KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Mike Moustakas had three hits and three RBIs and the Kansas City Royals roughed up Justin Verlander in a 9-8 victory over the Detroit Tigers on Tuesday night. Verlander, the reigning AL MVP and Cy Young Award winner, was charged with eight earned runs, matching his career high, in 5 2-3 innings. It was the third time in Verlander’s career he had surrendered eight earned runs and first since April 6, 2009, at Toronto. Moustakas hit a tiebreaking RBI double off Phil Coke with two down in the eighth inning.
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KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) Matt Kenseth is expecting to lose his Kansas Speedway lap record in the near future. Kenseth was among eight drivers to check out the repaved surface of the 1.5-mile tri-oval on Tuesday during tire testing for Goodyear. New variable banking combined with the smoother asphalt surface made for some quick lap times, even during the shortened runs. Kenseth set the record of 29.858 seconds in October 2005, but said he ran 30.30 on his last lap. Dale Earnhardt Jr. said he turned a lap of 29.90 in race trim. Drivers had been reticent about the…
Another bicycle theft was reported by the Riley County Police Department. Early Wednesday morning, behind the 1200 block of Moro, at Pat’s BarBQ a grey specialized mountain bike was taken. Sean O’Brien, of the 2500 block of Stagghill Rd, reported the theft. The total loss was $1,300. —- Tuesday morning, a car was T-boned at the intersection of College and Claflin. Steven Prockish (64), of 1416 Cambridge, was heading east on Claflin when he ran a red light and hit a vehicle driven by Thomas Wittkoph (30), of the 800 block of Church Ave, who was northbound on College Ave. Prockish and his passenger…
Local media got a chance to get a first-hand look at the construction site for the West Stadium Center Project at Bill Snyder Family Stadium Tuesday afternoon. Kansas State Athletics Director John Currie along with Senior Associate Athletics Director for Operations and Event Management Casey Scott took the media members around the area where the new TV compound will be on the stadium’s Northwest corner as well as the new Main concourse level. So far concrete has been poured for the concourse level south of the current Dev Nelson Press Box and work continues on both sides of the structure.…
Republicans nominate Mitt Romney, Ann Romney talks about marriage, and Chris Christie accuses the Obama administration of driving the country “off a fiscal cliff.”
Rain and wind from Hurricane Isaac are pounding New Orleans Wednesday morning.
Ann Romney is sharing with her fellow Republicans and the nation the family side of the man she met at a high school dance more than four decades ago.
The city of Manhattan will receive a large grant from KDOT for improvements, firework safety might be facing revision, and a look at the final designs for the manhattan regional airport were all on the table for last night’s Manhattan city commission work session. Mayor Loren Pepperd revealed a $900,000 award from KDOT will be used on a intersection for K-18. Meanwhile commisioners mulled over the possibility of firework safety being moved into the hands of the Manhattan Fire Director after commissioners get more input from city staff. The possible revision came after over 3-hundred and 50-thousand dollars worth of damage…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Police in Topeka say the suspect in last week’s holdup of a pharmacy may also be connected to nine other robberies, including one in which a pizza shop employee was sexually assaulted. The 27-year-old Topeka man was questioned after a traffic stop Monday and later arrested as the suspect in Friday’s pharmacy holdup. No charges had been filed Tuesday, but police said they believe the man is also connected to the recent string of holdups at Topeka businesses. Four of those occurred on a single day in late July. Police have said the holdups were becoming increasingly violent,…
CAWKER CITY, Kan. (AP) Rescue crews have recovered the body of a missing boater from a lake in north-central Kansas. The Salina Journal reports the body of 36-year-old Tim Griffiths was found around 10 a.m. Tuesday at the west end of Waconda Lake, in Mitchell County. Griffiths, of rural Hunter, had been missing since he fell out of a boat Saturday night. Another man was found safe in the boat, and a third man was found on the lake shore Sunday morning. Griffiths was a maintenance man who also did work for Hake Hardware in Tipton.