KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Pablo Sandoval and Melky Cabrera keyed a five-run blitz against Justin Verlander in the first inning Tuesday night, and the National League romped to an 8-0 win over the American League and its third straight All-Star game victory. Giants teammate Matt Cain started a strong NL pitching performance, combining with 10 relievers on a six-hitter that extended the American League’s scoreless streak to 14 innings its longest since 1995-97. Sandoval hit the first bases-loaded triple in an All-Star game, and Ryan Braun and Dan Uggla also drove in runs against Verlander, who couldn’t control…
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig and union head Michael Weiner expressed disappointment that the Yankees’ Robinson Cano was booed repeatedly by fans at the All-Star Home Run Derby after bypassing Billy Butler of the hometown Kansas City Royals. Robinson, the AL captain for the derby, picked Detroit’s Prince Fielder, Toronto’s Jose Bautista and the Los Angeles Angels’ Mark Trumbo for Monday night’s event, which Fielder won. “Robinson Cano certainly picked people he thought should be on there,” Selig told the Baseball Writers’ Association of American on Tuesday. “While I understand Kansas City and I understand the…
A freight train derailment and explosion in Columbus, Ohio, has authorities evacuating a mile-wide area of the city as they try to contain the blaze and determine what’s burning.
San Francisco sluggers Pablo Sandoval and Melky Cabrera keyed a five-run blitz against Justin Verlander in the first inning that sent the National League to an 8-0 romp over the American League on Tuesday night.
The budget talks continued at last night’s Manhattan City Commission meeting, starting with a second round of agencies requesting funding and branching out into a wide variety of discussions. One topic that dominated the evening was the mill levy, and how best to achieve a flat mill levy in 2013. The Commission was presented with a wide variety of options to lessen the mill levy, and the chosen options include five percent cuts to funding for many social services, an additional one percent sales tax, and lowering the RCPD’s delinquency rate.
Between 2:45 and 3:00 pm on Tuesday, July 10, a semi tractor trailer exploded near Junction City. According to Lt. Greg Harkrader with the Kansas Highway Patrol, a K-Dot contract crew was doing some line painting along the westbound right shoulder on I-70 near mile marker 306, when a westbound semi tractor trailer struck the vehicle. The tractor trailor vered left and went off into the medium, where is became engulfed in flames and eventually one of the diesel tanks exploded. The driver of the tractor trailer and his 7-year-old daughter were both able to escape without injuries. The tractor trailor…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas State Board of Education is requesting an additional $450 million in state spending on public schools for the 2014 state budget cycle. Board members voted 7-2 on Tuesday to submit the request to Republican Gov. Sam Brownback and the GOP-controlled Legislature. The request covers education expenses for the 2013-14 school year. Members say they felt they had to ask legislators to increase education spending, including increasing the base state aid per pupil to $4,492, up from the $3,838 that districts now receive. The increase represents $440.1 million of the board’s request. The request includes identifying…
KINGMAN, Kan. (AP) The trial of a former Kansas law enforcement instructor accused of killing his wife has been delayed until December. Brett Seacat, a former Sedgwick County sheriff’s deputy, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of his wife, Vashti, at their Kingman home in 2011. Seacat is also charged with aggravated arson and two counts of endangering a child. Prosecutors allege Seacat shot his wife and set the house on fire. Brett Seacat and the couple’s two young sons escaped. Seacat pleaded not guilty to the charges. His attorneys say Vashti Seacat set the fire and took…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Shawnee County officials estimate it will cost about $50,000 to rid an area lake of a troublesome invasive plant. John Knight, Shawnee County parks and recreation director, says the plant, called Eurasian Watermilfoil, has been spreading at Lake Shawnee and can cause a dense surface canopy that interferes with swimming, fishing and boating at the lake. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the Shawnee County Commission on Thursday will consider Knight’s recent request for the county to solicit bids to treat the lake for the plant species. He says the department’s budget has the necessary funds. Knight says…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has named a new district court judge for the Topeka area. Brownback’s office announced Tuesday that Carl William Ossmann, the chief litigation attorney for one of the state’s social services agencies, will fill a judicial vacancy in Shawnee County. Ossmann will replace the late District Judge Charles Andrews, who retired in March and died recently after battling cancer. Ossmann is an attorney for the Department for Aging and Disability Services. He also is a former first assistant Shawnee County district attorney and has been an adjunct professor at Washburn University’s law school since…