Derek Francis threw a one-hit complete game shutout, leading Manhattan High to the 6A state tournament with an 8-0 victory over Junction City in the regional finals on Wednesday night. The Indians beat Topeka High 8-2 in the semifinal round, and were led offensively by Chris Turner, who had six RBI’s in the two games. MHS missed out on the state tournament a year ago with a narrow loss to Lawrence, and are back in Lawrence after a berth in 2010. 6A state tournament pairings will be released after two more regional finals are played Thursday. But, Manhattan High will…
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Adam Jones homered with one out in the 15th inning, lifting the Baltimore Orioles to a 4-3 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Wednesday night. Jones was hitless in six at-bats before connecting for his team-leading 12th home run nine of them tying the game or giving the Orioles a lead. Jones sent a 2-2 pitch from Nate Adcock (0-1), the fifth Kansas City pitcher, far over the left field wall. The Orioles improved to 5-0 in extra-inning road games. Kevin Gregg (1-1) pitched two hitless innings, walking one, to pick up the victory. Jim…
Unemployment numbers are down in the Manhattan area, with a metro area number of five percent for April of this year. That compares to 5.8 percent in March and 5.2 percent in april of last year. The metro area includes Riley, Pottawatomie and Geary counties. The Manhattan metro area continues to have the lowest unemployment rate when compared to other metro areas in the state. The next lowest was Lawrence metro including Douglas county with 5.2 percent. The city of Manhattan had a 4.2 percent rate, also down from five percent the month before and 4.4 percent last year. The…
Hundreds of Soldiers from the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, are set to depart for Afghanistan next week. Col. Joseph Wawro and Command Sgt. Maj. Wiley Hutchison, the brigade’s commander and senior noncommissioned officer, cased its colors last month in preparation for its first deployment to Afghanistan. The “Dragon” Brigade has deployed to Iraq twice. The brigade will serve under the “Big Red One” headquarters in Regional Command-East. The first “Dragon” Soldiers departed Kansas for Afghanistan late April.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has signed a proclamation apologizing to African-American citizens for the years of state-sanctioned segregation. Brownback signed the proclamation Thursday, the 58th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the case of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education. The 1954 ruling declared that separate schools for blacks and whites were inherently unequal and struck down the doctrine of “separate but equal” as a justification for segregation. The proclamation states that it is important for Kansas residents “to at last move forward, to seek reconciliation, justice and harmony.” Brownback also called on residents to…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas Senate has passed a bill aimed at stabilizing the long-term financial health of the state pension system for teachers and government workers. The measure, approved on a 35-2 vote Thursday, is a compromise drafted by negotiators who settled differences between the two chambers. The House also expected to vote on it Thursday, and its approval would send the measure to Gov. Sam Brownback. The compromise would set aside casino revenues to bolster the long-term financial health of the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System. The legislation also includes a new retirement plan for public employees hired…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) University of Kansas Hospital officials say a baby girl born two weeks ago is a pioneer in Kansas. They say the baby, Morgan Belle Dickson, is the first child born in the state using a frozen egg. Her parents are Jessica and Ryan Dickson of Kansas City. Dr. Samuel Kim heads the hospital’s Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Clinic. He froze Dickson’s eggs in February 2011 while the couple decided how to start a family after having trouble conceiving a child. The Kansas City Star reports that two fertilized eggs were implanted in August. Dickson found out…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The University of Kansas is proposing new standards that would make its admission criteria more difficult than those of any other of the state’s universities. Kansas Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little discussed the proposed new standards Wednesday with the Kansas Board of Regents. Currently, all six regents universities have the same admissions standards. The proposed standards would raise the required GPA score of high school students and require students to apply by Feb. 1. Students who don’t meet the automatic qualifications could still be admitted by a review committee that would consider several other factors. The Lawrence Journal-World reports …