MEDICINE LODGE, Kan. (AP) A central Missouri man has been killed in an accident involving a deer on a southern Kansas highway. The Kansas Highway Patrol says the man was driving west on U.S. 160 shortly after 5 a.m. Monday when his car struck the deer in the roadway. The car hit a guardrail and rolled down an embankment. The driver was identified as 19-year-old Cephas Yoder of Boonville, Mo. The Highway Patrol says Yoder was thrown from his car. The accident happened west of Medicine Lodge, about 20 miles north of the Oklahoma line.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) The mother of a missing Missouri baby may not be casting herself in the best light by telling national media that she drank heavily the night her daughter disappeared. But her attorney says such honesty shows that Deborah Bradley has “nothing to hide.” Bradley told television audiences Monday that she may have blacked out in the hours before she and Jeremy Irwin reported that their 10-month-old daughter Lisa was missing from their Kansas City home early Oct. 4. Bradley also now says she last saw her daughter hours earlier than she originally told police. The couple’s…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A new government report says Kansas farmers have now seeded 84 percent of their 2012 winter wheat crop. Kansas Agricultural Statistics Service reported Monday that the pace of wheat planting is about the same as last year. About 56 percent of the wheat has now emerged. The agency also says the harvest of fall crops was slowed last week by much needed-rainfall. The corn harvest was about 75 percent complete as of Sunday. About 59 percent of the state’s soybeans have been cut, along with 25 percent of the sorghum. Winter feeding season is approaching, and the…
STERLING, Kan. (AP) A central Kansas woman who organized a college homecoming parade is hospitalized after being hit by mules apparently spooked by a train horn. Sterling Police Chief Ed Truelove told The Hutchinson News the injured woman, Millie Casey, has been involved for years as a volunteer in various parades. Casey organized the Sterling College homecoming parade on Saturday. Truelove says police had stopped traffic for the parade as it wound from the campus through downtown Sterling. When a passing train sounded its horn, the chief says, the startled mules darted into Casey. She was taken to a hospital…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas Department of Commerce has been awarded a four-year, $5 million grant to help train more engineers for the workforce. The funds are from the U.S. Department of Labor. State Commerce Secretary Pat George says the grant fits with a program approved this year by Kansas lawmakers aimed at graduating more engineering students from state universities. George says the federal grant is intended to reduce the number of foreign workers hired in the United States. It will be funded from the fees paid by employers who hire foreign workers under a federal visa program. Kansas employers…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Federal prosecutors will decide whether a 54-black man who was doused with rubbing alcohol and set on fire by white intruders is the victim of a hate crime. A 23-year-old former Council Grove man was arrested Sunday in connection with the Oct. 7 attack on 54-year-old Sterling Law in Law’s Council Grove home. The Topeka Capital-Journal (http://bit.ly/r3DcM7) reports Law sat in his home for four days after the attack without getting medical treatment for burns. His employer of more than 30 years went to check on him after Law called in sick, and found him in pain.…
The buzz continues to build and build for #12 K-State’s homecoming contest against #3 Oklahoma next Saturday, October 29th. The Big 12 conference announced Monday the game between the Cats and Sooners will be seen by a full national television audience on ESPN with a 2:30pm kickoff. K-State also announced that the only reserved tickets for the game remaining are singles, and 500 general admission tickets in section 28 are available via walkup at the Bramlage Coliseum ticket office.
K-State received their fourth Big 12 conference player of the week honor of the season Monday following the win at Texas Tech. Senior defensive tackle Raphael Guidry was named the league special teams player of the week for becoming the first player in the Bill Snyder era to block two field goals in one game. Guidry rejected a Red Raider 48 yard field goal in the first quarter, and a 38 yarder in the second quarter. Guidry also had a tackle for loss. K-State junior Collin Klein is one of eight quarterbacks nationally to be nominated for the Manning Award Star of…
Sporting a hitting percentage of .463, #10 Texas defeated K-State in three sets on Saturday afternoon at Ahearn Fieldhouse. Bailey Webster had 15 kills and Haley Eckerman 12 as the Longhorns prevailed 25-17, 25-15, and 25-20 over the Cats. K-State’s Kaitlynn Pelger had 12 kills, and Lilla Porubek added 11. K-State is now 14-6 overall and 3-3 in the Big 12. The Cats will meet KU in the Sunflower Showdown in Lawrence this Wednesday night at 6:30pm. Coverage on KMAN begins at 6:00 from the Horesji Center.