The number 13 is considered unlucky, and definitely was for K-State on Wednesday night at Missouri State in a 3-0 loss. The Cats had 8 hits, but stranded 13 runners on base, and struck out the same number of times. The bright spot for K-State offensively was Jared King with a 3 for 4 night. The Bears meanwhile, managed just two hits, but scored three unearned runs thanks to a pair of costly errors. K-State drops to 17-15 overall with the loss, while Missouri State improves to 25-10. The Cats will welcome in #5 Baylor this weekend, who’s 12-0 atop…
Author: KMAN Staff
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) Jonathan Broxton hit Jonny Gomes on the first pitch he threw with the bases loaded in the 12th inning, forcing Jemile Weeks home for the winning run in the Oakland Athletics’ 5-4 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Wednesday. Moments earlier, Broxton (0-1) plunked new A’s cleanup hitter Yoenis Cespedes on the first pitch to load the bases and the closer received a mound visit from pitching coach Dave Eiland. It marked the third time the A’s won on a game-ending hit by pitch in Oakland history and first since Olmedo Saenz on July 20,…
WACO, Texas (AP) The NCAA has put Baylor on three years of probation after a three-year investigation into hundreds of impermissible telephone calls and text messages sent by basketball coaches to prep recruits. The NCAA and school released the details Wednesday, and the violations were considered to be major infractions. The NCAA said men’s coach Scott Drew failed to monitor his program and will be suspended for two Big 12 games next season in addition to recruiting restrictions. Women’s coach Kim Mulkey, whose team won the national championship last week, also received recruiting restrictions. All the penalties were proposed…
KMAN reported earlier Wednesday, April 11, 2012 of a rural Olsburg man who has died from an apparent skid loader accident. More details have become available. “After reviewing the call, it appears that the 65-year-old victim may have been attempting to enter the cab of the skid loader with a raised bucket,” Pottawatomie County Sheriff Greg Riat told KMAN. “The bucket came down on the victim and he died from the injuries.” The call was received at 3:47 Tuesday afternoon. The name of the victim still has yet to be released.
Arrests Jason A. Field, 25, 805 Allison Ave., Apartment No. 9, for domestic battery. Released on $500 bond. Jordan Scott Henderson, 18, 320 Highland Point Dr., for unlawful possession of hallucinogens, possession of drug paraphernalia, and unlawful possession of illegal substances. Released on $2,000 bond. Benson Joe Neal Jackson, 18, 514 Kearney St., for victim intimidation and domestic battery. Confined on $2,000 bond. Nickolaus Wayne Anderson, 23, Abilene, Kan., for failure to appear. Released on $1,000 bond. Nicholas Brandon Andreasen, 24, Fort Riley, Kan., for disorderly conduct and criminal damage to property. Confined on $500 bond. Ryan Matthew Savener, 31,…
A Manhattan man’s first degree murder trial has been continued, following a motions hearing in Riley County district court Wednesday afternoon. Michael Layne, 20, is now set for a September jury trial in connection with the December 2011 murder of Steve Freel, whose body was discovered on a dirt road north of Manhattan. Layne had faced a May first trial, but Judge Meryl Wilson agreed to continue it with defense attorney Jillian Waesche-Seaton asking for a waiver to Layne’s right to a speedy trial. Waesche-Seaton indicated a need for more time to prepare Layne’s defense. Layne had entered a plea…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A mistrial was declared in a Topeka murder case after a newspaper reporter sent a courtroom photo via Twitter that showed a juror. The trial for 20-year-old Austin Tabor will be rescheduled. Tabor is charged with killing 20-year-old Matthew Mitchell in 2010 near a Topeka high school. Shawnee County District Attorney Lee McGowan says the photo sent with a cell phone by a Topeka Capital-Journal reporter showed one or more of the jurors. The judge had allowed camera phones in the courtroom but ordered that no pictures be taken of the jurors. Topeka Capital-Journal publisher Gregg Ireland…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Attorneys for a gentlemen’s club near Topeka told The Kansas Supreme Court that dancers at the club are not club employees subject to state labor laws. The issue before the court Wednesday is whether dancers at Club Orleans are under its control or are independent entertainers. The Department of Labor wants the club to pay a tax based on the dancers’ wages to help finance unemployment benefits. The club contends the dancers rent its stage and control their own performances. The club doesn’t pay the dancers, but the state considers their tips to be wages. According to…