WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Families of former cadets suing a Kansas military school for alleged abuse are fighting the academy’s effort to bar distribution of a video showing a student with two broken legs. St. John’s Military School in Salina sought a protective order last week after The Associated Press requested comment on the cellphone video clip. But in a response filed Wednesday in federal court, the families said the issue is moot because The AP has already distributed a story containing the video. The school contends that it’s trying to protect students’ privacy rights. The plaintiffs countered that St. John’s…
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) Big 12 player of the year Josh Ludy hit two home runs and drove in six runs to lead top-seeded Baylor to an 11-1 victory against Kansas State in the conference tournament. Ludy connected for a two-run shot in the fourth inning and a three-run home run in the fifth, both to left field. He then drew a bases-loaded walk in the sixth on Wednesday. The game ended because of the mercy rule after seven innings. Nathan Orf doubled, singled twice and drove in two runs for Baylor (43-12), which will face No. 4 seed Oklahoma…
NEW YORK (AP) Alex Rodriguez gave Will Smith a rude welcome to the major leagues Wednesday night, hitting two homers off the rookie to back another strong start for Andy Pettitte and lead the New York Yankees over the Kansas City Royals 8-3. A-Rod snapped a 52 at-bat homereless drought and drove in three runs for New York. Curtis Granderson also connected off Smith and the Yankees scored three times in the fifth with help from some inept relief pitching from Luis Mendoza. Derek Jeter had three hits to tie Paul Waner for 15th with 3,152. Before the Jeter…
Big band music wafted through the air Wednesday night at the Premier of the Movie Memorial Day. The red carpet affair started at the K-State campus Dog Tags Memorial, and then moved on into McCain Theater for the main movie event. Memorial Day director Sam Fischer says the initial idea for the movie came from a footlocker full of World War II memoribilia found in a house that was about to be demolished. The stories from the man who left the locker were never going to be told. The movie features Oscar nominated James Cromwell, and his son John Cromwell. James Cromwell plays a grandfather whose…
Tobias Schlingensiepen (D) – community leader and pastor of Topeka’s First Congregational Church – announced Tuesday he is forming a committee to run for the United States House of Representatives in Kansas’s 2nd Congressional District. “After talking with many people around the 2nd Congressional District and thoughtful deliberation with my wife and children, I have decided to form a committee to run for the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2nd District.” “We have important business here in Kansas and throughout our nation that requires a spirit of hard work and compromise that is currently absent in Washington. I have heard over…
State Representative Sydney Carlin of Manhattan has filed for re-election to continue representing the 66th district. Carlin says her passion is to help the community and that is why she filed for re-election. Carlin continues by explaining there is still so much to do in Topeka. Carlin has served since 2003.
FORT RILEY, Kan. (AP) A member of the World War II Army unit memorialized in the book and HBO miniseries “Band of Brothers” has paid a visit to Fort Riley. Eighty-nine-year-old retired Staff Sgt. Earl McClung stopped at the northeastern Kansas post Wednesday to meet wounded soldiers at the Warrior Transition Battalion complex. McClung, who now lives in Colorado, served with E Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. Members of Easy Company parachuted into France on D-Day, fought through the Battle of the Bulge and reached Adolf Hitler’s Eagle Nest retreat. WIBW-TV reports McClung talked to the wounded…
PRINCETON, Kan. (AP) There’s an art to stealing an ATM, and whoever made off with one of the cash machines outside an eastern Kansas bank apparently was no artist. The Ottawa Herald reports that Franklin County sheriff’s officers responded early Sunday to an alarm at Patriots Bank in the small town of Princeton. Deputies arrived to see an ATM missing from its place outside the bank and being pushed slowly along a street by a pickup truck. The driver abandoned the cash machine and sped off, then crashed the truck and ran away. Officers recovered the ATM and the cash.…