A photographer captured five simultaneous waterspouts over Lake Michigan Saturday.
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The death toll of an al-Qaida suspected attack on a Yemeni intelligence headquarters rose to 20 on Saturday in the worst such attack in a year. It highlights the security challenges of the country’s new leadership.
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) Both suspects in what authorities have described as a mistaken-identity killing in Hutchinson have now had their trials postponed. Billy Joe Craig and Charles Christopher Logsdon are charged with first-degree murder in the 2011 shooting death of Jennifer Heckel. Investigators have said they believe the men planned to rob someone else and went to the wrong house. The Hutchinson News reports that a Reno County judge granted a continuance this week for Craig, who was scheduled for trial Nov. 13. No new date was immediately set. Logsdon’s trial has been rescheduled from Sept. 24 to Oct. 22.…
TRIBUNE, Kan. (AP) A western Kansas man is injured after crashing his fixed-wing airplane into a Greeley County cornfield. The Garden City Telegram reports 52-year-old A.B. Smith of Sharon Springs was flying the single-engine Cessna at 10:38 a.m. Friday when he lost control of the plane when banking to turn. The Kansas Highway Patrol says Smith was able to straighten out the plane and crash landed in a field near Tribune. It came to rest on its landing gear in an upright position. Smith was taken to Greeley County Hospital, which declined to release information about his condition late Friday.…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) A former Wyandotte County deputy will be required to register as a sex offender after being placed on three years of probation for having sex with a female inmate. The Kansas City Star reports 25-year-old Robert Saladrigas also will have to complete a sexual offender treatment program as a condition of his probation. Saladrigas pleaded guilty in June to one felony count of unlawful sexual relations. He was sentenced Friday in Wyandotte County District Court. His attorney called the crime, which happened in early May, a “horrible lapse of judgment” for which Saladrigas was remorseful. Saladrigas…
A Junction City man has been arrested on first-degree murder and aggravated battery charges in connection with an early morning shooting at a National Guard armory. Police say Sterling Hickman, 33, was taken into custody at noon Saturday. He is accused of killing 25-year-old Antonio Maxwell and shooting 30-year-old Jamaica Chism, both of Junction City. Police say the shooting happened at 3:51 a.m. Saturday at the armory, which had been rented out for an event that started at midnight and ended at 3 a.m. Maxwell was pronounced dead at Geary Community Hospital. Chism was taken to a Topeka hospital, but no…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Mike Moustakas hit a three-run shot and the Kansas City Royals beat the Chicago White Sox 9-4 on Saturday night, overcoming Adam Dunn’s 400th career homer. Moustakas connected in the eighth and drove in four runs for the Royals, who have won four of five. Alcides Escobar had four infield singles, scored three runs and had his team-leading 24th steal. Chicago trailed 5-2 before Dunn drove a 2-2 pitch from Tim Collins over the wall in left-center in the eighth. Kevin Youkilis, who singled with one out for his 1,000th career hit, was aboard for Dunn’s…
ST. LOUIS (AP) Sam Bradford threw touchdown passes on his first two drives, and the St. Louis Rams made improvements on the other side of the ball in a 31-17 preseason victory over the Kansas City Chiefs in the annual Governor’s Cup game on Saturday night. Lance Kendricks and Danny Amendola scored on catches of 23 and 8 yards, and Steven Jackson ran for 49 yards on seven carries in a 151-yard first quarter that handed the backups a two-touchdown cushion. The Rams (1-1) totaled 215 yards in a 38-3 loss last week at Indianapolis. Bradford was 6 for 9…
American endurance swimmer Diana Nyad has begun her third attempt in less than a year to traverse the 103 miles of sea between Cuba and Florida.
Southern California is No. 1 in the AP Top 25, tossing off the weight of NCAA sanctions and returning to a familiar place in the rankings, with a boost from LSU’s problems.