COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) Kelsey Bone and Karla Gilbert scored 14 points apiece to lead No. 15 Texas A&M to its fourth straight win, 67-36, over Kansas State on Wednesday night. Texas A&M had a 20-point lead at halftime and used a 12-5 run early in the second half to extend its advantage to 51-24. Tyra White had five points to lead the Aggies in that span. The win leaves the Aggies (17-5, 8-3 Big 12) in second place in the Big 12 entering Saturday’s game against league-leader and top-ranked Baylor. It will be the first meeting between the…
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WACO, Texas (AP) WACO, Texas (AP) Jeff Withey scored a career-high 25 points and Kansas went ahead to stay during a stretch without Thomas Robinson as the seventh-ranked Jayhawks had another convincing victory over sixth-ranked Baylor, winning 68-54 Wednesday night. After a 14-3 run over the final 4.5 minutes of the first half with Robinson on the bench to take its first lead, Kansas (19-5, 9-2 Big 12) scored 14 consecutive points early in the second half to take complete control of the game. The Jayhawks, coming off a 74-71 loss at fourth-ranked Missouri on Saturday, grabbed a share of…
GREAT BEND, Kan. (AP) Attorneys for a man accused of killing a 14-year-old Great Bend girl say their client can’t get a fair trial in Barton County because most residents already think he is guilty. There was no decision on Wednesday’s request in Barton County District Court to move the trial of 37-year-old Adam Longoria. He is scheduled to go on trial March 26 on charges of capital murder and sex crimes for the August 2010 death of Alicia DeBolt. KWCH-TV reports Judge Hannelore Kitts said she would rule on Monday. A survey of 400 Barton County residents conducted through…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Former Congressman Dennis Moore, who represented Kansas for 12 years in the U.S. House, has announced he has Alzheimer’s. Moore, a Democrat from Kansas’ 3rd District, says in a statement that he is in the “early phases of Alzheimer’s disease” and that he received the final diagnosis in June 2011. The 66-year-old said he hopes to help “others in the same situation” by making his illness public. Moore, who did not seek re-election in 2010 after holding the seat since 1998, said he wanted to help draw attention to Alzheimer’s and early onset dementia. He and…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Construction of the Kansas Star Casino’s permanent facility is running ahead of schedule, thanks to the mild winter weather. The Wichita Eagle reports the permanent casino is scheduled to open by the end of the year. Its temporary casino in an arena opened in December. The permanent casino will be more than 180,000 square feet. That is much more space than the 100,000 square feet it now has in the arena facility, with its 53,000 square feet of casino space. It will offer expanded gaming, including a poker room, as well an events center, five restaurants and…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Gov. Sam Brownback has ordered flags at state buildings to be flown at half-staff Saturday to honor a Kansan who had been the oldest sitting federal judge in U.S. history. U.S. District Judge Wesley Brown died Jan. 23 at an assisted living center in Wichita at age 104. A memorial service for Brown is scheduled for 11 a.m. Saturday, and Brownback ordered flags to remain lowered from sunrise to sunset. Brown was appointed as a federal district judge in 1962 by then-President John F. Kennedy. In 1979, Brown officially took senior status, a type of semiretirement that…
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) Two men will stand trial for allegedly gunning down a Hutchinson woman in what apparently was a case of mistaken identity. A Reno County judge Wednesday ordered Billy Joe Craig Jr. and Charles Christopher Logsdon to stand trial for the June, 2011, killing of 27-year-old Jennifer Heckel. Craig and Logsdon face first-degree murder and several other charges in the death of Heckel, who was shot at her home while her 5-year-old son was nearby. The Hutchinson News reports testimony during the hearing indicated the men intended to rob a drug dealer but went to the wrong home.…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas Senate is considering a bill that would require certification of programs that treat domestic violence offenders. Under the bill, the attorney general’s office would certify and regulate the batterer intervention programs. Advocates say many current domestic violence programs are cursory, drop-in efforts that don’t take domestic violence seriously. Assistant Attorney General Travis Harrod said the proposed legislation follows up on a 2010 bill that established tracking of domestic violence convictions and sent offenders to batterer intervention programs. He says if batterers are not going to be sent to jail, the state needs to ensure that…