BOSTON (AP) Daisuke Matsuzaka returned from the disabled list with his best start of the season and Cody Ross drove in three runs, leading the Boston Red Sox to a 5-1 win over the Kansas City Royals on Monday. The Red Sox took three of four games in the wraparound series and won for the second time in three games since trading Adrian Gonzalez, Josh Beckett and Carl Crawford in a salary-dumping, nine-player deal to the Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday. Jacoby Ellsbury had a solo homer and double for Boston, which opens a nine-game West Coast trip Tuesday…
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KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) Sporting Kansas City forward Teal Bunbury will miss the rest of the season after tearing ligaments in his left knee during a draw with the New York Red Bulls. The injury occurred Sunday night as Bunbury was leaping in the air to set up Kei Kamara for a goal. Bunbury remained in the game for several minutes but was eventually substituted out. The extent of the injury was revealed Monday. Surgery is scheduled for Friday. Bunbury has five goals and one assist in 22 regular season games after leading Sporting KC with 11 goals last…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A former University of Kansas assistant athletics director wants a judge to throw out his sentence in a $2 million ticket scalping conspiracy, saying his lawyer did a poor job. Rodney Jones is serving a 46-month federal prison sentence in Oklahoma. He was among seven people snared in the investigation of unlawful sales of Jayhawk season tickets by key athletics officials. Jones filed a motion Monday in federal court claiming his attorney prevented him from cooperating early with an internal university investigation. Two defendants who did cooperate received probation. Jones also claims prosecutors did not honor an…
More details were provided Monday regarding a Friday accident in Geary county. 28-year-old Bradey Weaver was riding his 2006 blue and black Harley Davidson motorcycle from Toledo, Ohio heading towards Las Vegas when an accident occurred. Geary County Deputies along with Junction City Fire and EMS were called to the westbound exit ramp at mile marker 310 rest area. Major Tony Wolf with the Geary County Sheriff’s Department says they found Weaver alongside his motorcycle on the side of the road. Weaver later succumbed to his injuries while in the hospital. After further investigation, it was determined that another vehicle was involved…
It was the debut for one of the presentations regarding the half-cent sales tax renewal proposal, to be on the Riley county ballot in November. County Commissioner Dave Lewis and Manhattan City Manager Ron Fehr made the presentation to intergovernmental leaders Monday, with Lewis telling the group it had been fine-tuned late that morning. Lewis stressed one important message that needs to be made when educating members of the public, and said “the operating word is renewal”. Lewis says so far there are around 15 presentations geared up to go that will include representatives from Riley County Commissioners, the Manhattan…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A 26-year-old Wichita man will spend nearly 27 years in prison in a federal “sexting” prosecution. U.S. District Judge Monti Belot on Monday sentenced Shane McClelland as a repeat sex offender. The judge said a long sentence was necessary to deter him from further crimes and protect the public. McClelland was convicted earlier of enticing a 14-year-old girl from upstate New York to send nude photos to his cellphone. He was acquitted of a similar count involving another teen. McClelland’s lawyer argued 20 percent of teens are “sexting” and said the sentence amounted to cruel and unusual…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is taking steps in Kansas to prevent the spread of a beetle that is killing ash trees in the Northeast and Midwest. Starting Friday, campers at Perry Lake in northeastern Kansas will be barred from bringing in firewood that did not originate in surrounding Jefferson County. The Corps is also banning all firewood from ash trees, no matter where it comes from. The goal is to protect Perry Lake’s trees from the emerald ash borer beetle, which was recently detected in northwestern Missouri’s Platte County. The Corps says that’s the beetle’s…
Strong winds are kicking up waves on the New Orleans-Lake Ponchartrain shoreline early Tuesday. Tropical Storm Isaac is closing in on the city, and expected to hit Tuesday night or Wednesday.
Republicans launched Mitt Romney’s national convention Monday with the bang of a gavel before a smattering of delegates as Tropical Storm Isaac led them to cancel most of the opening-day program.
LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) A 16-year-old driver who led police on a car chase in northeast Kansas crashed into a family’s car, injuring himself and three other people. KCTV reports that the police chase started in Leavenworth County on Saturday morning when officers began pursuing the teen’s van. Police have not said why the teen was being pursued. Leavenworth Police Chief Pat Kitchens said officers ended the chase, but the driver of the van continued to drive erratically. The teen’s van then hit a van carrying a Leavenworth family. The Kansas Highway Patrol says the teen was ejected from his vehicle…