WACO, Texas (AP) The NCAA has put Baylor on three years of probation after a three-year investigation into hundreds of impermissible telephone calls and text messages sent by basketball coaches to prep recruits. The NCAA and school released the details Wednesday, and the violations were considered to be major infractions. The NCAA said men’s coach Scott Drew failed to monitor his program and will be suspended for two Big 12 games next season in addition to recruiting restrictions. Women’s coach Kim Mulkey, whose team won the national championship last week, also received recruiting restrictions. All the penalties were proposed…
Author: KMAN Staff
KMAN reported earlier Wednesday, April 11, 2012 of a rural Olsburg man who has died from an apparent skid loader accident. More details have become available. “After reviewing the call, it appears that the 65-year-old victim may have been attempting to enter the cab of the skid loader with a raised bucket,” Pottawatomie County Sheriff Greg Riat told KMAN. “The bucket came down on the victim and he died from the injuries.” The call was received at 3:47 Tuesday afternoon. The name of the victim still has yet to be released.
Arrests Jason A. Field, 25, 805 Allison Ave., Apartment No. 9, for domestic battery. Released on $500 bond. Jordan Scott Henderson, 18, 320 Highland Point Dr., for unlawful possession of hallucinogens, possession of drug paraphernalia, and unlawful possession of illegal substances. Released on $2,000 bond. Benson Joe Neal Jackson, 18, 514 Kearney St., for victim intimidation and domestic battery. Confined on $2,000 bond. Nickolaus Wayne Anderson, 23, Abilene, Kan., for failure to appear. Released on $1,000 bond. Nicholas Brandon Andreasen, 24, Fort Riley, Kan., for disorderly conduct and criminal damage to property. Confined on $500 bond. Ryan Matthew Savener, 31,…
A Manhattan man’s first degree murder trial has been continued, following a motions hearing in Riley County district court Wednesday afternoon. Michael Layne, 20, is now set for a September jury trial in connection with the December 2011 murder of Steve Freel, whose body was discovered on a dirt road north of Manhattan. Layne had faced a May first trial, but Judge Meryl Wilson agreed to continue it with defense attorney Jillian Waesche-Seaton asking for a waiver to Layne’s right to a speedy trial. Waesche-Seaton indicated a need for more time to prepare Layne’s defense. Layne had entered a plea…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A mistrial was declared in a Topeka murder case after a newspaper reporter sent a courtroom photo via Twitter that showed a juror. The trial for 20-year-old Austin Tabor will be rescheduled. Tabor is charged with killing 20-year-old Matthew Mitchell in 2010 near a Topeka high school. Shawnee County District Attorney Lee McGowan says the photo sent with a cell phone by a Topeka Capital-Journal reporter showed one or more of the jurors. The judge had allowed camera phones in the courtroom but ordered that no pictures be taken of the jurors. Topeka Capital-Journal publisher Gregg Ireland…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Attorneys for a gentlemen’s club near Topeka told The Kansas Supreme Court that dancers at the club are not club employees subject to state labor laws. The issue before the court Wednesday is whether dancers at Club Orleans are under its control or are independent entertainers. The Department of Labor wants the club to pay a tax based on the dancers’ wages to help finance unemployment benefits. The club contends the dancers rent its stage and control their own performances. The club doesn’t pay the dancers, but the state considers their tips to be wages. According to…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Steady rain over the past few months has dramatically eased the drought in Kansas. Larry Ruthi, meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Dodge City, told The Wichita Eagle that the recent rain in southwest Kansas has lessened the drought considerably. Less than one-half of 1 percent of Kansas in the southwest corner remains in extreme drought, compared to more than 28 percent of the state in late September. Dodge City has recorded 7.39 inches of rain since Dec. 1, the third-highest total over that stretch since records began more than 100 years ago. Medicine Lodge logged…
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) Recent rain in Kansas has been good for the state’s wheat crop, but agriculture officials say they’re still concerned that a late freeze could hurt the harvest. The lack of rain in Kansas last year was rough on the state’s wheat crop. But this year, thanks to spring rains the crop has potential. State Climatologist Mary Knapp told The Hutchinson News that since September, some southwestern Kansas farmers have recorded nearly 9 inches of rain on their thirsty fields well above the nearly 7-inch average for the period. John Holman, an agronomist with Kansas State Extension based…