Author: KMAN Staff

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) The state ethics panel will hear a complaint this week about a Wichita City Council member’s email use. Wichita City Council member Michael O’Donnell has admitted using his city e-mail to send out 39 solicitations for financial sponsors for an Oct. 30 meet-and-greet for his friend, state Sen. Garrett Love, a Republican from Montezuma. The Wichita Eagle reports (http://bit.ly/Ae9YsG ) that some of the emails were sent from the bench during a council meeting. O’Donnell said it was a mistake and he wants to put it behind him. State law prohibits the use of public resources for…

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A bipartisan group of Shawnee County legislators has managed to strip the House budget of a provision that would have frozen admissions to the Kansas Neurological Institute. The Topeka Capital-Journal (http://bit.ly/FQj46t ) reports that lawmakers led by Rep. Annie Kuether, a Topeka Democrat, introduced an amendment on the House floor Friday to overturn the one-year freeze. One Topeka legislator after another lined up to support the amendment, saying KNI provides unique and necessary services to Kansans with severe disabilities. The measure passed 75-46. The admissions freeze was proposed by Social Services Budget Committee chairman Dave Crum, an…

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COLLEGE STATION, Texas – Texas A&M starting pitcher Ross Stripling threw a complete game and limited Kansas State to just six hits, while first baseman Jacob House drove in four runs as the eighth-ranked Aggies evened the opening Big 12 series with a 9-2 win Saturday at Blue Bell Park. The Aggies improved to 15-5 on the year with the win. K-State fell to 12-7 overall, snapping a seven-game winning streak. K-State jumped ahead 2-0 in the third inning on a Jared King home run to right field, his third of the season and second of the road trip. However, the homer seemed…

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BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP)– Kansas State’s Branshea Brown picked a good day to have a career game. The senior forward scored a career-high 22 points and grabbed seven rebounds to lead the Wildcats past Princeton 67-64 Saturday in the first round of the women’s NCAA tournament. Jalana Childs added 15 points for Kansas State (20-13). The eighth seed will play the Prairie View A&M-Connecticut winner in the second round. Niveen Rasheed had 20 points, and Lauren Edwards and Devona Allgood each had 15 for Princeton (24-5). The Tigers lost for the first time in 18 games and for the third consecutive year in the first…

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PITTSBURGH (AP) — Scoop Jardine had 16 points and eight assists to lead top-seeded Syracuse to a 75-59 victory over eighth-seeded Kansas State on Saturday in the third round of the East Regional Dion Waiters had 18 points and James Southerland added 15 for the Orange (33-2), who didn’t wait until the final minutes to seal the win as they did in the second round against 16th-seeded North Carolina-Asheville. Syracuse plays Vanderbilt or Wisconsin in Boston on Thursday night in the regional semifinals. Rodney McGruder had 15 points for the Wildcats (22-11), who struggled from the field against Syracuse’s 2/3 zone defense. Neither team had its…

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