DAYTON, Ohio (AP) Tyrone Garland led La Salle’s guard-driven offense with 22 points, and the Explorers wrapped up the NCAA tournament’s First Four by getting the better of an old-fashioned shootout, beating Boise State 80-71 on Wednesday night. The 13th-seeded Explorers (22-9) play fourth-seeded K-State on Friday. Ramon Galloway, one of the Atlantic 10’s top scorers, added 21 points in a fast-paced offense that did pretty much whatever it wanted. The Explorers shot 63 percent from the field–16 of 22 in the second half. Thirteenth-seeded Boise State (21-11) got its first at-large bid and was looking for the first…
Author: KMAN Staff
The family of a six-month-old child who died earlier this week in what has become a reported murder case is asking for financial assistance for a memorial fund. The grandmother of Dominic James Lubrano, Gina Brisby, notified KMAN Wednesday that a fund has been established at Kansas State Bank at 1010 Westloop for Lubrano. Michael DeChant, 19, was arrested in connection with the case and is charged with first degree murder. His bond has been set at one million dollars.
Palestinian militants in Gaza fired two rockets into Southern Israel on Thursday. The rockets hit far from Jerusalem, where President Obama was at the time.
Police say they have no suspects yet in the shooting death of Colorado’s top corrections official, Tom Clements, who was gunned down Tuesday night when he answered the door at his home.
President Barack Obama says the U.S. is investigating whether chemical weapons have been deployed in Syria, but he’s “deeply skeptical” of claims by Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime that rebel forces were behind such an attack.
Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke says unemployment will remain high into 2015, suggesting the Fed will keep short-term interest rates near record lows at least until then.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas House has given first-round approval to bill cutting sales and income taxes after rejecting a diversion of highway funds to stabilize the budget. The bill advanced Wednesday on an 82-37 vote, suggesting it has enough support to pass on final action expected Thursday. The legislation follows up on personal income tax cuts enacted last year by promising income tax rate reductions each year that overall state revenues grow more than 2 percent. Also, the bill allows the state sales tax to decline as scheduled in July. Originally, the bill would have diverted $382 million over…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A bizarre crash in Wichita involving a pair of empty school buses has left one man dead and two others under arrest. KAKE-TV reports the accident happened early Wednesday on the Kansas Turnpike. The Highway Patrol says one school bus was towing another southbound when the towed bus broke loose. Troopers say the driver of the first bus turned around in the southbound lanes and drove back to the other one. Other motorists tried to avoid the buses, setting off a chain-reaction crash that killed a driver identified as Donald Putnam, 60, of Wichita. Investigators believe the…
WAKEENEY, Kan. (AP) Voters in a northwest Kansas county have approved a 1 percent sales tax to help their local hospital meet expenses. The Hays Daily News reports voters in Trego County returned nearly 1,400 of the 2,100 ballots mailed out. A count Tuesday showed the tax to benefit Trego County-Lemke Memorial Hospital in WaKeeney approved with roughly 68 percent of the vote. CEO Harold Courtois says he’s pleased that residents recognized the needs of the rural hospital. He said he favored a sales tax over an increase in property taxes to raise the necessary funds. Trego County-Lemke Memorial Hospital…
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) A student at the University of Kansas has filed a lawsuit accusing a fraternity of allowing underage drinking, which he claims led to his severe head injury. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that Andrew Charles Johnson, 20, of Salina filed the lawsuit in Douglas County court against the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. Johnson claims he and other other underage fraternity members were provided unlimited access to alcohol and encouraged to drink during a 2011 party. According to Johnson, later that night another student rammed his head into a concrete wall, causing a “massive closed head injury.” The lawsuit…