COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) Texas A&M has hired a search firm to help find its next athletic director, a day after Bill Byrne retired from the position. The school hired Parker Executive Search, a firm that has worked on athletic director searches at dozens of schools including five in the Southeastern Conference, where A&M is moving July 1. Texas A&M Regent Jim Wilson and Jason Cook, the school’s vice president for marketing and communications, will co-chair the search committee. Nine other people make up the committee, including two professors, softball coach Jo Evans, Adaora Elonu, a former women’s basketball…
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Royals pitcher Jonathan Sanchez, who was 1-2 with a 6.75 ERA in six starts, was placed on the 15-day disabled list Wednesday with left biceps tendinitis. Sanchez lasted just three innings plus one batter in a Monday loss to the Boston Red Sox, giving up six runs on six hits, including two home runs, and walked three, while throwing only 35 strikes in 73 pitches. The Royals acquired Sanchez in an offseason trade with the San Francisco Giants to bolster its rotation. The Royals recalled second baseman Johnny Giavotella from Class AAA Omaha, where he was…
Current County Attorney Barry Wilkerson (R) has filed his declaration of intent to run for another term at the same position. Wilkerson has held the position for 6 years. He was first elected to the position in 2004.
MANHATTAN, Kan. – Two Manhattan residents are looking at drug-related charges following their arrests after a drug bust on Tuesday. A Riley County Police special investigation team arrested Nick Bowser, 35, and Sasha Soules-Jones, 24, and seized 0.7 grams of crack cocaine after serving a search warrant at 1119 Kearney St. Bowser was arrested on charges of sale of narcotics and conspiracy to distribute narcotics. Soules-Jones was booked on charges of sale of narcotics and unlawful use of a telecommunication device. The two will be arraigned at a later date. Bowser is confined in Riley County jail on $6,000 bond. Soules-Jones…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas State University football coach Bill Snyder continues to pick up honors for the Wildcats’ successful 2011 football season. Legislators and Gov. Sam Brownback congratulated Snyder on Wednesday for the team’s 10-3 season with proclamations in both chambers and ceremony in the governor’s office. Snyder was named Big 12 Coach of the Year by The Associated Press and by the Big 12 coaches. He was also named the 2011 Woody Hayes National Coach of the Year. Kansas State earned a trip to the Cotton Bowl for the first time since 2001, losing 29-16 to Arkansas. Snyder has…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) New figures from the Kansas Department of Revenue suggest that a plan legislators are considering to cut income and sales taxes would benefit all classes of taxpayers. The department released the figures Wednesday just hours before the Senate was to vote on the plan. The Associated Press obtained the figures from the agency before they were turned over to the Legislature. The figures show that some of the state’s poorest taxpayers, who now receive income tax refunds, would receive smaller refunds under the plan. However, the department projects that change would be offset by a reduction in…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Budget negotiators are expecting to resolve most of their differences over spending priorities in the 2013 Kansas budget by the Legislature’s Friday deadline. Completing the process on the $14 billion bill is central to ending the legislative session on time. House members finished work on their budget version late Tuesday, voting for increases in public schools and social services. The Senate approved a similar measure last week. Negotiators who are meeting Wednesday say 80 percent of each chamber’s bills should be quickly settled. The main obstacle is differences over education policies. House budget chairman Marc Rhoades, a…
MULVANE, Kan. (AP) Voters in Mulvane overwhelmingly approved a $13.4 million bond issue to pay for school additions and improvements. The Sedgwick County Election office says the issue was approved Tuesday by a more than two-to-one margin. The special election drew 25 percent of the area’s voters. The Wichita Eagle reports the bond money will go to pay for school additions and improvements at Munson Elementary School, Mulvane Grade School and Mulvane Middle School. It also will fund expansion at the district’s transportation building. The Mulvane School District covers Sedgwick, Sumner and Cowley counties and serves about 1,880 students.
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) Despite pleas to reject a complaint from a national group, the Reno County Commission will not reinstate sectarian prayer before its meetings. The commission on Tuesday asked County Counselor Joe O’Sullivan to draft a new policy on prayers at meetings. The move comes after the Americans United for Separation of Church and State objected to the tradition of ministers offering prayers before the meetings. The Hutchinson News reports most commission members favor asking professionals to offer nonsectarian prayers. If no minister or speaker is available, a commissioner could say a prayer or ask for a moment of…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A Topeka man was sentenced to life in prison for killing a man during an attempted robbery. Thirty-three-year-old Kyree Marshon McClelland was sentenced Tuesday for first-degree murder and other charges in the death of 32-year-old Timothy Stone. Stone was shot in August 2011 during a break-in at the home of a friend. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports McClelland also was severely beaten during the break-in. He was placed in a medically-induced coma to recover. McClelland, who had drugs and alcohol in his system during the crime, apologized for the killing and said he can’t remember what happened.