Police in Kent, England, have described a woman who called the emergency services to report the theft of a snowman as “completely irresponsible.” The woman rang 999 after noticing the snowman outside her house had vanished. “There’s been a theft from outside my house,” she told the operator. “I haven’t been out to check on him for five hours but I went outside for a fag and he’s gone.” When asked who had disappeared, the woman said: “my snowman.” Chief inspector Simon Black said that the call “could have cost someone’s life if there was a genuine emergency and they…
Author: KMAN Staff
After allegedly robbing a convenience store yesterday morning in Aiken County, South Carolina, United States, a man fled the scene on a riding lawnmower. Police apprehended the suspect near the scene. According to the Aiken County Sheriff’s Office, Ricky New entered the store carrying a large stick, demanded money, assaulted the clerk with the stick, and left with an undisclosed amount of money. He then tried to make his getaway on a Craftsman mower. His face was concealed by a towel, but Ricky New lives nearby and the clerk identified him promptly after the incident. New has been charged with…
Anke Anusic, age 44, and her mother Gitta, age 66, were arrested at Liverpool John Lennon Airport last Saturday for attempting to smuggle the body of their deceased 91-year-old relative, “Willi” Curt Jaran, on a flight to Berlin, Germany. The women tried to take the body on to the plane in a wheelchair wearing sunglasses, and they claimed that the person was asleep. They had previously used a taxi to bring the corpse from their home in Oldham. The deception was discovered by check-in staff; both airport staff and the taxi driver are said to be upset by the events.…
In the Central Lowlands of Scotland, the University of Dundee is to become the first university in the United Kingdom to provide degrees in comic studies. The university has said that courses for its comic studies subject within the English section will commence in September 2011. The city of Dundee is known to be the headquarters for D. C. Thomson & Co., a publishing company whose works include various comic books, such as The Beano, The Broons, The Dandy and Oor Wullie. Dr. Chris Murray, a leading British authority on comic books, will be leading the comic studies programme. “This…
SAN DIEGO (AP) Clayton Richard won for the first time in 12 home starts since August and the San Diego Padres beat the Kansas City Royals 4-2 on Tuesday night for their third straight series win. The Padres have won six of seven, including series wins against Boston and Atlanta. Jeff Francoeur homered and threw out a runner at home for the Royals, who have lost two straight and eight of 10. Richard (4-9) hadn’t won at Petco Park since beating Arizona on Aug. 24. The Padres had lost his 11 home starts since Aug. 29, tied for the longest…
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) Michael Roth pitched 7 2-3 innings on three days’ rest, and South Carolina won its second straight national championship with a 5-2 victory Tuesday night that completed a two-game sweep over Florida in the College World Series finals. South Carolina (55-14) became the first team to ever go 10-0 in an NCAA tournament and the first since Oregon State in 2007 to go unbeaten in a CWS. The Gamecocks’ streaks of 16 NCAA tournament wins and 11 straight in the CWS are both the longest all-time. Peter Mooney doubled to start a three-run third inning and hit…
Five K-State baseball players were picked in the Major League Baseball draft earlier this month, and they’ve all begun their minor league stints. Third baseman Jason King was drafted by the Detroit Tigers and already has led his new team to a pair of victories. King hit his first home run, a solo hit for the Connecticut Tigers of the Class A Short Season New York Penn league on Sunday to break a scoreless tie in the 9th inning, and a had a game winning infield single on Tuesday. Outfielder Nick Martini is playing for the St. Louis Cardinals’ short…
SAN DIEGO (AP) Ryan Ludwick hit a two-run homer, Mat Latos won for the first time in four starts and the San Diego Padres beat the Kansas City Royals 4-3 on Monday night. The Padres, coming off consecutive series victories against Boston and Atlanta, have won five of six. The Royals have lost seven of nine. Latos (5-8) allowed three runs on seven hits in six innings, struck out six and walked two to win for the first time since June 5 against Houston. Heath Bell pitched the ninth for his 21st save in 22 chances, getting the final out…
SAN DIEGO (AP) Kansas City manager Ned Yost says the Royals will go with a six-man rotation at least until the All-Star break. Kyle Davies is ready to come off the disabled list and rookie Danny Duffy is pitching well enough that the Royals don’t want to send him down. Yost says the move will help give the Royals a chance to stay healthy. Besides the fact that Davies and Bruce Chen are coming off injuries, Jeff Francis is right around the number of innings he threw last year, when he was coming off left shoulder surgery that sidelined him…
FORT RILEY, Kan. – Fort Riley officials have released an update involving a soldier found dead at approximately 5:30 Monday morning in his barracks room at the Warrior Transition Battalion. 21-year-old Specialist Nathan Conley, an M1 armor crewman, was assigned to the WTB in February. He deployed to Iraq from November 2010 to this past February in support of Operation New Dawn. Conley’s death is under investigation, and officials have not yet released information on the cause of death . The Warrior Transition Battalion’s mission is to support the rehabilitation and successful transition of wounded, ill and injured Soldiers back…