TORONTO (AP) Adam Lind hit a three-run homer, Brett Cecil won for the first time in three starts and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Kansas City Royals 6-3 on Tuesday night. Lind’s sixth homer was the big blow in Toronto’s six-run fourth inning. The win put the Blue Jays over .500 at 41-40 at the midpoint of the season. The Royals lost for the fourth time in five games since matching their season high with a four-game winning streak. Cecil (2-1) allowed three runs and five hits in six-plus innings to win for the first time since June 17…
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LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) Texas Tech has suspended wide receiver Darrin Scott Moore from the football team after his April arrest on a drunken-driving charge. Athletic department spokesman Blayne Beal confirmed to The Associated Press on Tuesday reports of Moore’s suspension. The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal reports police reports show Moore was arrested April 13 after a Lubbock police officer observed him driving erratically. He remains free on $1,000 bond. The newspaper reports repeated calls to Moore’s attorney, Jill Stangl, weren’t returned Tuesday. An email to Stangl from the AP also drew no immediate response. Moore, a senior, caught 47 passes for 571…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Logos are being painted, temporary seating is going up and Kauffman Stadium is starting to be transformed into Major League Baseball’s vision of an All-Star Game venue. Crews were working feverishly Tuesday to prepare the home of the Kansas City Royals for the annual Midsummer Classic, and doing it under sweltering conditions temperatures were once again tickling triple digits. The All-Star Game is scheduled for July 10. The stadium must be ready by this weekend, though, when the Futures Game and a celebrity softball game will be played. The Home Run Derby is Monday…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) The NFL has denied the appeals of four players suspended in connection with the league’s bounty investigation of the New Orleans Saints. In his latest ruling handed down on Tuesday, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell tells Jonathan Vilma, Anthony Hargrove, Will Smith and Scott Fujita that each of them is still welcome to meet with him to give their side of the story, and that he reserves the right to reduce the suspensions should new information be brought forth. Goodell says he did not take his initial decision lightly. He also points out that although players have…
DENVER (AP) The U.S. Olympic Committee will not bid for the 2022 Winter Games, but instead explore possible bids for either the 2024 Summer or 2026 Winter Olympics. In a meeting Tuesday, the USOC board decided to hold off on bidding for the next available Olympics because going for the 2022 Games would put the federation on a fast timeline. A bid for those games would be due in the fall of 2013. Last week, an exploratory committee in Denver recommended the city move forward on plans for a 2022 bid. Earlier this year, the USOC removed a major…
The Pottawatomie County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a reported arson that occurred at the city park in Belvue on June 29th around 6:52 p.m. Deputies responded to the report of a loud explosion in the area of the city park. When the Deputies arrived, they found the mens rest-room had been damaged by an apparent explosion. The damage is estimated to be $400. A witnesses described a vehicle of interest leaving the area as a white or cream colored newer passenger car with two male juveniles. Anyone with information regarding this or any other crime are urged to contact the…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Six men have been arrested in connection with an early morning brawl at a Sedgwick County lake that sent three people to the hospital with serious injuries. The Wichita Eagle reports the arrested men range in age from 18 to 25 years old. The Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office says more than a dozen people took part in the brawl that started after 2 a.m. Tuesday at a campground on the southeast side of Lake Afton. Six people were hurt, including three of them seriously. Two men were taken to Via Christi Hospital and a woman was taken…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) A second former Kansas City, Kan., police officer has been sentenced to federal prison for stealing electronics from houses where his special unit served search warrants. U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom says 34-year-old Jeffrey M. Bell was sentenced Tuesday to eight months behind bars for violating a federal civil rights law. He and two other members of the Police Department’s Selective Crime Occurrence Reduction Enforcement Unit were charged after a sting operation in January 2011. Thirty-two-year-old Darrell M. Forrest was sentenced last month to 12 months and a day in prison, and 34-year-old Dustin Sillings is to…
GREENSBURG, Kan. (AP) A southwestern Kansas family has lost a beloved pet, but it should be easy to spot. After all, how many 130-pound tortoises could be on the loose in the area at one time? Tony Lowery tells KWCH-TV that Leona an African sulcata tortoise and her male partner Puck broke out of their enclosure near Greensburg about a week ago. Puck turned up quickly, but Leona remains on the run. The tortoises were about the size of hockey pucks when the family got them nearly 20 years ago. The African sulcata is one of the largest species of…
EMPORIA, Kan. (AP) An eastern Kansas woman has been found guilty of trying to kill her newborn son by putting him in a bag and leaving it in the trash. KVOE-AM reports a jury deliberated about six hours Monday before convicting 26-year-old Emporia resident Christina Devine of attempted first-degree murder. Devine was charged after maintenance workers at an apartment complex found the 7-pound, 10-ounce baby alive in the trash in October 2010. Authorities said Devine’s route to the apartment complex took her past several places where she could have left her son, including Emporia’s police and fire stations. Devine will…