KMAN’s Chris Swick takes a look at Your Weekend for KMAN’s Morning News.
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SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) The Kansas City Royals have signed shortstop Alcides Escobar to a $10.5 million, four-year contract extension that includes two option years that could drive the value to $21.75 million. The team announced the deal Thursday. Escobar will make $1 million this season and $3 million each of the next two seasons. The options are for $5.25 million in 2016 and $6.5 million in 2017 with $500,000 buyouts each year. The 25-year-old Escobar was acquired from the Brewers in December 2010 in the deal that sent pitcher Zack Greinke to Milwaukee. He was immediately slotted into the…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Tight end Kevin Boss has agreed on a three-year contract with the Kansas City Chiefs. Boss, who signed as a free agent with Oakland last season after spending his first four seasons with the New York Giants, will get $9 million from the Chiefs. He also will get $2 million that was guaranteed by the Raiders for 2012 before they cut him earlier this week. Boss made 28 catches for a 13.1-yard average and three touchdowns with Oakland. He had 18 touchdowns in four seasons in New York. Kansas City’s starting tight end, Tony Moeaki,…
PITTSBURGH (AP) Kansas State coach Frank Martin likes to joke that freshman point guard Angel Rodriguez is quickly adding to the gray hair on Martin’s head. The coach can probably live with the stress if Rodriguez keeps playing the way he did against Southern Miss. Rodney McGruder kept the eighth-seeded Wildcats in their second-round matchup with the ninth-seeded Golden Eagles and Rodriguez closed Southern Miss out late as Kansas State surged to a 70-64 victory on Thursday afternoon. Rodriguez hit a nifty reverse lay-up after the Golden Eagles had pulled within 62-59 then added three late free throws as the…
Pottawatomie County Sheriff Officers have arrested four St. George residents in relation to possession of marijuana charges. It all started on Monday when officers located an unspecified quantity of marijuana and drug paraphernelia inside the vehicle of 24 year old James R. Bastion. Bastion was arrested for a DUI, Possession of Marijuana with intent to sell, and possession of Drug Paraphernalia. Bastion is currently being held in the Pottawatomie County Jail, with his bond set at ten thousand dollars. On Wednesday, sheriff officers executed a search warrant at 703 6th Street, St. George and arrested two individuals. 23 year old Jacob Taylor and a 17…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) The Defense Department says it supports recent legislation that allows a Kansas Army chaplain to be awarded the Medal of Honor. Jo Ann Rooney, an undersecretary of defense, told Sen. Pat Roberts in a recent letter the department supports legislation that enabled Fr. Emil Kapaun’s consideration for the honor. That legislation waived time restrictions on awarding the medal. Kapaun’s actions took place in the Korean War. Kapaun, from Pilsen, was serving as an Army Chaplain when he died in a prison camp in 1951. He’s also been classified as a Servant of God by the Vatican, the…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) State senators aren’t sure they’ll vote on Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s proposal to require new voters to prove their U.S. citizenship ahead of this year’s presidential election. Testimony from opponents took up most of the Senate Ethics and Election Committee’s hourlong meeting Thursday. It adjourned without taking a vote. It was the committee’s last scheduled meeting of the year. Chairwoman Terrie Huntington, a Fairway Republican, said she’s not sure she can schedule another meeting. Kansas has a proof-of-citizenship rule set to take effect Jan. 1, 2013, for people registering to vote for the first time…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A Kansas House committee has approved a bill that would prohibit state funds from being used for remedial courses at public colleges and universities in the state. House Speaker Mike O’Neal, a Republican, proposed the measure, which would also cut the number of freshman class or transfer admissions who don’t meet minimum admissions standards. The House Appropriations Committee approved the measure Wednesday, sending it to the full House. State Rep. Barbara Ballard, a Democrat, opposed the bill, saying remedial courses are often needed to help some students. But state Rep. Anthony Brown said the bill will encourage…