The king once again is wearing his crown as K-State’s Erik Kynard successfully defended his high jump title Thursday in the NCAA outdoor track and field championships, clearing 7 feet, 8 inches. Kynard held off Indiana’s Derek Drouin in a thrilling final, though his stab at tying the collegiate record of 7-9 3/4 fell short. Kynard set the K-State and Drake Stadium record with his winning leap. He currently sits #2 in the world heading into the US Olympic Trials at the end of the month. After the event to celebrate, Kynard wore a paper crown from Burger King he…
Author: KMAN Staff
One year ago, a pair of Big 12 teams went to Omaha for the College World Series. Neither Texas or Texas A&M will make a return trip, but another duo could represent the league if they can advance past this weekend’s Super Regionals. Baylor is the #4 national seed and will host Arkansas for the best 2-out-of-3 series starting Saturday afternoon. Oklahoma will try for their second CWS in three years starting Saturday night, but will have to do so at two-time defending national champion South Carolina. TCU, a Big 12 member in three weeks, will open their Super Regional…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) The Kansas City Royals have signed right-hander Kyle Zimmer, their first-round choice out of San Francisco, to a contract that includes a $3 million signing bonus. The Royals announced the deal Thursday, less than three days after they made Zimmer the #5 overall pick in Major League Baseball’s first-year player draft. The early signing is a departure from previous years, when high draft picks often waited until just before an August deadline. The new collective bargaining agreement has moved up the deadline to July 13 and created a slotting system to help speed along negotiations. The…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Three federal judges have set new political boundaries for Kansas, making a change in congressional districts that many Republican legislators have opposed. The ruling also directly impacts Manhattan. The panel issued an order Thursday night in a federal lawsuit filed last month. The judges drew new boundaries for congressional, state House, state Senate and State Board of Education districts because the Republican-dominated Legislature failed to do so. A key change in the state’s congressional map will expand the 1st District of western and central Kansas so that it takes in Manhattan, home to Kansas State University. Many…
MANHATTAN, Kan. – Budget requests for fiscal year 2013 dominated the discussion at Thursday’s Riley County Commission meeting. Department heads from five county agencies were on hand to make their requests. Robbin Cole, director of Pawnee Mental Health Services, asked the commission for a 5 percent increase in funding. “It would be both a reasonable and generous increase for our organization for serving the citizens of Riley County,” Cole said. Pawnee has received $225,785 from the county in each of the past four years. The increase would bring the county’s overall appropriation to $237,075. Extension director Jennifer Wilson made requests on…
HAYS, Kan. (AP) A man accused of shooting a Kansas Highway Patrol trooper last year has pleaded no contest to reduced charges. The Hays Daily News reports Trooper Doug Schulte was in the Ellis County courtroom Wednesday as Ruben Herrera Escobedo entered the pleas to aggravated battery and aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer. He was initially charged with attempted premeditated first-degree murder. Schulte was wounded in January 2011 after stopping Escobedo on a traffic violation in Hays. Investigators said Escobedo got out of his pickup truck and shot the trooper in the chest with a .357-caliber revolver. The…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) The self-proclaimed leader of a Kansas commune that lived off life insurance payouts of its dead members has been ordered to stand trial on a charge of premeditated first-degree murder. Sedgwick County District Judge Clark Owens entered the order Thursday at the end of a preliminary hearing for 52-year-old Daniel U. Perez. Perez is accused in the 2003 death of Patricia Hughes at a compound near Wichita. It was initially listed as accidental. Defense lawyers contended there was not enough evidence to put Perez on trial. Owens disagreed and scheduled a jury trial for July 30. Perez…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Although the state’s new budget restores $700,000 in funding for the arts, it will be at least a year before federal and regional matching funds will return to Kansas. Mary Kennedy, executive director of the Mid-America Arts Alliance, says Kansas won’t get any matching funds in fiscal 2013. She says the state also won’t get any federal funds from the National Endowment for the Arts in the next fiscal year. She says it will take a year to go through the process needed to return the funds to the state. Gov. Sam Brownback last Friday signed the…