A fire in Louisville Saturday night caused a significant amount of damage to Mayor Bobby Benton’s home. The high winds caused an electrical short, which then in turn started the fire. The entire family was home at the time of the fire, but everyone made it out safely. Pottawatomie County Fire Supervisor, Bruce Brazzle, says “The walls are still standing, but the roof is gone”. Brazzle adds, the National Weather Service called in ten minutes prior to inform them of the high winds. Although the single story house has been severely damaged, the family did the right thing when the fire…
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TORONTO (AP) Mike Moustakas hit his first career grand slam, Everett Teaford pitched seven innings for his first win of the season and the Kansas City Royals beat the Toronto Blue Jays 11-3 on Monday night. Salvador Perez hit a two-run home run as the Royals snapped a three-game losing streak, matched their season high with 14 hits and beat Toronto for the first time in five meetings this season. Jose Bautista hit his major league leading 27th home run and Colby Rasmus clubbed a solo shot off the facing of the fifth deck but it wasn’t enough for…
NEW YORK (AP) Yankees second baseman Robinson Cano has asked Jose Bautista, Prince Fielder and Mark Trumbo to join him on the AL side for the All-Star home run derby. Cano announced the invitations Monday, a day after rosters were announced for the All-Star game July 10 in Kansas City. Rumors swirled on Monday that Cano would select the Royals’ Billy Butler, but the hometown faithful will have to find another favorite. Dodgers outfielder Matt Kemp said Sunday he invited Carlos Beltran, Carlos Gonzalez and Giancarlo Stanton to join him on the NL side. Kemp is on the…
t’s a family tradition that spans a decade, as Mitt Romney’s clan –all 30 of them– gathers at his New England lakeside compound for a week of sporting events and ice cream outings.
The Air Force is grounded the seven C-130 cargo planes that it was using to fight western wildfires. The decision follows a fatal crash in South Dakota.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback plans to celebrate a reorganization of state social services agencies prompted by the administration’s efforts to overhaul the state’s Medicaid program. The Statehouse ceremony on tap for Monday morning comes a day after the reorganization took effect. Kansas now has a Department of Children and Families, replacing the former Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services. The new agency is smaller than SRS, shedding involvement in Medicaid to focus on services for families. The former Department on Aging has been expanded into the Department on Aging and Disability Services, picking up former SRS programs…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Wichita police say it’s lucky nobody was hurt when a homemade “sparkler bomb” destroyed a mailbox and damaged a home. Lt. Doug Nolte says a woman who lives in the south part of the city heard a loud explosion around 9:15 p.m. Sunday and went outside to investigate. The Wichita Eagle reports she found her mailbox destroyed and debris from it had struck the side of her house. Nolte says the department’s bomb squad determined someone had built an improvised explosive device using sparklers and set it off inside the mailbox. He says the force of sparkler…
SALINA, Kan. (AP) A 41-year-old central Kansas man has been found guilty in the 2010 death of his wife. A Saline County jury on Monday convicted Michael Andrew Paulson of second-degree murder in the July 6, 2010, death of Valerie Paulson. The Salina Journal reports that Paulson, who uses his middle name, also was found guilty of attempted second-degree murder in connection with injuries inflicted on his sister-in-law, Jessie Putman. Prosecutors said Paulson was facing the prospect of divorce and took a knife upstairs with him when he hid in the loft of their Assaria home as his wife was…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A Wichita teenager has launched a multi-million dollar campaign to renovate the city’s long-closed amusement park. The Wichita Eagle reports that 18-year-old Alex East’s project to restore the Joyland amusement park has raised about $6,000 from public donations. But that’s a fraction of the $10 million East estimates will be needed to buy and renovate the 40-acre park. His organization, Restore Hope Inc., recently got a boost when it was granted nonprofit status, which will allow it to apply for grants and accept tax-deductible contributions. Joyland owner Margaret Spear ran the park for decades with her husband…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Fireworks are getting the blame for a Wichita fire that seriously injured a woman and her young child. The Wichita Eagle reported that the blaze started early Sunday in a plastic trash can near the house where people had dumped fireworks remnants. The trash smoldered for hours before sparking a fire that spread to the house. Fire Lt. Kelly Zane says a 37-year-old woman and her 2-year-old son were the only ones in the home at the time of the fire. They were able to escape. The mother and son have been taken to the burn unit…