TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A veteran employee of the Kansas Corporation Commission has been named director of its utilities division. Jeff McClanahan has served in several roles for the regulatory agency, including chief of accounting and financial analysis. McClanahan will oversee the processing of rate cases filed by utility companies, tariffs and other regulatory filings. The division is comprised of telecommunications, accounting and financial analysis, energy operations, economic policy and planning and pipeline safety. McClanahan has a bachelor’s degree in accounting from West Texas State University.
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Joshua Jeb Fincham, 31, Waterville, Kan., for driving under the influence. Confined on $1,500. Michael Vanpay, 25, 3115 Heritage Ct., Apartment No. 11, for failure to appear. Released on $129 bond. Anny Marina Lewis, 26, 3132 Lundin Dr., Apartment No. 11, for domestic battery. Released on $500 bond. Christopher Stephen Selby, 24, Midwest City, Okla., for soliciting without a permit. Confined on $500 bond. Louis Darwin Tilley, 21, 3213 Claflin Rd., for domestic battery, criminal restraint, and criminal damage to property. Confined on $1,000 bond. Timothy Michael Rowdown, 19, for probation violation and failure to appear. Confined on $1,500 bond.…
K-State hired former Illinois head coach Bruce Weber on Saturday to become the 24th head men’s basketball in school history. Weber was let go by Illinois after going 210-101 over nine seasons, which included six trips to the NCAA tournament and a runner-up finish in 2005. He was interviewed by K-State athletic John Currie at the Final Four in New Orleans, and the two reached a deal late Friday. Weber was signed to a 5-year, $8.5 million dollar contract, with a $1.5 million dollar salary during the 2012-13 season, with increases of $100,000 per year. Coach Weber will be a guest of KMAN’s Wildcat Insider…
All but set to claim its first Big 12 series victory, K-State saw Oklahoma put up two runs in the bottom of the 9th for a 4-3 victory at L. Dale Mitchell Park in Norman on Sunday. In a tie game in the top of the 7th, Jon Davis and Jake Brown ripped back-to-back doubles to give the Cats a 3-2 lead. With freshman Nate Williams on the mound in the 9th looking for his fourth save, Cody Reine blasted an RBI triple to knot the game at 3, and Evan Mistich followed with an RBI single to pull it…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) Kentucky’s Anthony Davis and Kansas’ Thomas Robinson went head to head all season as the two favorites for national player of the year honors. Neither was on the landscape when the season got started. Davis was known as a point guard turned big man after a late growth spurt. Robinson played seven minutes a game as a sophomore and wasn’t expected to be a factor on the national stage. The 6-foot-10 Davis leads six double-figure scorers on Kentucky with a 14.4 average, and he grabbed 10.2 rebounds per game. His 180 blocked shots lead the country and…
DENVER (AP) Brittney Griner had 13 points and nine rebounds to lead unbeaten Baylor to a 59-47 win over Stanford on Sunday night and into the women’s NCAA championship game. Baylor (39-0) is one victory from becoming the seventh team to finish unbeaten and has a chance at being the first team in NCAA history to win 40 games in a season. The Lady Bears will face Notre Dame on Tuesday night for the title. The Irish beat UConn 83-75 in an overtime thriller in the first semifinal. Baylor and Notre Dame met in the preseason WNIT final, with…
Although Kansas High School Winter Athletics have been completed for some time now, the Manhattan High Wrestling team is still pulling in the accolades. On Friday, Head Coach Bob Gonzales was named the 2011-2012 Class 6A Coach of the Year by the Kansas Wrestling Coaches Association. Gonzales led the Tribe this winter to the program’s third State Championship in school history. As well as sending all 14 varsity wrestlers to the state meet in Wichita. Assistant Coaches Chad Lindsley, Nathan Broeckelman, Devin Schwartz, Tim McCarthy, and Bill Broeckelman were named 2011-2012 Class 6A Assistant Coaches of the Year by the KWCA.
STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) Toni Young scored 25 points, Tiffany Bias added 17 points and 11 assists and Oklahoma State ended a season marked by tragedy by beating James Madison 75-68 on Saturday to win the program’s first WNIT championship. Liz Donohoe notched her fifth straight double-double with 14 points and 11 rebounds, and the Cowgirls (22-12) and made it through the tournament without trailing in the second half despite a late charge by the Dukes. Oklahoma State lost head coach Kurt Budke and assistant Miranda Serna in a Nov. 17 plane crash that also claimed the lives of pilot…
PEORIA, Ariz. (AP) Miguel Olivo and Kyle Seager hit consecutive home runs during a six-run sixth inning and the Seattle Mariners rallied past Kansas City 6-4 Sunday in their first game since opening the regular season in Japan. The Mariners split two midweek games against Oakland at Tokyo Dome. Munenori Kawasaki had three hits for the Mariners, who used six projected starters. He had two hits in the sixth inning alone. Olivo’s three-run homer tied it at 4. Seager followed with his fourth home run of the spring. Mike Moustakas homered and doubled for the Royals. Starter Bruce Chen…
The name has been released in a fatal Marshall county accident this past weekend. Robert Studer, 48, of Beattie died in the accident, which involved a ’99 Harley Davidson motorcycle. Studer was not wearing a helmet. The Kansas Highway patrol released details Monday morning regarding the Saturday evening accident on highway 77, just east of Blue Rapids. Studer’s motorcycle was eastbound on highway 77, when the cycle left the roadway, struck gravel, and Studer lost control, striking a guardrail. The accident was reported just before eight Saturday evening. And in Riley county an accident early Monday morning sent an Oklahoma…