KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Robinson Cano hit a three-run homer into the Kauffman Stadium fountains, Russell Martin and Derek Jeter each drove in a pair and the New York Yankees beat the Kansas City Royals 9-7 on Tuesday night to give Ivan Nova his eighth consecutive victory. Nova (12-4) struggled almost as much as Royals starter Danny Duffy (3-7), allowing five runs and seven hits through three innings. But he settled down to retire the side in order the next two frames, and survived long enough to move past Alfredo Aceves for the longest winning streak by a…
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ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (AP) The Kansas City Chiefs have a kicking conundrum, just like the rest of the NFL. New rules putting kickoffs at the 35 yard line were designed to prevent injuries caused by high-speed collisions in the return game, but moving the placement five yards nearer midfield also took much of the drama out of special teams. Just about every kicker in the NFL now has the ability to boom the ball into the end zone. The decision that coaches face is whether to actually do that. Kansas City has been toying in training camp with a variety…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) A 40-year-old man has been sentenced to life for selling heroin linked to deaths in three Kansas counties and many non-fatal overdoses. Prosecutors said Verdale Handy and his drug trafficking crews in Kansas City, Kan., sold in suburban Johnson County and owned houses that they charged other dealers to sell from. The Kansas City Star reported Handy was sentenced Tuesday in federal court for drug charges and trying to kill a witness. Prosecutors said deaths linked to the drug scheme occurred in Wyandotte, Johnson and Leavenworth counties.
EMPORIA, Kan. (AP) Emporia firefighters have found a body while fighting a mobile home fire. Fire officials said smoke was coming from the home when crews arrived Tuesday afternoon. Officials haven’t released the name, age or gender of the victim found inside the structure. The fire was extinguished quickly and no one else was injured. The cause of the fire hasn’t been determined, but The Topeka Capital-Journal reported that an overloaded circuit is suspected of sparking the blaze. No other details were immediately released.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) A suburban Johnson County teenager has been sentenced to 18 months in juvenile detention in a death linked to a skateboarder feud. The Kansas City Star reported that if Shane Reed, 18, of Prairie Village fails in the juvenile system, he also faces an adult sentence of 11 months in prison for aiding a felon and one year in jail for possession of a firearm by a juvenile. Two groups of northern Johnson County skateboarders had been feuding before they clashed in April in what was supposed to be fistfight. But witnesses said Reed handed a…
Manhattan’s cellphone ordinance has been in effect for over eight months now and Riley County Police officials reported some updated numbers to the Riley County Law Board Monday. RCPD Captain Tim Hegarty said 180 drivers have been pulled over for texting while driving, with nearly 14-hundred either cited or warned about talking on a cell phone. As for the cell phone ban’s effectiveness in reducing incidents of accidents caused by inattentive driving, RCPD Director Brad Schoen told the Law Board they hadn’t seen any numbers that would suggest there has been an impact one way or another. Manhattan’s cell phone ordinance…
The budget for the City of Manhattan has seen a lot of debate at City Commission meetings, but at Tuesday night’s meeting, the discussion was fairly quick and agreeable, as the 2012 budget passed unanimously. Budget officer Emily Campbell reminded commissioners the general fund was slated to decrease by about $77, 000, while the employee benefit fund will increase by $66,000 . The mill levy will be upped by an average of .221 mills, as the city’s portion will decrease .254 mills. The outside services mill levy will see an increase for 2012 of .475 mills. The total city budget…
OLATHE, Kan. (AP) The body of a Kansas soldier killed in a helicopter shoot-down in Afghanistan has returned home to Olathe. Hundreds of people lined the route today as Spencer Duncan’s body was driven from the Gardner airport to a funeral home. His friends and family used social networking sites to urge people to “Stand for Spencer.”
Construction workers working on renovations at Woodrow Wilson Elementary school on Juliette Avenue in Manhattan ruptured a gas line Tuesday afternoon. According to the Manhattan Fire Department, a worker reportedly hit the gas line with a back hoe, not knowing the line went through that area. The Manhattan Fire Department was on the scene and reports there were no injuries and evacuations were not needed.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) Texas A&M President R. Bowen Loftin says there is still a chance the Aggies will stay in the Big 12. Loftin spoke Monday after receiving authority from the board of regents to take any action he deems necessary in terms of conference realignment. He says Texas A&M is looking only at the Southeastern Conference right now, but didn’t rule out other possibilities. The Big 12 is down to 10 teams after Nebraska (Big Ten) and Colorado (Pac-12) left in July. Loftin says any realignment by Texas A&M will take place after a “lengthy’ process. The…