KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) The Royals have hired Doug Henry to be their bullpen coach next season. Henry served as the interim bullpen coach the final two weeks of last season. He takes over on a permanent basis for Steve Foster, who was appointed the club’s minor league pitching coordinator and special assistant to general manager Dayton Moore on Aug. 31. Henry has been part of the Royals organization since 2008, primarily with Triple-A Omaha. The Royals are still searching for a new hitting coach after choosing not to renew the contract of Kevin Seitzer last week. Manager Ned…
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CONCORD, N.C. (AP) Dale Earnhardt Jr. has a concussion and will sit out the next two Sprint Cup races at Charlotte and Kansas. The injury ends NASCAR’s most popular driver’s championship chances this season. Hendrick Motorsports says Earnhardt Jr. was diagnosed Wednesday afternoon. He sustained the concussion in the 25-car pileup on the last lap of Sunday’s race at Talladega. Regan Smith will replace Earnhardt Jr. in the No. 88 Chevrolet in the next two events.
GYPSUM, Kan. (AP) A bank robbery suspect has been captured in central Kansas after a chase that ended with him exchanging gunfire with a trooper. The Kansas Highway Patrol says the chase started Tuesday night in Saline County. After the suspect crashed his vehicle near the town of Gypsum, he and the trooper pursuing him fired their weapons. The suspect then fled on foot. He was caught later in the evening after a search that involved aircraft, police dogs and multiple law enforcement agencies. Authorities suspect that earlier Tuesday, the man walked into the First Bank of Chase, showed a…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) A 53-year-old Leavenworth woman has pleaded guilty to federal bank fraud charges. The U.S. Attorney’s office for western Missouri says in a release Wednesday that Paula A. Cathey pleaded guilty to 15 counts of bank fraud. She is accused of embezzling more than $561,000 from her Kansas City employer, Mega Industries Corp., a highway and general contractor construction company. Cathey worked as controller for the company from 1997 through March 2011. In her plea, she admitted that she embezzled the money by depositing company checks in her personal bank account. The prosecutor’s office said Cathey used…
HazMat responded to Manhattan High School East Campus Wednesday. USD 383 officials indicate a student accidentally broke a thermometer that contained mercury. A small amount of the mercury spilled onto a table and the floor. The Manhattan Fire Department Haz-Mat team were called and responded to the incident. Communications Coordinator Michele Jones says the mercury reading in the room was well below the acceptable level for mercury. All students and adults that were in that room during first and second hours were isolated and readings were done on their shoes. All shoes were also found to be well below the acceptable level…
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) Suspended TCU quarterback Casey Pachall is leaving school for the rest of the semester and enrolling at an inpatient rehabilitation facility. Coach Gary Patterson made the announcement Tuesday, five days after the junior starter was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving near campus. That came eight months after Pachall admitted to police that he smoked marijuana and failed a team-administered drug test. Patterson said most of the inpatient programs like the one Pachall will enter are 30 to 60 days. The coach said that keeps the door open for Pachall re-enrolling at TCU next…
– Manhattan High volleyball lost to Washburn Rural 25-21, 25-19. – Rock Creek volleyball swept a pair of matches from Rossville, 25-17, 25-17 and 25-18, 25-23. – Riley County volleyball took both matches from St. Marys 25-14, 28-26 and 25-17, 25-18. – Frankfort volleyball defeated Linn 25-21, 17-25, 25-18. – Wichita Northwest scored three second half goals to beat Manhattan High boys soccer 4-3 at Anneberg Park.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Sports fans in Kansas City are back in the national spotlight. Once again, it’s a glaring one. The latest flashpoint occurred Sunday, when Chiefs offensive lineman Eric Winston laid into a small percentage of Chiefs fans who cheered when struggling quarterback Matt Cassel suffered a concussion in the fourth quarter of a 9-6 loss to the Baltimore Ravens. Winston called the cheering fans “sickening,” and his locker-room diatribe went viral, picked up by everyone from ESPN to “Good Morning America.” It’s left the city with a black eye, and has served as the impetus for…
The number of people sickened by a deadly meningitis outbreak has now reached 119 cases, including 11 deaths.
The State Department said Tuesday it never concluded that the consulate attack in Libya stemmed from protests over an American-made video ridiculing Islam.