LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) #23 K-State #14 Kansas meet in their Big 12 openers Wednesday night. It should be a festive atmosphere at Allen Fieldhouse. The Jayhawks are 10-3 after a brutal nonconference schedule that included games against Kentucky, Georgetown, Duke and Ohio State. The Wildcats are 11-1, the lone loss coming in double overtime to West Virginia. It’s the start of a longer, tougher Big 12 schedule. Every team will play every other team twice now that there are only 10 teams in the league, which means no full bye weeks between now and March.
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After building a 22-point halftime lead, the Manhattan High girls basketball didn’t look back in a 48-25 victory over Emporia on Tuesday night in the Little Apple. Senior post M. J. Massanet scored a game-high 15 points including nine in the first half, as the Indians outscored the Spartans 17-4 in the 2nd quarter to lead 28-6 at the break. Sophomore guard Par McNair added 9 points for MHS (4-0, 2-0), and Elayna Spilker pitched in with 8 points. Emporia (2-3, 1-2) was led by Brianna Wright with 14 points, but she was held six points below her average. Garin…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Police in Topeka have ruled the non-fatal shooting of a child in a hotel room accidental, but a 45-year-old man is facing numerous charges in the case. Officers were called to a Holiday Inn Express in northern Topeka around 11 p.m. on New Year’s Eve and found a 6-year-old boy with a gunshot wound. WIBW-TV reports a woman identifying herself as the child’s mother said the boy remained in critical condition but was improving Monday night. Police arrested a Topeka man who was in the room early Sunday on two felony counts, including criminal possession of a…
OLATHE, Kan. (AP) The son of a northeastern Kansas sheriff has pleaded guilty to fleeing police and assaulting a police officer in a neighboring county. Thirty-one-year-old Dustin Ash is the son of Wyandotte County Sheriff Don Ash. The Kansas City Star reports the younger Ash pleaded guilty Tuesday in Johnson County District Court to fleeing and eluding and to reckless aggravated battery. The incident occurred last May 11 when Ash drove off as a Shawnee police officer tried to stop him for a traffic violation. He hit a fence after other officers flattened his tires with spikes, then backed his…
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) A New Zealand-based animal health company is beginning work at a new University of Kansas research lab. Argenta announced in August that it would locate a laboratory at the Bioscience Technology Business Center in Lawrence and create up to 27 science jobs over five years. The university says the lease is finalized and company has started hiring. Argenta expects to create four or five new jobs each year until it reaches the 27 total. New hires will earn an average annual salary of $74,000. Argenta is a young company that does contract drug development work in the…
HAYS, Kan. (AP) Rooks County Sheriff Randy Axelson, who was arrested last week, has been released from jail after making bond. Axelson’s bond was at $45,000 Tuesday during a brief court hearing. Ellis County Attorney Thomas Drees told KAKE-TV that Axelson is out of jail, but is under GPS surveillance. The 46-year-old Axelson who was arrested Friday by Kansas Bureau of Investigation agents on suspicion of distributing methamphetamine. Few details of the investigation and Axelson’s arrest have been released. After the hearing, Axelson’s attorney, Kurt Kerns of Wichita, would not comment on the case.
SALINA, Kan. (AP) A park ranger who was shot to death at Mount Rainier is being remembered by her former professors in Kansas as a dedicated and passionate student. Margaret Anderson died Sunday after being shot while on duty at the national park in Washington. The suspected shooter was later found dead in the park. Anderson earned a bachelor’s degree in fisheries and wildlife management from Kansas State University and later received a master’s in biology from Fort Hays State University. Don Kaufman, a Kansas State ecology professor, was Anderson’s undergraduate adviser. He told The Salina Journal that Anderson was…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) Kim English had 23 points and nine rebounds, and No. 7 Missouri hit 12 3-pointers to open Big 12 play with an 87-49 rout of Oklahoma on Tuesday night. Marcus Denmon added 20 points for the Tigers (14-0, 1-0), who were 12 for 21 from 3-point range, held the Sooners to 33 percent shooting and outrebounded them 38-23. The margin of victory was Missouri’s best in conference play, topping a 31-point spread against Iowa State in 2010. The Tigers beat Texas Tech by 33 points in the Big 12 tournament in 2000. Andrew Fitzgerald scored all…
GARDEN CITY, Kan. (AP) A development company has released its plans for a historic hotel in downtown Garden City. The Garden City Telegram reports that Vogel Properties wants to use the ground floor of the long-vacant Windsor Hotel for restaurant, retail and office space. The building also would contain 23 apartments for senior living. The plan is winning praise from downtown business operators. Doug Harder, the co-owner of a coffee house and a computer sales and service store, says the plan as the only viable option presented in decades. Downtown Vision Executive Director Beverly Schmitz Glass says the plan makes…
GARDEN PLAIN, Kan. (AP) A south-central Kansas teacher and coach charged in a sex-related case involving minors will have a preliminary hearing on February. The preliminary hearing for 39-year-old Garden Plain teacher Todd Puetz was scheduled for Thursday. The Wichita Eagle reports (http://bit.ly/xP0Kow) court records show the hearing was delayed until Feb. 9. Prosecutors say Puetz, who taught physical education, tried to entice a child he believed to be 15 into sex acts. He was one of seven men arrested in late October who police say used electronic media to try to meet underage girls for sex. His attorney, Dan…