MANHATTAN, Kan. – Bruce Weber landed his second 2012 recruit Thursday as Michael Orris announced his intention to play at Kansas State next season. A three-star prospect according to Rivals.com, Orris averaged 10.2 points and 6.2 assists this past season as a senior at Crete (Ill.) Monee, helping lead the Warriors to a 25-4 record and the school’s first-ever sectional championship. The 6-foot-2, 180-pound Orris describes himself as an “old-fashioned” point guard saying “I’m a pass first point guard. I like to get everyone involved. I like to pass first and be a leader. I want to put my teammates in the best position…
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ATLANTA (AP) More than 100 former NFL players have filed a federal lawsuit in Atlanta claiming that pro football didn’t properly protect its players from concussions. The plaintiffs in the lawsuit include former Atlanta Falcon Jamal Anderson, ex-Georgia star Lindsey Scott and veteran quarterback Don Majkowski. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in federal court in Georgia, claims the league failed to protect NFL players from brain injuries linked to football-related concussions. They are among more than 1,000 former NFL players suing the league. The cases say not enough was done to inform players about the dangers of concussions in the…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) The Kansas City Royals have put infielder Yuniesky Betancourt on the disabled list with a sprained right ankle and purchased the contract of Irving Falu from Triple-A Omaha. The move was made before Thursday night’s game against the New York Yankees. Betancourt hurt the ankle toward the end of spring training, but still managed to play in 15 of the Royals’ first 23 games. He was hitting .280 with a homer and three RBIs. Falu has spent parts of 10 seasons in the minors and was in his fourth straight year at Omaha, where he…
Federal indictments in Topeka include one for a Geary County case that occurred last month. Fidel Hernandez-Jaracuaro, 42, who is not a United States citizen, is charged with unlawfully re-entering the country after being convicted of an aggravated felony and deported. Hernanez-Jaracuaro was found in Geary county April fourth. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison and a fine up to 250-thousand dollars. The Department of Homeland Security investigated the case.
A man convicted in a 1982 Riley county second degree murder case has apparently been passed over for parole. Michael Long, 58, was sentenced in March of 1983 in connection with the case, occurring in August of 1982. Long’s next possible release date is May of 2014. He is currently incarcerated at the Larned Correctional Mental Health Facility and has been there most of the 29 years he’s served.
State House Representative Sharon Schwartz, a Rep. from Washington, Kan., has notified the public that she has filed for re-election. Schwartz has served eight terms in the position since being first elected in 1997. “It’s important that we have somebody who can be a credible voice for agriculture and rural Kansas and I feel like I still have that to offer,” Schwartz said. Schwartz serves as representative for the 106th District which includes the northern part of Riley County. She is the chairman of the Agriculture and Natural Resources Budget Committee and the Vice Chair of the Joint Committee on Pensions, Investments, and Benefits.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A Kansas woman has filed a federal lawsuit over the state Legislature’s failure so far to redraw the state’s political boundaries. Robyn Renee Essex, a resident of the Kansas City suburb of Olathe, filed her litigation Thursday in U.S. District Court. She argues the state’s existing political boundaries violate her constitutional rights because they haven’t been adjusted yet to account for changes in population over the past decade. One of her attorneys, Brent Haden, of Columbia, Mo., is a former chief of staff to Kansas House Speaker Mike O’Neal, a Hutchinson Republican. In the lawsuit, Essex expressed…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A Wichita man has pleaded guilty to bank fraud in which he stole more than $1 million. U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said in a statement Thursday that 59-year-old John Kammerer pleaded guilty to one count of bank fraud. Kammerer admitted that while working as a controller for Network Results of Kansas, he accessed the company’s bank account to steal more than $1.2 million. The fraud involved Kammerer issuing checks to the account of HMK Enterprises, which he controlled. Sentencing is set for July 19. He faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison and forfeiture…