DETROIT (AP) Jhonny Peralta brought home the go-ahead run when Andy Dirks’ hard slide broke up a potential inning-ending double play in the eighth inning and the Detroit Tigers beat the Kansas City Royals 5-4 Wednesday night. Triple Crown candidate Miguel Cabrera was robbed of a tiebreaking homer in the fifth inning by Alex Gordon’s catch above the left-field wall. Detroit, which started the day tied with the Chicago White Sox atop the AL Central for the first time since Sept. 2, found a way to break through the eighth, though. It looked as if the Royals were going to…
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An Iranian diplomat was escorted from a street by police Wednesday after he was surrounded and threatened by an angry group of protesters near the United Nations.
The NFL and the referees’ union have reached a tentative contract agreement, ending an impasse that began in June when the league locked out the officials and used replacements instead.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) The daughter of an 88-year-old Wichita woman whose home was burglarized is hoping to recover just one stolen item: a box containing the ashes of the woman’s late husband. The Wichita Eagle reports the break-in occurred Sunday morning while the widow was at church. Her daughter, J.E. Kelly, told the newspaper Wednesday the stolen items included money, jewelry and gold-colored etched metal box containing the ashes. Kelly says her mother planned to be buried someday with her husband’s ashes. They’re worried now that whoever has the box will open it, realize what’s inside and throw it away.…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Koch Industries and the Fred and Mary Koch Foundation are donating a total of $814,000 to the Kansas State University Office of Diversity. The Wichita Eagle reports that the donation includes a combined gift of $514,000 to increase enrollment of multicultural students in the university’s business administration and engineering schools. Koch Industries has also pledged $300,000 for future scholarships to promote diversity. Koch spokeswoman Susan Addington says the company and foundation are committed to education and promoting an educated, diverse workforce.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) Two Kansas women are recovering from transplants they received using parts of the same liver. Surgeons at the University of Kansas Hospital transplanted the divided liver into the two women last week. They split the liver because it was too large to fit into the women. The Kansas City Star reports one of the women, Pamela Lawson of Salina, feared she would not get a liver because she is 64 years old. She never hesitated when surgeons suggested the split-liver procedure and was recovering Tuesday at the hospital. The second recipient did not wish to be…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The new Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission plans to apply for federal funding that would replace some money lost last year when the state’s art commission lost funding. The commission says it will apply for National Endowment for the Arts funding. However, Sen. Jean Schodorf of Wichita is skeptical the state will get much money from the NEA this year. Before Gov. Sam Brownback defunded the arts commission last year, Kansas received about $1.2 million in arts money from the NEA and Mid-American Arts Alliance. It spent about $700,000 a year on the arts. The Wichita Eagle…
SALINA, Kan. (AP) Construction of a high-voltage transmission power line in western Kansas is expected to be completed by November, six months ahead of schedule. ITC Holdings says the line it is building from Spearville to the Nebraska border will be running by the end of the year. It also is expected to be under budget. The Salina Journal reports the transmission line will connect another transmission line running from Axtell, Neb., to the Kansas border. And ITC spokesman Joe Kirik says the Spearville-to-Axtell transmission line will be connected to a new line called the V-Plan, which will run from…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Topeka City Council members have received thousands of emails urging the city to move two elephants from the city’s zoo to an animal sanctuary in Tennessee. Councilman Chad Manspeaker told The Topeka Capital-Journal Tuesday that each council member received more than 4,000 emails on the subject since Friday. He says nearly all the emails come from outside Topeka and are linked to an Internet website petition urging the public to support retiring the elephants to The Elephant Sanctuary in Hohenwald, Tenn. Critics say the zoo does not provide enough space, causing the elephants physical and emotional harm.…
ABILENE, Kan. (AP) A new exhibit that has been growing at the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum will soon be open to the public outside the president’s boyhood home. The “Eisenhower Garden” opens Monday with a reception to coincide with National 4-H Week. Members of the Living History 4-H Project will host the reception. The garden is located near the Eisenhower Boyhood Home on the grounds of the complex in Abilene. It has been developed over the past two years by Dickinson County 4-H members. The focus of the exhibit is to highlight the Eisenhower family and their…