KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Billy Butler greeted reliever Burke Badenhop with a solo home run in the eighth inning, powering Kansas City to a 5-4 victory on a scorching Wednesday afternoon and a three-game sweep of the Tampa Bay Rays. Mike Moustakas and Alcides Escobar also homered for the Royals, who got their first three-game home sweep of the Rays since 2001. Aaron Crow (1-1), the fifth Royals pitcher, was the winner after getting two outs in the eighth and Jonathan Broxton pitched the ninth for his 19th save in 22 opportunities. Badenhop (1-2) recorded only one out after…
Author: KMAN Staff
The Manhattan Ogden school board meeting had a few discussion items, but mostly they passed action items and moved on. There were five items for the board to consisder in leu of construction. All matters passed the board unanimously with limited discussion. The board also passed the year-end budget transfer with a 5-0 vote. The board members also made their interests known as to whether they want to be considered for board officer position. Board Vice Presdient Dave Colburn asked for consideration for President and Board Member Curt Herrman asked for the postion of Vice President. The board’s next meeting will…
There have been two confirmed cases of pertussis, or whooping cough, in school aged children in Riley County, according to the Riley County Health Department and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. There are also five additional cases in Riley County that are under investigation. Whooping cough is a bacterial disease that is easily transmitted from person to person. It spread through the air during talking, sneezing or coughing. It can be a very serious illness, especially for young infants. During the first couple of weeks, persons with whooping cough may only experience a runny nose and non-productive cough,…
About 30 cars of a coal train have gone off the tracks near Junction City in northeastern Kansas. The accident occurred around 5 p.m. on Wednesday. Union Pacific Crews worked into the evening doing clean up operations, and there were no injuries reported.
HILL CITY, Kan. (AP) Blistering heat is helping Hill City get a national reputation. The western Kansas town hit 115 degrees on Wednesday a day after hitting the same mark to earn the distinction of recording the nation’s highest temperature, according to the National Weather Service. Tuesday’s reading was also a new record for that date in the town. Numerous Kansas communities are shattering records for high temperatures this week as an intense heat wave bears down. Farmers fear they’re losing valuable corn crops to the heat, and emergency management officials are urging residents to take extreme caution and avoid…
COLUMBUS, Kan. (AP) A southeast Kansas jail inmate who walked away from a work detail is back behind bars and facing new charges. The Cherokee County sheriff’s department says a tip led authorities Tuesday night to an apartment in Pittsburg, where they found Jimmy Dale Sluder hiding in a bathroom. The Pittsburg man fled the Cherokee County Jail early Sunday while taking out trash. He’d been held since April on theft-related charges. The Cherokee County News-Advocated reports that Sluder is suspected of burglarizing a Columbus home Tuesday before his capture. Authorities say the homeowner was tied up after walking in…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) A former northeastern Kansas police officer is going to prison for stealing electronics from homes where he and his team were serving search warrants. The U.S. Attorney’s office says 32-year-old Darrell Forrest was sentenced Wednesday to a year and a day behind bars, followed by a year of supervised release. Forrest was part of a special unit of the Kansas City, Kan., Police Department that served search warrants. Two other members of the unit will be sentenced next month, also for stealing from homes. Forrest pleaded guilty earlier, admitting he stole a digital camcorder from a…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback and his fellow Republicans are hoping the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday will strike down the 2010 federal health care law. That hope is why Kansas has not begun implementing a key provision requiring states to set up online health insurance exchanges by 2014. The federal government could create and run such exchanges if states fail to do so. Republican legislators in Kansas said Wednesday they didn’t want to start work on an exchange amid uncertainty surrounding the federal law.
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) A University of Kansas plant research program is losing funding from an organization backed by the Kansas Bioscience Authority. The university’s Native Medicinal Plant Research Program had received $5 million over five years from Heartland Plant Innovations, one of the KBA’s centers of innovation. Barbara Timmermann, a chemistry professor who leads the plant research program, said the HPI funding will end after June, after only about half of the original funding commitment had been awarded. Timmermann said she wasn’t given a reason for the cuts. HPI officials said they had to make cuts because they’ve received fewer…