The Manhattan Manko Senior 17’ers looked to be right at home on Wednesday night in the American Legion “AAA” State Tournament as they routed the Easton Outlaws 20-1 at Tointon Family Stadium. Manko will play Pittsburg on Thursday night in the winners’ bracket semis at 8:00pm, who beat Leavenworth 17-1. In the upper half of the bracket, Newton defeated Salina 10-3 and Hays slipped past Winfield 7-6. Two elimination games are slated to be played Thursday morning at K-State, with the winners’ bracket tilts will be Thursday night.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Luis Mendoza pitched into the eighth inning, Lorenzo Cain and Jarrod Dyson stroked two hits each and drove in a run and the Kansas City Royals beat the Cleveland Indians 5-2 on Wednesday night. The Royals, who have the worst record in the American League (42-61), won consecutive games for the first time since June 27-29. Mendoza (5-7) limited the Indians to two runs and four hits, only one after the fourth inning, and went 7 1-3 innings to pick up the victory. Mendoza, who was 1-3 in his four previous starts, did not throw…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) Little-used forward Kyle Miller scored a fluke stoppage-time goal in his first start for Sporting Kansas City, salvaging a 1-1 draw against English side Stoke City FC in an international exhibition on Wednesday night. Miller, who played his high school and college soccer in the Kansas City area, deflected a clearance attempt by Stoke goalkeeper Asmir Begovic into an empty net in the second minute of added time. Sporting, which fielded a reserve-heavy lineup on Wednesday night, is 0-1-3 in international friendlies since the team renamed itself from the Wizards before the 2011 season. Stoke…
Allison Schmitt pushed the United States in front in the anchor leg to win the 4×200-meter freestyle relay at the London Olympics on Wednesday. The Americans, whose team included Shannon Vreeland, a 2010 Blue Valley West grad and university of Georgia swimmer, Missy Franklin and Dana Vollmer, clocked an Olympic-record 7 minutes, 42.92 seconds. It’s the first Olympic gold medal for Vreeland, while Schmitt, Franklin and Vollmer have all won individual gold in London. Australia led by a half-second entering the anchor leg but had to settle for silver. France touched third for the bronze.
A draft of the Inter-local Agreement for the Quarter Cent Sales Tax was originally one of the topics for Thursday’s Riley County Commission meeting. However, the plan to do so was changed before the meeting as county officials received feedback Tuesday from the Kansas Attorney General’s office regarding questions that had been sent to the office in March on the topic of the quarter cent sales tax. Riley County Counselor Clancy Holeman read the original questions sent to the Attorney General’s office during the meeting. “Is Riley County required to submit its 2002 county-wide retailer sales tax to the voters or may it…
Fire was reported at a Holly Sinclair oil refinery in Tulsa, Oklahoma early Thursday. Flames could be seen several miles away.
Chick-fil-A supporters are eating at the chicken chain’s restaurants as the company continues to be criticized for an executive taking a public position against same-sex marriage.
There were some good news and bad when it came to construction talk at Wednesday night’s Manhattan Ogden School Board meeting. The bad news came to be the chiller for the Manhattan High School East campus has more work it needs done on it and that will cause the rental of the current chiller to continue. Keith Noll, director of maintenance and facilities , told the board the chiller will probably need to be replaced within the coming years. The good news for construction is that the Manhattan High School West campus was awarded their Certificate of Occupancy for the entire building. …
Rezoning was a major issue tackled on Tuesday evening as the Ogden City Council met in their regular meeting at City Hall. Ogden Mayor Robert Pence Jr. says the old zoning laws were put into place in 1995, and so the council is looking at possible revision of the zoning laws and procedures for Ogden to keep up with the changing times. Richard Faulkner was also hired on as a full time city employee as a code enforcement officer. The next regularly scheduled Ogden city council meeting is on the 15th of August at City Hall.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) A 64-year-old man has pleaded guilty to robbing an Overland Park bank. Federal prosecutors say Thomas Crowl pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of bank robbery in connection with the May 22 heist at Metcalf Bank in Overland Park. Crowl was arrested the same day at an area hotel. He told investigators he had been released from prison in 2011 after serving a sentence for bank robbery. He says he then lived in a halfway house and later moved to the VA hospital in Leavenworth County. Crowl says he was recently told he couldn’t stay at…