KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) The Kansas City Chiefs have hired Romeo Crennel as their new head coach. The team announced the decision Monday. Crennel joined the Chiefs as the defensive coordinator in 2010 after four years as the head coach in Cleveland. He also served as head coach for the Chiefs the final three games of this season after Todd Haley was fired.
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Brittany Chambers scored 23 points and grabbed 8 rebounds as the K-State women won at Kansas 63-57 on Saturday night. Jalana Childs scored 11 of her 15 points in the second half, and Branshea Brown added 12 points. The Cats trailed the Jayhawks at halftime, but seized the lead with an 8-0 run to begin the second half. KU would tie the game at 47 with just over five minutes to go, but plays made by Chambers and Brown allowed K-State to pull away down the stretch. The K-State women (11-3, 2-0) are tied for first place in the Big…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A trial has been postponed until next month for a Wichita man accused of driving under the influence and speeding before a head-on crash that killed a college student. Thirty-seven-year-old Tommie Lee Cameron had been scheduled to go on trial this week in Sedgwick County District Court, but KAKE-TV reports the proceeding was continued until Feb. 27. Prosecutors say Cameron had a crack pipe in his possession on July 25, 2010, when his car plowed into a vehicle stopped at a Wichita intersection. The other driver, 21-year-old Wichita State student Kari Rinehart, died. Her twin sister and…
DIGHTON, Kan. (AP) The fatal shootings of two brothers in a western Kansas home are being investigated as a homicide-suicide. Lane County Sheriff Robert Williams says officers went to the Dighton home Friday afternoon on a report of a possible shooting. Officers found the bodies of 44-year-old Raymond Sanchez Jr. and 37-year-old Ricky Sanchez inside. The Hutchinson News reports the sheriff’s department believes no one else was involved but is continuing to investigate. Both men grew up in the town of about 1,000 people and shared a house next to their parent’s home. Ricky Sanchez was a fulltime employee at…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) State regulators will meet later this week at Kansas Speedway to review the operations of a state-owned casino set to open there next month. Hollywood Casino overlooks a turn of the NASCAR track in Kansas City, Kan. Its grand opening is scheduled for Feb. 3. On Friday, members of the state Racing and Gaming Commission will review the casino’s plans for security, surveillance and financial and audit controls. They’ll also check its plans for preventing underage gambling. The commission’s agenda says members will also discuss allowing the casino to admit customers for a controlled test of…
HERINGTON, Kan. (AP) State health officials are warning central Kansas residents to avoid a creek near Herington following a sulfuric acid spill. The Department of Health and Environment issued the warning for 5 miles of Lime Creek north of U.S. 56. The acid leaked Sunday from a ruptured tank on a Union Pacific rail car at a rail yard, sending 11,000 gallons of the pollutant into the water. The health department says people, pets and livestock should avoid drinking from the creek or using it for recreation. KDHE will continue testing the water to determine when it is safe again.
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) A University of Kansas graduate and his wife are committing $2.5 million to establish an endowed scholarship to help students majoring in education. The dean of the School of Education, Rick Ginsberg, says the gift is the largest in the school’s history. He thanked the donors, who don’t want their names released. He says that once the scholarship program is in place, it will attract the best students. Ginsberg says one goal of the scholarship is to help education students understand and appreciate the larger system in which their work will be a part. This gift will…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas Supreme Court says a special commission’s report on the operations of the state’s judicial branch will be released to the public later this month. Chief Justice Lawton Nuss says the high court received the report last week and is reviewing its proposals for making the court system more efficient and effective. The Supreme Court created the 25-member Blue Ribbon Commission one year ago to consider such issues as the number of court offices, their hours of operation, using technology to reduce costs and increasing the court system’s staffing flexibility Nuss says the justices want to…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Democrats in the Kansas Legislature are rolling out a proposal for funding public schools as the 2012 session gets under way. Details were to be released Tuesday at news conferences in Johnson County and Topeka. Democratic leaders noted in announcing the news conferences that Kansas school districts have faced funding cuts in recent years. House Minority Leader Paul Davis, of Lawrence, has said that some of the surplus revenue the state has collected this year should go toward restoring some of the cuts. Republican Gov. Sam Brownback is proposing that the state rewrite the current funding formula…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas Chamber of Commerce’s political action committee is targeting eight incumbent state senators in Republican primaries this year and PAC raised more than $163,000 last year to finance its efforts. The Chamber PAC’s targets include Senate President Steve Morris, of Hugoton. The PAC is expected to file a report Tuesday with the secretary of state’s office detailing its activities for 2011. Jeff Glendening, the chamber’s vice president of political affairs, confirmed details for The Associated Press ahead of the filing. He said the PAC spent about $112,000 last year, including maximum $1,000 contributions for challengers to…