In 11 seasons, Lori Martini led the Manhattan High volleyball team to nine state tournaments including the 2003 6A crown. She stepped down following the 2010 campaign, and coached club volleyball in the meantime, but is now back on the sideline at Riley County. Martini coached the Falcons for four years before coming to MHS, including two seasons as head coach. She says she’s excited to be at Riley County, because the high school season has a few advantages over club ball. That includes being able to practice on a consistent basis, so the team can work on areas it…
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Will Smith pitched seven strong innings, Chris Getz doubled home the go-ahead run and the Kansas City Royals defeated the Oakland Athletics 3-2 on Wednesday night. Smith (4-4), a 23-year-old rookie left-hander, limited the A’s to two runs and five hits, while striking out five and walking one. With two outs in the seventh, Eric Hosmer, Lorenzo Cain and Getz hit consecutive doubles, the first Kansas City extra-base hits of the game. Cain, who was in a 2-for-24 skid, doubled home Hosmer to tie the score. Left-handed reliever Sean Doolittle was brought in to face…
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (AP) Peering through heavy rain, Dexter McCluster backpedaled to catch the punt, cut left and sprinted a Kansas City team-record 94 yards for a touchdown to spark a season-opening victory over San Diego in 2010 that led to the AFC West championship. That’s the last time the Chiefs returned a punt for a touchdown. Nearly two years. Even worse for the Chiefs, it’s going on three years since anybody ran a kickoff all the way back to the end zone. Not surprisingly, special teams coach Steve Hoffman lost his job and his replacement, Tom McMahon, has…
The Manhattan Ogden school board had a lot to go over at their meeting on Wednesday night. The board started off with the public hearing for the budget. There were no comments made by the public, so the meeting moved forward to the regular business items. Construction began with three change orders. All three passed with a 6-0 vote. The went to reports as some schools are finishing up with construction and teachers are getting back into the classrooms before classes begin next week. The group from Adolfson & Peterson were there to give the good news that the high…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A former employee of the Kansas attorney general’s office is charged with a misdemeanor following a prostitution sting in Topeka. Online court records show Steve Rarrick charged in Shawnee County District Court with one count of patronizing a prostitute. The Topeka Capital-Journal reported Wednesday that Rarrick was one of 12 people arrested in the sting, which focused on Internet solicitations of prostitutes. A call to Rarrick’s home was unanswered Wednesday. His attorney did not return a call seeking comment. Rarrick is currently an attorney for the Citizens’ Utility Ratepayers Board, which represents residential customers and small businesses…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The main organizer of a three-day Christian workshop says he’s moved the event out of the Kansas House chamber because he needs more space. The Thursday-through-Sunday event will be held instead at the Topeka Performing Arts Center, several blocks from the Statehouse. Dave DePue said Wednesday that 180 people want to attend the $100-per-person workshop for pastors and other church leaders. The House chamber at the Statehouse has space for 150. The workshop is described as a beginner’s course in preparing for a transforming revival. It includes evening sessions Thursday and Friday and an all-day session Saturday.…
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) The group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is objecting to restrictions on its exhibit next month at the Kansas State Fair, saying they amount to unconstitutional censorship. Fair officials say any videos or pictures of animals being decapitated, dismembered or butchered must not be readily visible outside PETA’s booth, so that fairgoers will have to make a conscious choice to view the material. PETA calls that a content-based restraint. It says the fair is a public forum and cannot restrict viewpoints. Fair general manager Denny Stoecklein responded Wednesday that the fair “supports Kansas agriculture and…
HAYS, Kan. (AP) A man convicted in the unprovoked shooting of a Kansas Highway Patrol trooper has been sentenced to more than six years in prison. The Hays Daily News reports Trooper Doug Schulte attended the sentencing Tuesday of Ruben Herrera Escobedo. Schulte urged the judge to order Escobedo to serve consecutive terms of 59 months for aggravated battery and 18 months for aggravated assault. Escobedo was initially charged with attempted premeditated first-degree murder in the January 2011 shooting. He later pleaded no contest to the lesser charges. Schulte described in court how he approached Escobedo’s pickup truck after a…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Members of the Kansas Board of Regents are at their annual three-day retreat in southeast Kansas to discuss board priorities for the upcoming legislative session. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that the regents are at Flint Oak, a hunting and fishing resort outside Fall River. New Regents Chairman Tim Emert of Independence says given the tight budget constraints, he hopes higher education can get targeted funding that both Gov. Sam Brownback and lawmakers can approve. The board on Thursday will hear from former University of Kansas Provost David Shulenburger, a senior fellow at the Association of Public Land-grant…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A disabled Army veteran who lost his service dog near Wichita earlier this month has a new companion and an obedience instructor willing to train it. The Wichita Eagle reports Randy Newell of Marion found his new dog last week at the Kansas Humane Society in Wichita. It’s a 4-year-old chow-shepherd mix named Arnie. Newell lost his legs when an improvised bomb exploded in Afghanistan in 2008. His service dog, a Doberman named Red, disappeared Aug. 3 while he was washing his pickup truck in Park City. Its body was found a few hours later on Interstate…