became boxed in by trees. He abandoned the car and…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Two candidates separated by eight votes in a Republican primary for a Kansas House seat aren’t sure they’ll ask for a recount after the results become official. Incumbent Carl Dean Holmes and challenger Reid Petty, both from Liberal, said Thursday they’re uncertain about a recount because most votes in Seward County are cast using an electronic touch-screen system. They said they expect the count of votes recorded electronically to be accurate and don’t think it would change in a recount. Initially, results showed Petty ahead in the race by seven votes, 873 to 876. But figures posted…
FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) A fourth bust has been added to the Buffalo Soldier monument at Fort Leavenworth. The unveiling of the bust came during a celebration Wednesday of the 20th anniversary of the original dedication of the monument, which honors the first all-black peacetime unit in the U.S. Army. The bust added Wednesday depicts the 10th Cavalry’s longtime commander, Brig. Gen. Benjamin Grierson. Although Grierson was white, he was an advocate for his black soldiers throughout his 22 years commanding the 10th Cavalry. The soldiers were often given the worst equipment and faced serious prejudice from white soldiers. The…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A Topeka man ended his murder trial by pleading to a lesser charge in the shooting death of a neighbor. Thirty-one-year-old LaVance W. Thompson pleaded guilty Wednesday to voluntary manslaughter in the death of 36-year-old James Sanders. The plea came on the third day of Thompson’s trial on a first-degree murder charge. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports prosecution and defense attorneys agreed to recommend a sentence of eight years and six months. Sanders died after being shot on Christmas Day 2011 at a Topeka apartment. Thompson was captured Dec. 27 in Independence, Mo. Prosecutors say the shooting came…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Fire officials say one person died after a fire at a south Topeka motel. The name of the victim in Wednesday night’s fire at the Travelers Inn has not been released. Fire department officials say when crews arrived, they found light smoke coming from the victim’s room. The fire had extinguished itself by then. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the man’s death is being listed as a fire fatality. A preliminary investigation found the fire started on or near the bed in the man’s room. Foul play is not suspected. The fire caused an estimated $5,500 loss to…
HOLCOMB, Kan. (AP) Holcomb city officials have decided to allow liquor sales in the Finney County town on Sundays. The city council’s voted on Wednesday to allow Sunday sales, after a request from the owner of the town’s only liquor store. Liquor sales will be allowed from noon to 6 p.m. on Sundays. The Garden City Telegram reports the owner of Premier Liquors, Frank Hembree, has said he loses business on Sundays to liquor stores in nearby Deerfield, where Sunday sales are allowed. Before 2005, Kansas banned all Sunday alcohol sales. The law was changed to allow municipalities and counties…