KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) The Kansas City Royals have traded outfielder Melky Cabrera to the San Francisco Giants for left-hander Jonathan Sanchez and another minor league pitcher. Sanchez was the Giants’ best pitcher during the latter part of 2010, when they beat the Texas Rangers to win the World Series. But he was just 4-7 with a 4.26 ERA this season before missing the final month with a left ankle sprain. Cabrera hit a career-best .305 with 44 doubles, 18 homers and 87 RBIs in his first season with the Royals. By dealing him to San Francisco, Kansas City…
Author: KMAN Staff
Slick roads led to two injury accidents on K-177 about eight miles south of Manhattan within a couple of hours of each other Monday afternoon. The first accident was reported shortly before 1:30 when a 2003 Chevrolet Silverado pickup driven by Alan Boerger 71, of Manhattan was exiting I-70 onto K-177 when Boerger lost control on the wet roadway. The truck went into a skid and entered the east ditch, overturning. Boerger was taken to Mercy Regional Health Center where he was treated and released. Then shortly before three in the afternoon a ’96 jeep S-U-V driven by Maria Manriquez, 40, of…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) State budget cuts have led to fewer teachers in Kansas schools, but student enrollment continues to increase. The Lawrence Journal World reports that state budget cuts to public schools have resulted in fewer teachers and more crowded classrooms. The Kansas Department of Education says the total number of teacher positions statewide in the current school year is 34,075. That’s down 256 from last year, and down 1,363 since the 2008-09 school year. But student enrollment is up from more than 473,000 in 2008-09 to nearly 483,000 in the current school year. That’s an increase of about 9,700…
QUINTER, Kan. (AP) A western Kansas business has been fined $217,000 by the federal government after an employee died at the facility. Brad Lovelady and Galen Huffman of Formation Plastics said the fine from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration comes six months after Mike Wente died when he was crushed by a massive plastics forming machine at the Quinter firm. Lovelady and Huffman said they were expecting a fine, but they were shocked by the amount of the OSHA fines. Lovelady told The Hays Daily News he had expected a fine somewhere between $80,000 and $100,000, and thought it…
PARSONS, Kan. (AP) A train hit a car this weekend in southeast Kansas, killing a 21-year-old Parsons man died and injuring another person. The Wichita Eagle reports that the accident occurred Saturday in Neosho County. Zachary Scott Harding was killed. The Kansas Highway Patrol said the car Harding was in failed to stop at a railroad crossing. Another 21-year-old man in the car was hospitalized.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Fifty-five public schools throughout Kansas are being honored for doing well on state tests despite serving disadvantaged students. The Confidence in Kansas Public Education Task Force identified the recipients of the 2011 Challenge Awards. The winners will be honored Wednesday at Junction City Middle School. The state education department says the certificate recognizes reading and math test scores that are higher than what students living in lower-income households normally achieve. Typically, students who qualify for free or reduced price lunches don’t fare as well on tests as their peers from more affluent families. Task force chairman Charles…
EMPORIA, Kan. (AP) The second of four finalists for the presidency of Emporia State University visits the eastern Kansas campus this week. University officials say Todd Diacon and his wife were scheduled to meet with campus and community groups Monday and Tuesday. Diacon is a native of Wellington, Kan., currently serving as deputy chancellor at the University of Massachusetts’ flagship campus. He previously spent 21 years in leadership positions at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Last week, Emporia State was visited by another finalist for the presidency Michael Shonrock, a senior vice president at Texas Tech. The university is…
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) Most of Reno County Courthouse’s 10 elected officials with terms expiring in the 2012 election cycle say that, so far, they will likely run for re-election. The Hutchinson News reports that Reno County Register of Deeds Carol Sallee is the only Reno County officer last week who was undecided about the race. The 70-year-old Republican won her first term in 2000, and has won each election by a comfortable margin. The State Legislature this year moved up the candidate filing deadline by about 10 days, to noon June 1, 2012. All four congressional seats in Kansas will…