KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) The NFL has suspended Kansas City All-Pro linebacker Tamba Hali for the season-opener against Atlanta for violating its policy on substance abuse. The league announced the suspension Monday without disclosing details. Hali will miss the Sept. 9 game against the Falcons and be fined an additional game check. Hali is a rising star who went to his first Pro Bowl last season along with fellow Chiefs linebacker Derrick Johnson. Hali had 12 sacks while Johnson set a franchise record with 131 tackles.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Jeremy Guthrie pitched into the eighth inning, Salvador Perez drove in three runs and the Kansas City Royals beat the Chicago White Sox 5-2 on Sunday to complete a three-game series sweep of the AL Central leaders. Guthrie was working on a no-hitter before Paul Konerko reached on an infield single with two out in the seventh. Shortstop Alcides Escobar fielded Konerko’s grounder on the outfield grass and his one-hop throw was dropped by first baseman Eric Hosmer. Official scorer Del Black ruled it a hit and the Kauffman Stadium crowd of 22,401 loudly booed when…
Riley County Police are investigating an aggravated robbery, reported in the parking lot of a local motel Sunday afternoon. Jason Ickler, 29, from Russell and Catlin Miller, 22, from Claflin reported they were held at gunpoint by two males in the 500 block of Tuttle Creek Boulevard. Items taken included a wallet, keys, i.d. cards, and cash, totaling a loss of $930. At this point, suspects are unknown and the investigation continues. If anyone has any information contact CrimeStoppers at 539-7777. —- A man was arrested after it seems that he was trying to return stolen goods from a different location. Ronald Schneid,…
Contestants in the annual Garbage Can World Cup took to the streets of Hermeskeil in western Germany on Sunday. Approximately 60 “drivers” from Germany, Belgium, Austria and Luxembourg participated in the event.
Thousands of people have been told to leave their homes as a wildfire that began over the weekend threatened rural communities in far Northern California.
Health officials in Indiana and Kentucky say they are investigating farms, distributors and retailers after an outbreak of salmonella that has killed two and sickened at least 141 people nationwide was linked to cantaloupe grown in Indiana.
A photographer captured five simultaneous waterspouts over Lake Michigan Saturday.
The death toll of an al-Qaida suspected attack on a Yemeni intelligence headquarters rose to 20 on Saturday in the worst such attack in a year. It highlights the security challenges of the country’s new leadership.
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) Both suspects in what authorities have described as a mistaken-identity killing in Hutchinson have now had their trials postponed. Billy Joe Craig and Charles Christopher Logsdon are charged with first-degree murder in the 2011 shooting death of Jennifer Heckel. Investigators have said they believe the men planned to rob someone else and went to the wrong house. The Hutchinson News reports that a Reno County judge granted a continuance this week for Craig, who was scheduled for trial Nov. 13. No new date was immediately set. Logsdon’s trial has been rescheduled from Sept. 24 to Oct. 22.…
TRIBUNE, Kan. (AP) A western Kansas man is injured after crashing his fixed-wing airplane into a Greeley County cornfield. The Garden City Telegram reports 52-year-old A.B. Smith of Sharon Springs was flying the single-engine Cessna at 10:38 a.m. Friday when he lost control of the plane when banking to turn. The Kansas Highway Patrol says Smith was able to straighten out the plane and crash landed in a field near Tribune. It came to rest on its landing gear in an upright position. Smith was taken to Greeley County Hospital, which declined to release information about his condition late Friday.…