Click to view video wrap-up from www.thegamedaynetwork.com It was a wild game in Lubbock, but the Cats came through with their first win at Texas Tech since 1997 with a 41-34 victory to move to 6-0 on the season. Despite giving up almost 400 yards and 28 points in the first half the Cats find a way to win behind 2 blocked FGs, a huge kick off return for a TD, and a renewed defensive effort in the second half to hold the potent Tech offense out of the end zone in the final 2 quarters. Collin Klein again led…
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The 10th Annual Little Apple Optimist Club Chili Crawl was in full swing in Aggieville on Saturday evening. 450 participants sampled Chili from 9 restaurants around Aggieville, and had dessert at Cold Stone Creamery. Optimist club member Neal Farmer says that all the proceeds for the event go to helping local youth in the area, and charities like the Manhattan Bread Basket. Participants vote on the various Chili dishes, and decide on the best of the best. The winner is announced on the Optimist website, and has bragging rights for the rest of the year. Farmer especially wanted to thank…
The Occupy MHK protests hit the streets of Manhattan Saturday evening at Triangle Park to take a stand against what they see as a widening wealth gap in the United States, and the political atmosphere they believe is helping to facilitate the status quo. In a flyer the protesters expressed the core values of believing that “Wall Street has iron control over economic policies of this county and that one party is a wholly owned subsidiary of Wall Street and the other party caters to them as well….. We are the 99 percent. We are getting kicked out of our…
A woman is dead following an apparent suicide Saturday at Mercy Regional Health Center. Riley County Police reports say 31-year-old Sarah Jurgensmeier (Jur’g’ens’meyer) of Houston, Texas, allegedly shot herself with a rifle in the parking lot of Mercy on College Avenue. The shot was heard by a witness and hospital staff was quickly on the scene, where they found Jurgensmeier already dead. The incident occurred just after 2:30 p.m. Saturday.
A Riley County man is dead, the victim of an apparent homicide. Riley County Police responded to what was initially reported as an injury accident in the area of 7th and Walnut in Ogden around 10:30 p.m. Friday night. Officers arrived to find a citizen administering CPR to the victim, Ronald Taylor, 28, of Ogden, who had apparently been shot prior to driving into a residence. An ambulance then took Taylor to Irwin Army hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Neighbors in the area reported hearing shots in the area, but no one was able to pinpoint the location of the shooting.…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline says a disciplinary panel’s recommendation that his law license be suspended indefinitely is part of an effort to punish him for investigating abortion providers. Thursday’s report by a three-member panel of the state Board for Discipline of Attorneys says Kline repeatedly violated professional ethics standards. It also says he and his subordinates misled other officials to further their investigations of abortion providers. In a statement emailed to The Associated Press, Kline said he’s being targeted for what he called his “willingness to investigate politically powerful people” a reference to abortion providers.…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) The state of Kansas is opposing Dodge City clinic’s request for a federal court injunction forcing the state to restore its federal family planning funds. The state says the order would be an “affront” to its sovereignty. The arguments came in documents filed Thursday in a lawsuit by Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri over a new state law that stripped its federal funds for family planning. The unaffiliated Dodge City Family Planning Clinic joined the lawsuit this week, saying it lost its funding as “collateral damage” to a law targeting Planned Parenthood. The state asked the…
OTTAWA, Kan. (AP) An eastern Kansas sheriff’s office has lost its second deputy in four months after 28-year-old Russel Geist died of unknown reasons. Franklin County Sheriff Jeff Curry said Thursday that Geist fell ill Wednesday morning and died at an Ottawa hospital that night. The Lawrence Journal-World reports Geist was the son of retired Ottawa Police Detective Rick Geist. Curry says the younger Geist started work with the Sheriff’s Office in 2005 and was promoted to deputy in September 2010. Franklin County Deputy Samuel Smith died in July when his patrol car left the road and hit a tree…